This is my old home village, where SWMBO and I went yesterday to place flowers on my parents’ grave. The pub is used as the car park for visitors to the churchyard next door and the view of the Vale of Trent below, is from the second-highest elevation in Nottinghamshire. My parents’ graves are right at the bottom of the hill and we were almost literally blown over, the wind was screaming down the Vale. I had to kneel on a plastic bag and hold onto the flowers, I hope they stayed where I put them. My old dad would have been highly amused to see us struggling.
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Just outside the church gates, is an unusual, if not unique, pillar box. It has the name of Edward VIII – “E VIII R” – the abdicated king from 1937. By coincidence, my adopted town of Louth has a “V R” pillar box – Victoria.
We went on to an even higher place, South Wingfield in the Derbyshire peaks, to place flowers on her parents’ grave.
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This one is also at the bottom of a hill, but it dwarfs my old village hill. The wind was also screaming across the churchyard here and a plastic bag escaped us. The bag probably beat us back to Lincolnshire last night! When we finished there, we retired to my lovely SIL’s house up on the hilltop. for a great dinner of Shepherd’s Pie, followed by banana and ice cream. It was worth the trek.
Location: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/High+Rd,+South+Wingfield,+Alfreton+DE55+7LX/@53.097717,-1.4408403,721m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x48798dbe622ec595:0xbbf3148f8856fa!8m2!3d53.0973631!4d-1.438852
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