Tom Cogswell's missing e-mail address and the Charles Gray room on Colchester Castle Museum

I spent part of yesterday evening wondering what has happened to Tom Cogswell's e-mail address at the University of California Riverside. Both the e-mails I sent to him were returned as 'undeliverable' which is a puzzle. It is possible that he has retired and that his university e-mail address has been cancelled but I have no proof of this. It would be pretty sad to lose contact with him since we have known one another for over forty years.

This morning I attended a meeting of a sub-committee of the Essex Archaeological and History Society in the Charles Gray room of Colchester Castle Museum. I had not been in the room before but was intrigued to see this fireplace with its grotesques which, I suspect, must date to the late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth centuries.




 

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