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 5, 2018
Thread One The heat is upon us as loose threads, from many previous investigations, are brought together in a single expedition across London. Firstly, a walk to Kensington Gardens where we are to encounter two memorial shelters of the Silver Thimble Fund. As we walk toward them, we see them across the pond, with Queen […]
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Tags: Cleopatra’s Needle, Hyde Park Corner, Kensington Gardens, London Blitz, Machine Gun Corps Memorial, Matson Family, Royal Artllery Memorial, Silver Thimble Fund, V-1 Rocket, Victoria & Albert Museum, Victoria Embankment, Wilfred Street