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Another visit to St Bride’s – lockable coffins and snoring churchgoers.
Walking down Ludgate Hill the other day I grabbed this quick picture of St Bride’s because there were also some nice fluffy clouds in the frame
Tag : Wartime
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A quick visit to St Bride’s. A tribute to the bravery of the men and women who bring us the news.
St Bride’s Fleet Street is a lovely church, particularly recognisable by its ‘wedding cake’ steeple … It was totally gutted during the war
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St Dunstan-in-the-East – a peaceful place named after an extraordinary man.
I’ve already written in some detail about the church of St Dunstan-in-the-West so I thought it would be good, given last week’s lovely weather,
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Food and Gas Rationing?
Even mainstream media outlets are reporting that food and gasoline rationing could be possible. We are not going to escape the cost of sanctions, as
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St Olave’s memorials – from Samuel Pepys to the great sacrifices made by the employees of Wm Cory in both World Wars.
I love visiting St Olave Hart Street. It’s tiny and wonderfully atmospheric, being one of the few surviving Medieval buildings in London. It was
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From Submariners to the Blitz Firefighters – a walk along Embankment towards St Paul’s.
A lovely Sunny day last Saturday tempted me out for a walk. The national Submarine Memorial Memorial on Victoria Embankment (EC4Y 0HJ) is, I think,
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An exhumed poet, a proud Mayor and a very modest attorney. Stories from St Giles.
From where I live I have a nice view of my local church, St Giles Without Cripplegate. This image gives a good impression of where this wonderful old
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Colorized Photos of Wartime Animals Reveal Their Sacrifice
A talented photo colorizer has paid a tribute to wartime animals by breathing a new and colorful life into historical photographs that depict them
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Some things I have seen on recent wanderings – from traitors’ heads to woolly mammoths.
As regular readers will know, every now and then I like to publish some images that I have taken that don’t fit easily into any particular theme
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Vlad Love – 09 – Nuts and Bolts
Going into this episode cold, I spent half the time wondering what the heck was going on and why there was little to know animation, and the other
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Bring Out Your Dead
Tweet Follow @Jeggit By Jason Michael ON MY FIRST VISIT TO ROME as a young student I was struck by the ‘Altar of the Fatherland,’ the pristine
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Reasons to be optimistic
Occasionally, when I feel the dark, heavy hand of doom tapping me on the shoulder (Covid, Lockdowns, Brexit, Trump etc) I cheer myself up by looking
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South Korean court orders Japan to compensate former sex slaves
by Kang Jin-kyu /AFP SEOUL – A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 12 World War II sex slaves or
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What do pigeons do all day? And why was one awarded the Croix de Guerre?
I was visiting Bunhill Fields burial ground last week with a view to writing about it again for a New Year blog. Whilst focusing my camera on an
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‘Spot the grasshopper’, enemy cannon from Waterloo, fascinating men and a Native American lady
I think this picture tells a story. The Gresham grasshopper on the roof of the Royal Exchange is dwarfed by the new monster office block on