Tag archives for David EP Dennis
Dutch toTake the VOC Amsterdam Home?
DAVID EP DENNIS An ever-present reminder of the power of storm and tide for the last 277 years, something sits at St Leonards. At the lowest tides of the year, when the…
The Fatal Attraction of a Helpless, Sinister Monster
DAVID EP DENNIS During the First World War, Germany had 351 submarines (U-boats), and of these, around 178 were lost during the war, leaving 173 to be disposed of by…
Become Best Friends with Alexandra Park
DAVID EP DENNIS All photos by the author Alexandra Park was formed in 1876 and has one of the finest tree collections in Europe. Its glorious landscape is the home…
Pell Mell to Save Bexhill
DAVID EP DENNIS explains how a project that includes the repair of a rusty tide gate could help prevent annual flooding of Bexhill’s Egerton Park – but help is needed…
Standing Up For Nature
Organised by DAVID EP DENNIS and introduced by CHARMIAN KENNER, Features and Environment join forces to highlight wildlife and environmentalist groups in the area David EP DennisThe beautiful Peacock butterfly…
Up Banking
With millions of coastal homes at risk from flooding, DAVID EP DENNIS outlines the vital workof the Environment Agency in keeping us all from being inundated by rising sea-levels Kent…
Land of Giants
David EP Dennis National Trust Images/Kirsty GibbonsGiant redwood in the garden at Scotney Castle, Kent The giant trees of Beauport Park woods are huggable, but only if you have a…
Cunning Men, Witches & Devils
DAVID EP DENNIS It’s 1593. What is a mother to do when her precious child is sick? There is no NHS, no internet or mobile phones. The vicar’s prayers are…
Climate Plagues
DAVID EP DENNIS Over the course of history across the world, there have been terrible outbreaks of diseases, and the local climate plays a part in spreading sickness. Science can…
Fresh in on the Tide
DAVID EP DENNIS Imagine a cold grey mist, a lamp in the darkness and the crunching sound of wood grinding on the gravel of an English beach. Here comes Mora,…
We Just Want to Swim in the Sea!
DAVID EP DENNIS, a regular contributor and local historian who has recently been made ‘Bexhill Wild Domesday project manager.’ looks at our problems with ; David EP Dennis The seas…
Edith – The Handfasted Queen of England
By David EP Dennis Here is a woman whose lifelong husband is going to have sex with a widow whose husband he had killed, just so that his future son…
Alarm at Catsfield ‘Center Parcs’ Plan
By David EP Dennis The property development company Greystoke is drawing up plans for an extensive holiday complex on the historic Normanhurst Estate in Catsfield. It would contain 240 holiday…
Wonderful Wunderhaus!
By David EP Dennis We all know times are difficult. Climate change, global warming, food price rises and extortionate energy costs. We also know that people have to live somewhere…
Eco-tensions in Combe Valley
By David EP Dennis A series of unfortunate events is taking place inside the Combe Valley Countryside Park boundary. Because Combe Valley was a countryside park with multiple landowners, rather…
Saving Lives at Sea The Hastings Lifeboat – and its Women
By David EP Dennis The Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) crew is one of the most respected groups of professionals in Hastings. Along with the police, fire service and NHS…
The Vile Curate of Hastings Grammar School
By David EP Dennis William Parker Grammar School’s curate of pure evil is Titus Oates, a thoroughly degenerate man and so it is not surprising that on websites detailing the…
The Last Journeys of King Harold Godwinson
By David EP Dennis Strangely, we are about to celebrate our most significant military defeat – the Battle of Hastings on 14th October 1066. But what really happened to Harold?…