Short break

[Steve1962]

Away for a long weekend but not in the caravan, once more we are staying at the Hadley Bowling Green Inn ….

As is my want I will be taking a few snaps which will be posted on the gallery in the link below and added to as the weekend progresses….

View my photos at: https://steve1962.smugmug.com/Birthday-weekend-

Steve

 

[Beachball]

Away for a long weekend but not in the caravan, once more we are staying at the Hadley Bowling Green Inn ….

As is my want I will be taking a few snaps which will be posted on the gallery in the link below and added to as the weekend progresses….

View my photos at: https://steve1962.smugmug.com/Birthday-weekend-

Steve

Hope you have a enjoyable time look forward to the update

 

[Steve1962]

Just uploaded a few more snaps, including some of the flooding by the river in Worcester.

 

[Steve1962]

Just got home after a nice break away in the Worcestershire countryside.

Yesterday I picked up a book from a charity shop, it is about this fella…records of his death and subsequent dismantling of his body are truly medieval ( see below).

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester - Wikipedia​

en.m.wikipedia.org

We always drive over a non descript modern bridge on the A44 on the way to Worcester which is named after him so I thought it prudent to do some research, should be an interesting read.

Steve

 

[otherclive]

The establishment of my secondary school in Leicester goes back y to Simon de Montfort and by coincidence I was in De Montfort house.

 

[toad a caravan]

Is that horse some model of an early peugeot..just going off his shield 😊😊

 

[RogerL]

Is that horse some model of an early peugeot..just going off his shield 😊😊

The lion has been used in heraldry for many centuries.

Peugeot adopted the heraldic lion in 1957 when the previous protruding lion was banned https://www.peugeot.co.uk/about-us/brand/peugeot-magazine/the-peugeot-lion-history-of-a-symbol.html

 

[toad a caravan]

It gives a new twist to EV's ... equestrian vehicle 🙂🙂

 

[ProfJohnL]

It gives a new twist to EV's ... equestrian vehicle 🙂🙂

I don't see what your trying to say ????

 

[Buckman]

The lion has been used in heraldry for many centuries.

Peugeot adopted the heraldic lion in 1957 when the previous protruding lion was banned https://www.peugeot.co.uk/about-us/brand/peugeot-magazine/the-peugeot-lion-history-of-a-symbol.html

Saw an old Jaguar yesterday with the leaping Jag on the bonnet. Not sure when that was stopped?

 

[Buckman]

It gives a new twist to EV's ... equestrian vehicle 🙂🙂

Excellent and those EVS were far more environmentally friendly than the modern version!

 

[otherclive]

I don't see what your trying to say ????

It’s the horse ………an early EV🙈

 

[Dustydog]

I don't see what your trying to say ????

Heraldry with Lions Horses, a bit of satire maybe😎

 

[otherclive]

Excellent and those EVS were far more environmentally friendly than the modern version!

Well there was a prediction that if ICE hadn’t taken off then London would have been under 40ft of poo by 1935. But that probably did not allow for the extraction by allotment holders and rose growers. When I was a kid there was a race to collect any horse droppings from the various wagons that delivered in the street.

 

[Buckman]

Well there was a prediction that if ICE hadn’t taken off then London would have been under 40ft of poo by 1935. But that probably did not allow for the extraction by allotment holders and rose growers. When I was a kid there was a race to collect any horse droppings from the various wagons that delivered in the street.

Although we lived on a small holding when I was young hardly a horse to been seen unless you went to the race course in the next town.

 

[Dustydog]

Well there was a prediction that if ICE hadn’t taken off then London would have been under 40ft of poo by 1935. But that probably did not allow for the extraction by allotment holders and rose growers. When I was a kid there was a race to collect any horse droppings from the various wagons that delivered in the street.

Like our street. The old codgers with allotments at the back gave us a tanner per serving. Many kids followed the rag and bone man and milkman.! A local in our Red Lion was Bosun on the Bexley. https://www.nautilusint.org/en/news...6, the effluents,dumping sewage sludge at sea.

 

[otherclive]

Like our street. The old codgers with allotments at the back gave us a tanner per serving. Many kids followed the rag and bone man and milkman.! A local in our Red Lion was Bosun on the Bexley. https://www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insight/ships-of-the-past/2022/december/bexley/#:~:text=Launched in 1966, the effluents,dumping sewage sludge at sea.

I had a boss who held the strong belief that sea fish stocks went down when there was pressure to reduce sewage dumped at sea either from outfalls or shipping. By that theory UK fish stocks should now be increasing.

 

[Buckman]

Like our street. The old codgers with allotments at the back gave us a tanner per serving. Many kids followed the rag and bone man and milkman.! A local in our Red Lion was Bosun on the Bexley. https://www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insight/ships-of-the-past/2022/december/bexley/#:~:text=Launched in 1966, the effluents,dumping sewage sludge at sea.

We were lucky living next to a dairy farm so fresh milk could be collected every day. We were too far out of the town for the fish or veg man to visit. When we did move into the city, we were on a hill so no way any horse and cart could get up the hill. No such thing as a rag & bone man in our town. If you wanted to chuck something out, you put it outside and it was gone the next morning!

 

[toad a caravan]

I don't see what your trying to say ????

It was intended as a bit of light hearted banter no disrespect to anyone or post was intended what so ever 🙂

 

[Hutch]

It was intended as a bit of light hearted banter no disrespect to anyone or post was intended what so ever 🙂

I thought it was great, how could it offend. 🤔

 

[toad a caravan]

Thanks...Gary 😊