The Billy Fiske Memorial, St Paul’s Cathedral
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 […]
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The Citadel – Central London’s real wartime bunker
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
The Bomb Damage maps
During the war the London County Council surveyors chronicled the devastation caused by enemy bombing on the capital. Hand colouring street level OS maps, they plotted the buildings […]