This afternoon we nipped into Birmingham to obtain a few essentials prior to the next episode of ‘Cherry on her Travels’. We had a surprisingly successful afternoon, our purchase list was all ticked off apart from a Birthday Card. I normally make birthday cards rather than buy them and on looking at the selection available [...]
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The Wrekin from Viroconium
The Churches Concervation Trust guide book for St Andrew’s Church at Wroxeter provides and informative introduction to both the Wrekin and Wroxeter.
The name Wroxeter appears to mean ‘fort by the Wrekin’. This hill, which is prominent for miles around, has an Iron Age fort at its crest and the Celtic name for it is thought [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 14th 2014
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Step Inside St Andrew’s Church
Just inside the front door of the church stands a huge font which is thought to be part of a Roman column. The organ was originally built by Charles Brindley in 1849, but little now remains from that date. The knave is furnished with box pews, the pulpit is Jacobean and the altar rails [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 13th 2014
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St Andrew’s Church Wroxeter
Some of you may recall that I have had two failed attempts at taking photographs of St Andrew’s Church. On my first attempt I was nearly run over by a driver who had not noticed I was walking along the country lane.
Afterwards I decided to make the short walk to St Andrew’s church in the nearby [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 12th 2014
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he is not the same man.
Heraclitus
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 10th 2014
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Armed Forces Memorial
The men and women of our Armed and Merchant Services who have lost their lives in conflict, as a result of terrorist action or on training exercises since the end of World War II are remembered here. Unlike the World War memorials in towns and villages across the Nation, there is nowhere else that records [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 9th 2014
The inspiration for the Remembrance garden comes form the RAF Association’s Dedication, the last in line of which is “we will remember them”. The central feature of the 50 metre-long garden is the RAF Association emblem – a magnificent stainless steel eagle sitting on top of a globe. The eagle, named Winston, is made up [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2014
