River Soar

However, that is certainly not to say that there aren't times when I look at the project and the time I seem to find available for it, which is inexplicably little despite having a calendar I set for myself, and I get a little gloomy about the end never being in sight.

So this month's dive into memory lane, or perhaps memory stream, is to the video that prompted me to buy Twiggy in the first place, where I went to see a lovely lady who owned a similar Micro Plus boat, and we just had a lovely day buzzing up and down the River Soar in Leicestershire.

That was vlog number 314.

I called it Tangerine Dream, and it dates from October 2023, three years ago precisely.

It wasn't until February of the following year that any progress was made on the matter.

It was at this point that, in a serendipitous accident, the tow rope of a coal barge snagged an important piece of debris from the bottom of the river Soar.

it was the frame of the green bicycle.

The remaining bits were hauled up as well, and investigators were able to identify the bicycle, despite it being dismantled, with many of the serial numbers shaved off as belonging to one Ronald Light.

That second visit to the car park, I just thought I have to look into this, you know, is Richard still buried here? Is his grave still here? Does this mean something? What research can I do? But all the stories at that time were the exhumation stories.

He's been thrown, his remains were exhumed after the dissolution of the monasteries and thrown into the nearby River Soar or his stone sarcophagus burial had become a horse trough outside an inn.

These were 17th and 18th century stories.

But when you read all of the mainstream and traditional history books written before 2012, these stories for the Exhumation, they'd all been repeated and repeated and repeated over time.

So here's the tip, and I feel like I've read this over and over again.

There is a large barge chugging its way on the River Soar, which is very close by to where her body was found, and the tow rope of this barge gets caught on the frame and front wheel of a pea-green BSA bicycle.

How interesting.

And, and they pull it up.

Is it soar? I think they meant shore.

Because, oh, close to the river Soar.

Okay.

I guess that's the name of the river is Soar.