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Tim Dodds

@timdodds

Lightwater resident with eclectic interests,and avid blogger since 2007

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Amphibious DUKW new visitor attraction at Royal Logistic Corps Museum lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds
Amphibious DUKW new visitor attraction at Royal Logistic Corps Museum

Amphibious DUKW new visitor attraction at Royal Logistic Corps Museum

We were delighted to attend the opening of a new exhibition building at the Royal Logistic Corps Museum last week. Housing a WWII amphibious DUKW of the RASC – Royal Army Service Corps –…

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The centenary event of scrambling-motocross a great success lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds
The centenary event of scrambling-motocross a great success

The centenary event of scrambling-motocross a great success

Bagshot Heath and the military training estate in Lightwater was the centenary home of motorcycle scrambling/motocross on Sunday 24th March, 2024. Engines were revved on the start line as over 150 …

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Camberley - the birth place of Motocross lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds

Camberley – the birth place of Motocross

Something rather special is happening in Lightwater on Sunday March 24th this year, on the military vehicle test track. It’s a celebratory running of the first ever Motocross race that took p…

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Taking photos of flowers lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds
Taking photos of flowers

Taking photos of flowers

It’s been a habit of mine to take photos of flower. I’ve learned that, even as a happy snapper, the best results are when the photo of a flower is taken from below, so that you’re…

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Building of the Queen Mary Reservoir lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds
Building of the Queen Mary Reservoir

Building of the Queen Mary Reservoir

Recently I listened to a talk by Nick Pollard, Curator of Spelthorne Museum in Staines on the story of the Queen Mary Reservoir. Nick’s talk described the massive construction programme neede…

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Finding good places for tea and cake lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds
Finding good places for tea and cake

Finding good places for tea and cake

Readers of the blog will have read that finding a good place for tea, cake and conveniences is almost always uppermost on our outings. No different to most people I imagine. Asking people whereR…

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Visiting Dover Castle - rich in history lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds
Visiting Dover Castle – rich in history

Visiting Dover Castle – rich in history

In September last year we visited Dover Castle, something I don’t remember doing in the past. I probably have, but it’ll be decades ago. Dover Castle is a splendid visitor experience. I…

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Another case of Hutber's Law lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds
Another case of Hutber’s Law

Another case of Hutber’s Law

Right, let’s get to it. Hutber’s law states, “Improvement means deterioration”. Patrick Hutber (1928-1980) was a financial journalist and City Editor of the The Sunday Teleg…

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In London for a good lunch - Christmas trees & lights everywhere
Image from Tim Dodds (@timdodds)
Image from Tim Dodds (@timdodds)
Image from Tim Dodds (@timdodds)
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Great views over Farnham and Surrey Hills lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds

Great views over Farnham and Surrey Hills

On a sunny day a few weeks ago we visited Farnham Castle Keep. It’s an English Heritage site, with free entry. The Keep is over 900 years old and has been much changed over those years. Built…

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The beauty of Tudor brickwork lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds

The beauty of Tudor brickwork

This article is a continuation of story of our visit to Basing House near Basingstoke. The remains of Basing House lie in the village of Old Basing. Access to the house, from the car park next to B…

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Remembering the Free French forces on the Old Dean Common in Camberley lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds

Remembering the Free French forces on the Old Dean Common in Camberley

On Saturday 11th November 2023 Surrey Heath Museum had two blue plaques unveiled in the Old Dean estate in Camberley, both in remembrance and in celebration of the Free French forces camp on Old De…

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Lightwater pays respect to Remembrance Sunday lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds

Lightwater pays respect to Remembrance Sunday

The young and old turned up in many hundreds for the Remembrance Service at Lightwater’s War Memorial. In my memory I think Lightwater residents and those from nearby have always given unstin…

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Lightwater is spooky central lightwater.wordpress.com/202…
Lightwater is spooky central

Lightwater is spooky central

Just on a short walk through some streets in Lightwater, I concluded that it’s spooky central. The creativity in spookiness is admirable, although I admit to a bit of arachnophobia – I …

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The pleasure in cloud watching lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds

The pleasure in cloud watching

After breakfast we take our tea and coffee in our conservatory. I look at the clouds, and take a photo or two when they’re interesting. We have three books on clouds and weather, two produced…

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Admiring a long border and classic cars lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds

Admiring a long border and classic cars

On the last day of September we visited Hall Grove School in Bagshot for its National Open Garden Scheme day. The surprise was the school hosted a small gathering of classic cars, included were a v…

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Visiting Bazalgette's 'temple of sewage' lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds

Visiting Bazalgette’s ‘temple of sewage’

Our only Open House Festival visit this year was to the Abbey Mills Pumping Station. Before you get to see my photos of the pumping station is worth knowing a little of its history, It was built be…

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Closure of footbridge over M3 between Bagshot and Lightwater Country Park lightwater.wordpress.com/202…

Closure of footbridge over M3 between Bagshot and Lightwater Country Park

Lightwater County Councillor Rebecca Jennings-Evans reports via Facebook that the footbridge over the M3 between Lightwater Country Park and Bagshot will be closed for two years. The closure is at …

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Misericords in the Cathedral of the Marches lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds

Misericords in the Cathedral of the Marches

In a recent visit to Ludlow we stopped at the parish church in the town centre for tea and cake, and then, naturally, we wandered around the church. This is some of what we found. Some explaining t…

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Bagshot Chapel Heritage Open Day lightwater.wordpress.com/202… via @timdodds
Bagshot Chapel Heritage Open Day

Bagshot Chapel Heritage Open Day

Surrey Heath is not blessed with loads of heritage open day events. Bagshot holds one event, and that’s its opening of Bagshot Chapel in Bagshot cemetery, closed to internments since 1966. Th…

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