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Lydia -for Lydia Lawrence #amwriting #strongwomen
Good golly miss Molly Did you marry a man with a miner’s lamp and No brolly? Didn’t you know that the marriage bed came sprinkled with Soot? Did he blind you With a title, then tempt you with a butty? … Continue reading
Posted in local history, poetry, secret history
Tagged DH Lawrence, Eastwood, Leonard Bast, Lydia Lawrence, Mining, Nottinghamshire, Victorians
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Friends of Codnor Common: History of Codnor Common:
Codnor Common used to be a much larger area, stretching almost up towards Denby. The 1835 map certainly suggests as much. The whole area of Codnor was given to William Peverel, the illegitimate son of William the conqueror, after the … Continue reading
Posted in Codnor Common, Derbyshire Ripley, local history, secret history, trenches
Tagged Henry Grey, Henry Vernon, Scarlet Closes, social history
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The Taking #BringBackOurGirls #amediting #VAW
The Taking We knew the soldiers were coming Hid in our beds, no one to protect us Goods on the shelf waiting to be stolen Before, that day, we had lessons Cursed algebra, embraced Shakespeare Explored China, played … Continue reading
Posted in poetry, secret history, workshop pieces
Tagged bringbackourgirls, violence against women
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My poem about the Chibok schoolgirls. #amediting #bringbackourgirls
Yesterday I was reading the paper and a story caught my eye. It was about the 276 schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in Northern Nigeria two years ago. I thought I had read that many of these … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, secret history, Uncategorized, WeWillRememberThem
Tagged violence against women
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The theme of this International Women’s Day: Remember but Don’t Give Up!
I am pretty sure the unofficial theme of International Women’s Day 2016 is don’t give up. After all, we have got so far. Pity we have so much further to go. As this is a writing blog, I’m sharing a poem … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, poetry, secret history, WeWillRememberThem
Tagged gasworks, Lancashire, layards to catch meddlars, lipstick, poetry
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Would Teachers Waste?
When teachers are too tired to write they photocopy pages of complicated, useless things That seem to last for ages. They could have written notes themselves that we could understand. If we could read their writing in their very … Continue reading
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About Friends of Codnor Common: About us
Formed in 2013, we are a non-profit making organisation dedicated to preserving and enhancing these ancient lands. We share a love of Codnor Common, land between the villages of Codnor, Waingroves and the town of Ripley, and our members come … Continue reading
Posted in Codnor Common, Uncategorized
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About Friends of Codnor Common: The Neighbourhood Plan and Local Green Space
Planning legislation introduced in March 2012 enables communities to identify areas of open space that are particularly important to them for special protection, called Local Green Space. To this end, Friends of Codnor Common launched a petition to bring pressure … Continue reading
About Friends of Codnor Common: our struggle
For more than thirty years local people have demonstrated time and again that Codnor Common is special to them – for a number of important reasons – and should remain undisturbed as a valuable open break between Codnor, Waingroves and … Continue reading
About Friends of Codnor Common: Wildlife
More than half of this rich habitat has already been built on or spoilt, with stiles taken out and Heras fencing protecting most of the site. Two trees with Tree Preservation Orders, an ash and an oak, were cut down … Continue reading
Posted in Derbyshire Ripley, Uncategorized, wildlife
Tagged badgers, bats, birds foot trefoil, fieldfares, foxes, goldcrests, great spotted woodpeckers, grey heron, hedgehogs, house martins, jays, kestrels, little owls, mistle thrushes, red fescue, silverweed, siskins, sparrowhawks, squirrels, swallows, swifts, tufted vetch, yorkshire fog
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