Devizes

He was a man of considerable wealth, much of which he had spent in the pursuit of his aeronautical hobby.

He had four private aeroplanes in his hangars near Devizes and is said to have made no fewer than 170 ascents in the course of last year.

He was a retiring man with dark moods in which he would avoid the society of his fellows.

Captain Dangerfield, who knew him better than anyone, says that there were times when his eccentricity threatened to develop into something more serious.

It was a glorious spiral vol-plane from nearly eight miles of altitude, first to the level of the silver cloud-bank, then to that of the storm-cloud beneath it, and finally, in beating rain, to the surface of the earth.

I saw the Bristol Channel beneath me as I broke from the clouds, but, having still some petrol in my tank, I got twenty miles inland before I found myself stranded in a field half a mile from the village of Ashcombe.

There I got three tins of petrol from a passing motor-car, and at ten minutes past six that evening I alighted gently in my own home meadow at Devizes, after such a journey as no mortal upon earth has ever yet taken and lived to tell the tale.

I have seen the beauty and I have seen the horror of the heights, and greater beauty or greater horror than that is not within the ken of man.

He was a man of considerable wealth, much of which he had spent in the pursuit of his aeronautical hobby.

He had four private aeroplanes in his hangars near Devizes, and is said to have made no fewer than one hundred and seventy ascents in the course of last year.

He was a retiring man with dark moods, in which he would avoid the society of his fellows.

Captain Dangerfield, who knew him better than anyone, says that there were times when his eccentricity threatened to develop into something more serious.

It was a glorious spiral volplane from nearly eight miles of altitude, first to the level of the silver cloud bank, then to that of the storm cloud beneath it, and finally in beating rain to the surface of the earth.

I saw the Bristol Channel beneath me as I broke from the clouds, but having still some petrol in my tank I got twenty miles inland before I found myself stranded in a field half a mile from the village of Ashcombe.

There I got three tins of petrol from a passing motor car, and at ten minutes past six that evening I alighted gently in my own home meadow at Devizes, after such a journey as no mortal upon earth has ever yet taken and lived to tell the tale.

I have seen the beauty and I have seen the horror of the heights, and greater beauty or greater horror than that is not within the ken of man.

He was a man of considerable wealth, much of which he had spent in the pursuit of his aeronautical hobby.

He had four private aeroplanes in his hangars near Devizes, and is said to have made no fewer than one hundred and seventy ascents in the course of last year.

He was a retiring man with dark moods, in which he would avoid the society of his fellows.

Captain Dangerfield, who knew him better than anyone, says that there were times when his eccentricity threatened to develop into something more serious.

It was a glorious spiral vol-plane from nearly eight miles of altitude, first to the level of the silver cloud-bank, then to that of the storm-cloud beneath it, and finally in beating rain to the surface of the earth.

I saw the Bristol Channel beneath me as I broke from the clouds, but having still some petrol in my tank I got twenty miles inland before I found myself stranded in a field half a mile from the village of Ashcombe.

There I got three tins of petrol from a passing motor-car, and at ten minutes past six that evening I alighted gently in my own home meadow at Devizes, after such a journey as no mortal upon earth has ever yet taken and lived to tell the tale.

I have seen the beauty, and I have seen the horror, of the heights.

Can we do some questions? We can.

Dan Thomas says, who needs the one show when you can get updates on an empty pond in Devizes and a Morley's in Karl Schulte on a football podcast? Top show as always, lads.

It's not empty anymore, Frank Christ.

Is it not? Has it rained? Yeah, we had a couple of days rain and

Ashley White, I recently just moved to Wiltshire.

Wiltshire.

And last week drove through Devizes.

I see the very dry crammer.

Fever most dangerous at London, November and December sixteen seventy-seven.

Burgus of Devizes, sixteen sixty, made one of the Judges of Ludlow.

Married about sixteen sixty, reader of the Middle Temple.

Mr. Vere Bertie was his chamber fellow in anno sixteen fifty-five, the wintertime, which was his rise.

But anywhere you go in England or Great Britain, any county that you go to, any town will have a most haunted pub or a most haunted road or a crossroads or something like that.

In Wiltshire, the most haunted pub is said to be the Black Swan in Devizes, where I've done a ghost hunt.

Uri Geller has also been there.

There's absolutely nothing there.

So within just the Stonehenge part of the landscape, we have over 300 Bronze Age burial mounds, some of which have been excavated, some of which haven't been.

But the grave goods from those that have been excavated are either in Salisbury Museum or Wiltshire Museum in Devizes.

And Wiltshire Museum actually has the Bush Barrow gold.

So we think it was a chieftain or at least a very high ranking Bronze Age burial.

Feta Garbo is very good.

That is, uh, from Matt Strong, Devizes, brackets, near Swindon.

Every time.

Oh, it's all happening in Swindon.