Exploring Retford, Nottinghamshire, England - 20 August, 2019
Views around the Nottinghamshire town of Retford, including the streets, parks, buildings, architecture, monuments, transport and visitor attractions.
I've just added a new film to my Tourism: England: Nottinghamshire playlist, here: of views around the Nottinghamshire town of Retford, including the streets, parks, buildings, architecture, monuments, transport and visitor attractions.
Retford is a market town in Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England, 31 miles (50 km) from Nottingham, and 23 miles (37 km) west of Lincoln. To read more about Retford, click here: .
Within this film, the following locations and features are identified: Retford Railway Station, Station Road, Victoria Road, Albert Road, River Idle, Mill Bridge Close, Carolgate, Chesterfield Canal, Wharf Road, Market Square, Cenotaph war Memorial, Retford Town Hall, Bridgegate, Market Place, Sebastopol Cannon, Cannon Square, St. Swithun's Church, Churchgate, Arlington Way, Moorgate, Springfield Road, Wellington Street, Spital Hill, Chapelgate, Chapelgate Car Park, Dyers Court, Clarks of Retford, Grove Street, Grove Street Methodist Church, Bassetlaw Museum, The Dominie Cross, Beardsall's Row, Retford Bus Station, Spa Road, West Street, Kings Park, Pelham Road, Cobwell Road, Clumber Street and finally the view from a Northern Rail train as it leaves Retford towards Sheffield.
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Places to see in ( Retford - UK )
Places to see in ( Retford - UK )
Retford is a market town in Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England, 31 miles from Nottingham, and 23 miles west of Lincoln. Retford is in the valley of the River Idle and the Chesterfield Canal passes through the centre. The village of Ordsall, west of the River Idle and the East Coast Main Line railway, and the former hamlet of Thrumpton are suburbs. Retford is administered by Bassetlaw District Council in neighbouring Worksop and twinned with Pfungstadt, Germany.
In the Retford Market Square there is an ornate French-inspired Victorian Town Hall, in front of which is The Broad Stone. Legend says that this stone had a hollow in it that used to be filled with vinegar during plague times to disinfect coins. Also in Retford Market Square is the war memorial unveiled by Sir Frederick Milner in 1921.
Just across from the Market Square is Cannon Square which has St Swithun's Church and a cannon captured from the Russians during the Siege of Sevastopol at the end of the Crimean War in 1856.
Retford's Kings Park received national recognition in 2007 when it won the prestigious Britain's Best Park competition in the Midlands region. It also received the Green Flag Award in both 2008 and 2009. It is described as a 'jewel in the crown' by Bassetlaw council. St Michael the Archangel church, West Retford is on Rectory Road.
Retford is bypassed by the A1 trunk road and the A57 which links Retford to a number of major towns and cities, with London just over two hours away. The East Retford bypass was built in three stages mostly along what was previously the A57.
Retford is served by two railway lines, the East Coast Main Line which runs between London and Scotland, with trains taking from 1hr 20 minutes to London Kings Cross, and the Sheffield to Lincoln Line which has links to Sheffield, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Worksop, Grimsby and Cleethorpes. These two lines meet at Retford railway station which acts as an important interchange in the British rail network.
Retford is connected to the UK Inland Waterways network by the Chesterfield Canal. Indeed, up to Retford the canal was built to be accessible by broad-beam boats rather than the more usual narrowboats, Retford Town Lock being the first narrow lock on the canal from its junction with the River Trent at West Stockwith.
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Brothers in Arms - The Retford Armed Forces Day, 18th June 2016
This video was played at the Retford Armed Forces Day Black Tie Dinner held at Retford Town Hall Ballroom on Saturday 18th June 2016.
Snowing in Retford Market Square
Video of it snowing in the Market Square in Retford, England. Retford is an historic market town. The video is taken from Ultimate One Computer Centre looking towards Retford Town Hall and the Retford War Memorial.
One Touch Of Nature Makes The Whole World One! (1932)
Full title missing - Issue sheet reads Chailey. One Touch of Nature makes the Whole World One! And whose heart will not be touched to see the little cripples of the Heritage Craft Schools making their own little gifts and speeches to their hero - the Prince of Wales.
Chailey, East Sussex.
Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor) stands on platform with others. Boys and girls (some of whom appear to be physically disabled) walk up the steps to the platform and present gifts which they have made to the Prince. One group of children gather around the Prince to measure him for a pair of handmade shoes.
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East oast 91111 For the Fallen departing Retford for Edinburgh. 1/11/14
Newly named East Coast Class 91 no 91111 is seen departing Retford working the 1330 1S19 London Kings Cross- Edinburgh. The locomotive has had comemerative vynals applied to its bodyside in honour of the fallen soldiers from world war one in a sense that tells a story.
Goodbye To Blighty (1914-1918)
Goodbye to Blighty.
Full titles read: LIVERPOOL, GOODBYE TO BLIGHTY - New Zealand soldier leave England with their wives.
