tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post8310905679973063354..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: AGES OF MEMORY by H.M. CastorMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-47990238770851239472012-06-08T09:22:39.369+01:002012-06-08T09:22:39.369+01:00I would have too, Julie! What a fantastic detail t...I would have too, Julie! What a fantastic detail to uncover!H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-13684083126974046402012-05-26T02:11:58.189+01:002012-05-26T02:11:58.189+01:00I really enjoy this blog. It's nice to know th...I really enjoy this blog. It's nice to know there are others out there who think the way I do, imagining the old places in other time periods and the people there at the time. I've been working on my family's genealogy and often feel like I know the ancestors better than the people around me now. Just last week I found my 3rd great-grandfather's baptismal record. I did a double-take when I saw that he was baptized by Patrick Bronte!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231006865318212003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-20420789836888566482012-05-16T16:16:03.797+01:002012-05-16T16:16:03.797+01:00Fascinating post!Fascinating post!Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-66635401178591862902012-05-14T09:07:34.275+01:002012-05-14T09:07:34.275+01:00Wonderful post, Harriet, and fantastic photos! Tha...Wonderful post, Harriet, and fantastic photos! Thank you for sharing them.Emma Passhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18209194238119830841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-31285429455707237862012-05-13T00:20:30.357+01:002012-05-13T00:20:30.357+01:00Utterly lovely post and magnificent pictures. And...Utterly lovely post and magnificent pictures. And how you've captured the magic of stepping into a place filled with ghosts of past, present and future. Like Louise, i love the image of your head-lights.Linda B-Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01599899073420595717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-87863613098478686272012-05-12T19:31:46.764+01:002012-05-12T19:31:46.764+01:00Thank you Carol, Barbara and Pauline - and Michell...Thank you Carol, Barbara and Pauline - and Michelle, too; you've rumbled me! :)H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-14267101340944404592012-05-12T15:34:06.838+01:002012-05-12T15:34:06.838+01:00Thank you, Harriet! The way you talk about buildin...Thank you, Harriet! The way you talk about buildings and context, and the way you endow buildings with a richly lived existence ... why, anyone might think you were married to an ... architect! <br />x<br />mmichelle lovrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026972300195225090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-2989465070062298662012-05-12T15:13:36.471+01:002012-05-12T15:13:36.471+01:00A wonderful post! I'm an enormous fan of old b...A wonderful post! I'm an enormous fan of old buildings that have so many stories to tell. We're so lucky in this country to have so many. This one is new to me, so thank you so much for posting about it.Pauline Chandlerhttp://www.paulinechandler.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-31490658515814743582012-05-12T15:11:05.319+01:002012-05-12T15:11:05.319+01:00Lovely post, Harriet, thank you. I've passed ...Lovely post, Harriet, thank you. I've passed through Warwick many times but now I must stop and take a look at those fabulous buildings. How lucky we are to live in a country where old buildings are precious to us, carrying as they do, such a huge amount of our history.Barbara Mitchelhillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-79730017669437750702012-05-12T14:13:01.564+01:002012-05-12T14:13:01.564+01:00Lovely photographs and as Warick is close to me I ...Lovely photographs and as Warick is close to me I must explore it further. I too enjoyed Eric Ives Ann Boleyn. It is an exceptional study. This seems to have been a fabulous visit.Carol McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11072696398820339640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-53621728376012837892012-05-12T11:43:46.334+01:002012-05-12T11:43:46.334+01:00Thank you, Louise, & I'm very impressed th...Thank you, Louise, & I'm very impressed that you knew straight away which passage the Tolkien quote came from! I'm currently reading 'The Two Towers' to my daughter at bedtimes, never having read it before, and happened to read that passage the day I'd been thinking about the subject for this post - it leapt out at me. Thank you to Mark and Geri (where in Fife are you, Geri? I spent many childhood summer holidays there & love it very much), & to Eleanor and Caroline too.H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-51744508643247262242012-05-12T10:42:06.204+01:002012-05-12T10:42:06.204+01:00Wonderful post and thanks for posting all those gr...Wonderful post and thanks for posting all those great pix, too. I love them!Caroline Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249424644829463560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-22013236225016929812012-05-12T10:17:17.593+01:002012-05-12T10:17:17.593+01:00Wonderful post. Bristling with the tangible histor...Wonderful post. Bristling with the tangible history within the place. xSolstice Yarnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18067948865850243087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-13884415326434178682012-05-12T10:15:05.648+01:002012-05-12T10:15:05.648+01:00Harriet, great post. I am feeling similarly this ...Harriet, great post. I am feeling similarly this week, back in the UK and in my mum's hometown in Fife. As I walked around late last night with a cousin, we noticed how many buildings we remembered as paper shops, the post office had become residential...and yet with those changes so many others remain unmarked by the passage of time, in the same way as the major landmarks (Arthur's Seat, InchKeith). <br /><br />Glad your tour is successful. GeriGeri, The History Ladyhttp://www.thehistorylady.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-2961616989804705122012-05-12T09:45:40.584+01:002012-05-12T09:45:40.584+01:00Fab post, Harriet, thank you. I love old buildings...Fab post, Harriet, thank you. I love old buildings and imagining how things were in the past, and I'm also deeply saddened when lovely old buildings go, especially those that I have some connection to. They are a lot like people, aren't they. Thank heavens for historical novelists like yourself who breathe new life into the past.Mark Burgesshttp://www.markburgess.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-34007420924737016152012-05-12T08:54:17.160+01:002012-05-12T08:54:17.160+01:00What a spectacularly brilliant post - and what a w...What a spectacularly brilliant post - and what a wonderful location. I've never, ever been to the Lord Leycester Hospital, and now will simply have to. It breathes history, and your whole post simply tingles with it. The Fangorn quote is perfect, and I'll never read it again without remembering the Lord Leycester. <br /><br />But best of all is this image: 'If people’s life experience shone out of the tops of their heads like the light of Dickens’ Ghost of Christmas Past, the elderly’s would shine tallest & brightest…'<br />That's so beautiful, so moving, and so true.<br /><br />And for an old bat like me, very comforting....alberridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15986443240923520466noreply@blogger.com