Recent content by Calthrop

Innerpeffray

Madderty

Is that a matter concerning long-ago doings in the United States -- an early-19th-century conservationist, dismayed about the wholesale felling even then, of the US's forests; approaches a certain celebrated author with the given names of Edgar Allan -- specialist in writings of a gloomy and...

Almondbank

Perth Princes Street

Kinfauns

Inchture

More about H.G. Wells, would you believe it -- acceptably, it is hoped. (The forthcoming HGW matter would seem, I fear, to threaten to be "as clear as mud".) Wells's science-fiction story The Invisible Man is set in Iping. In his novel The History of Mr. Polly: the eponymous hero lives in (and...

Ninewells

Roodyards

The author / thinker / social commentator H.G. Wells (1866 -- 1946) was briefly in his youth, a teacher at a private school in the last post's settlement -- Holt Academy. A similar youthful episode in his life, had him doing the same at Midhurst Grammar School, Midhurst, West Sussex.

Craigie

Buddon Siding

A little to my surprise, it turns out that England appears to be quite full of Longfords -- seven of them (to say nothing of Longford, county town of a county in Leinster, Ireland). Am choosing, as another to associate with that in Hillingdon: Longford in Derbyshire; where I have in fact been --...

Elliot Junction