Tag Archives: Floods

Plumbing the depths of despair.

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

As if being pushed under a tube train in February and attacked in the street in November isn’t bad enough I’ve recently had the only item of value stolen from my new home recently. With not much else that can … Continue reading →

Posted in Heritage, history, Life | Tagged Art, Bathroom, Floods, Life, Robbery, Sculpture, Statue, Water Lane | 6 Comments

The Thameside Lions that guard against flooding

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

There is always something to look out for in London, even in the most unlikely places. One might not know that you’re seeing but there are points of interest all over the place. Should you happen to to be near … Continue reading →

Posted in Heritage, history, Life, London, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours | Tagged Embankment, Floods, London, River Thames, Sewers, Thames Lions | 7 Comments

The castle at the bottom of a Turkish Lake

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Stephen Liddell

It has been thought by many that the breaching of the Bosphurus thousands of years near present day Istanbul may have given rise to the accounts of the legendary Great Flood not just with Noah in the Holy Bible … Continue reading →

Posted in geography, history, Life, News | Tagged Archeology, Atlantis, Black Sea, Dead Sea, Floods, Maps, Noah, Paratethys Sea, Turkey | 3 Comments

Walking through a graveyard of giants

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Stephen Liddell

I try to go for a walk every day, it adds a bit of routine which is necessary when writing at home in the winter nearly every day. Sometimes I go along the canal, other times through parks and across … Continue reading →