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Nov 252011
Next year – 2012 – Olympics, Paralympics, HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the best OVERLORD Show ever and now this! Continue reading »
Nov 022011
Oct 282011
Oct 232011
Mark Rutley is one of our “preferred photographers” for 2012, this montage appeared in the November issue of Digital Photo magazine Continue reading »
Oct 232011
The two medals stolen from the D-Day museum have been posted through the letter-box of the Portsmouth council leader who commented: “It’s great that either someone decided they’d done the wrong thing and wanted to put the situation right, or that somebody found them and decided to do the right thing.”
The medals were on loan to the museum from separate sources; it is not yet know whether they will go back on public display.
For more on this story check http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15396782
Oct 062011
Two medals have been stolen from the D-Day Museum – the first George Medal to be awarded to a Portsmouth man (example pictured left) and a souvenir medal from the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The full story can be read by clicking this link
Another sad and disturbing case of gain for one person at the expense of loss to us all
Sep 242011
When I go to the SOE Vehicle Compound on Thorney I sometimes see visitors. Quite often Captain Evans will be there, last night I met Mark the gamekeeper (and aren’t those cocky pheasants strutting around in for a surprise shortly!) and from time to time one of the guys on guard duty.
Today however …
Aug 282011
courtesy of comedy_nose at flickr.com
When the vehicle excise duty concession for historic vehicles was introduced it was on a “rolling” basis but, after a few years the cut off date for qualification was set at 31st December 1972. There is now an online petition requesting a change back to the rolling system and that vehicles over 30 years old be exempted from VED. Continue reading »
Jul 272011
I was playing with Google and “Solent Overlord” and came across a photoset by Mark Rutley on flickr I asked if I could link to it and he kindly agreed, there was also one image of the man that makes OVERLORD such success that I particularly liked and that is reproduced here:
For more of Mark’s pictures click on the link or the picture above, Continue reading »
