Welcome to Lyndenlea
If you're wondering where the rest of this website's gone, don't worry - it's all been safely moved to the new About Lyndenlea site.
As the Lyndenlea websites are so many and varied, I've decided to bring back a feature that used to adorn this page until 2005. That feature is the Site Index, offering a brief introduction and of course links to each site. This incarnation is considerably less garish than the original, however, not least because some of the sites' colour schemes have been toned down a little in the intervening years.
Click on a site's title to visit it.
- About Lyndenlea
- If Lyndenlea is "my home on the web" then this is surely the front door. It could almost be described as a meta-website - a website about websites - as much of its content describes the various features I've incorporated. But the jewel in the crown has to be the section about the poem and its somewhat random juxtaposition with the apple tree in my garden.
- Lyndenlea Bells
- Way back in May 2004 this site was launched to provide a new home for an already rather archaic route-finder for church bell ringers. Now it's a valuable source of information about church bells past and present in and around Bristol and Bath. The route-finder's still there, though, doing sterling work for anyone who - like myself - hasn't yet jumped onto the Sat-Nav bandwagon.
- Lyndenlea Milestones
- The second of my major historical research projects, this time looking at roadside milestones. These sentinels of mileage are now slowly disappearing into the undergrowth, unused and rarely noticed by today's high-speed travellers. I've been out photographing and recording many of the milestones that remain around Bristol and Bath so you can see them all from the comfort of your own home.
- Martin S Pearson
- An entire website all about me and what I get up to when I'm not busy with my research projects. It's largely there to give you an idea of the person behind the name at the bottom of the page, but there are some interesting little gems hidden away in its darker corners too. Keep your mind open if you decide to venture in as I've pretty much let myself run riot.
- Queens On A Chessboard
- This project actually started out as one of those hidden gems in a dark corner of my personal site. Here, my Dad Colin and I investigate the old Eight Queens Puzzle, teasing out answers to questions that nobody's thought to ask and expanding the puzzle beyond the standard 64-square chessboard. Check out my brilliant chessboard diagrams, all made out of pure HTML and CSS code.
Latest Site News
Saturday, 16th February 2013
- After continuing to suffer an unending stream of spam email through my website, in spite of the blacklist I set up in November 2009 and maintained until two years ago (hands up all those who guessed I'd soon get bored with that approach!), I've finally succumbed to the inevitability of the Turing Test. All the feedback and error reporting forms on the Lyndenlea websites now include one that I hope remains as accessible as possible while still foxing those pesky spam-bots, and to test it properly I've temporarily disabled my entire blacklist, so it had better work!
