Another walk with John Rogers. He takes us along the Chess Valley Walk, starting at Rickmansworth on the Metropolitan Line ending at Chesham in the Chilterns. The River Chess is a beautiful chalk stream rising in the Chilterns and runs into the River Colne.
North Street in Cromford contains the earliest planned industrial housing in the world. Built by Richard Arkwright, the street's three-storey houses had sec[,d-floor workshops for framework knitting. You can read more about them on the Historic England site.
Second paragraph of third chapter (actually I found it rather difficult to count to three here, but this will do): The effect of an object upon the faculty of representation, so far as we are affected by the said object, is sensation. That sort of intuition which relates to an object by means of sensation is called an empirical intuition. The undetermined object of an empirical intuition is called phenomenon. Die Wirkung eines Gegenstandes auf die Vorstellungsfähigkeit, so fern wir von demselben afficirt werden, ist Empfindung. Dieienige Anschauung, welche sich auf den Gegenstand durch Empfindung bezieht, heißt empirisch. Der unbestimmte ...
This is great news. There is a meme going around that Ludlow is out of action due to the floods. Businesses have reported cancelled bookings. But, despite the devastation to dozens of homes and flooding of businesses, our town in trading as normal. We remain the feisty Ludlow we have always been. Trading is never great at this time of the year. We are waiting for the Easter boost to get our Marches town boosted into the high season. But everyone I have spoken to says footfall, which means people spending money, is down after Storm Dennis. Shropshire Council has ...
Mon 2nd
16:44
Restoration of the Leas Pavilion and Proposed Residential Development: Public Consultation Event
[IMG: Leas Club / Leas Pavilion, Folkestone] On Tuesday 10th March from 2pm-8pm at The Channel Suite, Leas Cliff Hall, The Leas, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 2DZ there will be an opportunity to view proposals for The Leas Pavilion and adjacent car parks to Cheriton Place and Longford Terrace, prior to the submission of a Planning Application. Representatives will be available to provide detailed information about the scheme and answer any questions that you may have. The information will also be available online at www.leas-pavilion.co.uk from Wednesday 11 March. Published and promoted by Tim Prater, 98a Sandgate High Street, Folkestone, CT20 ...
In the Guardian letters columns recently, there were good letters from Michael Meadowcroft, Mike Cashman, Malcolm Pim, and Guri Singh on the new points based system for migrants. All expressed views on those that the Government is saying it would welcome, such as doctors and highly skilled people, but however making points that we do need to think about encouraging them to leave countries where their skills are needed. Another issue is that we have many asylum seekers in the UK, who are not welcome in their own countries, to put it mildly, and have fled here for sanctuary and ...
Everywhere locally is waterlogged, drains and ground drainage is not coping. But when four bays at the MIU are effectively out of action because the surface water sitting there is too deep to get from the car to the MIU without getting very wet feet over you shoes, something needs to be done. By definition those using the car park are NHS patients and the last thing they need on top of the thing they've gone to the MIU or doctor with is soaking feet or trying to get through water when you have a mobility problem. We have asked ...
Mon 2nd
12:00
The Suez crisis and the dream of the US trade deal that lives on and on - and how it is always discu...
At the heart of the right-wing flavour of British Euroscepticism lives a dream trade deal with the United States of America (for reference, the heart of Lexit is communism in one country, so take heart, things could be even worse). It has always been there, going back to the mid-2000s and the rise of UKIP. This idea that we could "unshackle" ourselves from the corpse of continental Europe and become "equal partners" with the US. People who don't want the UK to do a trade deal with the US, ie most of the left and a healthy tranche of Remainers, ...
Sun, 14:00: RT @alexvtunzelmann: Oh, so it's be kind to ladies who are having their first kid now, is it? Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool https://t.... Sun, 14:10: RT @MorpheusNI: Ya hear that, farmers of Northern Ireland? Sun, 14:48: RT @LauraVickersNo5: Unregistered barrister unsuccessfully appeals against sanction for derogatory tweet on several grounds, including that... Sun, 18:27: The Cambridge University Ballet Club Lent Term performance https://t.co/0F8i2pqs1l Sun, 20:00: 300 hours left to nominate for the 2020 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards, and the 1945 Retro Hugos! Time to ge... https://t.co/JJoUgZeOWR Sun, 20:48: Why, thank you! https://t.co/s0lSeNb0tT Sun, 22:12: ...
Robert Woodthorpe Browne has tweeted a photo of this memorial to Paddy, which was unveiled in Sarajevo on February 27th, which would have been Paddy's 79th birthday: This is the memorial unveiled today in Sarajevo on Paddy's 79th birthday. The Paddy Ashdown Forum will build on his legacy pic.twitter.com/vh55Lm6QUj — R Woodthorpe Browne (@robertbrowne1) February 28, 2020 The Paddy Ashdown Forum has been established as: ...a Think Tank that brings together senior academics and policy makers to produce new thinking on domestic, European and International issues. Work will be disseminated via books, policy papers, reports, workshops, roundtables, seminars and discussions. ...
Today the Conservative Government's chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, is meeting his EU counterpart, Michel Barnier, in Brussels for the first of what are likely to be numerous and probably quite fractious talks about a possible UK-EU trade deal. Like most Remainers I am aware that the best deal is the one we had until [...]
The Independent highlights a one-man crusade by Neil Coughlan, a pensioner from Essex, one of 11 million registered electors in the UK who do not own a driving licence or a passport. That is part of the reason Mr Coughlan decided to take the government to court over trials that saw some voters asked to show identification at the ballot box - a policy ministers plan to roll out nationwide. Mr Coughlan lost his case before the local elections last May - when voter ID was trialled - after the High Court found the voter ID pilots legal, but he ...
Mon 2nd
07:48
The case for free public transport and getting on with (rather than talking about) bus re-regulation
Vintage Ribble bus photoed at the West Lancs Light Railway in 2018 Very soon after I got involved in politics I attended a Liberal Party conference in Blackpool, I think it was in 1980. On the agenda was a motion for debate that was all about making public transport free to use in and around towns and cities. If memory serves David Alton, MP for Liverpool Edge Hill, was backing the motion and he must have made a powerful case because ever since I've held the view that free public transport (or with a nominal fare) would one day become ...
This photograph first appeared in a 1948 Picture Post feature that examined the claim that Leicester was home to the prettiest girls in England. This is St Saviour's Road and the factory building still stands.
