Every city, town or village in Italy hopes to have the Giro d'Italia pass through as it means extra funding for road repairs & resurfacing. When it passed through the Calabrian town of Melicucco the local 'ndrangheta boss made sure the town council extended the resurfacing work to his front gate.

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Catalan president Lluís Companys #onthisday, cigarette in hand, espadrilles on feet, calm by all accounts, led out to be shot after Francoist court found him guilty of military rebellion -for opposing a military rebellion. Today on 15 Oct 1940. His last words, fist in air, Per Catalunya!

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Great colourisation (author?) of original photo by Alec Wainman at Grañen on the Aragón front probably Sept 1936, where he was based as an ambulance driver with the British Medical Unit. You always have to wonder what happened to these people. How many were alive within a few months...

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At age 10 I was enthralled.

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The first building to come into our care and one of the most recently repaired, the tower of Old St Matthew's, Lightcliffe will be open for visitors this Sunday. 1/7

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