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All these were taken in Aug 08 in and around Sutton Windmill Norfolk there is a great Museum which showa old packaging goods from over a 100 years to the presant day
Shot in Sutton park at wyndley gate. I was attempting to use some unusual angles and DOF via 500px bit.ly/19TR5pC
All these were taken in Aug 08 in and around Sutton Windmill Norfolk there is a great Museum which showa old packaging goods from over a 100 years to the presant day
Ramada Hotel, Sutton Coldfield played host to the Sutton Coldfield Chamber of Commerce business event today 'The Royal Business Fair'.
Pictured: Sally McMahon (Skylark Training) & Julie Gray (Moor Hal Hotel & Spa).
Landscape
Sutton Hoo is the site of two early medieval cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been excavating the area since 1938. One cemetery had an undisturbed ship burial with a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts. Most of these objects are now held by the British Museum. Scholars believe Rædwald of East Anglia is the most likely person to have been buried in the ship. The site is important in establishing the history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia as well as illuminating the early Anglo-Saxon period which lacked historical documentation.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Beckenham, Kent using a 1d. stamp on Monday the 27th. February 1933, It was sent to:
Mrs. Elliott,
St. Margarets,
Carshalton Road,
Sutton,
Surrey.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Beckenham
27. 2. 33.
With love & best wishes
from all at 'Heathfield.'
We hope you are feeling
better.
Please excuse blot, it
was the fault of my
fountain pen!
Marjorie."
There was indeed a half-centimetre blot just before the first word of the message ('With').
Monday, Monday
Monday would seem to be the most popular day for posting postcards. An analysis of the posting days for cards on this photostream reveals the following:
Moday 1,701
Tuesday 1,208
Wednesday 1,227
Thursday 1,081
Friday 1,227
Saturday 1,285
Sunday 1,271
Major Fire Damage to the Reichstag
So what else happened on the day that Marjorie posted the card?
Well, on the 27th. February 1933, six days before the 5th. March national parliamentary elections, the Reichstag building in Berlin was set on fire and heavily damaged.
The blaze was discovered at 9:15 pm, and the first responders found more than 60 small fires that had been set throughout the building, with the largest in the chamber where the legislators met.
Marinus Van der Lubbe, a 25-year-old Dutchman with a Communist background, was arrested at the scene and made a confession after being questioned by his Nazi captors.
A former bodyguard for Sturmabteilung (SA) founder Ernst Röhm, alleged later that the Berlin SA leader, Karl Ernst, had led a group of his troopers into the building through a connecting passage, brought in incendiaries, and then waited for Van der Lubbe to arrive.
Historian William Shirer wrote in 1960:
"The whole truth about the Reichstag fire
will probably never be known. Nearly all
those who knew it are now dead, most of
them slain by Hitler in the months that
followed."
Van der Lubbe was executed on the 10th. January 1934. The fire was the pretext for the emergency orders the next day granting Hitler the power to rule by decree.
Walter Hiers
The day also marked the death at the age of 39 of the American silent film actor Walter Hiers.
Walter Hiers, who was born in Cordele, Georgia on the 18th. July 1893 had a two decade-long acting career spanning from 1912 to 1932.
Walter began his film career with the Biograph Company under the direction of D. W. Griffith.
Hiers was a particularly prolific actor who acted in 101 films.
He starred in over 10 films a year.
In 1923, he weighed in at 235 lbs.
Walter died in Los Angeles from pneumonia on the 27th. February 1933. He was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.