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Who was “The Grand Old Duke of York”?

31/07/2021 donbrown 0

A couple of hundred metres from the much more famous Nelson’s column you will find the slightly more senior Duke of York’s Column (Nelson was […]

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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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Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner

12/03/2014 donbrown 0

Today I was going to go round Banqueting House, the last properly surviving bit of the old Palace of Whitehall, but when I got there […]

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