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Mark Hewitt's avatar

Wow, this piece shimmers like a Limoges enamel. Wonderful writing. Thank you for sharing another wonderful exposition on Williamson and his interests in the local landscapes. Your visit to Dozmary Pool made me smile, as Williamson was close by; breadcrumb remnants of his smuggling museum surviving (captions and all) a stone skim away at Jamaica Inn.

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Peter Mark Adams's avatar

Thoroughly enjoyed your evocative prose/poetry!

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Belsin Barrow's avatar

Nice read.

But been from the area around branscombe and blackberry camp I can add a couple of things and say that the moon rake was designed for a purpose away from witchcraft, secondly if you ever get to use one you will realise that they are not delicate enough in use retrieving shells as there gurt old heavy buggers to use. Also when you know what cw was doing in the war years there's a one line hint of why he might of visited branscombe during the war in a local book.

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Peter Grey's avatar

Thanks! You're welcome to email me with details. I'm aware of the weight of the pole, be interested to know of the other use. I have assumed that Cecil was up there for the radar array, as that's what he'd worked on elsewhere.

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Belsin Barrow's avatar

Alas my knowledge of messaging on substack is limited.

If you find me on insta send a message and I can share more details. But no to the radar.

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jimstone1@hotmail.co.uk's avatar

probably not relevant but natives of Wiltshire are known as 'Moonrakers'.

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Peter Grey's avatar

Thanks Jim, that's interesting. Just looked it up on Wiki, and the smuggling story is certainly apposite!

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