Jubilee weekend, and the notebook records the bunting all through Marsden as I came up, which I remember — the whole village strung red, white and blue, and me going through it at eight in the morning with a flask and a stool, on other business. Pule Hill, up the path from the A62 side. Weather fair, with a stiff breeze on the top, which Pule Hill supplies as standard.
Left boot, black, laces in and tied to the top eyelet, which is worth the detail — most tied laces stop an eyelet or two short, and a boot laced to the very top were laced by somebody who meant it. It were set against a gritstone slab, upright. The notebook says I noted that and nowt more, and that remains the correct amount.
I sat a while and had the flask looking down toward Redbrook Reservoir. Conditions good. Condition of the boot fair — uppers sound, heel worn to one side, the wear of a man who walked on the outside of his foot, though whose foot is not really the point of what I do. Photographs a bit grainy, which suits, as I've always maintained. Pule Hill has been good to the register over the years, right up to number 320 in 2026, though that's another entry and another era. In June 2022 it were just a black boot against a slab, a breeze, and half of Marsden's bunting visible below if you turned round, which I did once, for the record, and then got back to the boot.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.