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BROTHER ON AN EPIC JOURNEY
BBC Countryfile Magazine
|August 2025
Using only local buses, John Green travelled the length of Britain in aid of one of England's oldest almshouses
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Why did you start this journey around Britain - and why use only local buses?
The ancient Hospital of St. Cross in Winchester has vacancies because people don't know what a wonderful place it is for a single male retiree, over 65, to live. Not only is it a strikingly beautiful place, with its 12th-century chapel, with most of the other buildings dating from the 1450s, we have a community that enjoys each other's company, so you are alone only when you want to be. The principal reason for the trip was to raise awareness of the hospital - to let people know it was founded in 1132 and has provided accommodation to men for nearly 900 years - and the second was to try to raise some money for maintaining our chapel. Why by local bus? I have a bus pass!
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