tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post5256906507006566029..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Pershore, WorcestershirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-19058146799646483552015-01-08T15:52:45.413+00:002015-01-08T15:52:45.413+00:00Robert: Wise women are invaluable. The oen in Lorn...Robert: Wise women are invaluable. The oen in Lorna Doone sounds a more serious creation than one of my favourites, in the Blackadder TV series ('Two things must ye know of the Wise Woman. She is a woman. And she is wise').Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-90794103324929357522015-01-08T15:51:04.861+00:002015-01-08T15:51:04.861+00:00Stephen: A lot of late-19th and early-20th century...Stephen: A lot of late-19th and early-20th century toys seemed to have come from Germany - partly as a result of a flourish tin-plate industry, but they did other things too. It must have been a big thing for the Germans before WW1.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-66303565975361521452014-12-22T13:02:39.348+00:002014-12-22T13:02:39.348+00:00I'm led to believe, and such has been my exper...I'm led to believe, and such has been my experience, that a very wise Wise Woman is a rare gem indeed. ‘Now the wisest person in all our parts was reckoned to be a certain wise woman, well known all over Exmoor by the name “Mother Melldrum.”’ (Lorna Doone, p.110). She spent her summers living by the Devil’s bridge, Tarr Steps, and her winters living in the Valley of the Rocks. Described as being ‘… quite at home with our proper modes of divination.’ It would seem such prescience lives on in these modern times. Season's Greetings to you.Robert Slackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150704777267563113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-55762800061297273672014-12-21T00:39:04.397+00:002014-12-21T00:39:04.397+00:00The Manse looks like it has been built with buildi...The Manse looks like it has been built with building wooden building blocks from the Nineteenth Century, giving it a certain cheerful vulgarity offsetting the classical villa design.<br /><br />As an idle thought why is it so many sets of building blocks from late 19th Century up to WW1 came from Germany? I have several sets in my possession.Stephen Barkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-77271237317357331422014-12-19T11:23:52.971+00:002014-12-19T11:23:52.971+00:00I like both. Nice to be back in Midlands red brick...I like both. Nice to be back in Midlands red brick country: two buildings which demonstrate that<br />"chaste and restrained" and "brick" are not synonymous. The manse is demonstrating the craze in the 1880s for bricks of contrasting and different colours as in "Architectural Brickwork" ed. David Jenkins (Studio Books 1990. I used to think of such things as "hideous and Victorian" but I've changed my mind, and admire the use of materials. Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com