L/Ss of soldier on deck of liner (presumably preparing to leave for home after the war). L/S of people waving from the quayside.
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British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
Class 91 liveries over the last few years or so
Class 91 liveries over the last few years or so
ThiepvalMemorial~The Battle Of #TheSomme~#WW1Poetry:~God! How I Hate You by Arthur Graeme West
The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between July 1st and November 18th 1916 on both sides of upper reaches of the River Somme in France. It was the largest battle of World War I on the Western Front; more than one million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history.
In the days leading up to the attack the Allies fired 1,627,824 shells at the German trenches, the greatest bombardment in history.
The first day on the Somme (July 1st) was also the worst day in the history of the British army, which had c. 57,470 casualties, mainly on the front between the Albert–Bapaume road and Gommecourt, where the attack was defeated and few British troops reached the German front line. The British troops on the Somme comprised a mixture of the remains of the pre-war regular army, the Territorial Force and the Kitchener Army, which was composed of Pals Battalions. A German General made the comment that they were Lions lead by Donkeys
At the Battle of The Somme the British were blooded, to their credit the Generals learned fro their mistakes. Afterwards, the British embarked on a top to bottom revolution. The big guns were trained to perform scientifically co-ordinated 'creeping barrages', behind which troops could advance to the very lip of the German trenches.
The platoon of 40 men, the basic unit of the Army, became a punchier thing. Out went the line advance in favour of platoon rushes under covering rifle and machine gun fire. Tanks were used for the first time in warfare at Flers-Courcellette. On the killing fields of the Somme the British Army went from a amateur army to a mass professional one.
German field officer Captain von Hentig called the Somme the muddy grave of the German field army
The Battle of the Somme has been called the beginning of modern all-arms warfare, during which Kitchener's Army learned to fight the mass-industrial war, which the continental armies had been engaged in for two years. This view sees the British contribution to the battle as part of a coalition war and part of a process, which took the strategic initiative from the German Army and caused it irreparable damage, leading to its collapse in late 1918.
Two years after the Somme the British Army achieved a string of military triumphs unmatched in their history. The victories in the final '100 Days' on the Western Front began with the sacrifice on the Somme.
From Thiepval War Memorial (video thumbnail) you can look up and down the old frontline. The view is heart-rending. There is a necklace of Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries. In the sunlight, the white portland headstones glare like broken promises.
In Winter , they jut like bones from the ground. Tens and tens of cemeteries create a map of the battle: the men were buried were they fell.
Arthur Graeme West was born in Norwich, England and grew up in London, the son of an evangelist and former missionary. West attended Blundell’s School where he first met C.E.M. Joad, a lifelong friend who had much to do with West’s posthumous reputation. Both young men won scholarships to Balliol College, Oxford. Joad was a pacifist and early objector to World War I. West enlisted in 1914 and, after being turned down initially for poor eyesight, eventually saw action in the trenches in France. Promoted for officer training, West endured the incompetence of senior army staff and, coupled with the horrors he had seen in France, gradually lost his belief in the war and religion both. West returned to active duty as Captain and was killed by a sniper near Bapaume.
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100 years on, Prince William pays tribute to lost Somme generation
THIEPVAL, France (AFP) - Prince William on Thursday paid tribute to a generation lost at the Battle of the Somme, 100 years after the deadliest battle in British history.“We lost the flower of a generation and in the years to come it sometimes seemed that with them a sense of vital optimism had disappeared for ever from British life,” William said at a ceremony in northern France.
“It was in many ways the saddest day in the long story of our nation,” he added, speaking on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the start of the World War I battle in which some 20,000 British soldiers died on the first day alone.
William, his wife Kate and brother Prince Harry attended the start of an all-night vigil at the Thiepval memorial to honour the 1.2 million troops of different nationalities who were killed, injured or listed as missing.
Soldiers from the UK, France, Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, New Zealand and Pakistan will take turns maintaining the vigil until 7:30 am (0530 GMT), the precise time that tens of thousands of troops clambered out of the trenches only to be mown down by German guns.
“Tonight we think of them... We acknowledge the failures of European governments, including our own, to prevent the catastrophe of world war,” the prince, also known as the Duke of Cambridge, said.
In addition to around 20,000 British fatalities on that first day, tens of thousands more were maimed or wounded.
“It’s quite emotional in a way. I feel it’s important to remember these things,” 73-year-old Irishman William Vernon said earlier as he arrived under rainy skies to attend the main commemoration ceremony on Friday.
Vernon said he was coming to remember his great-uncle -- also named William -- who died aged 26 in the battle. Like the 10,000 members of the public attending, he applied for his ticket online.
Vernon’s son, William, 33, said he felt it was important to pay tribute to his relative who died “in the most horrendous conditions. It was an absolutely awful war, a pointless war. To be in the trenches was absolute torture”, he said.
