Stuff and Things (History geek alert)
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inulroHow cool is this? Archaeologists find 1,400-year-old tomb of Anglo-Saxon king. I was planning a trip to the Museum of London some time soon anyway.
I just got around to watching a programme I taped on Wednesday night, We Built this City: New York. It was on channel 5 so I had zero expectations, but it was really interesting and despite being obviously very short and general, covered a lot of things that the series on the history of New York which was on the other year didn't. Next week is Paris, and I'm looking forward to it.
Closer to home, I got a lift into work with one of the neighbours the other day. She's an older lady who's lived in the area all her life, so I got a history lesson about the area. She explained where all the covered-over rivers are (anywhere that's a green space in the area, because you can't build on them for 100 years or subsidence sets in), and about a 5 minute walk from here was the pit head of the deepest pit in Britain, from where they worked seams into the Bristol Channel. That's a long way from here. I'm a bit dubious about the deepest pit part. I lived in Yorkshire long enough to assume it's up there somewhere. A quick Google search brings up a good site about the Easton Pit (not far away), which mentions Deep Pit in passing, but not a lot specific about it. There's still a Deep Pit Road near here. Our terrace are the oldest houses around here, and for some reason I had thought they were farm cottages, which doesn't make sense as they're not that much older than some of the nearby terraces, and also the architecture is wrong. These are mining cottages. They're still pretty big for mining cottages from stuff I've read about the working and living conditions of the miners. I predict the need to blow lots of money on local history books in the near future.
This neighbour drives into town a different route from the bus, so getting to see new parts of town is neat. I was reminded that there are places not that far from here that have funky independent shops which I should really check out on that unlikely day I have some time and energy.
My eyes, my eyes! I had to give up on work early today as I was putting all of my energy and concentration into just being able to focus. Plus my eyes still itch. I came home and went to sleep from 4:30 to 6:30 and still feel like crap. I'm going to go completely apeshit if they don't get better soon. And yes, it is both eyes now.
I ordered CDs from both Resurrection and Darkcell on Monday, and neither is here yet. I'm starting to get worried. I've not ordered from Resurrection online before and the last time I ordered from Darkcell the CD showed up in a day or two.
I just got around to watching a programme I taped on Wednesday night, We Built this City: New York. It was on channel 5 so I had zero expectations, but it was really interesting and despite being obviously very short and general, covered a lot of things that the series on the history of New York which was on the other year didn't. Next week is Paris, and I'm looking forward to it.
Closer to home, I got a lift into work with one of the neighbours the other day. She's an older lady who's lived in the area all her life, so I got a history lesson about the area. She explained where all the covered-over rivers are (anywhere that's a green space in the area, because you can't build on them for 100 years or subsidence sets in), and about a 5 minute walk from here was the pit head of the deepest pit in Britain, from where they worked seams into the Bristol Channel. That's a long way from here. I'm a bit dubious about the deepest pit part. I lived in Yorkshire long enough to assume it's up there somewhere. A quick Google search brings up a good site about the Easton Pit (not far away), which mentions Deep Pit in passing, but not a lot specific about it. There's still a Deep Pit Road near here. Our terrace are the oldest houses around here, and for some reason I had thought they were farm cottages, which doesn't make sense as they're not that much older than some of the nearby terraces, and also the architecture is wrong. These are mining cottages. They're still pretty big for mining cottages from stuff I've read about the working and living conditions of the miners. I predict the need to blow lots of money on local history books in the near future.
This neighbour drives into town a different route from the bus, so getting to see new parts of town is neat. I was reminded that there are places not that far from here that have funky independent shops which I should really check out on that unlikely day I have some time and energy.
My eyes, my eyes! I had to give up on work early today as I was putting all of my energy and concentration into just being able to focus. Plus my eyes still itch. I came home and went to sleep from 4:30 to 6:30 and still feel like crap. I'm going to go completely apeshit if they don't get better soon. And yes, it is both eyes now.
I ordered CDs from both Resurrection and Darkcell on Monday, and neither is here yet. I'm starting to get worried. I've not ordered from Resurrection online before and the last time I ordered from Darkcell the CD showed up in a day or two.
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Date: 2004-02-11 05:05 pm (UTC)There's also a reasonable website (http://members.lycos.co.uk/brisray/bristol/bind.htm) that goes into quite a lot of detail about the changes in the city's watercourses over time. The museum in the Wills building has some interesting maps too, on the 1st floor gallery, going back to about 1200 I think.
I know of people ("friends of friends") who've taken canoes and rowing boats down the Frome from the M32 to the Watershed. Stopping briefly to poke their heads out by Castle Park (there's an old door in the wall roughly opposite Argos). Just watch out for the dead dogs apparently....
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Date: 2004-02-12 11:41 am (UTC)And thanks for the website!