Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
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 Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Durham 2021
The first maps of Durham show a surprising direction for Durham City’s first Great North Road. Published in 1598 and 1610, they suggest that South Street was a major route and the strip map in ‘Britannia Depicta’ of 1720 confirms its place on the north-south link. This western route was more direct, allowing mail coaches [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 1st 2022
