A Shropshire man who built a replica medieval catapult has been named in a new book as one of England’s most colourful eccentrics. Author Henry Hemming embarked on a quest to find, describe and categorise Great British eccentrics for his book ‘In Search Of The English Eccentric reaps rich rewards’. He spent a year rounding up colourful characters who live as they please rather than as convention dictates. These include a gnome enthusiast, a pensioner-hermit tattooed in leopard spots and Shropshire landowner Hew Kennedy who built a medieval trebuchet that he used to hurl dead cattle across his estate. Celebrity eccentrics include Vivienne Westwood and Pete Doherty. Mr Kennedy, of Acton Round Hall, in Acton Round, near Bridgnorth, spent years building the monstrous siege engine. It was a 30 tonne, 60ft tall replica of a...
[read full story]
Your Web Site
