Winchelsea…how the other one percent live

Glorious sunny day on Saturday, we went to Winchelsea to view the Open Gardens.  Goodness me, they were lovely…. real English dense borders piled against old walls, heavy with roses – trickling water, sweeping green…

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Hastings Battleaxe has moved!

Sorry, blog readers but we just moved into our new ‘forever’ house earlier this week.      The builders were still working half an hour before we arrived – they still have not quite finished, but…

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Battleaxe visits Ballgowns Exhibition at V & A

Just had to take a break from those builders…. we went to London for the day.  The crowds and the queues were terrible at the V and A – of course, it was still the…

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Battle of Hastings Builders….

I feel guilty…. Blogging has not been my highest priority over the past couple of weeks.  I have already mentioned about our new house?  Well, it has been full of builders since we got possession…

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Hastings Battleaxe’s Brummie heritage comes to Hastings

This device is a fly-press for punching and stamping metal, made in around 1910 by a company called Hazelwood and Dent in Branston Street, Birmingham.  It is standing outside Leigh Dyer’s West Street Incurva studio,…

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