Ernest Edmonds News Today

Gazelli Art House digital art exhibition ‘GEN/GEN: Generative Generations’ takes us into a new dimension, with Tyler Hobbs, Edward Edmonds, Monica Rizzolli

The big read: Talented photographers aim to bring Sheffields Park Hill flats 60th anniversary into sharp focus It is an iconic building that is synonymous with Sheffield – and now a new photographic competition will record history as Park Hill marks its 60th anniversary next week. Wednesday, 9th June 2021, 3:28 pm Thursday June 16, 2021, will mark the 60th anniversary of the flats that serve as a ‘welcome home’ symbol for residents from their hilltop position towering over Sheffield’s c...

WITH the start of a new year, I thought I would take a look back at some of my previous submissions regarding the history of Didcot. Archaeological digs indicate evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British occupation in the area. A Saxon settlement named Wibaldston was recorded in the Domesday register of 1086. From approximately 1200, the name Duddas Cot (Cottage of Dydda) appears. The Stonor family owned the village of Duddas Cot for some 300 years, from 1300. Didcot or Ducote as it was k...