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Posted: 11-09-2013 07:30 Post subject:

Falmouth four-year-old reunites wedding ring with owner
6:00am Wednesday 11th September 2013 in News

An eagle-eyed four-year-old from Falmouth has reunited a lost wedding ring with its owner thanks to his love of collecting unusual items.
Lennon Davies, from Pellew Road, is more used to finding interesting toys and games at car boot sales, but when he spotted something glinting in the grass at Land’s End he couldn’t resist investigating.
To his amazement Lennon, who had been enjoying a day out with his family, found a diamond encrusted, white gold wedding ring sitting in his palm.

Unfortunately, it took him a little longer to persuade dad Mark and mum Sarah to take a look.
Mark said: “He kept insisting on his mother and myself taking a look at this ring and we both believed at the time it was a toy of some kind. But he just kept on and on for about five days. He must have known it was important. “I found it in my pocket one night and it was then we realised it was a ring with diamonds in it.”

The next morning he contacted Land’s End and was amazed to find that, despite hundreds of tourists from across the country visiting that day, it actually belonged to a woman in Hayle. A delighted Zoe Smith collected the ring from the Davies family last Friday.
She said: “After a day or two I didn’t really expect anyone to hand it in. It was a bit of a shock a week later to get a message on my answer-phone. I was quite excited!
“It’s really nice they handed it in and I’m so grateful.”

Zoe had been at the attraction with children Tilly and Caitlyn, and had taken her ring off to apply sun cream to them. She then forgot she had placed it on the pushchair and walked off – and despite realising within minutes her mistake, she was unable to find it again.
“I thought, ‘My husband is going to kill me’. He was actually as good as gold and told me not to worry, but it was a horrible feeling to have lost it.”

As a thank you to Lennon – who last week started in the reception class at Penryn Infants – Zoe gave him a selection of games and pens, in gratitude. Very Happy

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/10665980.Falmouth_four_year_old_reunites_wedding_ring_with_owner/?ref=mr

Posted: 12-09-2013 08:09 Post subject:

Posted: 15-09-2013 20:32 Post subject:

Mansion in Harrogate Untouched for 25 years

It looks pleasingly bijou externally but the 40 bedroom pile of an Indian shipping magnate is more suburban rest-home inside.

You can almost sniff the mildew & urine. Sad

Posted: 15-09-2013 21:02 Post subject:

Be honest - it doesn't look that mildewy!
It's in remarkably good condition, considering it's been abandoned for so long.

Posted: 15-09-2013 21:45 Post subject:

Posted: 27-09-2013 17:10 Post subject:

Wedding ring lost in Mawnan cabbage patch found 40 years later
12:00pm Friday 27th September 2013 in News .

WHEN Brenda Caunter lost her wedding ring while lifting cabbages in a field near Mawnan Smith in 1972 she thought she’d never see it again.
But just over 40 years later an amateur metal detector scouring the same field came across her band of gold practically exactly where she’d lost it.

Brenda and her husband Dave, from Mawnan Smith, were married in September 1969 with Dave saving up to buy his wife the 9ct gold band wedding ring. Little did he know that less than three years later it would come off his wife’s finger and fall into the mud.

“Back then that ring cost me a fortune,” said Dave. “When Brenda told me she’d lost it we went back up there with our own metal detectors but they were not nearly as good as they are now and we didn’t find it. Eventually we had to buy a replacement.”

Dave and Brenda forgot about the ring, but when he saw the treasure hunter up in the field it brought the memories flooding back.
"I was going out in the village and saw him up in the field and when I saw his wife and the children I asked her: ‘What’s he up to in that field with that metal detector? Tell him if he finds a ring, it belongs to Brenda.’ “When I got back from the village I had a phone call telling me that her husband had found that ring. He had come home and told her he’d found a ring. She said ‘I know who that belongs to, you’d better ring Dave’. I couldn’t believe it after all these years.”

