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GCHQ, Bletchley Park and the ‘Golf, Cheese and Chess Society’

26/01/2023 donbrown 0

On a refurbished Edwardian office block at 13-15 York Buildings – just down from Strand on the way to Embankment Gardens – is a green […]

The Billy Fiske Memorial, St Paul’s Cathedral

31/12/2022 donbrown 0

Among the 28,000 names listed in the ‘Roll of Honor’ in the American Memorial Chapel in St Paul’s will be that of William Meade Lindsley […]

The Citadel – Central London’s real wartime bunker

16/11/2022 donbrown 0

Squatting next to the elegant Queen Anne revival of the Old Admiralty Building (and more on that at some point) on the north side of […]

The Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge

26/10/2022 donbrown 0

In a bomb-proof concrete bunker 60 feet below the ground of what was once RAF Uxbridge is one of the most important sites in 20th […]

The American Memorial Chapel, St Paul’s

22/06/2022 donbrown 0

If you’ve seen Herbert Mason’s photo ‘St Paul’s Survives’ – the dome of the cathedral still standing proud as the smoke of the Blitz rises […]

Six less than obvious tales from the Churchill War Rooms

07/04/2022 donbrown 1

I’ve done so many tours of the Churchill War Rooms recently (né Cabinet War Rooms, né Central War Room) that I’m half-expecting them to give […]

The New WW2 Gallery at the Imperial War Museum

04/11/2021 donbrown 0

To the new Second World War gallery at the Imperial War Museum. And it’s really rather good. The previous WW2 ‘experience’ in the museum focussed […]

The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

08/08/2021 donbrown 0

If you should come into the Abbey through the West Door and into the nave, you will walk over the memorial to Sir Winston Churchill, but everyone, whether […]

Churchill in London

22/06/2020 donbrown 0

A project I’m working on to map locations in London associated with Winston Churchill – very much a work in progress! Please suggest others that […]

The Cabinet Room at the Churchill War Rooms

08/04/2020 donbrown 0

My Instagram Live talk from today about the Cabinet Room in the Central War Rooms and how it was used in WW2. “This is the […]

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GCHQ, Bletchley Park and the ‘Golf, Cheese and Chess Society’

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The Billy Fiske Memorial, St Paul’s Cathedral

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The Citadel – Central London’s real wartime bunker

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The Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge

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The American Memorial Chapel, St Paul’s

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Six less than obvious tales from the Churchill War Rooms

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The New WW2 Gallery at the Imperial War Museum

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The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

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Churchill in London

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The Cabinet Room at the Churchill War Rooms

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