The WW2 civilian list identifies 14 people who worked in civil defence and what their role was. Usually lists of civilian dead give the f...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
{On the risers of three steps at the front of the cross:} Thanks be to God who gave us the victory. In proud and grateful memory of the o...
The quotation comes from 'Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865' by James Russell Lowell. Its right-justification and t...
The screen wall at the back, south, of the memorial carries a number of bronze panels listing the names.
There are so many issues with this memorial, it's difficult to know where to begin. We take the main part of the inscription to mean tha...
Between 1947 and 2000 eighty peace pagodas were built around the world by the Nipponzan Myohoji Japanese Buddist movement, led by Nichida...
Ao. Di. instead of A.D. is very unusual. Fecit is Latin: 'he made it'.
Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monument used to be the south side of North Woolwich Road, nearly o...
Our image shows a close-up of the logo on the memorial. We think that the bird (a swallow?) used to be flying in front of an enamelled bl...
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