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I feel I owe an explanation for this shot, George is currently the subject of a showcase thread in a group called Fur & Feathers with Attitude. It is basically the story of George's life although I am adding in as much infomation as I can about greyhounds in general and rehoming them.
The thread will run for one month only (October), so if you have ever wondered about greyhounds and rehoming feel free to ask and I will do my best to come up with an answer!
Photograph from the Belper News, 21st July 1916
Brown, George, Air Mechanic 1st Class, 78600, 22nd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps,
Died of wounds 21st August 1917 aged 21
Son of Edwin & Elizabeth Brown, of 5 Short Street, Belper
Buried in Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave Reference: III B 12
Previously: 6461, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
George enlisted in July 1915 and served with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps until he was wounded at Ypres. He returned to England and spent 8 weeks at the Wharncliffe Hospital in Sheffield. On returning to France he was transferred to the 22nd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and suffered bullet wounds to the head on 19th August 1917 when the Bristol F2b aeroplane he was travelling in was shot up.
1911 Census
George Brown
Born Belper, Derbyshire
A coal miner ganger
Son of Elizabeth Brown, a dairy farmer, of Bullsmoor Farm, Nottingham Road, Belper, Derbyshire
www.wharncliffewarhospital.co.uk/Patients/B/Brown_G.html
Image © Johnston Press plc. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
The George Inn, The Mall, Faversham, Kent, 1 March 2025. Early 18th Century, refronted mid/late 19th Century. Note Rigden's Ales sign, a rare survivor. Grade II listed.
Edward Rigden founded the brewery at Faversham in the early 18th Century. Rigden's merged wiyh the appropriatey named George Beer & Co. of Canterbury in 1922 to become George Beer and Rigden, all production then being concentrated in Faversham.
The company was taken over by Fremlins Brewery of Maidstone in 1948 and brewing at Faversham stopped in 1954 - only to restart in 1961! A rare occurance.
In 1968 the Whitbread Brewery took over Fremlins and closed the Maidstone Brewery in 1972. The Faversham Brewery, by then known the Whitbread Fremlins Brewery, survived until closure in 1990.
26/05/2023 O procurador-geral de Justiça do DF e Territórios, Georges Seigneur, durante a solenidade de imposição da Ordem do Mérito Ministério Público do Distrito Federal e Territórios. FOTOS ALEXANDRE MACHADO/MPDFT.
Looking down in to a gun placement.
For my thoughts on Georges Island go here.
Here's a link to a Google maps view of the island.
www.bostonislands.org/ is the website if you want to go to the island.
The kind owner of the burger stall who let us take shelter under his umbrella during a particularly raining part of the day.
George here is a distant relative of Albert the fly from New Zealand. Pommedan has a great photo using what he called the 'poor mans macro' - using adaptor rings to reverse a 50 mm lense. Of course I had to try it. So here is George from the U.S. Had a heck of a time with lighting and had to use a pen light. Didn't realize how hairy these things are until now. (Kind of creepy). It was fun and inexpensive. Pommedan's latest fly Peter (also of New Zealand) is not too bad either!
So far, out of all the cats I have ever had fixed, George is the only one who had to wear a cone. He just wouldn't stop licking his surgery site. He only had to wear it for about a day though.
The kids have gone completely football/rugby mad this week and we've been at the park every night after school. It does make for good, natural photos though. Consequebtly, even after weeding out the chaff, I've ended up with over 1500 photos of them...
george was this guy who was considered really rich up in the northwest territories. he had 7 or 8 houses like this with yards full of stuff all in a row. and something happened where he left town and so all the kids just trashed the place, and played paintball in the houses. well ol' george comes back to visit every once and while, and because he has so much stuff, for anyone to take, your supposed to pay him for whatever you took when he comes into town. but no one ever really does.