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Tag Archives: Nottingham
Sally Kindberg and Robin Hood
Sad to learn yesterday that the giant oak tree, aka the Major Oak, in Sherwood Forest has died. It was over a thousand years old, its ancient and gnarled branches supported by metal struts, but apparently the hot weather finished … Continue reading
Posted in Comic strips
Tagged childhood., comic strip, handwritten text, mystery/memoir, Nottingham, oak leaf, Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest, the Major Oak
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Sally Kindberg, Nottingham Castle and a work in progress again
Nottingham Castle often features in my stories. When a small child, I often had to stay in my grandmother’s house, one of whose cellars had a bricked up door, apparently leading to a network of tunnels honeycombing the nearby castle … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Work in progress
Tagged black and white drawings, comic strips story, cosmic ray experiments, fog, handwriting, handwritten text, Mrs. Shipstone's frock, mystery/memoir, Nottingham, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham Park Estate, Nottingham tunnels, Nottingham University, tunnels, Victorian frock, visual narrative, work in progress
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Sally Kindberg and more Nottingham connections
Recently I visited Nottingham, had a very positive meeting with a representative of Nottingham Castle to discuss plans for running writing/comic strip workshops at the Castle, explored the Castle tunnels and stayed with an old primary school friend and his … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg in Nottingham Castle tunnels
Last weekend I revisited Nottingham, where I grew up after we moved there from Devon, where I was born. Nottingham Castle is built on the top of a steep sandstone rock honeycombed with ancient tunnels and caves. I’d always wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Notebooks, Travels, Work in progress
Tagged caves, City of Caves, map, Nottingham, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham Castle tunnels, story map, tunnels, work in progress
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Sally Kindberg’s notes about her childhood in Nottingham
This seems to be a recurring theme (far too often?) in notes for my graphic mystery/memoir. From the age of three I occasionally stayed at my grandmother’s house in Nottingham, periods coinciding with my mother disappearing, then turning up with … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s notes (possibly for her mystery/memoir)
UNDERGROUND From the Nottingham Caves Survey February 2011 http://nottinghamcavessurvey.org.uk/mycave.htm One of the major goals of the project is to assess the archaeological importance of Nottingham’s caves. Some are currently scheduled monuments and are of great local and national importance. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Family, Writing
Tagged caves, Museum of Dust, mystery/memoir, Nottingham, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham caves, Nottingham Caves Survey, the Park, underground
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Nottingham visit
Caught the train to Nottingham from St Pancras last week, happy to see my photograph of railwayman Roland Hoggard in the station. From Nottingham station en route to find the bus to a friend’s house, heading up to the Castle … Continue reading
Visit to Creswell Crags, Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire.
Last weekend visited Creswell Crags, ancient caves carved out of a limestone gorge. Wonderful strapline for the visitor centre: Inspiring visitors for 50,ooo years. There’s a drawing of a horse scratched onto a fragment of rib bone and evidence that mammoth, hyena, wolf, reindeer and … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Travels
Tagged Bloomsbury, British Museum, Creswell Crags, Derbyshire, drawings, Ice Age, Nottingham, Stone Age, The Comic Strip History of the World, tool kit
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