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The England Under the Floorboards
A rummage through my collection of old book illustrations, photographs, postcards, excerpts and general vintage findings that illustrate an England...
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Archaeology
The England Under the Floorboards ― I love old junk... but did you know I also like really, REALLY old junk?? :PThis is a piece of clay tobacco pipe I found at Weymouth, on the seaside. I love collecting bits of clay pipe I find in fields, most that I find I think date from 1640-1720 -... (more)
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Posted on Oct 13th, 2010
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The Man from Sirdar, He Say... Knit
The England Under the Floorboards ― Hello everyone (?), after a long and fairly painful hiatus involving home troubles, going back to college and squeezing every last drop out of a lovely summer, I'm back hunched over my keyboard ready to resume living in the past!! And here is also... (more)
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Posted on Sep 26th, 2010
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Three Brothers - Update
The England Under the Floorboards ― An anonymous (...) tip-off from Twitter sent me to this site, where there's an interesting clue as to where exactly these three boys might have been staying.South Shore is also a part of Blackpool, and the Brighton was the name of a hotel at 465... (more)
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Posted on Aug 12th, 2010
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Poster Campaign
The England Under the Floorboards ― Spent today gleefully rummaging around for bunches of lace in the local haberdashery (okay, it does fuzzy fur and buttons that look like footballs as well), buying an Italian leather bag for pence and then making a lining for it while chuckling at... (more)
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Posted on Aug 11th, 2010
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"The Cowslip" III
The England Under the Floorboards ― III.Filial Love.Miss Jane's mamma was very ill,And felt such pain she could not sleep,And Jane would quietly sit still,Or sometimes through the curtains peep.And often as she left the bed,The tear of sweet affection fell,And going from the room she... (more)
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Posted on Jul 30th, 2010
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"The Cowslip" II
The England Under the Floorboards ― II.The Truant.Children, who delight to ramble,When it is not holiday,And o'er hedge and ditch to scramble,All for love of truant play:Must have tasks and lessons doubleTo make up for time misspent,And, besides this double trouble,Must have proper... (more)
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Posted on Jul 29th, 2010
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"The Cowslip" I
The England Under the Floorboards ― While perusing the local charity shops with a couple of friends and my boyfriend, we went into Oxfam, which regrettably has a rather large shelf unit full of antiquarian books. I don't go in there often, because I have a feeling if I did, I'd be... (more)
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Posted on Jul 26th, 2010
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Tweet my Folksy!
The England Under the Floorboards ― Remember to visit the sister shop on FolksyFollow me on Twitter @ThEngUndTheFlo...And a Facebook page would probably be irrelevant... or would it? Thoughts...? ;)Thanks for reading!! (more)
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Posted on Jul 25th, 2010
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Three Brothers and a Mayor
The England Under the Floorboards ― I've had these three chaps a while now... they came in a set and I can see why - two of them are distinctly brothers - even though the centre photograph is different from the other two and maybe taken somewhere else, the facial features are different... (more)
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Posted on Jul 25th, 2010
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Ivory Pawn
The England Under the Floorboards ― Discovered a few hours ago, underneath a bridge over a river two miles from my house:This ivory Victorian chess piece. That particular bridge was notorious in my book for housing an old dump underneath it, in a little passageway just off from the... (more)
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Posted on Jun 28th, 2010
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Happy Families
The England Under the Floorboards ― While rootling in a drawer for some incense sticks, my mother happened upon this treasure left behind by my departed German grandmother, who most likely afforded it the same amount of disinterest as her daughter-in-law:I don't know precisely when... (more)
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Posted on Jun 24th, 2010
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New Finds...
The England Under the Floorboards ― Down the tip, for less than pence:A beautiful vintage pram, not in the best of condition, as you can see it has a mysterious hole on the side, below a shaped dent which suggests someone prised off a logo of some sorts. But that's not the end of it's... (more)
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Posted on Jun 20th, 2010
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The Death of Childhood
The England Under the Floorboards ― "Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?"-Charles Lamb"Great Thoughts From Master Minds", 1899 (more)
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Posted on Jun 1st, 2010
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Sonnet XVII
The England Under the Floorboards ― Who will believe my verse in time to come,If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tombWhich hides your life and shows not half your parts.If I could write the beauty of your eyesAnd in fresh numbers... (more)
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Posted on May 24th, 2010
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A Selection from The Albion Readers
The England Under the Floorboards ― "Sir Owain before the Countess", frontispiece"He was knitting a woollen stocking" From 'the Key-Flower' "Boarding the Galleon""The princess Cicely finds Michael asleep in the garden""Drake's ship, 'the Golden Hind'""In the pool of London" from the... (more)
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Posted on May 20th, 2010
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