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Month: October 2015

Christchurch Greyfriars and the 1666 Great Fire

07/10/2015 donbrown 0

In the post on the Firefighters’ Memorial we talked about the destruction caused by the Blitz – and Christchurch Greyfriars gives a hint of that […]

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The Firefighters Memorial, St Paul’s

07/10/2015 donbrown 1

75 years ago George Orwell, the author of 1984 wrote, “as I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me”. He […]

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