I am grateful for this Bob. A bit disappointed somehow, dunno why. I would
have thought he would have come home. Perhaps he did!! Arthur.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:48 PM
Subject: Where Huge Ted ended up
> Hi Arthur, Sally, and all those interested in what happened to Huge Ted.
>
> We were wondering a couple of weeks ago where he was buried. Well, this
has
> just been sent to me - so I thought I'd post it here as well.
>
> Such a contrast to how things are at Heptonstall!
>
> Bob
>
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/devon/3167729.stm
> Poet's memorial riddle solved
>
> Five years of secrecy over the location of a memorial to the late Poet
> Laureate Ted Hughes have come to an end.
>
> BBC Spotlight's environment correspondent Simon Hall has spent two years
> searching for the site on Dartmoor in Devon.
>
> He was helped by a guide, and used clues in Ted Hughes' will and his
work.
>
> And in one of the most remote parts of Dartmoor, near the source of the
> River Taw, he finally found the simple, granite memorial.
>
>
> It's a place with an enormous sense of history which would be very
important
> to him - Liz Sigmund, friend of Ted Hughes
>
> Ted Hughes lived in Devon for almost 40 years until his death in 1998. He
> loved Dartmoor in particular and his will contained a request for his
ashes
> to be scattered there.
>
> He also requested his name be cut in a long slab of granite, between the
> sources of the rivers Teign, Dart, Taw and East Okement as a memorial.
>
>
> His friends say it is a fitting location.
>
> "He was a very private man, it's a very private place," said Liz Sigmund.
>
> "People aren't going to be able to just easily jump out of the car and
look
> at it.
>
> "It's a place with an enormous sense of history which would be very
> important to him," she said.
>
> And a final mystery is how the stone got there.
>
> Ted Hughes' friends say it involved enlisting the help of Prince Charles,
> who owns the area, and a helicopter airlift.
>
> The Duchy of Cornwall would say only it did not usually give permission
for
> memorials, but as Hughes was a special and dear friend of Prince Charles,
a
> rare exception was made.
>
> Story from BBC NEWS:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/3167729.stm
>
> Published: 2003/08/20 14:54:31 GMT
>
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