YESTERDAY IN MELTON MOWBRAY

A thrilling account of the exciting and chaotic hot summer’s day in Melton Mowbray in 1911, when many thousands of exuberant people turned out to witness for the very first time the ‘miracle’ of the heavier than air ‘flying machines,’ in flight together with their intrepid pilots. _______________________________________________ PROLOGUE     The long awaited occasion of man’s first sustained flight in an heavier than air, powered aeroplane is pretty well known to the world as being recorded on a beach at Kitty Hawk, South Carolina in 1903, by the Wright brothers of that place.   The stuff of dreams of many young boys across the decades,  the veracity of this specific moment in time and the identities of the  people involved in the event remains open to serious discussion to the present day and the actual truth is still argued openly and keenly. This is especially so amongst aviators and other interested parties in F...

A LONG LIFES WORK  ================== The below poignant epitaph has been left for us on a tombstone locally; likely forgotten and definitely sadly abandoned now for many years, it stands in a badly neglected former non-conformists' cemetery in the ancient part of Melton Mowbray, propped against a boundary wall;  wherever lie the human remains to which it refers and once stood over, I have no idea. IN AFFECTIONATE   REMEMBRANCE OF   ————— JULIANA Born May 6th, died September 27th, 1843. FREDERICK Born September 21st, 1844, died May 25th, 1846. ARTHUR Born November 2nd, 1845, died January 11th, 1846. MARY Born December 8th, 1846, died May 25th, 1847. JULIA Born December 16th, died March 10th, 1848. FREDERICK Born January 28th, died October 6th, 1849. SARAH ELIZABETH Born January 22nd, died July 31st, 1850. MARY JANE Born March 7th, died August 31st, 1851. LOUISA Born May 22nd, died...