pferguson | August 19, 2018
Thread Fourteen …and now we have been…and we have returned. The landscapes of France and Flanders…London…have offered of themselves…their connections to us. We have rediscovered, found, observed and, above all, we have become connected. In finding the threads between the thimbles and needles we have bore witness the fabric of history…perhaps patchwork…but ours for all […]
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Tags: 1928-2018, 8 August 2018, British Legion Great Pilgrimage, Menin Gate, Poppy, Remembrance
pferguson | August 17, 2018
Thread Thirteen From Buckingham Palace Road we turn onto Birdcage Walk, bypassing the tourists who have lined up along the gates to view the Guards. Instead of joining the onlookers we choose instead to visit the Guards Chapel, badly damaged by a V-1 flying bomb attack in 1944. Smaller Chapels to the Guards Regiments line […]
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Tags: Guards Chapel, London Blitz, St. James’s Church, V-1 Rocket
pferguson | August 16, 2018
Thread Twelve The heat wave has relented and for much of the day we venture forward in the downpour. Rain-water bounces off the taut umbrella towards me managing to find those points at the neckline where it can scurry its chill down one’s back. Meanwhile, I attempt to skirt the roaring streams that run along […]
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Tags: 11 November 1918, Between the Wars, Great War, Imperial War Museum, Post-World War One, Second World War
pferguson | August 15, 2018
Thread Eleven The entrance way of the Victoria and Albert Museum is crowded with visitors this August day, anxious to make their way towards their interests and expectations. Throughout the structure countless, precious items are exhibited. Cameras focus and snap on specific items, some objects hold visitors for lengthy terms while others are passed by […]
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Tags: Victoria and Albert Great War Memorial, Victoria and Albert Museum
pferguson | August 14, 2018
Thread Ten From London Victoria we walk to Paddington Station, to visit a well known bear and to revisit with a soldier statue. The latter created by Charles Sargeant Jagger MC as the Great Western Railway War Memorial. Jagger was an experienced Great War officer with the Worcestershire Regiment and was wounded on three occasions […]
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Tags: Charles Sargeant Jagger MC, Great Western Railway War Memorial, Michael Bond, Paddington Bear, Paddington Station