My name is Philip Davidson and I'd like to welcome you to Plus 44 (this is the U.K. international dialling code) Window Into Britain. It has been a lot of work and many thanks to Jenny and Rupert for their assistance.The site is basically a tour guide of Britain with a TOWN INDEX and a county by county ATTRACTION GUIDE. It began as a back-up to a scheme of attraction vouchers I was producing - corporate enquiries for these incentive books.
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This was a picture postcard book of different heritage sites in Britain and it offered discounts.Somehow the voucher books and the web site were very separate and it became confused. Appropriately it was a librarian from the Bodleain, the Great Library of Oxford, who put me straight by saying, "Young man, you are writing a guide". A few days later I took off around England to take pictures for my guide. |
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The majority of pictures in this guide where taken in a manic four day journey around England at the end of the blisteringly hot summer of 97. I was driving an old banger, donated by my brother, with windows open to keep cool. It was an unusual week in that people taking photographs were not too popular. That is the disgraceful looking vehicle outside the house of Shakespearežs wife in Stratford. It was Monday September 1 - the day after Diana's death. |
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Kensington Palace, where Diana had lived, was one of the first sites to say O.K. to the voucher scheme. On returning to London the park outside her home had become filled with floral tributes. Although ill through four days of eating junk food I visited the site for three consecutive mornings and watched the tributes grow. It was a truly awesome, moving sight and somehow the seeds of change in England were sown those few days in Kensington Gardens. |
This is not a government site,
nor or a corporate or vested interest site. It has mainly been done
by me. I've had to start from scratch and I've made many mistakes. It
will largely be shaped by your wants and your requests so please
support it by visiting it regularly and please feel free to become
more part of it and visit the
CONTACT PAGE
Anybody who has an wants,
requests, or would like to discuss link exchanges and all other
wheels and deals please go to the contact page or email me direct at
philip@plus44.com (If you need a web site or photos please
press
here)
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I have been accused of not making the site buzzy enough. It is true. I don't have any unnecessary gizmos. Seriously - the idea is to create a real impression rather than a techo buzz. With the counties the idea is to scroll through a county list to get the feel of the heritage and flavour of a county - what do you think? |
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