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Posted 5 hours 40 min ago
To the south of Lockerbie stands a few prefabricated huts, the remains of the Hallmuir Prisoner of War Camp. Included among them is the Hallmuir Ukrainian Chapel, built by Ukrainian prisoners who occupied the camp until May, 1947. The Cold War and tensions between the USSR and Great Britain likely complicated their return to their own land.
Posted 1 day 5 hours ago
I try to avoid writing about current events. Such comments date very quickly, and I suspect that readers of this blog come looking for spiritual comfort or distraction rather than analysis of the contemporary world scene. With my viewpoint they may not always agree, but occasionally, it behoves me to offer comment.
Posted 4 days 5 hours ago
The Church of St Margaret and All Hallows at Orford near Warrington struck me as entirely ordinary and predictable. A late-Victorian building in leafy grounds, it is built of brick in a 'blended gothic'. It has a decent online presence and the array a services which one might expect of an active, Anglican church. Nothing at all struck me as extraordinary. The website reports:
Sunday Worship 10.45am & 6.00pm