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Railway

mike — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:14:23 +0000

Hercules leaves Dungeness

Dungeness

mike — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:47:27 +0000

St Swithuns Shobrooke

mike — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:09:32 +0000

Les Volcanes d’Auvergne

mike — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:57:11 +0000

Auvergne Volcanoes. The Chaîne des Puys is a north-south oriented chain of cinder cones, lava domes, and maars in the Massif Central of France. The chain is about 40 km (25 mi) long, and the identified volcanic features include 48 cinder cones, eight lava domes, and 15 maars and explosion craters. Its highest point is the lava dome of Puy de Dôme, located near the middle of the chain. The name of the range comes from a French term, puy, that refers to a volcanic mountain with a rounded profile.

Spitfire Vb at Postling

mike — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:59:45 +0000

This Spit is from No. 303 (“Kościuszko”) Polish Fighter Squadron (Polish: 303 Dywizjon Myśliwski “Warszawski im. Tadeusza Kościuszki”) was one of 16 Polish squadrons in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. It was the highest scoring RAF squadron of the Battle of Britain.

The squadron was named after the Polish and American Revolution hero General Tadeusz Kościuszko, and the eponymous Polish 7th Air Escadrillefounded by Merian C. Cooper, that served Poland in the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet War. No. 303 was formed in Britain as part of an agreement between the Polish Government in Exile and the United Kingdom. After a distinguished combat record, the fighter squadron was disbanded in December 1946.

Sheep’s Green, Cambridge

mike — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:22:45 +0000

: Jolly boating weather

Double Hammer beam roof

mike — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:43:49 +0000

This is Suffolk’s most perfectly restored angel hammerbeam roof. From the still, small silence of the church floor below, you look up into a great shout of praise. Here are hundreds of figures, both angelic and human. The profusion is ordered, as if some mighty hymn were in progress.

Lavender

mike — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:39:21 +0000

Lavender in the cathedral gardens, Bury St Edmunds

St Edmund

mike — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:36:44 +0000

In 869, Edmund, King of the East Angles, met his death at the hands of the Danes. He was tied to a tree and shot with arrows. Legend says that his severed head was thrown into the woods and found being guarded by a wolf. Around 900, Edmund’s body was brought to Bedericesworth (Bury St Edmunds) and subsequently housed in a shrine in what developed into a great Benedictine Abbey. Edmund was the patron saint of England, until St George replaced him. His feast day is 20 November.

In 2009 the Cathedral changed its dedication to become the Cathedral Church of St James and St Edmund.

Holy Trinity, Long Melford

mike — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:30:30 +0000

Holy Trinity Church is one of the great Suffolk wool churches and was built almost entirely in the 15th century at a time of growing prosperity among the local cloth merchants. It was completed in 1484. The only modern part is the tower, dating from 1903. Much of the stained glass is medieval, and the Rabbit (Hare) window above the North door symbolizes the Trinity It is an Anglican Christian church in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich within the Church of England and has served the ancient and beautiful village of Long Melford, near Sudbury in Suffolk, for over five hundred years. The church stands on a hill at the north end of the village and looks down Hall Street which runs through the village from north to south.