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The Anchor Inn Sutton Gault In 1630 the Earl of Bedford engaged the Dutch drainage engineer Cornelius Vermuyden to drain the Fens for agricultural use. This area had, up to that time, consisted of a vast watery tract of swamp and scrub and despite the efforts of The Romans, Willliam the Conqueror and the Abbots of Ely it had withstood taming. The local inhabitants were as anti-social as their environment and this secret place had become the haunt of vagabonds and malaria-ridden peasants. Vermuyden was partially successful and with the digging of the Old & New Bedford Rivers around 1650, the formation of the present rich agricultural landscape began and the constant danger of flooding to recede. Sutton Gault (Gault is the name for the thick clay used to construct the river banks) sits on the Western edge of the Isle of Ely just outside the village of Sutton. Ely really was an island in those days and stood with its ancient cathedral above the surrounding swampland surrounded by water. The Anchor was built around 1650 beside the bank of the New Bedford River or “The Hundred Foot Drain” as it is also called, to provide shelter for the workers digging the rivers. These workers were largely made up of Scottish prisoners of war, captured by Oliver Cromwell in a recent victory over the Scots. Despite this rather grim provenance the Anchor has been a pub ever since.
The Cadillac of The Skies Wanaka New Zealand
The Horror of The Blitz Visiting The Battle of Britain Memorial The Embankment London
A magic time on Oreti Beach Invercargill
Looking into The Mirrormere The Southern Alps New Zealand
05MAR2013 Morning Flight Five below zero out this is the first gone of the day. Over the fields of Hudson Wisconsin. Thanks for all the wonderful comments on yesterdays train shot...hope you enjoy this one as well.
04MAR2013 The Whole Train Rural Iowa with the Union Pacific. 400mm out Westbound 7500 rounds the bend in the Boyer River canyon to Woodbine Iowa, number three in the siding....the more important train headed eastbound will be coal straight from the coal fields of Wyoming or the refrigerated out of the fruit belt of southern California... the battery on the camera is going dead midway through the shoot add to that its cold and just plain crappy out. Not what I started out looking for 7500 came into sight midway around the corner, closing speed of 75mph we are lucky to find a crossing and get set up, the camera goes dead midway to the second frame.... Thanks for looking.....Thanks for the comments.
Walking in History Glastonbury Cathedral Somerset
Opposing Forces Stow-On-The-Wold
The Cadillac of The Skies
Wanaka
New Zealand
The Cadillac of The Skies Wanaka New Zealand
The Cadillac of The Skies
Wanaka
New Zealand
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