Kingsley Museum is where you’ll meet Charles Kingsley sitting at his desk. Charles Kingsley lived in the village as a child and returned many times as an adult. He stayed at what is now known as ‘Kingsley Cottage’ where he wrote ‘Westward Ho!’. Clovelly also inspired him to write ‘The Water Babies’. One of Kingsley’s most moving poems, ‘The Three Fishers’ is a poem of fishermen's wives waiting in vain for their husbands to return during a terrible storm. It is a stark reminder of the harsh realities faced by fishing communities. Here is a link to the poem put to music and sung by Dan Britton, a local man who lost family members in the tragedy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sNZAIJ6op4
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Malik Raoulda said:
MERCI pour ce magnifique partage.
Bonne et agréable fin de semaine salutaire.
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Best wishes & good weekend.
sea-herdorf said:
Wunderschön.
Freundliche Grüße und ein angenehmes Wochenende
Erich
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Best wishes & good weekend,
Rosa.
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Safe and healthy weekend.
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Madeleine Defawes said:
Bon weekend. Amitiés
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Regards.
J. Gafarot said:
After reading some pages concerning who he was...
Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet.
He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin.
Kingsley sat on the 1866 Edward Eyre Defence Committee along with Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, John Tyndall, and Alfred Tennyson, and received letters from Thomas Huxley discuting agnosticism.
I promise never again to play games with you.
Thanks for the lesson Rosalyn.