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
30th September 2019
Grodek by Georg Trakl, German War Poet.
At evening the woods of autumn are full of the sound
Of the weapons of death, golden fields
And blue lakes, over which the darkening sun
Rolls down; night gathers in
Dying recruits, the animal cries
Of their burst mouths.
103 years ago, The Somme battle raged on for the 3rd month. This September there is peace, there has been lovely sunny weather though the month has ended with rain and breezes. Most crops are in, save some maize and potatoes and chard.
Views of Mametz Wood show the first tinges of autumn colours in the trees. The starlings are gathering and the red squirrels in Newfoundland Park are busy collecting winter provisions. Above all our guests have continued to bring their wonderful stories.
