No Road Movie.

I went out for a walk today.

Here's a link to the book that i mentioned:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Norman-Invasion-Discovery-Hastings/dp/0954480...
The eBook looks far cheaper!

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[21stCenturyCat]

but are you absolutely sure the battle took place in Hastings?...

[andymooseman]

@21stCenturyCat Well, the Battle of Hastings is thought to have taken place in Battle, not Hastings. Although the battle might not have been in Battle, but Crowhurst. Maybe the battle took place in Hastings after all & not Battle, or Crowhurst.

I think.....even i'm confused now ;)

[SenlacHarryHill]

Beeching cut the railways and we look back fondly on these disused places. I know the place you mean. I walk it often and feel the Victorians got it right why should we mess with their engineering. So much effort and now sadly beaten by cuts...which of course is very much in the public eye right now again! On a lighter note dam that dude for telling everyone SenlacHill is not the place of 1066.. argghh lol!

[andymooseman]

@SenlacHarryHill I can see why you might be annoyed att the change of venue for the battle ;) Victorian engineering is a wonder & continues to be so. I'm not sure where we'd be without it.

[phekwig]

I have seen quite a bit of development for the sake of development, and some of it is justified, but not all. Very often there are politics involved, and there are also make-work construction projects that keep construction crews working but create hideous public works monstrosities that don't serve the public any better than what was there before... Such is progress.

[andymooseman]

@phekwig I know what you mean. Sometimes development is done for all the wrong reasons & politics sure does play a part. That's partly the case with this proposed road.

[andymooseman]

@phekwig I know what you mean. Sometimes development is done for all the wrong reasons & politics sure does play a part. That's partly the case with this proposed road.

[andymooseman]

@theloathlydaddy I guess the trouble with history, especially older history, is that we often don't know exactly what happened do we? The Battle of Hastings is a good case in point. It happened so long ago all we are really sure about is the outcome :)

[theloathlydaddy]

Interesting speculation. I had a history professor who said "it's not what happened that's important. It's what people THINK happened that's important". So much of what people believe either never occurred or at least not in the way we've learned.

[andymooseman]

@americannamor From what others have said, that seems to be all too common over there. Thankfully things are better here, but there are exceptions to every rule :)