ww2

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Marylebone’s Memorial to a WW2 Hero

12/04/2026 donbrown 0

WHAT: The Wallenberg Monument WHERE: Great Cumberland Place (map) BY WHOM: Philip Jackson WHEN: 1997 Walk a couple of hundred metres north of the Marble […]

Wernher von Braun and the V2 missile

21/02/2026 donbrown 0

A couple of years ago I wrote a post about the V2 (Vergeltungswaffe, or ‘vengeance weapon’) that stands in the atrium of the Imperial War […]

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‘Hidden London’ beneath Clapham South

17/02/2026 donbrown 0

In the 30 years or so that I’ve been living in this part of Battersea I must have passed through Clapham south tube (my nearest […]

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The Guards Chapel and its Post War Rebuilding

14/11/2025 donbrown 0

Officially known as the Royal Military Chapel, but generally just as The Guards Chapel, this building stands within the Wellington Barracks at the top end […]

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The Bomb-Scarred Guards Memorial

28/08/2025 donbrown 2

Walk across Horseguards Parade towards St James’s Park and directly in front of you is the Guards Memorial, a portland stone monument with five bronze […]

Exhibition: London in the Second World War

14/04/2025 donbrown 0

To The London Archives in Clerkenwell for the small but (genuinely) perfectly formed ‘London in the Second World War’ exhibition. It runs until the end […]

Mk1a Spitfire at IWM London

The Rolls Royce Merlin – the engine that won WW2

21/01/2025 donbrown 0

For men of a certain age (a demographic that to which I very squarely belong), those brought up with war comics, Airfix models and the […]

30 Years of Warfare: from the Nery Gun to the V2

10/07/2024 donbrown 0

Go down into the central atrium of the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, and one of the first things you see is the ‘Nery Gun’. […]

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The Eagle Squadrons Memorial in Grosvenor Square

09/07/2024 donbrown 0

Before decamping to Nine Elms, Grosvenor Square was the home of the US Embassy for the best part of a century, first at No. 1, […]

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Days Out: The D Day Story and the Overlord Embroidery

09/06/2024 donbrown 0

Portsmouth’s D Day Story is a small museum on the seafront a literal stone’s throw from the Tudor castle at Southsea (where Henry VIII watched […]