Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
Located on Windsor High Street next to the Guild Hall is a green hexagonal Penfold post box.
This broke the standard pattern and so in 1866 the Post Office again produced a standard letter box. This time the box was designed by J W Penfold and came in three sizes. Problems were encountered with some of [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 4th 2022
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
Near to Windsor castle, situated next to a more usual red pillar box is a blue George V pillar box. The blue pillar box displays the history of ’special’ blue pillar boxes:
On 9th September 1911, Gustav Hamel took of from Hendon Aerodrome to inaugurate the first United Kingdom aerial post and landed in Shaw Farm [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 3rd 2022
Filed under Art, Holidays, Windsor 2022
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 2nd 2022
Filed under Anecdotes
I only had time for a quick walk without the opportunity to stop and take photos along the way. I took a couple of photos towards the end of my walk.
Over the month I walked 346,227 steps (139.51 miles).
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Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Out & About
Tolkien’s inspiration for Durin’s Door was a little too far away for a Saturday afternoon excursion so I looked for inspiration in ‘The Churches of Shropshire & Their Treasures’ to find inspiration for suitable doorways that were fitting for the presentation of my medals for completing ‘The Fellowship’ and ‘Mines of Moria’ challenges.
Within the books [...]
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