I do not want to die
Prince Harry read out a poem, while soldiers at the vigil read out letters from those who had fought in the battle.
“I do not want to die. The thought that I may never see you or our darling baby again turns my bowels to water,” wrote Captain Charles May of the Manchester Regiment, who did not make it through the first day, in a letter to his wife.
Britain’s Prince Charles will also attend the main ceremony at Thiepval on Friday, one of six in the Picardy region.
The Thiepval Memorial is the largest Commonwealth war memorial in the world, commemorating more than 72,000 missing servicemen.
British Prime Minister David Cameron -- mired in a battlefield of his own after Britain voted to leave the European Union -- will attend Friday’s ceremony alongside French President Francois Hollande.
“Beyond what is happening at a European level, the United Kingdom remains a friend with which France wants to keep a relationship,” a source close to the president told AFP.
Futility of war
The Battle of the Somme was launched on July 1 as Allied forces hoped to relieve the pressure on the French, who were racking up losses in Verdun, by attacking the Germans further north at the Somme.
However carnage ensued on both sides despite the frontline barely moving, in a battle that came to symbolise the horrors of trench warfare and the futility of the conflict.
“Imagine yourself, standing in a trench with water well over your knees... while thousands of unseen shells come shrieking and whining overhead. There is a very slight pause -- then it bursts and a tearing, rumbling blinding crash... hurling thousands of red-hot splinters in all directions, killing or maiming all they happen to strike,” wrote Private Albert Atkins, who survived the war.
A century on, the eerily calm, bucolic fields belie the slaughter wrought there, and are now the haunt of tourists visiting war cemeteries and overgrown trenches.
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Worksop Army Cadets B comp. Worksop poppy parade 2012 .
Abingdon's WW1 Heritage Weekend
100th Anniversary WW1 Year. Abingdon chose to commemorate it on its annual Heritage Weekend. There was a WW1 recruitment post where a sergeant was signing-up shockingly young children for the trenches, War Horses, Field Kitchen, Weapons Demonstration, Army Cadets dressed as 1914 street children. Morris Dancing, Loose Cannon, Punch & Judy, a Dressing Station, Suffragettes and much more. The nice weather brought out huge crowds.
I also include photos of actual Abingdon WW1 soldiers which were on display in the Community Shop less we forget that war is actually a tragedy. The King family had particularly heavy losses.
Abingdon was crowded the re-enactments were spot-on.
All in all a great success and a credit to Abingdon.
A good example for other towns on how to organise a WW1 Memorial Event.
Retford Charter Day 2008 Part 4
Scenes from Retford Charter Day, 5 May 2008. Featuring Harworth Drummers performing in King's Park.
Places to see in ( Gloucester - UK ) Jet Age Museum
Places to see in ( Gloucester - UK ) Jet Age Museum
The Jet Age Museum is the trading name of the Gloucestershire Aviation Collection, an all-volunteer, charitable organisation dedicated to the preservation of Gloucestershire's aviation heritage.
Jet Age Museum is located on the north side of Gloucestershire Airport, between Gloucester and Cheltenham. It houses a number of aircraft, aero engines, cockpits and other related exhibits. It is themed on the early development of Jet aircraft, in particular the role played by the Gloster Aircraft Company and other local firms such as Dowty Rotol and Smiths Industries. The museum of Jet Age Museum are also custodians of Russell Adams photographic archive.
Jet Age Museum first opened to the public at the Gloucester Trading Estate, the former Brockworth aerodrome. With the aid of grants and public donations, it began to amass a collection of aircraft. The museum's first significant public opening began with a temporary exhibition in a hangar adjacent to Gloucestershire Airport. This had to close in 2000 after it was announced the former wartime hangar was to be demolished. The aircraft were dispersed to a number of locations in Gloucestershire including, briefly, at the former GAC 'shadow' factory at Bentham. A workshop was established at Brockworth Court and the remaining airframes eventually made their way back to Gloucestershire Airport, where they remained in open storage.
Jet Age Museum made a number of unsuccessful bids to the Heritage Lottery Fund to construct a purpose-built facility before finally submitting plans for a building at Gloucestershire Airport. In January 2011 plans were approved for a new to house the museum's collection.
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Duxford's BBMF Day
The IWM held an event for the BBMF. Unfortunenatly I missed the mass flypast at the start, as I had only just arrived. Apart from that, I really enjoyed my walkaround the BBMF's fleet, along with Peter Vacher's MK I Hurri :D
Red Hart Blyth
Orbs & Feathered Orbs found during investigation in bedrooms
Robin van Persie slideshow
This video is made about Robin van Persie and his excellent form.
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The Meet A Creature company gives an animal handling workshop at Sutton-Cum-Lound School near Retford in Nottinghamshire. Teachers explain how the animal-handling workshop has helped pupils with their studies on senses and also about the rainforest.The workshop looked in particular at adaptation and habitats and was in line with the primary science curriculum.