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Showing posts with label Helpston Village School. Show all posts
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Friday, 16 August 2013

John Clare (Peasant Poet of Northamptonshire)

Been a long time posting much new, but I have recently been on my travels again with a new partner, so to show her the delights of my home county NORTHAMPTONSHIRE I took in a few of our counties tourist spots.

"HELPSTON"

Home of the famous "peasant poet" (A few pictures)

The Village sign commissioned in 2000

The Memorial Inscription

The complete monument viewed from the cross roads

For a musical sample play "The Village Feast"  Here

(Music taken from the Mellstock Band "John Clare" production, Helpston July 2008)

For further reading I recommend

Here , Here & Here