Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood - Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter

The series of Records of various kinds which will be found in the following chapters are drawn from personal reminiscences, extending over more than half a century, combined with notes collected from many different sources during at least two-thirds of that period. In dealing with such material one is apt, even unconsciously, to be egotistical, and to linger too long and too fondly over scenes and incidents of which one might say, in Virgilian phrase, quorum pars, si non magna, at parva fui. Should the reader deem any portions unduly prolix, he will, perhaps, kindly excuse it on this score. But I have known several instances, and especially of late two in this neighbourhood, when a person advanced in years and of wide experience, has passed away, and there has been a general, and doubtless sincere, regret that he has gone, and all his store of accumulated information gone with him. Circumstances have given me such opportunitiesand enjoyed so longof acquiring a knowledge of Woodhall Spa, and of most matters connected with it, that I am probably stating only the unvarnished truth, when I say that no one else living could bring together the varied details, however inadequately treated, which will here be found. Some of them may seem of small importance in the eyes of manycaviare to the generalbut I have thought it better that even these minor details should not be consigned to the limbo of the forgotten, because unrecorded. I have approached the subject from different points of viewhistorical, anecdotal, naturalist, and archological, so as to cater for the different tastes of readers. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 27160
Author: Walter, J. Conway (James Conway)
Release Date: Nov 4, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English