9th May 1904 City of Truro does the ton, probably the first locomotive to do so. Designed under George Churchward Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GWR. 100mph was achieved descending Wellington Bank on an Ocean Mail Special from Plymouth to Paddington.
Then and in preservation:

Victor Sforza Mark Hayes Pirate Irwin RefiC Revd Nicholas Pye Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Giles MacDonogh Margaret #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 Derick Norton 2024WonderWomanOnTarget GMan (Ґленн) ☘️🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸🇵🇱🇮🇱🍊🌻 Malcolm C Godfrey The Skibbereen Eagle - Орел Скібберін Will Talcott FDR quotes about Stalin.
I'm a fan of FDR (new deal, social security, attempt at universal healthcar, lend-lease, kept UK going 39+, his Pearl Harbor speech, war leader) but not in this respect.

RefiC Revd Nicholas Pye Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Giles MacDonogh Pirate Irwin Margaret #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 Derick Norton 2024WonderWomanOnTarget GMan (Ґленн) ☘️🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸🇵🇱🇮🇱🍊🌻 Malcolm C Godfrey The Skibbereen Eagle - Орел Скібберін Will Talcott President Truman & encyclopedia.com/politics/news-… ER penned an interesting letter to HST in response to a letter he sent to her. Interesting correspondence by 2 fascinating persons.

Ike was always a man of very few words.

Mark Hayes Film here: youtube.com/watch?v=niR9qJ…

VE Day 8th May 1945.
Churchill lost in the crowd in Whitehall and part of his speech to them.

Mark Hayes Giles MacDonogh Revd Nicholas Pye Antoine Vanner Malcolm C Godfrey Pirate Irwin 2024WonderWomanOnTarget Derick Norton Margaret #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Will Talcott GMan (Ґленн) ☘️🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸🇵🇱🇮🇱🍊🌻 Mark Hayes Pirate Irwin the Germans as u know posted a warning to the Cunard line & its vessels crossing the Atlantic into 'the war zone '. This not only included LUSITANIA but many of CUNARDs ships.

Giles MacDonogh Mark Hayes Revd Nicholas Pye Antoine Vanner Malcolm C Godfrey Pirate Irwin 2024WonderWomanOnTarget Derick Norton Margaret #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Will Talcott GMan (Ґленн) ☘️🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸🇵🇱🇮🇱🍊🌻 Seems like the 'Four Pests Campaign' in China in the 1950s which resulted in a severe ecological imbalance and a consequent famine: theguardian.com/world/the-h-wo…

Mark Hayes A film of a Mark VIII Liberty Tank made by the North British Locomotive Company using parts from America and Britain. They were finished too late to go into action.
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Tanks!
The Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Co, in Birmingham.

Edward VII died on 6th May 1910 to be succeeded by his surviving son as George V. A few days later Queen Alexandra wrote a letter to the Nation that was produced as a postcard.

Consigned to the dustbin of history.

Medallion struck to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V in 1935.

6th May 1935. Silver Jubilee of George V.
Reception at the door of St Paul's Cathedral painted by Frank Salisbury.

🧵1/2 William Bell Scott was a Scottish artist &poet who lived in this house on St Thomas’ Crescent. Born in Edinburgh in 1811 he became a renowned Pre-Raphelite painter, with some of his most known pieces being hung at Wallington Hall.He worked at Newcastle School of Art 1843-64

Leader of the Republic of China and Methodist, Chiang Kai-shek, reading a Bible in the 1940s

British Lanchester 6x4 armoured cars camouflaged as elephants, 1941.

Giles MacDonogh YouTube Nick Short 🇺🇦 Guy Walters 🇺🇦 Michael Keegan🇺🇦 Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Charles Spicer JL🇫🇷⚓️ Victor Sforza If you have not seen this then I highly recommend you do it left a more lasting impression than Zone of Interest en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wanns… Guy Walters 🇺🇦 Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Michael Keegan🇺🇦 Nick Short 🇺🇦 Mark Hayes Charles Spicer JL🇫🇷⚓️ and Baron V of course! Paul Beaver @ Beaver Westminster

Wahooo! I've submitted the manuscript of my new book on 20th century #seasidearchitecture ! Out this time next year, published by Batsford Books with lots of lovely postcards for illustrations.

This is one of the many exhibitions I wish I'd seen. Fantastic buildings plus Billy Butlin ran the amusement park there