Mr Pickering said they stand well back from the road.

Lady Montgomery, Monty’s mother, was the last member of the family to live at New Park.She died in 1949, seventeen years after her husband, and the house fell out of the family’s ownership not long after.

As Monty flew into Derry to receive the city's freedom, the Derry Journal reported his Dakota plane “flew low over Moville” so he could see his parental home.The paper also noted Monty had not been able to visit New Park for seven years.By this time, the island of Ireland had been partitioned, with Derry in Northern Ireland, Moville in the Irish Free State.

The Journal further reported that while eating lunch in Derry, Monty said that as he “looked out the windows and saw the hills of Donegal on which he used to roam as a boy he wondered to himself whether it was quite proper that they should make a Free Stater a freeman of Derry”.D-Day, also known as the Normandy landings, was one of the most significant events in World War Two.

Tens of thousands of Allied troops landed in gliders and on the beaches of northern France on 6 June 1944.

It was the largest seaborne invasion in history and marked a turning point in the fight against Nazi Germany.Members of the public previously

over the lack of consultation about the decision and the impact it would have on accessibility.This week, a spokesperson for PCC said restoration works, costing about £1.2m, had been agreed and the bridges were expected to reopen by April 2025.

Bridges at the reserve are inspected every two years and in January, the council said signs of degradation were found.The review noted that three bridges, adjacent to Baron Court, Lakeside and Welbourne, had deteriorated much more quickly than anticipated and posed a risk to public safety.