80 years on.

Tokyo Bay 2025.

Tokyo Bay 1945.

My Dad's cousin, Desmond Bourton, was on HMS Teazer (R23, a Tumult class Destroyer), which was part of the fleet in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2nd September 1945.

 

 

Another Holiday, Another Gun Port!!

 Madeira 2025.

A very short walk from our Hotel in Funchal was Palacio de Sao Lourenco, a 16th Century Fort.

The Battle of Kings Norton, 17 October 1642.

 24 days after the battle of Powick Bridge (23rd September) and 6 days before Edgehill there was a small battle between Royalist horse under the command of Prince Rupert and Parliamentarian horse under the command of Lord Willoughby of Parham. Both forces were marching to join their respective armies and clashed at King’s Norton (now a suburb of Birmingham).  Not an action that gets talked about much as the supposedly invincible Royalist horse, lead by Rupert, must have been having a bad day! Lord Willoughby didn't seem to have got much praise for his achievement, he wasn’t placed to face Rupert’s wing at Edgehill, in fact he seems to have missed the battle as he was part of the escort of the heavy guns.