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Tick Tock It's Herne Bay Clock When we think of the seaside towns dotted along our beautiful coastline images of grand hotels fronting a sandy beach, flashy amusement arcades with a multitude of vibrant lights beaming into the night, piers packed with tourists taking a short stroll over the waves and the distinctive smell of fish and chips filling the air come to mind but what many will miss is the usually charming, decorative and often centrally, located clock tower informing us that there are many hours of fun to come, that it's time for a rest or indeed that the hour has arrived when we should think of heading home. These handy timekeepers can be found in a long list of our seaside destinations including Margate, Morecambe, Skegness and Weymouth, many erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's jubilee, the Kent town of Herne Bay however has the granddaddy of them all and it is this clock tower that this post is all about. It's Time For Some Perfect Skies In Herne Bay Bu

St John's Church What A Classic St John's Church in Wolverhampton is a Grade II Listed church built between 1758-1766. Due to the Industrial Revolution around 1760, Wolverhampton's population had started to grow rapidly and with an increasing Church Of England congregation in the area a new place of worship was required to ease the pressure on St Peter's Church which had become the focal point of the parish, this as well as the already expanding following of other religions across the town ( Wolverhampton became a city in 2000) and the local countryside meant that the Church Of England needed a new place of prayer to attract this widening, religious audience and so a chapel was constructed, it is this chapel that became St John's Church, such was the population growth that St John's was unable to sustain the congregation and a further two churches were built, St Paul's and St George's, St. Paul's was unfortunately demolished in 1960 to make way for a

Mom, mother, mommy what ever you call her, I hope we can all say ours is special, the love and care they give us as a child, the guidance and protection they offer as we grow up and to lose this special person is a terrible blow. I write this on the day before my mom's funeral, it keeps me busy and pleases me to know that people might read this and they too will feel the love she shared. Smiling Teenage Mom My mom, Doris Evelyn Powell died on the 18th December 2022 at the age of 71, not a grand age by any means, I will eternally miss her and perhaps writing this is helping me with my grief. Evelyn as she liked to be called didn't want to buried, didn't even want a plaque, mom as with my nan wanted us to remember her in whatever way we wanted to, after my nan, Doris (again) gained her wings, my mom bought flowers on the anniversary of her passing, something I intend to do from now on. I didn't want mom to pass without being remembered and so this 'post' will in s