We set the alarm early so that we could get the car to Autoglass in time for its 9am appointment. Car checked in, we made our way to the nearby retail park, purchasing a few items from The Range and checking out bedside lamps in a lighting shop. We found the perfect one but unfortunately [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
Norfolk – Day Four
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 29th 2022
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Norfolk – Day Two
Breakfast was excellent quality with standard ‘Full English’ and other cooked options on offer. There were cereals and toast but no continental options. After breakfast Mr C readdressed sorting out the windscreen repair. This involved a lengthy 30 minute online chat procedure where a five minute phone call would have achieved the same result with [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 26th 2022
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Norfolk – Day One
We were able to set off early because our bags we had packed the day before and dined with family, leaving us with very few last minute jobs to do. As we were leaving Telford we heard a loud noise on the car windscreen, a lorry had kicked up a stone.
We stopped at Corley services [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 25th 2022
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
“The Queen” Locomotive – Windsor
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WAS IN full swing when “The Queen,” the early steam locomotive that transported Queen Victoria between Windsor and London, was constructed. In fact, Victoria was the first British monarch to travel by rail, making her maiden voyage on June 13, 1842.
During her long reign, from 1837 to 1901, Victoria traveled by train dozens of [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Aug 11th 2022
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
The Market Cross House – Windsor
The current oak-framed building suffers from a distinct lean. It replaced an earlier building (1592) that was demolished in 1687 to allow for the building of the Guildhall next door However there was a land dispute and eventually the new Market Cross was “rebuilt” in 1718 on or very close to its original location.
The original [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 2nd 2022
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Windsor 2022
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist
The present building dates from 1822 when it replaced an ancient building with Saxon arches and Norman work that was in dire need of expensive renovation. The outer walls follow the plan of the mediaeval church with old burial vaults lying beneath the present floor; retained memorials from the previous church can be [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 31st 2022
