tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post8564405618290800891..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: HastingsSteerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-29417681341255059352009-11-08T09:54:18.936+00:002009-11-08T09:54:18.936+00:00It could be him, you never know. I wonder if the s...It could be him, you never know. I wonder if the shop still has the book?Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-11557219198134668452009-11-08T04:11:23.949+00:002009-11-08T04:11:23.949+00:00I live in Australia and am going to the UK for the...I live in Australia and am going to the UK for the first time next year. My grandfather came from the UK - and his name was Bertie John Mason. I understand he was born in Saffron Waldon in about 1886 - which would have made him about 7 or 8 and possibly the right age to have been the Bertie Mason referred to in the book plate. <br /><br />If so, then he eventually came to Australia where he met and married Victoria May Burton. they had four children, my mother being the youngest. Bertie was a diabetic and died in 1923.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14033020886821968204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-19331733861019128752009-03-10T10:54:00.000+00:002009-03-10T10:54:00.000+00:00God, I hope my wife never reads this (and she usua...God, I hope my wife never reads this (and she usually doesn't). She's a terrible arachnophobe and wouldn't set foot in Hastings, let alone the caves, if she knew about this.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-45837480802878483572009-03-10T09:54:00.000+00:002009-03-10T09:54:00.000+00:00Here's the true horror...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...Here's the true horror...<BR/><BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7725378.stmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-31930455253733741422009-03-09T21:02:00.000+00:002009-03-09T21:02:00.000+00:00Spiders in caves? That sounds like a Doctor Who ep...Spiders in caves? That sounds like a Doctor Who episode I once saw.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-60914377176754405502009-03-09T16:41:00.000+00:002009-03-09T16:41:00.000+00:00Glad you liked it here, and yes, many people comme...Glad you liked it here, and yes, many people comment we've (well, hopefully not all of us) been rather smashed than brushed with the ugly stick. Lots of odd ways of walking too.<BR/>But...did you and your son realise the true horror of the Smugglers Adventure - that of the colonies of spiders just off the main passage in (you know the scary one as you enter)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-12690176947322809212009-03-08T15:16:00.000+00:002009-03-08T15:16:00.000+00:00Cheers for that, an excellent description of Hasti...Cheers for that, an excellent description of Hastings - yes, you are right about the mad uncle thing, I've lived in far 'nicer' places but I love Hastings.<BR/><BR/>There are a couple of astonishing 2nd hand bookshops hidden away in odd corners, drop me a line and I'll send you the details.<BR/><BR/>But the big question is - did you go to Sir Cloudsley Shovells house???Grey Areahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18240869670530738753noreply@blogger.com