RHH's photos with the keyword: town

The Iron Bridge was built in 1781 at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It was designed by Thomas Prtichard and built by Abraham Darby III. It is made of cast iron, is 100 feet long and spans the River Severn at the heart of Ironbridge Gorge in the town of Ironbridge. We visited there as part of tour arranged by the conference we were attending.

This is Ironbridge Gorge looking east from the old cast iron bridge that crosses the River Severn at the town of Ironbridge. The bridge was built in 1781 at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and is a major tourist attraction.

While visiting the Bayeux area of Normandy and the D-Day beaches we stayed several nights in Le Molay-Littry. The flags are from the 80th anniversary D-Day commemorations in the town. This photo is of the town center and the others of our guest house and the market where we purchased a bottle of Calvados.

Our guest house in Le Molay-Littry was the building with the white door and the windows on both sides of the door.

This was part of the display of cheeses at the market in Le Molay-Littry, where we stayed for several nights. We purchased a number of cheeses but I am unable to show photos of them since they are long ago devoured.

While in the Bayeux area we stayed in Le Molay-Littry and one morning visited the open-air market there.

Calvados is the brandy for which Normandy is famous. We purchased a bottle at the market in Le Molay-Littry, one of the places we stayed while touring Normandy and the D-Day beaches.

The church in the village of Sainte-Mere-Eglise is famous for the story of a paratrooper whose parachute snagged on one of the church towers and who hung there for several hours before being taken prisoner. This window in the church commemorates the arrival of the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne, who liberated the village, the first French village to be liberated. The inscription at the bottom of the window reads: ""This stained glass was completed with the participation of Paul Renaud and Sainte Mere, for the memory of those who, with their courage and sacrifice, liberated Sainte Mere Eglise and France." Paul Renaud was a fourteen year old boy on June 6, 1944.

This is the church in the French village of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, the church famous for the story of the paratrooper whose D-Day parachute snagged on the church's steeple and who hung there for several hours before being taken prisoner.

This building in the ghost town of Scenic, South Dakota, has half a sign for a church and another sign for the Merrill Museum of Natural History, neither of which appeared to mark something still in operation. We visited Scenic several times on our way to the Badlands of South Dakota. The two lies between Rapid City and the park.

The sign on this building, which appeared to be derelict, says Sam 2 Bulls Gallery. We were in the town of Scenic in April when the cold winds were still blowing across the prairies. Perhaps the town of Scenic comes alive during tourist season but it appeared to be a ghost town to us.

Scenic, South Dakota, is a ghost town just to the southwest of Badlands National Park. We've been through the town several times on trips to the midwest.

This was the sleepy little farm town in northwest Iowa where I grew up as a boy. We were back there recently and were able to get some photos of my old haunts. When we lived there in the 1960's Doon had a population of about 300 people. It now has just over 600 but hasn't changed much. This is Main Street which had more businesses when I was a boy but even then not many. The other photos are of the house we lived in and of the school I attended. The car is a 1958 or 1959 Ford Fairlane from about the same era.

This is the school I attended as a boy, three grades to a classroom. The school is no longer in operation but the building and grounds are maintained by the church next door which owns the property.

This is the house I lived in as a boy. It is now a rental, very dilapidated and run down, but still a place that holds many memories for for me. The house is on Main Street in Doon, Iowa, a small, sleepy farming community in northwest Iowa.

Douglas is a small unincorporated community in eastern Washington along Highway 2 near the Columbia River. It has a general store, a church and a few houses, but if you blink you'll miss it. It is actually part of the town of Waterville, but even that town has a population of only 1000 people. The last time we were through that area we stopped to take a few pictures.