Letters from the Front

Collated by Christina All produced by St George’s Parish Church Beckenham and displayed on 4/8/2014

Propaganda Posters of WW1

Please click on all the links as you read through this post – there are hundreds more World War 1 propaganda posters to look at. When Britain went to war in 1914, it only had a small, professional army. There was no policy of national service in place as there was in countries like France […]

The Great War: Truth and Memory – A Visit to The Imperial War Museum

Introduction Welcome to our month-long commemoration of the centenary of World War 1. On Monday 4 August 2014 it will have been 100 years since Britain declared war on Germany. We at Cemetery Club do not have Jeremy Paxman hidden up our sleeves and we recognize that, as people born in the 1980’s, whose own Grandparents were born […]

Looking for the Mystery Saint of Montcuit

by Christina It’s Friday night and I’m home doing Internet research. It is infuriating because I can’t find what I’m looking for, and in this day and age, when does that ever happen anymore? Seriously – when was the last time you typed a search into Google and you just didn’t find a single thing? […]

For The Fallen

by Sheldon & Christina

Outside London: The Cliffs of St Bees Part II

by Christina I feel like I was a little harsh on St Bees when I last wrote about it. The beach was not the prettiest I have ever seen, it’s true, but it was a sunny day and the village was gorgeous and there were hulking sandstone cliffs that I nearly slid off of […]

Normandy on D-Day and Other Stories

I spent D-Day 2013 in Normandy, and more specifically, in Bayeux and Arromanches; the latter staring out at Port Winston and Gold Beach, imagining what it must have been like that bloody, horrific day in 1944. The streets of the town are buoyant – full of American rock n roll music blasting out of the […]