Saturday, August 31, 2013

Wartime Cookery Book (1940)

Wartime Cookery Book (1940)
[Part of the National Food Campaign]
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

St Marie's Parish War Memorial, Standish.

1. St Marie's, Our Lady of the Annunciation Church
The Roman Catholic parish church of Standish
(The War Memorial  is in the church grounds)
 
2. St Marie's R.C. Parish War Memorial, Standish
3. The WW1 panel, Standish R.C. Parish War Memorial 
4. The WW2 panel, Standish R.C. Parish War Memorial
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Memorial for the Sons of Standish (Lancashire)


1. St Wilfred's Church and War Memorial Gatehouse
[Standish, Lancashire (near Wigan)]
2. War Memorial Gatehouse (exterior)
[St Wilfred's Parish Church, Standish]
3. Commemorative tablets  for 'The Fallen'
[War Memorial Gatehouse, Standish]
4. Commemorative tablets for local miners
[Miners killed in locForaal coal mines 1914 -1918]
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Friday, August 09, 2013

The Border Regt.'s 5th Battalion in the 1940 B.E.F.

1. The Border Regiment shield and badges 
2. Lille ('La Vieille Bourse'), Nord, France.
(Located in the city's main square)
[5th Border was based in the region in spring 1940]  
3. Entrance to Fort Lobau, Bondues, near Lille.
(Now the Bondues Resistance museum)

[This was 5th Border HQ in April / May 1940]
4. Fort Lobau, Bondues, Nord, France
(Internal view)
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