Our Curious World #30 | Sherwood Observatory MSAS
Sharing a conversation with Rob Dawes and Brendan Scoular of the Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society. Who operates the Sherwood Observatory. Our Curious World | Sherwood Observatory MSAS. A great conversation with Rob and Brendan. Discussing the 50 year anniversary of the Observatory driven by...
Megan Shore | Our Curious World #29 Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity
“There can be many curious people in the world”. Sharing a conversation with Megan Shore of the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity coming up on the 8th – 17th February 2021. We discover how the festival came to be, and what activities are involved,...
4K Drone video Bulwell Hall Nottingham
Near to home is Bulwell Hall. A former manor house, before becoming a Prisoner Of War camp for Italians during World War 2. Today the structure is a burned and abandoned shell. I took the FIMI X8 SE 2020 up and around the formerly stately...
Adam Sinclair-Greenwood | Our Curious World #25 – The Robin Hood Experience
Adam Sinclair-Greenwood who manages The Robin Hood Experience. The city of Nottingham seems bound and determined to separate all connections with the world-renowned infamous outlaw of Sherwood. The tourism generating icon Robin Hood. The Robin Hood Experience is the only tourist-centric location in all of...
The Thunderbolt Incident: The questions
It is likely many of these questions will become their own threads in the coming investigation process as we push forward to create a documentary on the incident. This also is not the comprehensive be all and end all of the questions, it’s just where...
Date and time of The Thunderbolt Incident
Beginning with the date and time: 12th November 1987. Where does this date come from? What are the sources? Can we confirm the date? Is it correct? Have different events been mentally merged together? This is the first real test of the investigation into the...
The Thunderbolt Incident: Vision, strategy and timeline challenge
The source material is the information that forms the backbone of evidence for the presentation. In this case, the end goal of a documentary on the topic of The Thunderbolt Incident. A cacophony of facts, testimony, an assessment of information, verification where possible. Endeavouring to...
The Thunderbolt incident – What lead me to this point.
First contact. Was exploring the local studies library in Hucknall, a large town with a mining heritage in north Nottinghamshire in 2007-8. Looking for regional accounts and locally published materials of curious goings-on. A variety of clippings and notes from newspapers from the Hucknall Dispatch,...
On the tracks. Let’s Get Ready to Fly!
The month of July 2020, saw an inspired opportunity! Would like to see the city, county and beyond from a different perspective. So I dove right in, becoming a certified pilot! An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle pilot. That’s right can legally fly a drone. Having made...
When lightning strikes inside the house!
Living on Grindon Crescent, Nottingham. Near highest point on the hill of the arching road. Certainly the home of the clearest view extending over the formed roads of the Bulwell Hall Estate. Have held a long thought possibility of metal within the rise formed due...