There are a series of three posts currently up on the excellent Tamworth Time Hikes blog that are worth a look. I know I plug Mark Lorenzo’s work here rather a lot, but this is shaping up to be a wonderful resource. I love the eclectic, off-kilter posting style, and find the Abe and Ernst device as captivating as it is bizarre – but what really pulls it together is some excellent landscape research. Tip of the hat goes to Mark for expanding on a largely overlooked area of Staffordshire.

I can’t stress how important this kind of historical research is – there are few people engaged in it, and this kind of evidence-based approach will become increasingly important as the historical record of our evolving society, it’s agriculture and industry becomes more uncertain as oral records are lost. It may seem flippant, but this stuff is deathly serious. Think about it.

The first adventure for Abe and Ernst is aptly going to be to do with windmills, Don Quijote´s giants in the landscape. Ernst and Abe are not going to have much luck in finding windmills around Tamworth, as there isn´t any. Tamworth being crisscrossed by rivers was ideally suited for watermills.  There were though at least a couple of windmills nearby in the not too distant past, with one more ‘maybe’ windmill. Windmill Hill, Whittington This is … Read More

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