Colin J. Anderson

Tag: history

USA Day 9 part 1: Minnehaha Park – and off to Minneapolis/St.Paul airport – which has an excellent bar!
Post-war OS maps released showing Newton Abbot in detail in 1956
Merrivale: A 5,000 year-old Dartmoor settlement with stone rows, cists, cairns and a solitary menhir
Newton Abbot timeline: neolithic to 2009
Newton Abbot: How did Newfoundland Way get its name? And whatever became of The Sun Inn? East Street in 1888
Newton Abbot: in 1967 work started on building Chichester Estate with street names dedicated to famous Devon seafarers – but nobody calls it ‘Chichester’ anymore
Sherman Tank: at the bottom of the sea for 40 years
Why did I have in my possession a parish magazine from 1958? Mystery revealed!
Scotland Day 7: Castletown to Portree: a 5-hour drive across the Highlands – stopping at the Midge Bite of course!
A light dusting of snow brought back memories of the Big Freeze of 1963 – and how my fear of ice got started.
Bus Station Demolition. Why don’t we rebuild it?