Tag: Winston Churchill

• A Tragedy at Chartwell

  

  Sometimes stories pop out at you and this one (indirectly) involved one of our greatest statesmen. I was with Mark in Beckenham Cemetery recently and as we were looking over the graves infront of us, one inscription caught my eye. Headstones that state the cause of death show a remarkable frankness and public demonstration of […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 30, 2019

  Biography, Estate, History

  Baden-Powell, beckenham cemetery, Chartwell, Drowning, Forgotten, MP, penge, Politician, scouts, Story, Weald, Winston Churchill

• ‘Incomparably Grave, Severe and Beautiful…’

  by Sheldon I’ll never forget the sight of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s son swinging on a Union flag on the Cenotaph in 2011, as part of the student demonstrations. The outrage that it caused, and the excuse that he wasn’t aware what the Cenotaph was, despite being an undergraduate history student at the University […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 18, 2014

  Architecture, Bristol, India, Memorial, Military, War

  Admiralty, Cenotaph, centenary, dead, Edwin Lutyens, Fallen, War Memoria, Whitehall, Winston Churchill, world war one