The finder of the ring, who wishes to remain anonymous, said: “I couldn’t believe it when my wife said she knew who the ring belonged to.
“It was in absolutely perfect condition, despite the number of years it had been there. I’m interested in history and I have often found mediaeval coins which are absolutely fascinating. That’s why I was up there.”

The couple took the nine carat ring to jewellers in Truro and despite the fact that the field had been ploughed up a number of times over the years, apart from an easily repairable crack, it cleaned up without a scratch.

Brenda told the Packet: “I was working in the field when I took my gloves off, and that’s probably when it came off. When we got the phone call to say it had been found I didn’t know what to say.”

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/10700638.Wedding_ring_lost_in_Mawnan_cabbage_patch_found_40_years_later/?ref=mr

Posted: 27-09-2013 17:23 Post subject:

Missing World War II plane found by divers and identified
Thursday, September 26, 2013 West Briton
By Craig Blackburn

DIVERS have discovered the wreckage of a Second World War bomber 69 years after it crashed into the sea off Falmouth.

They believe the Vickers Wellington Bomber was on an evening navigation exercise over Falmouth in October 1944 when the pilot lost control. The aircraft broke up on impact, scattering wreckage at the base of a reef 30 metres down.

A diver who discovered wreckage in the Eighties kept it a close secret, shrouding the story in mystery – until now.

Falmouth diver Ben Dunstan first heard about the plane seven years ago.
He said: "The skipper had heard of the whereabouts of an old Second World War aeroplane that had been reported by fishermen."

They could not find the wreckage, but over the next few years, Mr Dunstan bought his own boat and starting looking for new dive sites with friends, including Jason Roseveare.

"I started asking local fishermen and older divers about the plane," he said. "Several had heard about aluminium coming up in nets and dredges, but local divers assured us it was a myth. Clubs have dived the area for many years and never had any definite proof of plane wreckage."

After several more dives, the trail of wreckage led to a large radial engine and other identifiable parts, such as the aluminium frame, fuselage sections, landing gear rams and part of a large wiring loom from the cockpit area.

Following research and more dives, Mr Dunstan now believes he has identified the plane as the Vickers Wellington X LP610 bomber from 24 Operational Training Unit based at Honeybourne, Worcestershire.

It may have flown out of RAF Davidstow Moor, near Camelford, on October 17, 1944, the day it crashed. The crash log states three crew were rescued, with the other three reported missing – Flight Officer NC Dumont, Flight Sergeant RC Orrock and Sergeant EJ Post, all from the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Mr Roseveare said the plane was first discovered by John Ellis, from Seaways Dive Centre in Penryn, who confirmed its identity with the RAF Signals Museum in Bedfordshire. But he kept it to himself to protect the military remains and the graves.
Mr Roseveare, who serves in the RAF, said: "This is the grave of some of my fellow servicemen and should be treated as such."

Mr Dunstan said: "When we first contacted John about it he refused to tell us anything, but since I have e-mailed him telling him it was a Wellington bomber that he found all those years ago, and he told me he knew all along."

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Missing-World-War-II-plane-divers-identified/story-19844001-detail/story.html#axzz2g6tE4XB3

Posted: 10-10-2013 20:53 Post subject:

Still more Lost than Found. But some stills have come to light of the Oregon Trail, Republic Pictures, 1936.

BBC Magazine Article Here

Just another John Wayne B. Western from the 1930s, I suppose. Still, the films we can't watch fascinate us, often, more than the ones we can see anytime - such as all those other Wayne westerns.

I see it is summed up in Allen Eyles' useful 1976 book on The Duke's pictures, alongside a raft of other Republic pictures from 1935-36. No sign then it was missing from the canon.

Despite his horrid politics, I mostly enjoy Wayne's pictures. I think there are about fifty unseen Waynes on my shelf but, if I put one on tonight, I'll be thinking of that Oregon Trail still to be found. Smile

Posted: 10-10-2013 22:32 Post subject:

The lost are always best