Memorials and bikes

[tyred]

Two for the price of one outside Ballynahinch Castle

 

[biggs682]

One of a few local Bus stops that carry were erected to mark the late Queens 1953 coronation.

 

[biggs682]

An Ecton memorial stone

 

[tyred]

Port Ellen war memorial

 

[Andy in Germany]

Old sluice gate, used to control the flow of water to the local mill from 1735 to 1978 and preserved in 2009. There's an inscription on the gate but it's in old Swabian and I can't read it.

 

[matticus]

I very much stumbled on this place in the dark during the Hanze696 audax. I didn't realise there were any such sites so far west - but why wouldn't there be? - so I didn't connect going to "Bergen" with "Bergen-Belsen".
Everything was shut when I got there (10pm?), riding along a quiet woody A-road. But a lady was manning a desk in the visitors building; she gave me a funny look, and by the time I left there was a burly security guy hovering next to her.

A very sobering experience.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I didn't realise there were any such sites so far west - but why wouldn't there be?

There was generally at least one Concentration Camp for every town; part of the point was to keep the local population afraid.

 

[PeteXXX]

MBIFO a New Bradwell, MK, clock based memorial with a barely legible plaque.

 

[biggs682]

A Grafton Underwood memorial plaque that I have not noticed before despite riding that way 100s of times

Stating that the village is mentioned in the doomsday book .

 

[Jenkins]

Old Catton war memorial

 

[FrothNinja]

Barnoldswick Forces Memorial

 

[biggs682]

A memorial plaque for the Nags head in Wollaston marking it's heyday and it's first referral.

Use to be my local

 

[FrothNinja]

A memorial plaque for the Nags head in Wollaston marking it's heyday and it's first referral.

Use to be my local

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Some of those were already on top of the pile in 1970

 

[biggs682]

Some of those were already on top of the pile in 1970

Yes and they were playing in a small village pub

 

[PeteXXX]

MBIFO the War Memorial in front of St George the Martyr, Wootton, Hamtun, on today's ride.