Oh dear, apologies are due again! There was no post last week as I was on half-term break in sunny (yes, it really was!) Wales!
Every time I go away I am always so surprised by all the things I see that remind me of home, everything from bells, to slate, to lime kilns, canals, and many, many other things! Here's a few of the things that caught my eye on this break: there really were loads more too!
In Brecon it was lovely to see Welsh slate in use, as gravestones, laid out on the floor of the cathedral, and as roofing tiles. Welsh slate is quite different from our local Swithland slate: it splits more cleanly and thinly, so the gravestones (those that were standing in the graveyards) had smooth backs and the roof tiles were not as chunky as Swithland ones. We also saw slate at Conwy and Clatter.
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| Slate flooring |
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| Slate gravestones at Clatter |
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| Slate at the Welsh slate mnes |
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| Slate roof at Conwy |
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| Slate roof at Conwy |
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| Slate roof at Conwy |
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| A Swithland slate roof |
There was evidence of there once having been a railway in Brecon: an inscribed stone on one of the former railway bridges. Loughborough's Great Central Railway is still steaming ahead, but the only remaining evidence of the former Charnwood Forest Railway has recently been demolished.
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| Evidence of a railway at Brecon |
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| The Great Central Station |
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| The site of the former Charnwood Forest Railway |
The canal at Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, affectionately known as the Mon and Brec, is about 36 miles long and terminates in Brecon. Along its length are the usual bridges and locks that so remind me of our Grand Union. As far as I know though we haven't got an aquaduct: the one at Brecon is good enough to rival the one at Ponty-whatsit!!
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| A bridge on the canal at Brecon |
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| A lock on the canal at Brecon |
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| An information board at Brecon |
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| The Grand Union canal |
What we haven't got alongside our canal, however, are lime kilns, but having seen the ones at the Moira Furnace running alongside the Grand Union, or like the ones in the grounds of Calke Abbey.
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| The run of lime kilns at Brecon |
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| The inside of one of Brecon's lime kilns |
The Museum of the Welsh Borderers in Brecon reminded me of our Carillon Tower and War Memorial Museum, especially since there was a picture of a German airship.
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| Uniforms at the South Wales Borderers Museum in Brecon |
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| A picture of a German airship in the South Wales Borderers Museum in Brecon |
In Brecon town centre there was a clock which reminded me of the one on our town hall.
And some mosaics which reminded me of those in Town Hall Passage
Milestones are a particular favourite of mine: sometimes they're easy to find, other times less so!
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| Milestone on the road to Brecon |
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| Milestone on Leicester Road, Loughborough |
And, of course, there were pubs that reminded me of Loughborough too: our Griffin is on Ashby Square, our Clarence has been converted into flats and our Royal George has been demolished, and is to be replaced by flats.
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| The Griffin in Brecon |
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| The Clarence in Brecon |
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| The George in Brecon |
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| The demolition of the Royal George in Loughborough |
I'm sure you'll know that I could go on along these lines for a very long time, after all, this post just covers connections to Brecon, but we also went to Monmouth, Llandudno, Conwy, Bronllys, and Bodelwyddan - all of which had things that reminded me of home!
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