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Old 29-08-2013, 15:12   #132
joglynne
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Re: Photo of the day

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Originally Posted by Sirius View Post
Went for a ride on my bike this morning and decided to follow the Manchester ship canal to the viaduct that carries the M6 over the canal. I found someone had gone out of there way to paint this on one of the bridge supports. See the photos attached.

It says "Harry Patch 1898 to 09 The Last Tommy RIP"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Patch
I love the idea of this urban memorial to one of our heroes. Let's hope that the powers that be clean off this graffiti in their normal 'slow to never' time scale.
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