That's some seagull.I was reading a bit about the Sharknado films, where sharks are scooped up by tornados and deposited inland, when on the radio there came a news story about a shark dropped in someone's back garden (in the UK). They think a seagull dunnit.
That's some seagull.
That is still pretty big for a seagull to lift. They don't even have the talons to grip a fish. My money is on White-tailed Eagle.The shark was only two feet long. Still, must have been a determined bird.
Unbelievable but true. I bought a second-hand book in Rathmines, Dublin, in 1982. There was an old-looking negative.... I was in a camera club, so I brought it in and developed it. It was a photo of me at three years old outside my first home, the number on the door visible. Showed it to my mother and she was amazed as she had never seen the photo....
I still have the book, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. I often wondered if it had been my godmother’s book. She originally lived two doors up and was an avid reader. There’s no name or inscription on the book, but it’s an explanation and she always gave her old books to charity. Although it was 15 years after the photo was taken, Dublin was smaller then. Still a bit weird but nice. —Anna McManus, Ireland
My money is on White-tailed Eagle.
That is still pretty big for a seagull to lift. They don't even have the talons to grip a fish. My money is on White-tailed Eagle.
To be honest, some of the seagulls around here could probably carry off a Labrador in their beaks.
If they are bigger than Aberdonian seagulls, that it pretty terrifying.
I don't know if this has been mentioned before - no time to go through 79 pages! Two murders 150 years apart with many commonalities.
https://www.historicmysteries.com/mary-ashford-barbara-forrest/
And therefore I must ask- do you have an alibi for both dates in question?The location of the murders is only around 3 miles from where I live.
Pretty sure I'm in the clear for the 1817 case. As for the 1974 death (not 1975, as that article suggests), I might have to ask my mother if she's still got her 1974 diary to see what I was doing that half-term holiday... mind you, I'd've been 5 at the time, so "sound asleep" is my alibi!And therefore I must ask- do you have an alibi for both dates in question?
It's not an earth-shattering coincidence, but perhaps a slightly surprising one. I was searching eBay for old photographs and a press image of a boy intently playing chess in the 1930s turned up. Out of idle curiosity I clicked on the listing and the 'blurb' on the back of the picture gave his name as A. J. Fishwick and then the name of my old school. The combination of initials and name immediately rang a bell and set me off playing with the various possible pronunciations of his surname (it is just Fish-wick, is it?) and I got a real sensation of déjà vu while doing so. A lot of Googling turned up the reason: this name appears on a war memorial plaque--in my old school library! I must have gazed up at it for hours when I was younger and probably puzzled over his surname just as I had recently done once more. The plaque bears seventy names, but this one stuck. Further googling and help from some knowledgable people reveal that he was killed (presumed drowned) aged just nineteen as an apprentice on the merchant navy vessel S.S. Goolistan, when it was torpedoed by a U-boat in 1942. Further genealogy work turned up that he and his family lived on the same road as I used to live on (years later).His parents must have had a pretty miserable time because Hilda, one of Arthur's two sisters, had already died (aged just 8 or 9) in 1935.
On November 23rd, 1942, the British cargo ship GOOLISTAN, built in 1929 by Short Brothers and owned by Common Bros., on voyage from Archangel to Loch Ewe with a cargo of timber and cellulose, was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-625, between Bear Island and Spitzbergen. The crew, abandoning the burning GOOLISTAN, went for the boats, but 52 people (42 crew and 10 gunners) lost their lives.
Arthur is also commemorated on the Tower Hill monument in London (see below).
Rest in peace, Arthur John Fishwick.
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Why was there a war memorial plaque in your old school library? I remember it was a posh school. Are the war dead former pupils?
Not very posh, but it was founded in the sixteenth century and had a cadet branch for the forces
Oh, so not very posh then.
Oh, so not very posh then.
What's the distinction in If... ?
We were Inkies, not Toffs.
Pupils and (younger) masters.
Not very posh, but it was founded in the sixteenth century and had a cadet branch for the forces (later dubbed the CCF), so a lot of old boys signed up and gave their lives in the two wars.
Britain's oldest men (110 tomorrow) were both born on 29th March 1908--the same day.