REV STEPHEN GAMBLE

"We were then alive in our predecessors, and they in their successors do live still." Richard Hooker ( 1554 – 1600) I write this account now as my mind is at present lucid, I do not know how much time I have before I descend once more into confusion. You will be sceptical of my account, I would have been myself, but I must write as I perceive. Only I can recount what has happened, otherwise all that will remain is the well meaning but misguided reports of those who have sough

A Musical Memoir, by The Reverend Charles Montgomery – Cliffe. 22nd August 1770, Watmanthorpe Rectory. On hearing in March of the death...

A Meeting of the Heron.   Or   The Piscine Catching Council.     Scene: In a field by a river stands a circle of 8 Grey Heron. Brian, the...

Hector is a Jack Russel Terrier, with long legs, and wiry hair. He was running across the beach at full pelt. To the distant observer it...

They entered Gary for ‘Chef Supreme’ as a joke. Not as a mean joke, but as blokey banter. Gary had worked as a chef at the roadside cafe...

This beautiful little fossil is unimaginably old, no doubt a geologist could tell me how old, but imagination and measurement don't...

Those who Trespass against us. Or Terriers Barking The other day I was walking the dogs out through the field, intending to head out the...

Putting your Shoulders to the Task, or Why Pray? Imagine a farm yard around the end of the eighteen hundreds, with a stone built firm set...

Thoughts beside an Ancient Church. Church buildings are temporal memorials to eternal truths. They are built to mark out and protect a...

Bony Providence Or Providential Questions. The other day whilst exploring the ruins of a Medieval Church, hidden deep in a wooded valley,...

Can God Count? Or The Finding of a Fossil. According to the bible the world is 4000 years old, but thanks to science we know that the...

Once More it is Eventide. "At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one,...

Or Walking with WG Hoskins. “…many parts of the English landscape remain just as our forefathers left a long time ago. It is to these...

Fruit Salads and Black Jacks. Or Becoming like a Little Child. Fruit Salads and Black Jacks, small wrapped sweeties. I used to buy them...

The Brewing of Soma Or Intoxicated Anglicans. I was delighted to discover that the verses of the hymn ‘Dear Lord and Father of...

This is my copy of the ‘The Mersey Sound’, it’s an anthology of poems by the Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian...

The picture ( see below) is of a tree in Bishopdale, North Yorkshire. Its root is wrapped around the girth of the huge rock beneath it....