Ruth OUT & ABOUT
Past & Present
Many of these articles first appeared in a free monthly magazine 'Absolute Herefordshire' (now defunct). They are reproduced here, with a print version if you prefer, for you to enjoy. Please do visit the places mentioned - Herefordshire and the Welsh border area is rich in historical sites .... Ruth.
Contents:
| Spring 2015 |
"Love your Church - Make it known - Encourage People to Visit" (Reflections Magazine) |
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| November / December 2014 |
With Christmas approaching, the story behind the Nativity scene. |
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| October 2014 |
The story of the King's Carpenter, John Abell of Sarnesfield, |
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| September 2014 |
The stories of some of the men who were quick to join the colours at the outbreak of World War I. |
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| August 2014 |
Some fascinating findings from feet |
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| July 2014 |
Looking back 70 years to the time of D–Day and at one Herefordshire military camp |
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| June 2014 |
Looking back to the days when Hereford had its very own Duke |
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| May 2014 |
How Herefordshire's castles tell the story of forced labour under the yoke of a foreign invader |
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| April 2014 |
Reflections how new uses for country churches reflects what happened in the past |
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| February 2014 |
Relying on the Romans for our calendar |
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| December 2013 |
A saintly and seasonal story. |
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| November 2013 |
Church Bells celebrating the failure of the Gunpowder Plot on the 5th November 1605 did not sound the same as they do today thanks to the Herefordian Fabian Stedman. |
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| October 2013 |
The telling a miraculous tale... |
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| September 2013 |
September is an ideal time for dating hedges according |
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| August 2013 |
The flower garden of Madley. |
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| July 2013 |
Eardisley Church and font, Baskervilles, and John Croft (a Lollard) and the Bishop of Hereford. |
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| June 2013 |
Looking back to a special event that still lives in many people's memories – the Queen's Coronation in 1953 |
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| May 2013 |
Celebrating the start of summer, Beltane, Flora, maypoles, Broomy Hill, Kingsland and Hereford May Fair. |
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| April 2013 |
Goodrich Castle, Gilbert de Clare, Richard 'Strongbow', Joan, latrines, food, surviving chapel with modern stained–glass windows and Radar. |
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| March 2013 |
The importance of 1752 for researchers and family historians with examples of Blanche Parry, Viscount Scudamore and John Geers of Garnons. |
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| January / February 2013 |
Neolithic ritual to make crops grow, led to Twelfth Night celebrations, Wassail, and the Leominster Morris |
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| December 2012 |
With Christmas in mind, attention turns to a seasonal custom that has its roots in the 18th Century but which has become a part of life in Herefordshire villages only in the last 40 or so years. |
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| November 2012 |
Without Guy Fawkes it may well have been an incident in Herefordshire that lived on in our modern memories. |
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| October 2012 |
An outrage that shook the county of Herefordshire 900 years ago! |
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| September 2012 |
Iron Age Hillforts and Credenhill |
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| August 2012 |
Stone throwing in the Middle Ages, as popular as football, William Marshall, Harri Ddu and Bacton Church |
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| July 2012 |
Archbishop William Laud and Dore Abbey |
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| June 2012 |
Blanche Parry, Elizabeth I and Bacton Church |