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GogMickGog

10:45 / 30.11.06

Let's just say a chap wanted to carry out a site specific working in his tiny tonw - much in the same vein to Alan Moore's pieces - where do you think a good place to start would be? Is it the sort of thing that could get funding? Likewise, where are the sorts of places one can dredge out 'interesting' local history - the murky bits, the sodden gems? I've already found the smallest of links to, of all things, the Golden Dawn and the Easter 1916 rebellion...but...this might take time.

I turn to thee, O barbelith, in times of need..

Quantum

10:50 / 30.11.06

Which town?

GogMickGog

10:53 / 30.11.06

Farnham...

Quantum

14:15 / 30.11.06

Well from here I found this;
1986i Rob Stephenson, ‘Mother Ludlam’s Hole, near Farnham, Surrey’, Touchstone 11: 6-7 - A cave, converted to a grotto in the eighteenth century, housed a witch or fairy who lent out kitchenware until a cauldron was not returned, when she disappeared. The cauldron is in Frensham church. Motifs:- Stolen cup. Locations:- Surrey. and The Frensham kettle-borrowing legend is first told of fairies living at Stony Jump near Churt. Afterwards it was transferred to Ludwell, a cave dug to supply water to Waverley Abbey and named after either King Lud or the witch Mother Ludlam but you're best off starting with the Museum and churches, and checking out the stuff on Winchester.

Alex's Grandma

21:10 / 30.11.06

I suppose if you can't find much evidence of any strange or upsetting local history, you could always create some of your own.

For example, as I understand it the house at Boleskin was a perfectly decent place in the country until it's most famous resident (Jimmy Page possibly excepted) moved in.

More seriously, for practical advice about this kind of thing, it might be an idea to move the thread to the Temple?

Olulabelle

21:22 / 30.11.06

You can apply for funding through the Arts Council but you have to have a pretty well prepared idea of what you are doing. Here is their page of funding opportunities, and you should find that all the different bodies including the lottery grants are usually linked off here.

A quick search on the Arts Coucil site pulled up The Farham Maltings. I bet they could help you with ideas about funding and also your local history questions.

GogMickGog

08:24 / 01.12.06

Thanks Quantum:

I was baptised in that church (and live in the village) mere metres from Ludlam's cauldron. In fact, I've even been to the cave in the past. Damn thing slipped my mind entirely. A wealth of literary and historical oddities are cropping up: Next to Waverley abbey is Moor Park, where Jonathan Swift was rector. J.M. Barrie composed much of Peter Pan just down the road. Maud Gonne (my link to Easter 1916 and, through W.B. Yeats, the Golden Dawn) was a local girl as was the first man in Britain to be fined for speeding (12 mph)....I shall keep hunting...

electric monk

12:57 / 01.12.06

Maps, maps, and more maps! Any maps of the area you can get your hands on. Check in the local library, historical society (if there is one), and any offical building that'll give you access to 'em.

Sounds like it's going well already. Best of luck with this!

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