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Sun streaming into OpenFit, the Dry Cleaners, in the Flying Horse shopping centre in Nottingham.

The Flying Horse Inn is a former public house in Nottingham. It was established around 1483. It is a Grade II listed building.

It stands upon the site of the house which the Plumptre family erected for themselves when they first came to Nottingham in the 13th century.

The first information of "The Flying Horse," is from 1400 when John de Plumtre founded Plumptre Hospital. The property forming the endowment included the oldest portion of The Flying Horse in The Poultry.

In the 18th century it was called the "Travellers Inn" in 1791 at the Flying Horse Inn.

In 1799 "The Flying Horse" was in the possession of one William Rowbotham. The house was described as being at the Hen Cross.

In 1813, a great dinner was held to celebrate victory over Napoleon I. A figure of Napoleon had been brought from London by coach, and this was burned in the Market Place amidst scenes of excitement and rejoicing.

By 1818, the owner was Robert Mackley. In 1826 the rent was £63 a year. The building was in bad condition and scarcely habitable. After repair the rent increased to £100 a year. In 1832 Jane Clark occupied The Inn.

It was heavily restored in 1935

It survived as a public house until 1989, when it was converted into a shop. It is now at the entrance to the Flying Horse Walk shopping mall.

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Oxford Street, London W1. Previously called "Tottenham".

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Photographed during a stroll through Chinatown and Little Italy in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

… on a foggy morning. This is a set of interesting but weird metal sculptures close to Lansdown Golf Course fields which I visit from time to time. They are well made from what looks a rusty scrap metal but little further information is available except a memorable table with the artist’s name: David Michael Morse (1943-2016), I like the mood and the opportunity to have all three figures included in the frame. The image was cropped to panoramic format to lose the dullness sky and is converted to monochrome. Lansdown, near Bath. Banes, England, U.K.

Vacuum Oil Company, which later became part of Mobil, first trademarked the Pegasus logo in 1911. The logo was created for Vacuum Oil’s South African brand and was meant to represent speed and power. In 1931, Vacuum Oil merged with Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York), and the red Pegasus was adopted as its U.S. trademark.

The iconic symbol first soared into the public eye when it was placed atop the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas in 1934, to welcome attendees to a convention of petroleum company executives. The Magnolia Building’s red Pegasus quickly became a local landmark and one of the most recognizable corporate symbols in American history.

Mobil began using the flying red horse logo in 1934, with ads that boasted, “A new sign rises to guide America’s car owners to the gasoline and service they want.” The Pegasus symbol has since been associated with Mobilgas and later Mobil, signifying the company’s commitment to speed, power, and progress in the petroleum industry. The red Pegasus remains a celebrated piece of Americana.

[Sources: Bing Copilot, American Oil & Gas Historical Society, The Henry Ford Museum and Exxon.]

[Note: The red Pegasus is still a part of the Dallas skyline. The original Pegasus, which perched atop the Magnolia Petroleum Building from 1934, was taken down in 1999 due to structural issues. However, it made a triumphant comeback on the first day of 2000, as a carefully crafted duplicate was placed back on the Dallas skyline. The original, after being found in a city-owned shed, was restored and re-lit in front of the Omni Dallas Hotel on Lamar Street in 2015.]

Flying Horse

GROUP: SMILE ON SATURDAY
THEME: PART OF ARTPIECE
SUBJECT: UPPER PART OF A FULL-SCALE SCULPTURE OF A PEGASUS

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The Airborne Trooper Statue is a tribute to the American Airborne Soldiers of D-Day. The monument is located next to the Bridge in La Fiere where on the 6th-9th of June members of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment and 325th Glider Regiment fought against repeated German attacks to hold the bridge.

The base of the statue contains the inscription:
“A grateful tribute to American Airborne soldiers of D-Day 6 June 1944 to 7 June 1997”

The monument is a replica of the "Iron Mike" statue located in Fort Bragg. The original was sculpted by Leah Hiebert in 1960-1961 modelled on Sgt. Major Runyon.
To the left of the statue is a bronze table orientation table shaped as a folded parachute and a bronze book of remembrance.

US Army MK 4 Sherman Tank in Op Overlord scheme sits outside Utah D-Day museum on the actual landing beach at Plage De La Madalein where the American Army landed on the 6th June 1944, (D-day). The museum is built around an original German bunker. The Sherman MK4 version was also known as the "Easy Eight".

