Anchor Church.. Found this gem on Saturday, drive out for a few hours, tried for Redhill Marina for a car show, but we showed up about four hours too early! It's right by the Ratliff-on-Soar power station just outside of Nottingham. It's been closed as a power station for a year, and in another year, it will be brought down and the area redeveloped into a zero-carbon manufacturing and energy hub.
So went to Mercia Marina, near Willington, next, just adding here, I can't type Marina without having to correct it! I just type out my name!! Lols
Had a coffee there..
Took these photographs! Zoom in required!
Then we were going to go to an Arboretum I saw signposted.. but noticed the Anchor (symbol) Church...and it was close by... Had to park on the road.. after Repton, beautiful village, I've actually added a link to Repton because of it's beautiful buildings and history.. Gorgeous.
Parked, followed Google maps and a walk around a field, down towards the River Trent, and found the Anchor Church.
Incredible history surrounding it.. taken from the link above...
The name Anchor Church is derived from the term anchorite (from the Greek ἀναχωρέω anachōreō, "to withdraw" or "to depart into the countryside") because it is thought to have been the cell of an Anchorite hermit, St Hardulph, who lived and prayed here in the 8th and 9th century..
Lots more to read.
And from inside such an ancient place, the power station in the background..
Now!! Been doing a bit more on my ancestry the last few weeks..
Have added a 'new' Bonelli to our group.. and yesterday, found someone who may have some information for me... I have been disheartened before in thinking I may have found a relative of a brother I have, but yesterday I added a divorce paper belonging to my dad's second wife, from her second marriage!
I have written, and now can do no more than wait.. time ticks by so fast, I know now a brother who is fourteen years older than me, I'll probably never find... Can find nothing from Japan online to make any connection and finding years ago than many GI babies born there were given up for adoption.. and maybe only if he came to the US, adopted maybe there, and if he did a DNA, then maybe a strong link would show up.. but learning that kids of my siblings can show as cousins.. isn't a great thing to find out now after all these years of hoping it could flag up a sibling.
But then, after that, finding a section of links I found the strangest of persons!!
Well, I'm sure she isn't strange, but what I am about to tell you is!
We have a DNA link, and it's from both sides, yes, BOTH sides! Which means a British person and an Italian person connected at some point to give her a DNA that links her to me, on both of my DNA sides!!
Incredible!! Amazing! Yes, I have written to her too, and will wait, she hasn't been on Ancestry for a while... So I may go all stalker'ish on her and Facebook message her!!
Cliffhanger!
M.