Tuesday 10 May 2011

North America



No, I haven't gone mad. This really is North America. Very close by, is Quebec!

Once farms, both North America and Quebec were abandoned when the Langsett Reservoir was constructed. Then, in the second world war, troops stationed in the area used the buildings as target practice, preparing for the 1944 D-Day landings.

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They missed a bit!

6 comments:

  1. Neat Post. How come farms in Derbyshire were called these names??

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  2. Apparently, back in the days of the Empire, it was a bit of a custom to name places after far flung corners of the known world; even in Yorkshire! There was also a Botany Bay.

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  3. That's interesting! I know of a village called Rhodesia in north Nottinghamshire, a Pennsylvania in Gloucestershire and one called New York in Lincolnshire - I expect there are a lot more around the country:)

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  4. Lucky its not Itlay or all the stones woud have vanished to private buildings

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  5. Perhaps it was the War against the French in Canada and the American War of Independence they were practicing for.

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  6. I'm a history buff, loved this! There's something regally quiet about that first shot. As if the stones wanted words to tell their story.

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