L. E. O. Charlton

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• Self-help in an air raid

  15 March 2010 in 1910s, 1930s, Civil defence, Periodicals

  The following letter appeared in the Evening News, 13 March 1935, 6:
  On the brick wall at the side of our street door can still be seen faintly two large letters, “P. P.,” which stood for Poplar Patrol. Every Friday night it was my job to collect 3d. from each house-hold that belonged to the “P.P.” [...]

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• Something like a railway carriage

  13 March 2010 in 1910s, Books, Phantom airships and other panics

  On the last night of January 1916, a large force of seven Zeppelins crossed over the Wash into Norfolk, heading for the industrial cities of the Midlands. Unsure of their location, most of them instead dropped their bombs on relatively unimportant targets. But at least they got home okay. The defending aircraft of the RFC [...]

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• 61-67 Warrington Crescent, 8 March 1918

  7 March 2010 in 1910s, 1930s, Maps, Pictures

  This is Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale, on the morning of 8 March 1918, after it had been hit by a 1-ton bomb dropped by a Giant bomber the night before — one of the largest to fall on London during the First World War and the most materially destructive. Twelve people were killed (including Lena [...]

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• Duxford and North Weald

  3 March 2010 in Pictures, Travel 2009

  This post relates to my trip to England and Wales in September 2009.

  The day after the Shuttleworth Collection visit, Trevor again kindly offered his services as chauffeur and guide, this time to Imperial War Museum Duxford. I’d only been to IWM London on my first visit to London; since IWM Duxford has a specific [...]

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• Acquisitions

  26 February 2010 in Acquisitions, Books

  Nick Smart. Neville Chamberlain. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010. I’m not a big reader of biographies, partly because they often aren’t ‘historical’ enough and partly because they usually aren’t about the people I’m interested in. This one satisfies on both counts.

  This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike [...]

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