Four Small Rivers: a chaotic ramble of notes from my travels; from my life; from my professional world; and musings on the Meaning of Life. Related website: joeinc.tv/Personal NOTE: the notes in here represent personal opinions not those of any entity I may otherwise be affiliated with (employers, customers, etc.)
Once upon a very long time ago indeed … my parents wanted me to be a priest. Being small, very small indeed, and a good boy, very good indeed, I somehow ended up in the swirl of ideas surrounding this … and into the very Catholic idea of a Vocation as a priest. And so, without any real idea of what it was I was getting into I was packed off to a boarding school in southern
Go to: www.streetmap.co.uk and enter Rotherfield or Mark Cross as a location. Or: enter 557630,130810 in the location bar (National Ordnance Survey locator). Then, if this works right … you’ll see, south of ‘Catt’s Hill’ … two short drives. These are the drives into the school property. If you zoom back … just one click … you can see a little pond to the SW of those two drives. This is ‘Acre Lake’.
http://www.rotherfield-countryside.org.uk/church_english_st_denys.html ... the Church wall here famously had a fresco of demons, a so-called Doom painting
http://www.villagenet.co.uk/esussex-iron/villages/markcross.php
http://steve.pickthall.users.btopenworld.com/ssx1867/rotherfield1867.html
http://www.rotherfield-countryside.org.uk/rotherfield_information_directory.html
I believe the school was originally built as a rural orphanage: http://steve.pickthall.users.btopenworld.com/ssx1867/mayfield1867.html Two pictures of it can be seen at http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/MarkCross/MarkCrossStJoseph2004.htm But: the old school as a Madrassah? http://www.salaam.co.uk/education/index.php?file=info2.html