Finding More Inspiration – on our doorstep.
Walking beyond housing developments in Wyke , the outskirts of Gillingham become farms and fields again – an open country landscape.
We discover another mill sketched by Constable at Eccliffe – deep in a valley overlooking the river Stour. It is a day without light – grey clouds pour across the wintry sky and all we can hear is the wind and the water tumbling over the weir below us.
We are sheltered by the high banks on either side of this part of the Stour valley – the fast trains from London to Exeter roar past us on one of these and the other is a green sloping field.
The Stour gently flows on… “stealing away like time” as Thomas Hardy said. The sky grows darker, we have to leave this quiet place and make our way back to the busy, noisy Gillingham town traffic. For a short while we have been able to imagine it as it once was over 150 years ago.
Autumn trees on the Stour. Lin Adams.
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