@victorshannock @alteredmarshes @ThorpenessG@EastSuffolk@CPE_NandS Dear Victor, yes please do - as long as my copyright isn't infringed that would be fine. I did a whole documentary on the erosion from Bawdsey up to Covehithe in about 2005-7, so if you want any others do let me know.
On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy
@victorshannock @alteredmarshes @ThorpenessG@EastSuffolk@CPE_NandS The following year the defences had got covered over with shingle and you could barely see them. Down at Bawdsey they were meanwhile raising funds to bring in the giant rocks - that are far more substantial.
Edward William Bray of the 31st Regiment 1787 - 1859 memorialised in Aldershot at All Saints Garrison Church, another portrait that just turned up in an attic. Attics are good...turn them out.
Mystery Portrait found in attic! Who is this young gentleman? He is probably a coronet in the 49th Regiment that fought in the First Opium War in China, and was awarded the first China Medal. Sitter unknown - portrait found in attic.
@timothyferres I've just been reading your blog on Bantry House, I was trying to research my White family in Ireland. Its would seem to point in the direction of Bantry House - I wondered if you had come across this connection?
Ever wonder what history is behind the National Health Service? Every heard of the founding of Public Dispensaries in the C18th? And who was John Coakley Lettsom 1733-1810? Read about that C18th movement here https://t.co/LvRgm5sMBf #NHS#History#lincolnsinn#medicine
The Retreat of Napoleon’s Army from Russia - a painting by D. Hall, copy of another by Richard Caton Woodville (7 January 1856 – 17 August 1927) "Burning the Eagles on Retreat 1911". This one is being restored. Has anyone heard of D. Hall?