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ROOKS AND BOMBS

... VICTORIA IN THE CENTRE OF LEAMINGTON SPA, WARWICKSHIRE See: Rooks and Bombs might add that I heard schoolboy describing the orb in Her Majesty's left-hand as a bomb, sir! It was, however, a bomb that shifted the statue (by Albert Toft) just one inch on its ...

Published: Thursday 26 April 1984
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 286 | Page: 109 | Tags: none

BOMB-DROPPING

... machine, kneeling beside it with four mechanics. On looking closer I see that he is attaching two enormous bombs to the bomb carrier, each bomb weighing over one hun ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 646 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

Bomb scare

... where hooting Times and Bai/y's Hunting Directory arc also published. The bombs, allegecUy placed in retaliation for the accidental death of two aboteurs, were defused by Army bomb-di po al offic r . THE GOOD BOOK G IDE, a literary lifeline for those living ...

Published: Thursday 23 September 1993
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1910 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

BOMBS COULD BE BURIED

... BOMBS COULD BE BURIED He went on, expl•ining the means by which bombs could be buried and attached to a computer system specially programmed for explosion in given circumstances. There is only one thing I don't underetand.'' finished Atrangelove. The ...

BOMBS ON A MAGAZINE

... BOMBS ON A MAGAZINE. In the recent - aeroplane raid over London the Huns did some damage of naval importance by drnPPiDg a bomb on the premises of the firm who were preparing Sea Pie for the bookstalls.. The whole of the first ettition of one hundred ...

NORFOLK THATCH AND GERMAN BOMBS

... A German pilot on his way back from London had decided to unload his bombs, probably because he was being chased, and our So hillside was as good a place as any other. So the bombs were landed on us while ·we were in bed and the interior of our home was ...

Published: Friday 05 December 1941
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2967 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

FIRST-A.ID FOR BOMBED TREES

... FIRST-A.ID FOR BOMBED TREES COUNTRY LIFE, November 2r, 1941 D AIVIAGE to trees by bombing may be of various types-branches and stems may be broken, whole trees may be shifted or uprooted and wounds affect- ing timber and bark may be made. The three agents ...

Published: Friday 21 November 1941
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3519 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

A 20-MEGATON BOMB DROPS WITH MAJOR ASTRIDE IT

... the lemma is he wens pressed the bomb is. Me taeleng. be end button and then suddenly pert the Medved of readied that Major Kong was leadership sad weeniest.' kill in the bomb bay. liwidanly be uttered a strong. The bomb dropped smoothie' led cry as his ...

402 COUNTRY LIFE. [Sept. 18th, 1915. threw bombs at them. He fell in his second bombing attack, the first Sherwood

... 402 COUNTRY LIFE. [Sept. 18th, 1915. threw bombs at them. He fell in his second bombing attack, the first Sherwood Forester who has won the Victoria Cross. In the Sherwood Forest district is Newstead Abbey, whose owner Captain Roclerick Beauclerk Webb ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1915
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1577 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

500 lb bombs, the clock was badly damaged and had to be returned to the makers, Messrs Gillot & Johnson,

... 500 lb bombs, the clock was badly damaged and had to be returned to the makers, Messrs Gillot & Johnson, ·for repairs. Fortunately, the bells and clock mechanism were not damaged, and remain in full working order. The tune played on the clock every g ...

Published: Thursday 06 September 1984
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2180 | Page: 137 | Tags: none

(Right) 4-THE CHOIR AND HIGH ALTAR, AFTER A HIGH-EXPLOSIVE BOMB HAD PLUNGED

... incendiary bombs on various parts A HIGH-EXPLOSIVE BOMB HAD PLUNGED from the crown of the arch where the bomb struck of the ourselves menace besides time to admire them. On rougher nights we found dealing with another menace incendiary bombs: blazing fragments ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1981
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1840 | Page: 207 | Tags: none