I have started preparatory reading for a new place-making project; this time in Exeter, Devon UK. I’m calling it, Exeter Word Hoard.
This name is inspired by the opening line from ‘Widsith’ in The Exeter Book, (Exeter Cathedral Library, MS 3501). The first letter, 'w', for word, is an old runic letter, wynn, which looks like this:
The WhatsApp Well
I plan to use what I’ve learnt from my WhatsApp work on Ouistreham (see older posts here if interested). The project will have a webpage on my research website on Google Sites, with an open link to finished PDFs and live WORD documents that are still in the Dialogue Journaling phase. I’ll be using the WELL format for the documents so that they display well on smartphones directly from the archive or WhatsApp E-Library Locker. Dialogue will be through a WhatsApp Community and its Group or Groups. More news on that later.
Patricia Beer in Exeter
The first reading I’ve unearthed, thanks to the wonderful help from the lovely staff in Special Collections at University of Exeter is the poetry of Patricia Beer (1919-1999). One of Beer’s poems will be the focus for my first exploration of the city, ‘The Customer at the Ship Inn’. It can be found in this collection, photo below...
The Ship Inn is at 1-3 Martin's Lane, Exeter EX1 1EY on Google Maps and they are on Facebook, too. Her poem speaks of the street or lane by a different name, Fysshe Street. Martin’s Lane continues from Queen St, rather than Gandy St as they meet the High St. It is on an almost-straight walking route from the Cathedral Green towards the Roman Wall, though. Do you know Fysshe Street? Does it still exist today, please?
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