Today's County in the spotlight
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Spot on in both cases, well done!! Some good and some bad memories from both those holidays but I wouldn't change a thing!
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Cornwall, Number 22 has had a very decent airing as a kick off. I see the thread as every so often select a new different county from the 92 at random, and leave give it 24 hours in the FCF sun.NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑11 Mar 2022, 16:16 There are 92 historic counties in England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland, each will have a mere day in the spotlight selected at random.
Here's the pool
And todays random selection is Number 22 Cornwall
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Entries invited, anything goes.
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Happy for anyone to select a new county at any time they feel, and always the chance that something new is learned along the way, or a few memories stirred, maybe even an inspiration to visit.
So I'll leave the next county selection to others, just use https://www.random.org/ put 1-92 in the range and tap generate. Check the number against the pool above, and select the county.
Well done with our lightning visit to Cornwall!
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Just remembered that my mother was there for a while in basic training (1941) but couldn't tell anyone where she was, so in her letters home said that "The corn is growing high up the wall".
Then moved to the gun battery in Sunderland. Anybody's guess what she used to encrypt that.
Then moved to the gun battery in Sunderland. Anybody's guess what she used to encrypt that.
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In the abscence of any other suggestions I have been through the county selection procedure as follows:
Which gives us:
So what do we know about Leicestershire? Well to get the ball rolling I will mention one of the items which has brought Leicestershire into the news in recent years.
Nothing like a lively start!! Full details here
Which gives us:
So what do we know about Leicestershire? Well to get the ball rolling I will mention one of the items which has brought Leicestershire into the news in recent years.
Nothing like a lively start!! Full details here
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Not exactly a Pharaoh's tomb.
Man is, by nature, a lazy beast, he does not need twice encouraging to do nothing.
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From the parking tales and hassles thread
NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑15 Sep 2020, 22:40 and after some weighty legal matters
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Henry Tudor: "The first thing I'm going to do when I become King is build a car park in Leicester"
... Richard III: "over my dead body".
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No Gibbo, the tomb of a fair rose!!
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From an older complimentary thread, Leicester was the last County in England to be provided with an Original Photo in the County Gallery (Originals Only) thread, as can be seen from this at the time, Leicestershire the only County in England without a star!
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So what was the Leicestershire original photograph which claimed the County
This one
This one
Regards Neilmickthemaverick wrote: ↑27 Nov 2020, 17:18 I had a very entertaining trip to meet a friend. Due to the fact that Leicestershire will be tier 3 next week we decided to meet at the county border and conduct our business but it didn't stop me getting a picture of the A6 as it enters Leicestershire from which I claim the final England county. As you can see from the second picture it was an "only just" picture :
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Leicestershire was the last County in England to register an official County Flag. July 16th 2021 to be precise.
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One of the reasons I find myself visiting Leicestershire so often is the Museum at Donnington Park, well worth stopping by if you are in the area:
Full details here
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Where in Leicestershire and What's the purpose of the OS flush bracket
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Don't know where yet, Chelsea about to kick off , but the flush brackets
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If we're going to do Lats and Longs have a go at mine.
Lat 39.07427
Long -76.42384
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Way off topic for Leicestershire's day in the sun but it looks like you are on Gibson Island, Maryland USA.
https://www.gibsonisland.com/
To wrestle it back to Leicestershire have a Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
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