Tom Morgan

Husband, Dad, Grandad, Battlefield Guide, Motorcyclist, Boater. Mostly Harmless.

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I was in Amiens recently and walking to my hotel I passed this shop. It was closed. It was also closed the next morning. Couldn't wait any longer.

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Congratulations to my son-in-law's band, Shed Seven, whose new album "A Matter of Time" has reached N0. 1 in the UK album charts, 30 years after their first UK chart entry. (Appropriate album title, then.)

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After quite an absence, been back in beautiful Krakow.

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@PippaCrerar I'm sure we all have bigger things to worry about than a few has-beens.

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Almost-completed Mark V* tanks, outside the "Long Shop" of the Metropolitan Carriage Company's Old Park Works, Wednesbury, Staffordshire (now West Midlands). They are waiting to be moved by rail from the works sidings to have their armaments fitted and be put into service.

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I found a shady spot near Gothersley (Staffs & Worcs Canal) yesterday, got the folding chair out and spent 45 minutes cooling down between boat-cleaning sessions. staying put today.

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British 6-inch howitzer on the road, "dans les houblonnières" ("among the hop-fields") near Poperinge. Then and now.

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Nine years ago today. My tour group went to Disneyland Paris - I went into the city for a bit of hero worship in Montparnasse Cemetery.

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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
The Folkestone Museum, has this huge painting, "Landing of the Belgian Refugees" (1915) by Fredo Franzoni (himself a refugee.) The Mayor of Folkestone and Albert, King of the Belgians, welcome them to Britain.

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5.11.1917. A solitary soldier on the "corduroy road" through Hooge Chateau Wood. The road still exists as one of the service access roads to the Bellewaerde leisure park, which takes up most of the chateau grounds today. Then and now.

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Records of320,000 Punjabi soldiers found in the basement of the Lahore Museum, Pakistan.
https://t.co/OjMOPOPwKN

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Bonne fête de Saint-Crépin
Happy St. Crispin's Day
25th October 1415

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took this date as the end of its statutory duty to commemorate the war dead. Legal obligations taken out "for the duration of the war" came to an end, etc. Thus, the war had lasted for seven years.

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Little known fact - the Great War ended 100 years ago today.
"The Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act" of 1918 decreed that the war would end when the King and Privy Council issued an Order in Council stating that it was over.......

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....and the war would be considered to be at an end from the date the order was made. At the conclusion of all the peace treaties etc, the Order in Council was made on 31st August, 1921, and the war was at an end. The Imperial War Graves Commission.....

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The small commune of Fay, Somme, captured by French troops on the first day of the battle, 1st July, 1916. Here are some French artillerymen with their 90mm gun, beside the church. The modern photo shows roughly the same spot in the remains of the church today. Then and now.

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Today I was reminded of the grumpiest tree on the whole of the UK canal network (at Stourport, Worcestershire.)

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Looking back to 2015. Redundant angels, replaced during the restoration of the spire of St. Martin's Ypres, look sorry for themselves in a corner of the church. The one not speaking to the others is a spare replacement that wasn't needed.