Links
Some links to other websites which may be of interest.
General Links
- Hallway Studios
- Web design based in London. Bright creative and customer friendly.
- Lochnagar Crater
- Website of Lochnagar Crater. This amazing place, a visible wound on the landscape which evokes so much, is a 5 minute walk from No.fifty6.
- Digger Cote 160 Association
- This Pozieres based Association supports commemorative and education events. It is responsible for the extraordinary biannual Son et Lumiere (Sound and Light Show) under the night skies of Pozieres. Throughout the year the Association put on and attend various events in costumes of the era, replica weapons and with their reconstruction s of The Red Baron - Von Richthofen's Fokker DR1 and also a Mark IV tank.
Latest news
31st March 2024
This comes with wishes that you have had a Happy Easter Weekend as we Spring forward an hour into the lighter evenings here in Europe.
Wow, where has March gone? It has been a busy, varied and rewarding month that has flown by, with so many interesting people and stories shared.
Weather-wise it has been a real mixed bag. Interminable rain, grey skies, with blue-sky days counted on one hand. Despite this the daffodils are defiantly showing Spring is here and the quality of the light improves, with a rich quality which illuminates the landscape when the sun peeps out from the clouds. Like a camera obscura revealing its magic.
We often think and remark that Nature does win over War. We see it here in the landscape once so ravaged and witness to so much death and destruction has been taken back by nature, reclaimed as it were. It’s just humankind who messes things up. Sentiments echoed in this lovely, poem: