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IaninSheffield
Veteran
- Location
- Sheffield, UK
War memorial, Pleasley Vale
- Location
- London
Glyn family memorial in a separate hedged off area behind the church in Albury, Hertfordshire.
The tablets along the bottom are to individual family members.
Quite a few of the tablets said that the deceased was a banker, which struck me as damn odd at the time, never seen before on a gravestone.
Occurred to me later that quite possibly Glyn as in the old William and Glyns bank.
The tablets along the bottom are to individual family members.
Quite a few of the tablets said that the deceased was a banker, which struck me as damn odd at the time, never seen before on a gravestone.
Occurred to me later that quite possibly Glyn as in the old William and Glyns bank.
Dag Hammar
Senior Member
- Location
- Essex
Joop Verburgh was a Dutch construction worker that lost his life whilst working on a new road bridge that crosses the railway lines from Colchester to Clacton and Walton-on-the-Naze.
I think it is especially sad when a man or woman sets off for their days work never to return.
I think it is especially sad when a man or woman sets off for their days work never to return.
avecReynolds531
Veteran
- Location
- Small Island
Unusual to find a French styled road marker here: it's a memorial for a cyclist.
- Location
- London
I know that - almost took a pic a while ago - riding from south London to hastings early one morn - it's heading up to the north downs isn't it?
(I always had the idea you were a far bit further west out in Kent to be honest)
(I always had the idea you were a far bit further west out in Kent to be honest)
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about (although I'm not sure who can actually use this one 
), but this is first time I've got a picture of one 
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biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
A sign telling that Stevington mill was rebuilt to celebrate the 1951 festival of Britain.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
A friend in the UK says he now celebrates Nov 5th as commemorating the last person to enter the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions.
Couldn't they afford a better plaque?
- Location
- London
can't help but say that that's a very old line andy.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Memorial to the "Flösser" in Schiltach, Black Forest.
Before the railways came the Flösser would transport logs out of the forests by river, a job which must have required large... character. The rivers aren't that deep in the hills, so the Flösser would compensate by damming them, filling the resulting pool with log rafts and then letting it all go at once. The logs rafts required steering, so the Flösser would ride the wave downriver, fending off rocks and other obstacles with a pole.
I don't know if they coordinated with villages downstream to make sure everything went at once or if they just floated down to the next blockage and crashed into the wood being stored there.
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