Richmond Castle
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Not what you expect with a water bill!
Alice Roberts, Anglian Water, Cat Jarman, Cerne Abbas Giant, churches, digging for Britain, Hadrian’s Wall, HS2, ichtyosaur, industrialisation, Iron Age, Leicester, Norman architecture, Northern Ireland, Onyeka Nubia, Richmond Castle, Rochdale, Roman mosaic, Roman plumbing, Rutland, Rutland Water, Salisbury Plain, Stoke Mandeville, World War TwoI also received this from Anglia Water about the “Rutland Sea Dragon”, an ichtyosaur found near Rutland Water. It featured in episode four of Digging for Britain, the latest series of which was shown over two weeks in January. As ever, Alice Roberts was the main presenter, alongside Dr. Onyeka Nubia and Dr. Cat Jarman.…
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I have been prompted to write this article after happening upon Visions on the horizon of desire: a painting of Henry VII & his family in the presence of St. George, by Margaret Milne Wood, 2001. See here. The subject of the work is the enigmatic painted panel of Henry VII and his family (see…