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Facing Fear With The Silent Eye, Part 7 – Fear Itself ~ Helen Jones

Facing Fear With The Silent Eye, Part 7 – Fear Itself ~ Helen Jones

More from Helen Jones on our visit to a rather special site…

I recently attended a workshop with The Silent Eyeabout Facing Our Fears, an extraordinary weekend spent among the hills and grey stone villages of the Peak District. It’s taken me a little while, as it usually does, to process everything that happened. Once again there was history and mystery, good company and tasty food, old friends…

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Facing Fear With The Silent Eye, Part 7 – Fear Itself ~ Helen Jones

Facing Fear With The Silent Eye, Part 7 – Fear Itself ~ Helen Jones

More from Helen Jones on our visit to a rather special site…

I recently attended a workshop with The Silent Eyeabout Facing Our Fears, an extraordinary weekend spent among the hills and grey stone villages of the Peak District. It’s taken me a little while, as it usually does, to process everything that happened. Once again there was history and mystery, good company and tasty food, old friends…

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Rites of Passage: War and peace

Rites of Passage: War and peace

We had left two of our companions to return to the hotel, as one of them, gallantly sharing the weekend in spite of upcoming surgery, had turned her ankle and needed to rest. We were, therefore, a reduced company who crossed the road to make our way across the field to another of those natural, wind-worn sentinel pillars. The Andle Stone does not just look back, though, towards Stanton Moor…it…

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Rites of Passage: War and peace

Rites of Passage: War and peace

We had left two of our companions to return to the hotel, as one of them, gallantly sharing the weekend in spite of upcoming surgery, had turned her ankle and needed to rest. We were, therefore, a reduced company who crossed the road to make our way across the field to another of those natural, wind-worn sentinel pillars. The Andle Stone does not just look back, though, towards Stanton Moor…it…

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Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854), wearing the uniform of the 7th Hussars by John wright

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7th (The Queen’s Own) Hussars c.1840

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My father in his own words

My father in his own words

BRITAIN AT WAR READERS’ MEMORIES

2:14PM BST 21 Oct 2008

Britain at War: Surrendering Germans

In July 1944 in a battle near Loretto my battery (25 pounders) was supporting the 7th Hussars in crossing the river Musone.

    As an artillery observer in a White Scout car we were moving towards the river under constant enemy fire.

Suddenly I heard a terrific bang on the door of my car. Thinking that it…

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Captain F Farquharson of Eastbury, Dorset, 7th Hussars, 1836.

Oil on canvas by Edmund Thomas Parris (1793-1873), 1836.

National Army Museum