VE Day in 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Thursday 8th May 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. This momentous event will be commemorated nationally on Victory in Europe Day (8th May 2025).
I have started the challenge early so that the [...]
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4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 20th 2025
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Royal Tank Regiment Memorials
This exhibit is a fiberglass model used to create the bronze statue that now stands in Whitehall Place, London. The London statue was unveiled by the Royal Tank Regiment’’s Colonel in Chief, Her Majesty the Queen, on the 13th of June 2000.
The memorial depicts a Comet Tank Crew and is a permanent tribute to those [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 23rd 2019
Today is the 70th anniversary of VE Day, the public holiday that was celebrated in Britain on 8th May 1945 marking the end of WWII. As a sign of respect a two minute silence was observed at my place of work.
Huge crowds gathered in London on the following day. At 3pm Churchill made a radio [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 8th 2015
Filed under Holidays, Mechelen 2014
War Memorial in its Environs
2 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2014
Filed under This & That
At the Going Down of the Sun…
…and in the morning, we will remember them.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 11th 2013
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Out & About
I Was a Stranger…
… and you took me in.
This is a window from All Saints Church that can be found within the grounds of Sudbury Hall. A plaque in front of the window gives the following information:
When war was declared in 1939, Manchester like many other cities moved fast to protect its young; living in and near to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 21st 2011
