History lessons while out cycling.

[betty swollocks]

Took this pic yesterday:-

and did further research about Col Otway , his bunch of heroes and the Merville Gun Battery

Lovely and moving gesture that someone had affixed a poppy to the fence.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

When I rode up to Broadway Tower in the Cotswolds, there's a small monument there dedicated to the Canadian crew of a Whitworth Whitley V Bomber that
crashed there in poor weather conditions.

 

[Dave5N]

Those links were realy interesting. Where was the memorial you found?

 

[Bromptonaut]

This is my local lesson http://www.rafcaa.org.uk/daventry.html. A few hundred yards west of the A5 on the road from Bugbrooke to Litchborough It's now an unclassified county road - the B4525 mentioned in the article was re-routed when Blisworth and Towcester were bypassed in the early nineties.

 

[ufkacbln]

This is one of the great joys of cycling...

On top of Portsdown Hill and close to the Churchillain pub

 

[Dave5N]

Good God. I have never seen that before - must have been past it hundreds of times.

 

[Aperitif]

Interesting posts everyone - a good breakfast read. Thanks.

 

[betty swollocks]

Those links were realy interesting. Where was the memorial you found?

Near Coombe Gibbet, Inkpen, West Berks.
They did all of their training for the mission in that area.

 

[peanut]

thanks for the interesting posts. I think it would be a nice tribute if we were to dedicate this thread to all the servicemen and women that lost their lives in WWll .

Would it be ok if we add further pictures of WWll monuments and history links that we encounter on our rides?

 

[betty swollocks]

thanks for the interesting posts. I think it would be a nice tribute if we were to dedicate this thread to all the servicemen and women that lost their lives in WWll .

Would it be ok if we add further pictures of WWll monuments and history links that we encounter on our rides?

That's a fine idea peanut: I'll contact admin.

 

[Hilldodger]

flexes fingers to be ready

I often do bike riides for my mates and anyone else who would like to come along based around a local history theme.

Next planned one is on forgotten and lost pubs in Leicester. Well, not all of them, just a few with interesting stories.

One ride I did had 52 people along

 

[newbiebiker]

now you could say biking gets to train both mind and body.