Officially opened by HRH Prince Andrew on 28th June 1996, the new and renamed Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre on the City Hospital site, replaced the old Birmingham & Midland Eye Hospital, which had been on Church Street since 1884.
The City Hospital originally opened in 1889 as an extension to the Western Road workhouse and has been known by several names including Birmingham Union Infirmary, Dudley Road Infirmary and Dudley Road Hospital.
Scareships / UFO Sightings / UFOs
by Ian · Published August 18, 2013 · Last modified December 31, 2018
According to David Taylor’s article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, one night in 1913, at 7.30pm, several people saw an airship carrying a light.
Scareships / UFO Sightings / UFOs
by Ian · Published August 18, 2013 · Last modified December 25, 2018
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’ in February 1913, multiple witnesses reported a large, dark cigar shape in the sky.
Scareships / UFO Sightings / UFOs
by Ian · Published August 18, 2013 · Last modified December 31, 2018
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in 1916, reports circulated that a German ‘Zeppelin’ had landed in the area whilst on a bombing raid.
Scareships / UFO Sightings / UFOs
by Ian · Published August 18, 2013 · Last modified December 25, 2018
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in 1913, an airship or aeroplane, at a considerable height, was seen for about five minutes on a clear moonlit night at about 9.45p
Scareships / UFO Sightings / UFOs
by Ian · Published August 18, 2013 · Last modified December 25, 2018
According to David Taylor’s article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in May 1909, Coventry, England, tramway men reported an airship.
Scareships / UFO Sightings / UFOs
by Ian · Published August 18, 2013 · Last modified December 23, 2018
According to David Taylor’s excellent article ‘Scareships or Motherships : The British phantom airship scare 1909 – 1918’, in May 1909, multiple witnesses saw a cigar shaped airship, without lights, passing overhead on several consecutive nights.
Articles / Scareships / UFO Sightings / UFOs
by Ian · Published August 18, 2013 · Last modified December 22, 2018
At the turn of the 20th century, visionaries began to dream that the new science of aeronautics would bring universal peace on the Earth by love or fear. Love because as people travelled more they would get to know each other as human beings and no longer as sinister foreigners; fear, because the destructive power of aerial bombardment would render war unthinkable.
Holidaymakers staying at Kirroughtee Hotel outside Newton Stewart had a close encounter with one of Galloway’s best kept secrets last Saturday morning – an elusive big cat.
Les Gill and his partner Linda were looking out of their bedroom window when they both clearly saw the animal in the hotel grounds.
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