In World War II, Pointe du Hoc was the location of a series of German bunkers and machine gun posts. Prior to the invasion of Normandy, the German army fortified the area with concrete casemates and gun pits. On D-Day, the United States Army Provisional Ranger Group attacked and captured Pointe du Hoc after scaling the cliffs. United States generals including Dwight D. Eisenhower had determined that the place housed artillery that could slow down nearby beach attacks.

Le Chateau de la Barre, Ver-Sur-Mer, Normandy, France has so much History and is a typical French Castle. Built in 1882 by the Poret family.
My wife and I had the pleasure of staying here for a weeks holiday whilst touring the Normandy beaches and museum's. Normandy is of course very well known for the Allied landing's on June 6th 1944 which were the starting point of taking back Europe from the Nazi invasions.
This Castle was the home to many German Officers of very high ranking during the WW2 and was eventually recaptured by the Allies in the weeks after the D-day landings.
A stunning Castle with splendid grounds which also at the front of the building has plenty of memories still today from the fighting to re-take the local area and this building.

Private John Marvin Steele was the American paratrooper who landed on the pinnacle of the church tower in Sainte-Mère-Église,one of the first villages in Normandy liberated by the United States Army on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
On the night before D-Day (June 5–6, 1944), American soldiers of the 82nd Airborne parachuted into the area west of Sainte-Mère-Église in successive waves. The town had been the target of an aerial attack and a stray incendiary bomb had set fire to a house east of the town square. The church bell was rung to alert the town of the emergency and townspeople turned out in large numbers to form a bucket brigade supervised by members of the German garrison. By 1:00 am, the town square was well lit and filled with German soldiers and villagers when two sticks (planeloads of paratroopers) from the 1st and 2nd battalions were dropped in error directly over the village.
The paratroopers were easy targets, and Steele was one of the few not killed or wounded by enemy fire. His parachute caught in one of the pinnacles of the church tower, leaving him hanging on the side of the church. The wounded paratrooper hung there limply for two hours, pretending to be dead, before the Germans took him prisoner. He escaped four days later from the Germans and re-joined his division when US troops of the 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment attacked the village, capturing thirty Germans and killing another eleven. He was awarded the Bronze Star for valour and the Purple Heart for being wounded in combat.

A memorial to Lieutenant Colonel Cole who called in smoke on dug in Germans before leading a small portion of his unit in a Bayonet charge and engaging the Germans in hand to hand fighting for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Just days after the D-day landings the allies were in a fight to take Carentan. By June 10, Lieut. Col. Cole and 400 other paratroopers of the American 506th Parachute regiment were advancing towards the target city of Carentan along a very dangerous and exposed causeway surrounded by marshes and the infamous hedgerows of France.

It was here just outside of Carentan that Lieut. Col. Cole would lead a rare bayonet charge and secure his place in military history.

The original Pegasus bridge sits in the Airborne museum at Benouville near Caen in Normandy. The bridge was replaced some years after WW2 as the river widened naturally and it was no longer able to stretch across the River.

Pegasus Bridge was built in 1934, and it crossed the Caen Canal, between Caen and Ouistreham, in Normandy, France. It was originally known as the Bénouville Bridge, after the neighbouring village. The name Pegasus is derived from the shoulder emblem worn by the British airborne forces, which is the flying horse Pegasus. On the 6th June 1944, during the Second World War, a unit of glider infantry from the 2nd Battalion the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry of the British 6th Airborne Division, commanded by Major John Howard landed silently in Horsa Gliders and took control of the bridge. The bridge was an important strategic capture for the Allied forces and was to be held to prevent the expected counter attack from the German Army with their Tank units held in the region.

A27L Cruiser Mk.VIII Centaur Tank on display at the Pegasus Museum, Ranville, Normandy, France.

The annual appearance of the carnival; the first show is always in Middletown. I took this before it opened. More to come.

A metal sculpture depicting a horse skeleton with spread wings is the third weird creation from David M Morse living on the fields in Lansdown. The sky colours were amazing but short lasting in the morning, and I thought, somewhat complementary to the theme. Lansdown, near Bath. BANES, England, U.K.

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