Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 8 December 2024
Bathford is a village a few miles north of Bradford-on-Avon, where we stayed during our trip to Bath, Wells etc.
We stopped for a look around on pur way back north.
In the grounds of St Swithun’s Church I found its War Memorial, a cross surmounting a pillar on a square base with gabled edges:-

Dedications to both wars:-

Other names for both wars:-


Great War names:-

In the churchyard there was one war grave of Second Lieutenant E C Guillebauld, Worcestershire Regiment, 3/6/1915, aged 32:-

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Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 23:04 on 13 October 2024
Bradford-on-Avon‘s War Memorial is an obelisk standing on a square base with urns at the base’s quarters. It occupies a small green space near the bridge over the Avon at the town’s centre:-

Great War dedication and names Adams-Curtis;-

Great War names, Dagger – White:-

Unveiling dedication:-

World War 2 dedication and names:-

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Posted in Architecture, Bridges, Trips at 12:00 on 10 October 2024
Bridge over the River Avon at Bradford-on-Avon:-

The peculiarly shaped building to the left was once the town’s lockup, where prisoners were kept overnight (presumably till they sobered up.)
Bridge, reverse view:-

Reflections:-

Rivert Avon:-

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Posted in Architecture, Trips at 12:00 on 9 October 2024
Bradford-on-Avon is a town in Wiltshire. It had been recommended to us by our daughter-in-law as being worth seeing so we booked three nights there. It has some fairly old buildings like the one on the left below:-

Just to the left of the above is The Bridge Tea Rooms:-

These are quaint inside:-


Another street view:-

The Catholic Church was once the Town Hall:-

The Swan Hotel:-

There is a particularly steep hill down into the town which is quite hilly overall as you can see from the houses in the background here:-

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