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- Thu 29 May, 2014 16:41:58
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Red Lion Hotel Ghosts
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Red Lion Hotel Ghosts
I have just noticed that the RED LION HOTEL Colchester that is featured in "To The Devil a Daughter" is the subject of "Great British Ghost Stories" on Sky channel 166 DRAMA on Sunday 1st June at 1.30am. Could be interesting.
- Mon 21 Apr, 2014 21:27:43
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: British Pathe News
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- Fri 11 Apr, 2014 08:22:29
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: To the Devil a Daughter, the Tendring journey with pictures.
- Replies: 17
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- Thu 10 Apr, 2014 11:18:23
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Black August and Shingle Street
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The great thing about Shingle Street is the way it changes with the weather. On the day I took the pictures it was warm and calm. Near the cottages someone had planted a garden that has gone wild. There were Wallflowers struggling through the grass and shingle, and the glorious smell was wafting in ...
- Thu 10 Apr, 2014 11:02:34
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: To the Devil a Daughter, the Tendring journey with pictures.
- Replies: 17
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- Sun 6 Apr, 2014 12:55:44
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: To the Devil a Daughter, the Tendring journey with pictures.
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re landlady, i really should read these posts more carefully :oops: perils of reading on a phone. i would certainly like to visit the area so that would be a field trip we would be interested in. we can pencil in spot at the convention for future trips. ken Let me know if you do and I will post an ...
- Sun 6 Apr, 2014 09:15:47
- Forum: Black August
- Topic: Gregory Sallust is Born
- Replies: 9
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Stevie P , thanks very much for this. Your reviews get better each time and the information snippets are invaluable. Be careful, though, we might start preferring your reviews to the real thing! Re London Bridge : By the end of the 18th century, it was apparent that the old London Bridge ? by now o...
- Fri 4 Apr, 2014 18:33:35
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: To the Devil a Daughter, the Tendring journey with pictures.
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This is a picture of the rectory taken in June 2010. A lot changed in four years??
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/38380933
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/38380933
- Fri 4 Apr, 2014 17:43:51
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: To the Devil a Daughter, the Tendring journey with pictures.
- Replies: 17
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Thanks for your kind words Charles. A field trip would, I am sure, be a very interesting day. I think that Shingle Street( Black August) and Hamford Water could be combined in a rather full day. There is more detail in TTDAD sites, but Shingle street in infinitely more beautiful. As I am not really ...
- Mon 31 Mar, 2014 18:07:25
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: I was Stafford Cripps double!! A DW deception??
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As Julian Day was written in 1939, I doubt he got the story from my uncle! It's just that as DW was involved in most deception I think he could have been behind this one. Why Stafford Cripps needed to be seen out of the country I have no idea? When I post pictures you will see the resemblance. Also ...
- Mon 31 Mar, 2014 17:48:11
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: To the Devil a Daughter, the Tendring journey with pictures.
- Replies: 17
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very interesting that. i really must try to get a chance to explore that area. two of favourite books are black august and to the devil a daughter. did the landlady know about the red lion being in a book? ken I did the Bricklayers Arms to Maybush journey that day. The Red Lion is an old picture, b...
- Mon 31 Mar, 2014 11:35:24
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: I was Stafford Cripps double!! A DW deception??
- Replies: 3
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I was Stafford Cripps double!! A DW deception??
I have read of DW's wartime deception work, but have only recently read of his involvement in the "I was Monty's Double" deception. I have a similar story in my family concerning a rather less professional deception starring my "Uncle Jim". Sergeant Major James Welch was my mothe...
- Fri 28 Mar, 2014 22:42:54
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: To the Devil a Daughter, the Tendring journey with pictures.
- Replies: 17
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I see that the Bricklayers Arms sells Morlands Old Golden Hen (which I highly approve of). Do all the three pubs well decent real ale? I asked about the Old Golden Hen The landlady (not the wench she insisted) said it was Green King??? I will have to look it up. Brewing is my hobby, I used to work i...
- Fri 28 Mar, 2014 18:19:03
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: To the Devil a Daughter, the Tendring journey with pictures.
- Replies: 17
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Hamford Water is also the subject of one of the "Swallows and Amazons" books by Arthur Ransome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Water
- Fri 28 Mar, 2014 11:43:25
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: To the Devil a Daughter, the Tendring journey with pictures.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 34908