Giles MacDonogh YouTube Nick Short 🇺🇦 Guy Walters 🇺🇦 Michael Keegan🇺🇦 Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Charles Spicer JL🇫🇷⚓️ Victor Sforza If you have not seen this then I highly recommend you do it left a more lasting impression than Zone of Interest en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wanns… Guy Walters 🇺🇦 Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Michael Keegan🇺🇦 Nick Short 🇺🇦 Mark Hayes Charles Spicer JL🇫🇷⚓️ and Baron V of course! Paul Beaver @ Beaver Westminster

Wahooo! I've submitted the manuscript of my new book on 20th century #seasidearchitecture ! Out this time next year, published by Batsford Books with lots of lovely postcards for illustrations.

This is one of the many exhibitions I wish I'd seen. Fantastic buildings plus Billy Butlin ran the amusement park there

3rd May 1938 King George Vl opens the Glasgow Empire Exhibition at Bellahouston Park. The centerpiece was the determinedly art deco Tait Tower, a 300' high observation tower a temporary structure that was dismantled the following year.

May Day parade in Moscow, 1940, featuring guests from russia's ally, the Third Reich

'1st May 1851' commissioned by Queen Victoria from Winterhalter commemorates three events. The 1st birthday of her son Prince Arthur, the 82nd birthday of the Duke of Wellington his godfather, and the opening day of Prince Albert's brainchild the Great Exhibition.

May morning 1890.

Mark Hayes Revd Nicholas Pye Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Giles MacDonogh Pirate Irwin 2024WonderWomanOnTarget Derick Norton Margaret #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 GMan (Ґленн) ☘️🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸🇵🇱🇮🇱🍊🌻 Fully Booked🇮🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Will Talcott Malcolm C Godfrey Reminded of a tome I read abt 4 yrs ago. KUT 1916 sorta reminds one of the 🇬🇧 disaster at 🇸🇬 Singapore 1942

Wittgenstein, a school contemporary of Hitler, studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Manchester 1908-11 for an uncompleted doctorate. Became frustrated at failure to turn his design for a jet-powered propeller into a machine. Turned to maths and logic.

Saluting a departure (1958).

A BOAC dispatcher signals to a Comet ready to taxi out. Not sure when the practice ended but it can be seen on many contemporary films.

Possibly an informal thing born of a military culture after two wars?

AA🚖 men would salute members at the time.

Mark Hayes Christopher Howse She would then contact a local firm of builders who would demolish the wall and rebuild it, so that it didn't collapse on some unwitting passer-by or house guest, before he returned at the weekend. Churchill's hobbies often proved expensive all round.

Here's another amazing 1930s London roof garden on top of Derry and Toms department store in Kensington. 6 stories above the streets, it had a Spanish theme and was complete with flamingos! …versityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/der…

The moment just before the Beatles crossed the now famous Zebra Crossing in Abbey Rd

Grateful thanks to Mark Hayes for identifying the site and for the link to this interesting article memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/07/21/ade…

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A French officer in Norway observes: 'The British have planned this campaign on the lines of a punitive expedition against the Zulus, but unhappily we & the British are in the position of the Zulus.'

Mark Hayes Revd Nicholas Pye Giles MacDonogh Antoine Vanner Malcolm C Godfrey Margaret #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 Derick Norton 2024WonderWomanOnTarget Pirate Irwin GMan (Ґленн) ☘️🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸🇵🇱🇮🇱🍊🌻 Nicolai Eberholst (Pike Grey 1914-1918) Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Robert whitehead w/son (R) in 1875 w a damaged test torpedo on (L) is whiteheads 1891 model self propelled torpedo.

Edensor near Chatsworth. Kathleen Kennedy was sister of JFK. She was killed in a plane crash in 1948. JFK visited her grave a few months before he was murdered. #MementoMori

Street art:

Sophie von Gudenus - the death of the last surviving grandchild of Archduke Franz Ferdinand royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2024/04/barone…