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 [...]
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PhotoHunt – Zap
12 Comments CherryPie on May 4th 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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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Image from Wiki
ABC Brisbane reports that missing fragments of the Egyptian Book of the Dead have been discovered stored in a Queensland museum:
World-renowned Egyptologist Dr John Taylor was viewing the museum’s Egyptian collection when a name on a papyrus fragment caught his eye.
Dr Taylor is the curator of the British Museum’s mummy collection. [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 25th 2012
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Kent January 2012
The Pilgrim Steps
From the Cathedral guidebook:
The pilgrim steps, their stone treads worn down by countless pilgrims over the centuries, are now protected by wooden boards. The shrine these pilgrims had come to visit was that of a an called William. Little is know about, him except that he was probably a baker from Perth in [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 17th 2012
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The Wrekin
I invite you to join me at Vision & Verb where I share some facts and folklore about a well known Shropshire landmark.
Comments Off CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2012
As mentioned in my previous post this was the first major bridge of its kind to be designed for vehicles.
Project 2020 which is community group local to the bridge have produced a leaflet full of interesting facts about the bridge:
The remarkable bridge was built by Captain Samuel Brown RN in 1819-20 to demonstrate patents. Brown [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2012
