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D-Day Landings 80th Anniversary – Day Six
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D-Day Landings 80th Anniversary – Day Two
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D-Day Landings 80th Anniversary – Day One
This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings. To commemorate the occasion I am taking part in the ‘Race the Distance ‘ 50 mile virtual walk along the beaches of Normandy where the landings took place.
The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Along with the associated [...]
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Tower Gardens
The gardens are situation in what once was the friary orchard. When the friary was closed in 1538, the tower and the land around it passed to the Town Council.
Part of this land was never permanently built on. Tower Gardens was laid out in 1911 as a public park to commemorate the coronation of King [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Nov 1st 2023
