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HENLEY-ON-THAMES - HANDYWATER COTTAGES
HENLEY-ON-THAMES
True Mirror | See who and how you are!
A True Mirror lets you see, not what you think you look like, but how others really see you!
Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), who coined the term "photography" from the latin words that mean "light" and "drawing" (phōs-graphê).
Churchill reviews victorious Eighth Army parade – World War II Today
A Humber Mk II armoured car and crew of ‘B’ Squadron, 11th Hussars – the first…
The Humber Armoured Car was one of the most widely produced British armoured…
Nepalese kukri/khukuri knife - infamous weapon of the Gurkhas. It gained literary attention in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Despite the popular image of Dracula having a stake driven through his heart at the conclusion of the climactic battle, the narrative actually describes his throat being sliced through by Jonathan Harker's kukri and his heart pierced by Quincey Morris's Bowie knife...