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 October 2019
Mary Borden – Sonnets to A Solider:
No, no! There is some sinister mistake.
You cannot love me now. I am no more
A thing to touch, a pleasant thing to take
Into one’s arms. How can a man adore
A woman with black blood upon her face,
A cap of horror on her pallid head,
Mirrors of madness in the sunken place
Of eyes; hands dripping with the slimy dead?
103 years ago, The Somme battle raged on for the 4th month. Mary Borden was running a field hospital close to the Somme Front. A young British officer turned up at Mary’s hospital, a make-shift collection of huts and tents. The officer was accompanied by his dog Rex, and was looking for a lost company of soldiers. Mary described their first meeting: ‘My apron is stained with mud and blood; I am too tired to take it off. My feet are burning lumps as I hobble to open the door. A young officer stands there. He too is splattered with mud; his face is haggard. He introduces himself. He is Captain Spears of the XIth Hussars…’ It was the beginning of a great and enduring love story.
This October there is peace, though the wind has been blowing and though some days are sunny and mild, others see endless rain. The landscape sometimes brooding, sometimes benign. Capricious but beautiful.
