Lets Visit Thomas Hardys Cottage
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
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Thomas Hardys Cottage, was the Birthplace of Thomas Hardy and is owned by the National Trust.
Photography with a Nikon D300 & Nikon AF-S DX 16-85mm F3.5/5.6 G ED VR
Videography with a Sony AX53 Camcorder or GoPro Hero 8 Black
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Thomas Hardys cottage is located on Cuckoo lane Higher BockHampton Nr Dorchester Dorset, and was the birthplace of Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy was born in the cottage in 1840 and lived here until the age of 34, and wrote 2 novels whilst living here. There is a visitor centre where you can buy snacks and drinks and some of Hardys novels. The garden and cottage are free to enter for national trust members, but if you want to go inside the cottage, you must book in advance, we were luckly as we visited on a quiet day so we were able to join a tour. Parking is nearby in the Thorncombe wood car park and is a short walk to the visitor centre, parking isn't free, your vehicle number plate is read on entry and at the time of our visit we £1 per hour.
SATNAV DT2 8QJ Takes you to the car park
Love the video, thanks for sharing
Lovely video, thank you for the footage of the forest! So peaceful. Here's to hoping that you visit the other Thomas Hardy's hometown or monument! (Not sure if the parking is free there.)
What a picturesque place! Lovely - I didn't get an alert for this video, but found it when I got the alert for Corfe Castle, that I'm about to watch now 👍👍👍
@@BillsPhoneTeignmouth Hi Bill hope you're well and thanks for commenting. It's definitely a beautiful place, quite difficult to get too down a few country lanes. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area.
Best wishes stay safe Jon and Karen
Thomas hardy was my great grand father 😅 who was a lovely man and I have read all his books😊
I wasn't aware that Thomas Hardy had any children.
Hi Jon. Hope you and Karen are doing well mate. Great video enjoyed your walk around the cottage. Really nice set off images at the end. Take care mate. Shawn.
@@shawnheppenstall3258 Hi Shawn hope you're well and thanks for your kind comment. It's a great place to visit not so easy to photograph though,there were tours around 30 minutes so, whilst 1 tour was inside the next 1 was outside starting the first part of their tour. I did enjoy doing the video as normal I concentrate on photography.
Best wishes stay safe Jon and Karen
That was great Jon.
Was going to say to keep Karen off the wine, but sounds like she doesn’t need wine to be falling over like an Alcho 😁
Lovely tour of a stunning cottage and great photos (including Karen’s) 😁👍
@@PhilipOlsen11 Hi Phil hope you're well and thanks for commenting. Animals in a field is that is needed to stop Karen concentrating on what she's doing. Thomas Hardys cottage is definitely worth a visit.
Best wishes stay safe Jon and Karen
It is called Higher Brockhampton.
Hi Jon, hope you are both well, Great video it looks like a lovely place to visit although a shame about the parking, isn’t that the point of having a membership. You have probably got the same strap as I have on my camera bag, I think it’s the material they use, it seems the longer I have mine the shorter the strap gets. Definitely a design flaw, I was going to write a letter of complaint but my hands are still sticky from my last doughnut 😂 Hope Karen didn’t do too much damage to what ever she fell on, might want to lay off the 5 drink warm up before going to the pub 😂love the photos.
Hi Keith hope your well and thanks for commenting. Defo worth a visit if you get a chance, there are some great photo oppertunities but I would imagine it gets very busy durning the summer holidays. I have several camera bags where the waste strap seems to have shrunk, they must all use the same material & manufacture. To be honest keith she was to busy looking at the sheep in the field and not watching where she was going.
Best wishes stay safe Jon & Karen.
Hardy wrote novels mainly for money; his first love was for poetry; and what a great poet he was - with great poetic descriptive passages even in the prose as well. He could not help himself. One of our greatest literary men, timeless - darkly pessimistic about human nature too and our place in the universe.
Hey Jon. Hope you both are well. Looks a nice place for a good walk. Nice set of images. Poor Karren going a.r.s.e over. How long before you stopped laughing did it take to help?? Stay safe.
Hi Steve hope you're well 7 thanks for commenting. Worth a visit mate, great photo oppertunities, we'll defo be going back. Karen wasn't looking where she was going, to busy looking at the animals on the farm, I didn't even notice she'd fallen over, until i heard the cursing.
Best Wishes stay safe Jon & Karen
Hi Jon. Helena and I went there years back, only to find it closed! We went to his grave as well as far I remember. I’ve read all of his books too! My biggest problem with them was just how much some of them rambled for chapter after chapter, contemplating the grass and nothing much happened. Loved the biggies though, like Tess, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure which I read three times. Lovely part of the country. The photos were really nice.
Hi Ian hope you're well and thanks for commenting. Opening times are limited, i think it's open more during the summer holidays. I've never read any of this books but we did buy some on our visit as they were on offer, buy1 get 1 free. If you want a tour you have to book, we managed to tag on to one the had just started. This was the first video i'd shot in a while using the AX53 so it was a bit shaky.
Best wishes stay safe Jon.
@iancraig That is the beauty of the Hardy novels, the description of the countryside. You need to be less impatient. I do like the 1967 film version of "Far from the Madding Crowd", with Alan Bates, Terence Stamp , Peter Finch and Julie Christie, the more recent version with Carey Mulligan is woke feminist rubbish, at least the old version follows the book. I liked the character Gabriel Oak, so much , that when my second son was born I called him Gabriel.I suggest that you persevere with reading the Hardy novels. "Desperate Remedies" is quite an exciting one.
I’ve read every one of his books Jeanne. I also prefer the 1967 film. There was also a lovely version I saw of The Mayor of Casterbridge. Really well done.
Poor old Gabriel and his sheep going over because of the dog in Tess! She treated him so badly too. He wrote such lovely characters.
I think they were serialised in a paper which encouraged the descriptive stuff as well. I was hooked on Jude the Obscure. I’ve read it three times. In particular, Sue’s speeches. Those preambles were brilliant. The kids, ‘Because we are too many’ haunts me. When I saw the film of this, literally, the hairs on my neck went up and I couldn’t watch. Even thinking about it now makes me feel terrible.
In particular, I struggle with the earlier novels. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Woodlanders were hard for me to stay with. But I think he was serialising them for a paper.