It’s not often I use the same picture twice, I try to avoid doing that, and usually if I do it’s because I’ve forgotten that I’ve used it previously. Tonights re-use though is quite deliberate.
On Sunday, we visited the New Forest (as I said last night) but before we went looking for pannaging pigs, we visited a small lake at Eyeworth. What a delightful setting it is as well.
Nearby though was this. When I first saw it, I thought it was a chimney and wondered what was underneath, but then I read the little sign next to it that it was a post box which had been placed there for the convenience of the workers at a gunpowder factory that had been operating since the 1860’s, but it was mainly to save effort by the postman, this being the time before delivery vans.
The site though is only a couple of miles from The Rufus Stone, which marks the site of the death by arrow of William Rufus, King William II. In turn the stone is near the pub the Sir Walter Tyrrell, named after the knight who shot the fatal arrow. Sir Walter escaped to France in fear of his life, but it appears that everyone hated Rufus, so he was never threatened.
But all this made me wonder about The New Forest itself, which I know was dotted with WW2 airfields, some remains of which are still visible, but what other little gems are there? Something else that is worthy of investigation.
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