Showing posts with label The Battle of Britain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Battle of Britain. Show all posts
Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Salford and the Spitfire Fund

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Now as stories go it is a very small one, but then again it is about Salford and does also allow me to return to the Spitfire Fund and the ...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Pictures from our past …… 80 years ago

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Now, if you grew up in the 1950s, you grew up against the backdrop of the Second World War. British cinemas were full of films of the c...
Monday, 13 July 2020

With Charlie and Chippy in bombed out London on February 5th 1941 and the telegraph message that all was well

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On leave , 1941 There is something quite sobering in realizing that events which were still fresh in many people’s memories when I was ...
Sunday, 12 July 2020

Knowing your onions in 1940 ........ wartime propaganda with 222 Squadron

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Now I am looking forward to seeing the original of this photograph which David tells me comes from New York. It will be a fitting end t...
Saturday, 11 July 2020

Remembering the Battle of Britain ................ part 2 the Spitfire Fund

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Book cover I grew up with the Spitfire Fund although to be strictly accurate by the time I was born the war had been over for four ye...
Friday, 10 July 2020

Remembering the Battle of Britain ................ part 1 stories from 222 Squadron

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The Battle of Britain January 1 1941 Now the event has slipped into history and today that battle which began 80 years ago is now fa...
Friday, 19 July 2019

Remembering the Battle of Britain ............ part 4 a film and two music scores

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Now there is always a story even behind the most straightforward of events. Battle of Britain Theme, 1969 So here prompted by a photo...
Thursday, 18 July 2019

Remembering the Battle of Britain ................ part 3 Churchill’s speech to the House of Commons, August 20 1940

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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” It is the line from Mr Churchill’s  Battle of Britain spe...
Sunday, 2 August 2015

The Battle of Britain remembered ............ next weekend in Saddleworth

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Now how we choose to remember and indeed revisit the past takes many forms and I have never been sniffy about re-enactment groups, those ...
Saturday, 18 July 2015

Remembering the Battle of Britain in Southern Cemetery

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Now for many today the Battle of Britain is a piece of history, but for those of us who grew up in the 1940s and 50s it was an ever prese...