Tag: History

This morning I walked through heritage of a different kind, the canal network here in the Black Country is much closer to home in both time and space than Belas Knap. The canals were once the industrial lifeblood of this country, carrying heavy goods along their lengths; drawn by horses or driven by motors, the…

I started to write this post inside a Neolithic Long Barrow. A wonderful old place of still stone and earth, with the modern world at a distance. The sense of the ancient people, our ancestors, is strong here. I sit looking around this low stone chamber, the ceiling low enough that I must stoop to…