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RIVER THAMES OVERFLOWS AT LECHLADE

By on January 3, 2013 in Burford, flood, Lechlade, river thames, sluice gate, water meadow, White Horse Hill, Witney

New Year’s Day was dry and bright for most of the country, making it easy to see the effects of the drenching rain we’ve had over the last month or more. At Lechlade, the River Thames had overflowed into fields south of the town, turning green pastures into an inland ocean. I stopped on the [...]

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PIERS AND POSTCARDS – REMINDERS OF AN ENGLAND PAST

By on October 24, 2012 in 617 squadron, Barnes Wallis, Birnbeck Pier, bouncing bomb, Burford, Cardiff, Clevedon, Dambusters, Somerset, Victorian, Wales, Weston-super-Mare

Browsing in a Burford antique shop recently, I ran across this postcard showing Birnbeck Pier in the early 1900s. I never knew that Weston-super-Mare had two piers, let alone this splendid example, the only pier in England that links the mainland to an island, even if Birnbeck Island is just a rocky outcrop jutting above [...]

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