Two major thoughts on the Manchester terrorist attack, today there are troops on some of Britain's streets. Sounds like a good idea hey? If the bloody Tories (and I used to vote Conservative) hadn't cut 20,000 police in their sly cutbacks the troops wouldn't be needed on the streets, also police out walking the beat knew people, people knew them, ( Read more... )

A new theory has been mooted that the tragic teenage wartime diarist Anne Frank may have been discovered by chance and not because her hiding place was betrayed ( Read more... )

Lest we forget those who gave their lives for the wars.... I'm so sorry for what the world has become 😢

Video of World War 2 hidden bunker

I did not know this. So terribly sad from Germany, from the BBC report "as evening fell in Berlin, small candles were quietly lit and carefully placed in front of aged, stone doorsteps and along the darkening pavements ( Read more... )

Thanks to the new Dads Army film interest in the original characters has rocketed.Arnold Ridley - Godfrey of Dads Army was no Conchie and suffered dreadfully in both WW1 and WW2
Arnold "May I be excused?" Ridley , Private Godfrey, RIP.

Also real life ...

"A woman who risked her life by hiding a Jewish friend during World War Two, but ended up being ( Read more... )

How might I word this?? How might I sweetly and nicely write about the fact that my Mother bloody well Rang me At the exact moment the Spitfires went by?? Three seconds of video I got before it switched off to accept the incoming call! THREE seconds!! Argh ( Read more... )

From the Harrogate Informer
Today, "Thursday 13 August 2015, Spitfires from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will be joined by private Spitfire owners to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Eagle Attack, the first day of Unternehmen Adlerangriff, the German operation to destroy the Royal Air Force in World War II.

Up to 13 Spitfires will ( Read more... )

Fascinating articles on the amazing wartime tunnels at Dover cliffs, all contain video footage too of the tunnels.
WW2 tunnels at Dover cliffs
National Trust tunnels
much older report from 2011 on Dover Castle tunnels used in WW2

The wife of a World War Two Veteran, Bernard Jordan who left/escaped his nursing home aged 89 triggering an International hunt for him because he was going to to France for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day commemorations has died just days after her husband ( Read more... )

Bloody hell, the plumber has replaced the ball cock in the attic central heating water tank which has been leaking some 4 months ...... The ball cock was 'Made in Britain'  1942! That made it 72 years old & brittle as hell as it started to fall apart upon removal :-( It's from World War 2, i could've donated it to Imperial War Museum lol Didn't get ( Read more... )