Comments on: Obelisk to Nelson, Swarland, Northumberland

By: Barbara Howard

Barbara Howard — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:02:58 +0000

In reply to Editor. The pub definitely featured on my tour, too!

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:58:34 +0000

In reply to Barbara Howard. Good evening Barbara, and thank you. I had a drink in the atmospheric Lord Nelson in Burnham Thorpe many years ago.

By: Barbara Howard

Barbara Howard — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:07:05 +0000

Lovely photographs with beautiful, blue sky, background. One to look out for on future A1 drives and with added cafe bonus. Even though I’m Norfolk born and bred I only relatively recently did a Nelson Burnham Thorpe Tour in northwest Norfolk but am very familiar with the statue of “Norfolk’s Own Lord Nelson” in The Close at Norwich Cathedral opposite his old school. Thank you, again, Editor.

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:23:53 +0000

In reply to Lisa Corby. Good morning Lisa and thanks for the lovely comment. I think Mother Nature has to take the credit for the sunshine!

By: Lisa Corby

Lisa Corby — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 22:12:25 +0000

Beautiful photography as ever

By: Editor

Editor — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:18:06 +0000

In reply to Andy belfield. Thank you Andy. I love the back stories, as I hope you can tell!

By: Andy belfield

Andy belfield — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:45:14 +0000

The back stories are equally as fascinating as the folly. The effort if very much appreciated.

By: Editor

Editor — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 10:59:56 +0000

In reply to Garance Rawinsky. Hello Garance. I’d like to have had better light on the inscriptions but can’t really complain about shadows on a lovely sunny morning. Thankfully, the obelisk has not been defaced by vandals and long may that remain the case.

By: Garance Rawinsky

Garance Rawinsky — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 10:02:27 +0000

Shadows on monuments are perfectly acceptable to me, they do at least change as the sun moves around giving variety of colour and tone. So much better that graffiti tags which blight many such constructions – almost impossible to remove from stone and do nothing to enhance.

By: Editor

Editor — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 08:16:17 +0000

In reply to Gwyn Headley. Hello Gwyn. Indeed, public peculation is not a thing of the past. But hopefully today’s perpetrators will not be remembered with elegant monuments.