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Showing posts with label Robert Louis Stevenson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Louis Stevenson. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2009

Lane update.

This is a view looking along our lane. Notice how far below the road that the river is today. Now look at all the rubbish along the wire fence and see how it lines up with the bottom of the hedge on the lane. That is the height that the water reached!
The river has dropped so much that you can't even see it on this shot.

This one was taken when the river was higher . Our entrance comes in at right angles to where the tree and the bushes are. Not much room for the sharp turn now!


Posted by PicasaJust out of interest this is a postcard of the same view in about 1901.


At the end of the lane is the mill written about by Robert Louis Stevenson. Not sure what he would make of the walk now!

The mill was finally demolished about 50 years ago and now is transformed into the garden shown earlier in the video of the river.