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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lincoln (revisited) 2024

Lincoln (revisited) – Day Two

I had a good night’s sleep and was awoken by both the alarm clock and the construction workers refurbishing the White Hart Hotel on the opposite side of the road. I thought that 7am was a little early for such noisy activities to be taking place.
We crossed the courtyard to the breakfast room where we [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 14th 2024

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American Bar Association Memorial to Magna Carta

Runnymede, the birthplace of democracy.
THE MAGNA CARTA TRUST
The memorial and the land on which it stands is vested in the Magna Carta Trust under the chairmanship of the Master of the Rolls. The principal object of the Magna Carta Trust is the perpetuation of the principles of Magna Carta. The Trust also maintains and cares [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 21st 2017

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The Magna Carta Memorial Oak at Runnymede

This oak tree, planted with soil from Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, commemorates the bicentenary of the constitution of the United States of America. It stand in acknowledgement that the ideals of liberty  and justice embodied in the constitution trace their lineage through institutions of English law to the [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 20th 2017