Showing posts with label Stiperstones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stiperstones. Show all posts
Thursday, October 08, 2026

Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker discuss Gone to Earth and its restoration

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The 64th New York Film Festival, which closes on Sunday, saw the world premiere of a new restoration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburge...
Thursday, October 01, 2026

The death of Dennis O'Neill and expertise in a narrow subject

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Becoming very knowledgeable about a niche subject is worrying, because you find much that has been published about it is wrong. And then it ...
Wednesday, September 02, 2026

Restoration of Gone to Earth to be shown in London Film Festival

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From the London Film Festival website: Long overshadowed within Powell and Pressburger's canon, this major new restoration reveals the ...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

The view west from the Stiperstones ridge today

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I was up on the Stiperstones ridge today, placating the Devil and admiring the view into Wales. Mind you, the border does funny things aroun...
Monday, July 06, 2026

A Liberal England guest blogger shows us around Snailbeach Mine

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Ginger Beard Mark and the musician Eric Loveland Heath visit the old lead mine at Snailbeach in Shropshire. In its heyday in the second half...
Monday, June 08, 2026

In which D.H. Lawrence visits Snailbeach

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On Friday we saw D.H. Lawrence getting all Lawrentian about the Stiperstones : "It was one of those places where the spirit of aborigin...
Friday, June 05, 2026

"The old savage England": D.H. Lawrence visits the Stiperstones

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From St Mawr by D.H. Lawrence, published in 1925: They came at last, trotting in file along a narrow track between heather, along the saddl...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

A review of Terry O'Neill's life story in a social work journal

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Twenty years ago, every branch of Waterstones had a section called "Painful Lives" that carried memoirs of abuse in childhood. The...
Monday, April 13, 2026

A TV mast on the Stiperstones? What horrors would it have broadcast into people's homes?

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The transmitting station on top of the Wrekin, which broadcasts television and radio to much of Shropshire and parts of the West Midlands be...
Friday, April 03, 2026

Good Friday in Shropshire

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From The Folklore of Shropshire by Roy Palmer : Until the 1860s, when the well was drained, it was the custom on Good Friday to dip one'...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Powell and Pressburger's most bizarre moments

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The British Film Institute's blurb on YouTube says: In this video essay director Will Webb highlights scenes from Powell and Pressburger...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Pollution from Shropshire lead mines still reaches the Severn

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This information from an Environment Agency page will come as no surprise to regular readers: There is evidence of lead mining in the Minst...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Secret Shropshire: Wild Edric and the Seven Whistlers

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Is there anywhere spookier in Shropshire than the Stiperstones? This  short programme in the BBC's Secret Shropshire series tells you a...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

For Central Bylines: The forgotten Shropshire tragedy that inspired The Mousetrap

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I met the editor of Central Bylines for coffee while I was on holiday in Shrewsbury. "Did you know that The Mousetrap was inspired by a...
Monday, September 15, 2025

The death of 12-year-old Dennis O'Neill shared front pages with news of the war in early 1945

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Back in July, I wrote that the death in 1945 of Dennis O’Neill, a child in public care who’d been fostered with his younger brother at a far...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Why the road through the Hope Valley road was closed to traffic while I was in Shropshire

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I went to Bishop's Castle twice while I was on holiday in Shrewsbury. Because the A488 through the Hope Valley was closed, the buses wer...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Good news for media-savvy dormice in Shropshire's Hope Valley

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The new  Stiperstones Landscape National Nature Reserve is good news for dormice that live in the woods of Shropshire's Hope Valley. BB...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Community Land Trust launches appeal to buy White Grit Meadows

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Two sites owned by the Middle Marches Community Land Trust are included in the new  Stiperstones Landscape NNR . Now the trust is appealing ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

More than 1,000 hectares of Shropshire uplands to be protected as part of expanded Stiperstones nature reserve

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Natural England has announced the creation of a new Stiperstones Landscape National Nature Reserve .  The expanded reserve is more than thre...
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Saturday, August 02, 2025

The expanded Pevsner Shropshire visits Snailbeach

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In Church Stretton this morning, I treated myself to the Buildings of England volume on Shropshire by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner. Ludl...