This photo sent me off to the Great Wishford entry at wikipedia, which is quite small but amazingly deep in trivia.
"Set into the wall of the church is a series of nine engraved "bread stones" that record the price of bread from 1800 until 2000."
"Visitors to Great Wishford can stay in the village at the post-office..."
"On this day, Great Wishford villagers claim their ancient rights to collect wood from Grovely Wood."
Great Wishford Magna, Wiltshire, England
1974, photographer Homer Sykes
from Luminous-Lint
6 comments:
I'm sorry. I still don't understand. But I will say this- signs used to be a lot neater and more awesome than they are now.
It's a tiny little English town that was a hamlet in 1609. Every year they reassert their right to collect wood from the local forest. It's a big to-do.
Grovely is lovely. I would like to stay at the post office and go to the big to-do.
Hear, hear. I wonder how they keep overnight guests from reading the mail.
Maybe you get to sleep on the mail!
So many papercuts.
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