Memorials and bikes

[Sharky]

Just blown up the pic. Nice but the admiring looks are being given to the scooter in the background. Vespa?

It was a long time ago. Most of the club rode out to events in those days.

I do remember the day though. It was my first 50 as a 17 yr old and I punctured in the last 10 miles. Repaired and finished, but in a very slow time, something like 2hrs 45mins. But it might have done me a favour as I rode another 50 a few weeks later and although I told him of the delay, I got a generous handicap and won 1st H/C.

If you blew up the photo, you'll see a huge black smudge on my nose from the puncture repair. And I rode home after the event!

 

[Blue Hills]

it's a great pic - whoever took it did well with the framing, getting you in the foreground - not always common with instamatics, for i kinda assume from the format that that's what was used.

 

[FolderBeholder]

What sort of unwinding facilities does boulder city promote?

Ha! That’s a VERY good question.

 

[Katherine]

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Plaques commemorating the spot in which John Wesley preached, I think it says 1767.
The plaque occupies an undignified position under the M56 on Booth Bank Lane near Dunham Park in Cheshire.

It is a feature on many a return journey on club rides and I always point it ouit to newbies - heading for the path over the river via the Swan with Two Nicks, Dunham, then past United's training ground.

 

[biggs682]

I didn't find out about this local memorial board and stone till a couple of weeks ago .

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4ZBJ_Mission_48_Mears_Ashby_Northamptonshire_UK

Despite being on my regular early morning loop .

 

[sheddy]

at the risk of being shouted down for ignorance a memorial to who?

My money is on Rory Gallagher, legendary blues/rock musician.

 

[Blue Hills]

yes that who i thought of - had a couple of his albums when younger and rated - rather forgotten and unfashionable now I guess.

 

[BalkanExpress]

Sunday ride to the Royal Palace on the outskirts of Brussels. Memorial to the Belgian pilots who died while flying for the RAF during the battle of Britain.

 

[Shearwater Missile]

I didn't find out about this local memorial board and stone till a couple of weeks ago .

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4ZBJ_Mission_48_Mears_Ashby_Northamptonshire_UK

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Despite being on my regular early morning loop .

On a theme of WW2 American memorials. I had been trying to locate the 447th Bomb Group memorial which I remember seeing about 25 years ago. As I have worked out a new route from my old trusty ones I stumbled across the site last weekend. In fact only about 2 miles off my usual route. It was exactly how I remembered it and kept very clean and well cared for. The 447th group were only at Rattlesden Airfield for two years. No doubt like all the other USAF and RAF squadrons helped to shorten the war.

 

[biggs682]

@Shearwater Missile there are quite a few USAF memorials around my local area , it's hard to imagine they were once Airfields

 

[Shearwater Missile]

@Shearwater Missile there are quite a few USAF memorials around my local area , it's hard to imagine they were once Airfields

Same here is Suffolk. We still have the Americans at Mildenhall but sadly the ones at Bentwaters are long gone, but in my life time. I remember hearing the Lockheed Thuderbolt aka A10 Tankbusters droning over head when I lived at Hadleigh and we had an American based there living next door. I will keep a look out for more memorials, some or most are easily missed.

 

[biggs682]

Another local one that I have ridden past loads of times

Just as go into Whiston to mark the replanting of Whiston Avenue to mark the Queen's jubilee in 1977 .

 

[biggs682]

A few from around Wellingborough

First one I to celebrate the revamped railway station in 1984 .

Next up is the one to celebrate the Swanspool house and grounds being given to the town in 1919 .

Next is the one to mark Croyland Abbey and 200 acre's of land being handed over to the Abbot's of Croyland by the King of Mercia in 948 .

 

[Blue Hills]

Looking at your location, would appreciate a pic of the grave of the woman who came incredibly close to cbanging european history by ridding it of the buffoon mussolini in an incident later echoed in another incident with reserve buffoon berlusconi.

 

[plantfit]

Ice Trice Q26 in front of the XM607 Vulcan B Mk2 that dropped bombs across the airfield at Stanley on the Falkland island on May 1st 1982 Operation Black Buck