Tag: Warwickshire

• Golden Leaves and Sunlight

  Gold Leaf: Buried Sunlight.. This sculpture on thetop of an old coal mining spoil heap has provedcontroversial – do you like it? This golden pillar – ‘Gold Leaf: Buried Sunlight’ – stands on the top of a spoil heap at a long-closed coal mine at Polesworth, just up the road from where I live. The…

  chrisharding53

  February 23, 2013

  art, birch trees, coal field regeneration, coal mines, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Saturday Snapshot, sculpture, Warwickshire

• A Crusader’s Penance for Killing his Wife

  Today’s Saturday Snapshot is a romantic tragedy. Once upon a time in the dim and distant past, a brave and devout knight bid farewell to his beautiful wife and joined a Crusade to the Holy Land. While he was away fighting for his faith, his trusty steward importuned the lady (which makes him lusty rather…

  chrisharding53

  July 14, 2012

  alvecote Priory, Benedictines, Crusader, local legend, Sat, Saturday Snapshot, spooky, Warwickshire, wife killer

• Saturday Snapshots In A ‘Royal’ Village

  This week’s Saturday Snaphots were taken in Newton Regis, which claims to be the most northerly village in Warwickshire, and if you think they don’t look very seasonal that’s because they were taken back in April, when my elder daughter and I were testing her SatNav by deliberately getting lost… I love stumbling across places…

  chrisharding53

  May 26, 2012

  Church, duck pond, History, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Newton Regis, Royal, SatNav, thistles, Travel, Warwickshire