When Bombs Fell on Rowlands Gill - A detailed historical account of an air raid on Rowlands Gill in May 1942. Detailed postscript and appendices.
Derwent Walk Country Park and Derwenthaugh Park - Council run park that stretches from Swalwell to Rowlands Gill. Details of history, wildlife, disabled access, bird hides and links to local accommodation.
David Parkin - Includes information about the author, photographs of family members, and biographies of them. Also contains pictures of the British countryside.
This is Rowlands Gill - Includes images of the village and details of local amenities and services.
Metano - Rental and leasing of intermediate bulk containers through a network of pool operators world-wide. Information on products and operator locations.
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Rowlands Gill Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Rowlands Gill
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Rowlands Gill Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Rowlands Gill
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Rowlands Gill "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Rowlands Gill
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Rowlands Gill "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Rowlands Gill
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Rowlands Gill Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Rowlands Gill
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Rowlands Gill "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rowlands Gill
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Rowlands Gill Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rowlands Gill
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Rowlands Gill In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Rowlands Gill
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Rowlands Gill It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Rowlands Gill
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Rowlands Gill Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Rowlands Gill
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Rowlands Gill The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Rowlands Gill
