This will be an occasional blog charting my quest to re-visit all the curious and unusual sites recorded by journalist Edmund Vale in his 1939 book "Curiosities of Town and Countryside". The book was first published in 1940 and captures Britain just before the cataclysmic upheaval of World War II, a Britain that still retained an air of folkloric mystery, where there were still villages and hamlets that may not yet have felt the modernising breath of the 20th Century - where