Not everyone had the same experience as E. C. Large (see previous post) 80 years earlier Richard Jefferies called 'The Belgian Lamp-Post' and 'Self Appointed Inspector of Snowstorms and Rainstorms' by locals who did not appreciate his interest in the natural world visited Savernake Forest. Reginald Arkell, not related to the Swindon brewer but the wriiter of '1066 and all that' and also a biography of Jefferies writes of a walk across The Downs and quotes from Jefferies from which the following is taken.
The postcards date from the 1940 - 60s.
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