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Old 14-05-2008, 07:03 PM
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Our long distant footpaths,part 1:

Home - Pennine Way - National Trails

Mind,I have only done three miles of this:Tan Hill to Keld.

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Home - Cleveland Way - National Trails

I have done most of this,but not together.

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The West Highland Way, Milngavie, Fort William, Walking in Scotland

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Mark The Bee....couldn't agree more.

I've walked the Pennine Way in it's entirety. Alone.

An amazing experience.

I've also walked the West Highland Way, The Ridgeway, Dales Way and (twice) the Coast to Coast.
All great. All the epitome of Great Britainosity.
But the PW is really something special. Especially in the company of Alfred Wainwrights beautiful guidebook.


Blah Blah

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Old 15-05-2008, 06:58 AM
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Our History- may not be PC any more- but I'm proud nonetheless!!
Our Armed Forces.
Our warm Real Ale..
Oatcakes.....
People like Sir Bobby Charlton.
Toodle Pip, old chap!
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Old 15-05-2008, 07:00 AM
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A memorial to just one of them in Stockwell


It was started as a project in a local school and the children had all drawn various paintings showing the history and cultural diversity of the area. As you go round the other side you can see various other things such as the Empire Windrush that brought the first wave of Carribean immigrants who came to help us after the war. There are big red London buses (there's a bus garage just down the road) and many other things. These were then "tidied up" by local artists and put into a design for the mural that we see before us today.

The big piece about Violette Szabo was included because she lived just a few hundred yards from this spot which is just a short way up the road from Stockwell tube station

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An interesting and very colourful memorial Steve!..........there's similar murals in all the subways under the Elephant & Castle roundabout, I was a bit self-concious to take pics with people milling around but I wish I had now!
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Our History- may not be PC any more- but I'm proud nonetheless!!
There's History and there's History...it depends on points of view. In the words of the immortal Bard (Of Barking) 'Yours is the Land of Hope and Glory, Mine is the Green Fields and the Factory Floor....'...but we're both still patriotic...
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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Mark The Bee....couldn't agree more.

I've walked the Pennine Way in it's entirety. Alone.

An amazing experience.

I've also walked the West Highland Way, The Ridgeway, Dales Way and (twice) the Coast to Coast.
All great. All the epitome of Great Britainosity.
But the PW is really something special. Especially in the company of Alfred Wainwrights beautiful guidebook.


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I've only done the C2C - but three times though. I would love to have a go at the Pennine Way,the WHW and the Cleveland Way. This one I might try when I retire:
The Official Guide to the South West Coast Path
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Creating Landmarks All Over The World (Cleveland Bridge):

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Of course,which is modelled on the great Tyne Bridge.
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