Monday, November 23, 2009

Memorial plaque for airmen who died on the Stiperstones

Today's Shropshire Star reports the unveiling of a memorial to five airmen who died when their Whitley bomber crashed in Mytton Dingle during World War II.

5 comments:

  1. Every now and again, after one of the more unlikely of the Shropshire place names, I half expect you to turn to one side, Anna Russell-like, and say "I'm not making this up, you know."

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  2. "Word War II"? Was this hitherto unknown verbal conflict about whether a place called Mytton Dingle existed?

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  3. Mytton Dingle sounds like a character from that cartoon on the inside back page of the New Statesman .

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  4. It now says World War, thanks.

    Mytton Dingle is a very steep climb. A better way up from Stiperstones village to the ridge is Perkins Beach Dingle.

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  5. Thanks, Jonathan, some of us still find war deaths moving.

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