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THE TCHURE: IS IT AN ALLEYWAY? OR SOMETHING WORSE?

By on November 8, 2012 in alley, Banbury, Charlton-on-Otmoor, Deddington, Food Fair, Oxford, sewer, Souldern, Steeple Aston, tchure, Upper Heyford, Victorian

‘Tchure’… I hadn’t run across this weird word until I visited the village of Deddington, a few miles south of Banbury. It’s a pretty little place, with shops, pubs and cafes clustered around a green – and a few minutes walk away, the remains of an ancient castle. The tchure of Deddington links a footpath [...]

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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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