Creative Midlands Heritage

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Nelson Cement Works Stockton 1872-1945

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 12:47 PM PDT

With all the sunny weather this week I decided to break out the camera and have my 1st explore of 2012. A few miles outside of Coventry is Stockton which was well known for its blue lyas clay which was used in cement production. In the woods just outside of the villiageis the former Nelson cement works in which closed in 1945. All the machinery was broken up and dumped in the largest quarry but there is still evidence of industry slowly being taken over by nature. The best items being the huge air raid shelter and the water tower bearing the legend "Nelson Cock Brand Cement"


























Unknown statue/ memorial? Kingswinford

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 01:36 PM PST

Passed this loads of times and often wondered what it was... after stopping and taking some pics I still don't know!







:scratch:


answers on a postcard please...

William Ingram, Stone, Gloucestershire

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 08:12 PM PST

The grave of William Ingram (Game Keeper) Murdered allegedly by John Penny a poacher on the 19 January 1816 at Catgrove Wood, Hystfield, near Berkeley Gloucestershire as stated by the book called " The Poaching Affray of 1816

William Ingram was a game keeper for the Berkeley Estate which is the oldest family owned estate in the country. The Berkeley family have owned and are still living in the castle for over 850 years

I was born and bred near Catgrove Wood.

Grindon Moor Plane Crash, Staffordshire

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 02:11 PM PST

Handley Page Halifax A. Mk.9 RT922 / F of 47sqn, crashed on Grindon Moor whilst attempting to drop supplies to the villages of Butterton and Grindon on the 13th February 1947.
Sadly, they all were killed and are buried in all parts of the country

The names have been recognised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and additional information is by kind permission of the said body.

Donald (Don) McIntyre, Squadron Leader Pilot 33269 . Son of Comdr. Lionel McIntyre, R.N., and Margaret McIntyre; husband of Rhona McIntyre, of Silverton, Devon. Buried in Buxton Cemetery, Derbyshire

Ernest Smith Flight Lieutenant Navigator 164809, buried in Buxton Cemetery, Derbyshire

Gordon Victor Chapman Warrant Officer 1803110 Royal Air Force Bomb Aimer killed aged 24. Son of Bertie and Hilda Chapman: husband of Marjorie Anne Chapman of Dagenham. Buried at Rippleside Cemetery, Barking, Essex

Richard Sydney Kearns Warrant Officer Flight Engineer 3030875 killed aged 22. Son of R. B. Kearns and Georgette Kearns, of Kingsbury, Middlesex. Buried in Botley Cemetery, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Kenneth Charles Pettit Flight Sergeant Wireless Operator 1876996 killed aged 21. Son of Percival Charles and Alice Mabel Pettit, of Thorpe, Norwich. Buried in North Walsham New Cemetery, Norfolk

William Thomas Sherry Sergeant 2078110 Glider Pilot Regiment Army Air Corps Passenger, killed aged 24. Son of William and Elizebeth Sherry, of Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. Buried in Burslem Cemetery, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire

David William Savill N/A Press Photographer Killed

Joseph John Reardon N/A Press Photographer Killed


Donald (Don) McIntyre, Squadron Leader Pilot at rest in Buxton Cemetery, Derbyshire

Ernest Smith Flight Lieutenant Navigator 164809, buried in Buxton Cemetery, Derbyshire

Sgt William Frederick Kite (M.M.) Carmountside

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 09:04 AM PST

Sergeant 4858212, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment
Born 5th January 1921 and died 25th June 1993 age of 72.
He has the unique distinction of being the only member of the British Army to receive the Military Medal three times in the Second World War.
Buried in Carmountside Cemetery and Crematorium, Leek Road, Milton
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire

He is also commemorated on a memorial in a flower bed in the Queen's Garden, Ironmarket, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
Green Flash - Buck Kite MM

http://www.greenflash.org.uk/assets/PDF/kite.pdf

Fred Kite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mark Hibbert Philips, Checkley, Staffordshire

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 01:53 PM PST

2nd Lieutenant, 4th attached to 1st South Staffordshire Regiment killed in action 4th October 1917 aged 31. Son of William Morton Philips, of Heybridge, Tean, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs; husband of Eileen Mary Philips, of Downs, Haywards Heath, Sussex.

Commemorated on a memorial and his Battlefield Cross in St Mary and All Saints church, Checkley, Staffordshire.He is buried at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
His Battlefield Cross

Sir Ralph Sherwin, Rodsley, Derbyshire

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 09:38 AM PST

This plaque is attached to a farm building at the cross roads of Rodsley Lane and Shirley Lane, Rodsley, Derbyshire. Ralph Sherwin became an English Martyr in 1581.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....win/Ralph.html



View of the building on which the plaque is attached

Reginald J. Mitchell, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:04 AM PST

Originally donated by the family of Reginal Mitchell, Spitfire designer, to the Mitchell High School in Stoke on Trent in honour of the school being named after him. A new home was required for the plaque, several 'old boys' memorial boards and an old propeller as the school is to be taken over by an academy.

The plaque and the propeller (which turned out to be from a Sopwith Camel and not a prototype Spitfire one as first thought) are now on display in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery's Spitfire gallery.








See also:http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/ge...propeller.html
Posted by Creative Midlands at 3/31/2012 12:10:00 pm
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