Category: Britain

Britain, especially England, especially Hertfordshire.

Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #6 “Berkhamsted”

Original playout date: 1 March 2008
Duration: 8:26

One of my nicest galleries from a time I was doing my best to do as much walking as possible and used the camera to encourage that, even though it tended to slow progress right down. Continue reading “Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #6 “Berkhamsted”” →

Mad Mabel: A Novel
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This Inevitable Ruin: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 7
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #5 “On fish and watercress”

Original playout date: 26 February 2008
Duration: 11:22

“On this spot, 40 years ago, I got clawed by a tiger. Happy memories!

This is a walk along the Grand Union Canal and a discussion of how species get their names and some of the things that we can see along the canal.”
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Carl's Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2
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Threshing Day [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Empyrean
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #4 “The Last Highwayman”

Original playout date: 23 February 2008
Duration: 11:48

This visit to Boxmoor features reminiscences of Hemel Hempstead School, a rant-on-the-hoof about trends in education in Britain today, and a look at the story of the death of James Snook or Robert Snooks, as he called himself, the last highwayman to be sentenced to death in England just over 200 years ago in this place, for the theft of 500 pounds from His Majesty’s mails.

If they did that to modern-day spammers and phishers and identity fraudsters that would soon put the fear of God into them, but standards appear to have slipped irretrievably since good old Snooks’es day.
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Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
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Hollow Bones: A Novel
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #3 “Grand Union Canal”

Original playout date: 23 February 2008
Duration: 9:17

Here is a mainly gallery piece following my recent walk from home to Kings Langley along the towpath of the historic Grand Union Canal, which has linked London and Birmingham since the days of the Industrial Revolution.

New developments seen on most of this, such as the Apsley marina, are all new and in my youth much of this part of the canal was derelict. Not everything in the UK has gone downhill – most of what I’ve photographed in this film is actually evidence of renewal and improvement, and we see how the prestigious canalside homes in some less known Hertfordshire places like Belswains Lane have lifestyles akin to such places as Grantchester or Henley, with prices to match, no doubt.
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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 6
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Fourth Wing: Empyrean, Book 1
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Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #2 “Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead”

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Original playout date: 18 February 2008
Duration: 16:18

The second in the series “Uncle Davey’s Herts Content” features a walk down Hemel Hempstead’s main street looking at the things which are reminders of the old days and new things that have arrived in the most recent times.
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A Court of Splintered Harmony
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The Butcher's Masquerade: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 5
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