Lord Mayors Parade 2017

The bells were ringing from 10:00 in the morning and then on 11:00 exactly the bells stopped.

London became silent. Yes London was Silent. Remembrance Day.

This Saturday was not just Remembrance Day But also the Lord Mayors Pararade.

It started at 11:15 on the spot.

The Parade Started with the Coldstream Guards Band.
Followed by numerous other bands, aging in size and age.
Some of the picture of the fine horse and men on show.

As it was also Remembrance Day there was many Military parading.

 

 At the end of the parade we were hungry so we headed to Borough Market for a Good Lunch

 And to check out the Georges Inn.

Battle, a town with heritage

BATTLE

What a name for a village.

Off course it gets it's name from the Battle of Hastings.

But what a great Village.

When we got there they were preparing for the village fireworks for Guy Fawkes.

At one end of the village is the Old Abbey entrance. Now part of the school.

The school use to be the monks quarters when the battle Abbey was standing.

Even the house by the gate was doing it best to survive the times this one is from the 1670's

The gate was a castle in itself.

The Battle Coat of Arms was everywhere.

This tower is part of the main gate.

The Abby was destroyed during Henry reformation.

But the grand architecture still impressed.

The main hall was for the novices, it was very dark in it.

Under it has Large Store Rooms that still exist today.

This tower overlooking the battle ground is part of the school

The stone is home to hundreds of pigeons, most white, for when the abbey was running 

you could only keep white pigeons if you could hear the bells.

Today the white color is still a major trait in the birds.

And the stone work was suffering the pigeons damage over time.

The Battle Ground, was not impressive, just another paddock

It was the Abbey's remain, This is just one of the abbeys wings.

So the actual abbey must have been one of the most impressive buildings of it's time.

Pevensey Castle

Pevensey Castle is a medieval castle and former Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey in the English county of East Sussex

Built around 290 AD and known to the Romans as Anderitum, the fort appears to have been the base for a fleet called the Classis Anderidaensis. The reasons for its construction are unclear; long thought to have been part of a Roman defensive system to guard the British and Gallic coasts against Saxon pirates, it has more recently been suggested that Anderitum and the other Saxon Shore forts were built by a usurper in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to prevent Rome from reimposing its control over Britain.

Anderitum fell into ruin following the end of the Roman occupation but was reoccupied in 1066 by the Normans, for whom it became a key strategic bulwark. A stone keep and fortification was built within the Roman walls and faced several sieges. Although its garrison was twice starved into surrender, it was never successfully stormed. The castle was occupied more or less continuously until the 16th century, apart from a possible break in the early 13th century when it was slighted. It had been abandoned again by the late 16th century and remained a crumbling, partly overgrown ruin until it was acquired by the state in 1925.

Pevensey Castle was reoccupied between 1940 and 1945, during the Second World War, when it was garrisoned by units from the Home Guard, the British and Canadian armies and the United States Army Air Corps. Machine-gun posts were built into the Roman and Norman walls to control the flat land around Pevensey and guard against the threat of a German invasion. They were left in place after the war and can still be seen today. Pevensey is one of many norman castles built around the south of England.

So not your normal Castle Ruin.

This an English Heritage Site

It had towers to climb.

Moots to enjoy

Siege Rocks stacked

But most of all you could see how it had evolved.

Brighton Beach, is it real

Is Brighton beach, a beach, that is the Question. The answer is NO, it's a stone quarry. the place the sea washes up is nothing more then a stone quarry, No shells, no life in it what so ever.

Even the shops were closed on a Saturday morning, 

The sea was rough but the tourist were out.

The old pier was rusting away

The even older one was as well.

Even the Pier look abandoned by the tourist.
The trip was proving to be a disappointment.

 

So we decided to head to the Royal Pavilion 

  

Even though the rain was pouring the building look like nothing we had encountered in England yet

 

WE explored the outside and inside, Sorry NO PHOTOS allowed.

 

But the outside was great except the gardens were in Autumn mode

The status were all bronze, not stone as your'd expect.

After a couple of hour we decide it was time to hit the road and go somewhere Jennifer wanted, we end up cutting through town to get to the car park.