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10 Nov 2019 21:27 - 10 Nov 2019 21:32 #191 by airfields man
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There are a 101 Soldiers and 75 Poppy's on show.


All that can now been seen of the old Didcot power station from this hill.
The Dead got memorials, The living got time.

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10 Nov 2019 22:33 #192 by Peter Kirk
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It looks good but I think they should have roped off the actual figures to improve photo opportunities. If they are metal I wonder how long before those nice metal thieves nick them?

Maybe some of those paintball mines firing traceable powder would help deter therm?
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11 Nov 2019 19:38 #193 by airfields man
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Mr Barton told us that they will only be there for about two weeks. They were there last year for about two weeks, but we knew nothing about that ? This year Mr Barton was on radio Oxford, last Friday talking about this. I suppose recycled signage is metal ?
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11 Nov 2019 20:36 #194 by Peter Kirk
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Looking back at kebecker's comment about Sevenoaks and Dartford being similar or the same, I suspect they used the same bronze cast and memorial stone. Given the numbers that were made I wonder if there was a catalogue produced by different companies? Or did Kent have a specific source? There were a lost of foundries along the Thames, mainly as part of larger businesses and many would have had spare capacity by the time the memorial building got underway. I wonder if there were any more that used the same cast?
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11 Nov 2019 23:38 - 11 Nov 2019 23:38 #195 by kebecker
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I posted this memorial a few years back but here is a 2019 shot of the war memorial in Iron Bridge, it was just starting to rain so th quality is not that good. The main reason for posting was that it looks very similar to the Sevenokas and Dartford memorials so I suspect that Peters thoughts on a a foundry producing multiple versions may well be on the right track.

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14 Nov 2019 11:38 - 14 Nov 2019 20:27 #196 by netcompsys
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Beverley's Hengate Memorial Garden centrepiece is this WW1 memorial


The four corners have figures holding objects in metal, including this one, a nodel biplane

two of the others are a tank and a ship
The models were recreated from photographs during a restoration in 2015
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14 Nov 2019 18:56 #197 by airfields man
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Do you have photographs of the tank and ship ?
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15 Nov 2019 15:47 #198 by netcompsys
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Do you have photographs of the tank and ship ?


I dont but there is a picture here

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the models were made by Leander Architectural
www.leanderarchitectural.co.uk/products/sculptures/
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15 Nov 2019 20:14 #199 by airfields man
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The Aeroplane is definitely the better of the three.
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21 Dec 2019 12:37 - 21 Dec 2019 12:38 #200 by WILLIAMARNOLD
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This Plaque is on the wall of St Marys church In "the village "Kingswinford " and reminds us that Heroic action by services personell is ever present even in peace time.
Long ago and far away

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