Morning Walk and Market at Pozieres

Had a lovely day today, went for a morning walk, this time down Dead Man’s Lane to the Chalk Pit, saw the sun coming up. 

One of the old shells found by the side of someone's house

After breakfast we headed into the Pozieres market which. It was a small market but they had bread, cheese, ham, chickens, fruit and veg. It was fun buying from people we couldn’t really speak to, but we worked out what each other meant, sort of, and had fun in the process! 

Next we headed to the Underground City of Naours, it was a whole complex of tunnels and caves from the middle ages when the villages used to go and live underground with their animals to hide from their enemies. It was discovered in the late 1800’s and the soldiers in WW1 and WW2 had used them as shelters and there was graffiti from the Australian soldiers and many others from 1917 and 1944.

This was some of the graffiti of the Australian Soldiers. C Hide had written his name about 6 or 7 times that we saw. Bill looked him up on the Australian War Memorial Site later when we were home, it turns out he died in battle shortly after this and the whereabouts of his body unknown, a sober thought.

This was a fossil of a mollusk in the quarry

 The streets in the underground city where the same as the town above, the names of the streets where carved into the limestone to help people find their way around.

From their we headed to Abbeyville where we took a photograph of a bombed out street that Eric would have stood in 100 years ago. This is Bill and his cousin Christine, both grandchildren of Eric Swanson Frost

Then we went to Rambures where there was a wonderful old chateau. Eric's brigade headquarters was stationed here after the end of the war for several months

Then we headed home, but called into Amiens where we visited the Cathedral which is bigger than Notre Dame in Paris and was built by the same people who built the Notre Dame.

Beautiful stained glass windows