https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/ vivdunstan - Dreamwidth Studios Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:12:37 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios vivdunstan personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/11214761/2909203 https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/ 99 99 https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/711810.html Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:12:37 GMT https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/711810.html Just finishing the book <em>Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures</em> by Luke Sherlock. A quite magical book, a mix of architecture, travel and history. Also exploration of place. With evocative illustrations throughout from Ioana Pioaru. Thoroughly recommended.<br /><br />I mainly read it on my Kindle for disability reasons, but also had the hardback book, which is better for appreciating the gorgeous illustrations. It's a quite compact hardback book, not too large, but just right. I was just tormenting Martin over tea with questions about "Do you know X?" re X places in Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset! But also had fun showing him some of the fantastic pictures I enjoyed in the later sections of the book. He's a lapsed bellringer, and in his younger days rang bells in many churches in southwest England.<br /><br /><img src="https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/file/356259.jpg" alt="" title="Cover of &quot;Forgotten Churches: Exploring England&#39;s Hidden Treasures&quot;" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=vivdunstan&ditemid=711810" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/711810.html england dorset churches art books history bellringing martin wiltshire somerset reading architecture kindle public 0