Upcoming Monday Night Gigs…
Live at Norton’s Red Lion….
I haven’t attended many football games, but as a teenager I did sometimes go to Ayresome Park to watch Middlesbrough. This was a particularly memorable game…
Boro completed a run of twenty matches unbeaten at home with an 8-0 victory over Sheffield Wednesday.
This is the Latin paper my mother took on her 18th birthday, 72 years ago today…
After all the police motorcyclists and sponsors’ wagons, there are a few pictures of a young lad carrying the flame.
Live at the Red Lion Norton.
A useful tool I rediscovered today…
The logo for the manufacturer, British Thornton, is one I hope will appear in that iPhone app everyone seems to be playing.
Yes, I am of an age that knows how to use one…
Live in Norton’s Red Lion…
In the Tapas Bar in Norton…
Written in galaxies. Thank you to Bizibuilder.
http://mygalaxies.co.uk
No difficulty in recognising the building behind my mother this time… it’s the Northern Ireland Parliament Building better known as Stormont…
In 1937 the building was just five years old and the Portland stone is brilliant white. After the air raids that devastated Belfast in April and May 1941 it was decided to camouflage Stormont with a coating of bitumen and cow dung as can be seen in this photo from the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum‘s collection…
Although this was removed after the war, the stone was permanently stained and it never looked as bright again.
Rockin' Brian 