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That really chimed with my feelings on visiting the Hoo peninsula and Allhallows. Very evocative piece.
I cycled to the end of the peninsula from London - I just fancied seeing what was there after looking at it on a map. Some of the roads are so narrow and wind through a timeless and bucolic landscape that it feels like you've stepped (or cycled) into an eighteenth century pastoral.
And then you'll be jerked straight back into, well, at least the twentieth century by chimneys, pylons and similar industrial piles.
It reminded me of a couple of other places - the Wirral peninsula and the south-west tip of Pembrokeshire looking over to Milford Haven. Like you said yesterday - places that need space for big things like refineries.
Ian Curry | Homepage | 03.09.14 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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The British Pilot looks a proper old pub lounge bar, public bar, off licence. guess lack of moneyed clientele and remote location makes it not worth changing. One website has it up for let. Hope it doesn't close.
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Also wondering why the old Maplin Sands plan doesn't seem to have made a comeback? Around the same distance out on the Essex side.
Wasn't it buried as an option because the rate of air travel was predicted to slow down?
rashbre | Homepage | 03.09.14 - 1:53 p.m. | #
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I guess you didn't look in the churchyard at High Halstow - you would have seen another set of child-sized graves that gives St Margaret's church a rival claim to be the setting for the opening of Dicken's Great Expectations; usually placed in Cooling, as in your commentary. Evidence for the High Halstow option is set out at http://highhalstow.org.uk/village-history/charles-dickens-and-great-expectations
John Blake | 03.09.14 - 2:31 p.m. | #
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