Thank you @Horde of Duck! Rare to see myself walking - rather than my POV hiking videos. Lovely video too. You clearly need to come on more hikes with me!
Used to live in North Cheam, My grandad worked at the sewage farm on the Sutton bypass (where Tesco’s is now & had a company house there. Moved to ridge road at the junction of beeches road afterwards. We had our wedding reception at Nonsuch manor in 1982. Moved to West Sussex 20 years ago. I miss my birthplace but am glad I’m out of it now. (Know what I mean!) Lovely photos.
Reference all the snow in winter of first year of war, I rather like the commentary on Thames Television's World at War documentary series - "the government tried to hush it up but people couldn't help noticing."
Sadly most of the cities were more beautiful than today. London Berlin Milan Frankfurt and so many more. The old beautiful architecture that made Europe amazing. Not the modern buildings. Sad these wars we let our elites and the ones that controlled them made us go to war. Most people did get along well.
Beautiful. I assume it's the summer of 1938. No Nazi flags anywhere in the small towns. Fortunately my mother and her family fled Austria between September 1937 and February 1938.
More interesting for example Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillard car trip in 1939/40. The 2 ladies left Geneva in February 1939, drove with a normal car (a small Ford convertible) to Kabul - no other traveler, no weapon. Both wrote a book on that trip, Schwarzenbach in german, Maillard in french.
Parts of Gaza also looked quite idyllic before their ruling party, enthusiastically cheered on by the local populace, began a campaign of the barbaric massacre of their neighbours. The resultant WW2 response causing the enemy to suffer large scale destruction and "disproportionately" heavy civilian casualties, incuding some who could perhaps be described as "innocent", was very regrettable but also a wholly inevitable consequence of their initial aggression. The same is true in Gaza. The Allied policy in WW2 was to continue fighting until they received "unconditional surrender" from the enemy. The same is true in Gaza.
there are 8 bells of which 5 are john taylor 6th and 8th sre willam noone 7th is thomas newcombe tenor 7-3-3cwts bells are hung on 2 tiers with bells 1 4 5 6 and 8 on the bottom 2 5 and 7 on top
