Ypres WW1 milestone
SE18, Shooters Hill, Christ Church
The Ypres panel on the milestone is very close to a hedge making it difficult to get a photograph. The milestone dates from the 18th cen...
The Ypres panel on the milestone is very close to a hedge making it difficult to get a photograph. The milestone dates from the 18th cen...
The quotation comes from 'Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865' by James Russell Lowell. Its right-justification and t...
Geograph has a photo, "taken 7 years ago" (i.e. 2015) which shows the memorial in much better condition than now, 2022, and surrounded wi...
Mace Street and Tagg Street were two Victorian streets on the east side of Bonner Street, now lost to the Cranbrook Estate. This 1893 map...
The screen wall at the back, south, of the memorial carries a number of bronze panels listing the names.
The Biblical quotation draws attention to the secrecy which was essential to the success of Operation Mincemeat (the 'watch' being a guar...
Taking our photo of the building we were aware of a white van arriving and just hoped that it would not decide to park across the front o...
{On one end:} The gift of J. H. Buxton, 1879 {On both sides:} Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
See German Lutheran Church in London for a historical overview starting with the Great Fire. In 1871 the congregation moved from Holy Tr...