Whilst taking a scenic walk through the Lymington marshes today, I passed the curious memorial pictured above. The monument is dedicated to Sir Admiral Harry Neale, a once-famous naval officer who served as Lymington’s member of parliament for a whopping 25 years, and celebrates his role in bringing gas lighting to the town by means …
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The Canadian Memorial
Whilst walking through the forest near Bolderwood Deer Sanctuary, not far from the Portuguese Fireplace I visited last week, I stumbled upon a striking memorial (pictured above) to the Canadian soldiers who were stationed in the surrounding area in the lead up to the D-Day landings. The cross marks the location at which soldiers would …
Hythe’s Pier Railway
As with yesterday’s adventure, today saw me visiting another intriguing landmark featured on the wonderful Atlas Obscura; along the pier pictured above, located in the small town of Hythe, runs the world’s ‘oldest operational public pier railway’. Once again, I’ll leave you with the words of Atlas Obscura to explain its history: Once driven by …
Portuguese Fireplace
In the heart of The New Forest, at the side of a forty-mile-per-hour road, lies a fireplace (pictured above). I found out about this peculiar memorial through the brilliant Atlas Obscura, a website that documents the ‘hidden wonders’ of the world (and which I highly recommend visiting to discover all manner of interesting things, wherever …
The Mayflower Memorial
Just a few short steps away from Southampton’s central shopping and leisure hubs lies a towering memorial (pictured above) to a remarkable, yet somewhat uncelebrated, moment in the city’s history. On 15 August 1620, it was from the port of Southampton that the Mayflower, the ship that famously transported the first Pilgrims to that area …
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