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Archive for July, 2016
Comments Off CherryPie on Jul 17th 2016
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Victorian Printing Press
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 16th 2016
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Male & Female Tanks?
According to information at the Museum of Lincolnshire life, tanks are classes as either male or female. Daphne in the previous post is apparently female and the above diagram shows a male tank.
The information at the museum informed that a female tank has five machine guns whereas a male tank has three machine guns and [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 15th 2016
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Lincoln: Birthplace of the Tank
Lincoln was at the forefront of the invention of the ‘tank’, playing a vital role in the development of the fighting machine that changed the face of warfare.*
William Foster & Company was the pioneer of the tank. It was from the designs and drawings made by William A Tritton, then marketing director of the company [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2016
Lincoln Victoria Cross hero Charles Sharpe’s trench attack is immortalised in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life.
He [Corporal Charles Clarke] captured an enemy trench single-handedly and led a successful assault on another in the German lines near Rouges Bancs in northern France during the Battle of Aubers Ridge in May 1915.
The official citation published in the [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 13th 2016
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Gentlemen’s Urinal
This is a very ornate cast iron urinal, dating from around the turn of the 19th/20th century. It was removed from the Woodhall Junction Station and brought to the Museum of Lincolnshire Life in 1972.
The very thin flat casting of iron is an example of the great skill of engineers of the time. Today it [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jul 11th 2016
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14 (KJV)
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 10th 2016
