Caroline 🚜

When we decided on a date months ago never thought it would be the hottest day of the year!!

It's Regional Conference week and it's not to late to join us.

To book visit the Great War Huts or Gallipoli Association websites

Man on the train next to me seems to have taken a bath in aftershave or similar. Thankfully it's only on the branchline, will check nowhere near him at marks Tey!!

A fantastic evening for our third Hutted Histories talk, ‘Prepared for War: Uniforms and Equipment of the Great War British Soldier’ - brilliantly delivered by Taff Gillingham with a special appearance by L/Cpl Kieran Morling. Huge thanks to everyone who came along!

Don't worry there'll be more over the next week!

Spent the 2 minutes silence in a NAAFI which is where these 2 met. On VE day Grandma was at North Weald and Grandad was in Holland. Just because the war was over didn't mean they saw each other straight away. It was December before they met again.

Lest we forget: scallywags, escorts and boltholes On VE Day, remember the Scallywags and the Coats Mission: Britain’s secret last line – prepared for the worst, needed to save King & country

Their bunkers were hidden in the countryside. No official records.
Trained to kill.

Their mission: disrupt, delay, die in the event of an invasion, to buy time for a counterattack.

Stuart Burrell tells us more.
#Scallywags #BritishResistance #WW2

Ice cream for lunch!

Both of the weekend results were expected, both teams will be championship teams next year!

Sometimes preping to follow in footsteps of family members getting ready to visit next month means you just need to use the floor

Thanks, easy to make! Just random squares on the front quilt wadding in the middle and a thermal material on the other side.

Spring is here for shed working when the curtains are tied back, the draught excluder put away and the door hooked back

Season ticket doesn't count this afternoon, so in the north stand for the first time in many years

How I'm spending my afternoon

I only recently discovered they went from Felixstowe. It's where my great uncle went from

I love the day after there was nothing to report. Reckon some sore heads!

I never got round to doing regular posts on what my grandad was doing 80 years ago but here's how the 3rd Irish guards introduced the Dutch to St Patrick

Made it into the auditorium

Second attempt! Fingers crossed it doesn't get cancelled this time...

Stupid 7.30 kick offs 😕

Not long now until we get started - Series 1 begins on Monday 3rd February.

In the link is a teaser where Rob describes Japanese leadership ... errr ... arrangements ... at the Battle of Imphal.

youtu.be/bA9i2az2BKM

PODCAST EPISODES AND INFORMATION - Island Fortress Here you can find the supporting information for each podcast episode where we put images and documents relating to the items we talk about on the 'Islands at War' podcast episode by episode. You can ...

You can find every episode of the podcast talking about the German occupation of the Channel Islands on the link below. We talk about it from the view of the civilian population and the military view. 🗃️

island-fortress.com/podcast-epis...

On 12th January 1915, 110 years ago today, HM King George V sent this message to all members of the recently-formed 28th Division who were about to embark for France.

This particular message turned up in a Paybook we recently acquired, which turned out to be rather special…
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Best thing so far in the 3rd round of the cup - a Tamworth player getting on the shoulders of another player to fix the net.

MP explains why he asked government about James Bond fictional ship The South Suffolk MP has said he was testing Labour officials to see if they were using AI after a question he submitted referenced a James Bond…

Really proud of my mp. of course it was a test to see if AI was being used......

24 hours after our previous ‘Discovered-Just-In-The-Nick-Of-Time’ item, here is another…

110 years ago today, 5th January 1915, the Daily Sketch ran a Christmas Truce story about a “Major who sang carols between the trenches”.

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OK, so mine is back to the future. Not really sure if that means I'm going to be living like in the 1950s or need to find a DeLorean.

Just in the nick of time, we spotted this poster in the GWH Collection, from 110 years ago today. Loosely translated:

Notice to Refugees

The Mayor of Poperinghe informs refugees that a train to Calais will be available to them on 7th January, departing at 10am.

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Cheated a bit as the first one was just snoopy! Not sure I'm brave enough to give labyrinth a rewatch

Happy 2025, beautiful people.

As a philosopher once said, there’s some good in this world, Mr Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

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