I have had a hectic few days (again…). In the past couple of weeks the kitchen and the dining room have been decorated. This involved emptying the dining room and returning everything to it’s place before visitors arrived to stay over the weekend. It was almost back in one piece before they arrived on Saturday, [...]
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PhotoHunt – Zap
The image of a mushroom cloud and the fear of a four minute warning were ingrained in the minds of all those who lived through the Cold War in the United Kingdom.
The mushroom image created by nuclear tests was seen widely throughout the media and illustrated the threat of the Third World War.
In the event [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on May 4th 2012
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Sit and Rest a While
This is normally one of my favourite places to sit and watch the world go by when I visit Ironbridge. After all the rain it has a new resident!
8 Comments CherryPie on May 2nd 2012
From a plaque next to the kilns:
Under tremendous heat, rock-hard limestone was transformed into powdery-fine lime in the lime kilns that you see. Limestone, first quarried and later mixed, was brought from vast deposits on Lincoln Hill, which rises behind the kilns. Though lime kilns have been found in the Gorge since medieval [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on May 1st 2012
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Architecture 100 :: 18 – The Iron Bridge
The world’s first cast iron bridge was built over the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in 1779.
From Wiki:
In the early eighteenth century, the only way to cross the Severn Gorge was by ferry. However, the industries that were growing in the area of Coalbrookdale and Broseley needed a more reliable crossing.
In 1773, Thomas Farnolls Pritchard[1] wrote [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 30th 2012
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Logic will get you from A-B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
18 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2012
