Comments on: So yes, I am actually in London http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Airminded · Up above, the blue peril http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-142524 Airminded · Up above, the blue peril Fri, 28 May 2010 08:58:07 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-142524 [...] in a scene when a sub-aerine has an accident and crashes onto Trafalgar Square, knocking over Nelson’s Column. There’s the predictable reaction of the mob to danger: Then, more quickly than I can tell [...] [...] in a scene when a sub-aerine has an accident and crashes onto Trafalgar Square, knocking over Nelson’s Column. There’s the predictable reaction of the mob to danger: Then, more quickly than I can tell [...]

]]> By: Roger Todd http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-55096 Roger Todd Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:37:14 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55096 Ah, I expect only you as the blog's owner can post inline images... Oh well, just copy the URL to see a scan of the illustration. Ah, I expect only you as the blog's owner can post inline images...

Oh well, just copy the URL to see a scan of the illustration.

]]> By: Roger Todd http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-55095 Roger Todd Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:36:00 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55095 It pops up surprisingly frequently in secondhand bookshops. First editions (sans dust cover) should only cost a fiver or so. Meanwhile... [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/GrandLunar/SciFi/Parham1.jpg[/IMG] It pops up surprisingly frequently in secondhand bookshops. First editions (sans dust cover) should only cost a fiver or so.

Meanwhile...

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/GrandLunar/SciFi/Parham1.jpg[/IMG]

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-55088 Brett Holman Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:16:06 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55088 Thanks, yet another book I will have to look up now! :) Thanks, yet another book I will have to look up now! :)

]]> By: Roger Todd http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/comment-page-1/#comment-55035 Roger Todd Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:35:02 +0000 http://airminded.org/2007/07/18/so-yes-i-am-actually-in-london/#comment-55035 "...here's Nelson's Column (which novelists of the next air war were always careful to knock over for the symbolism)" Indeed! There's a lovely illustration by the great David Low in H G Wells's 'The Autocracy of Mr Parham' showing Nelson's Column toppling under a bomb attack. Anyhoo, welcome to The Smoke! "...here's Nelson's Column (which novelists of the next air war were always careful to knock over for the symbolism)"

Indeed! There's a lovely illustration by the great David Low in H G Wells's 'The Autocracy of Mr Parham' showing Nelson's Column toppling under a bomb attack.

Anyhoo, welcome to The Smoke!

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