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Tag: WW2

Morpeth Castle Bow

Dougie Carnegie talks about being bombed out

7th August 2022 Alan T News in and around Bow, The Geezers

Dougie Carnegie (1932 – 2022) talks about being bombed out in the first recording below. After Dougie and Shirley married they lived on Cadogan Terrace at the eastern end of Victoria Park. It was a

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Henry Glanz 4th from left chopping wood in Wales 1940

Holocaust survivor visits the Geezers

21st June 2022 Alan T History, News in and around Bow, The Geezers

Towards the end of May the Geezers were privileged to have 98 year old Henry Glanz visit as a speaker. Henry arrived in Britain in 1939 as part of a group of 200 Jewish children

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Stretcher Railings junction Devons road and Watts Grove, London E3. They run past BIlberry House and Bramble House

Stretcher Railings

15th April 2021 Alan T History, News in and around Bow

Ken Stewart wrote in to ask: “My father who used to frequent the Moulders [Bromley High Street, E3] told me the old flats opposite going down to near the Seven Stars, their metal fencing was

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The plugboard on an Enigma Machine

Take a Daytrip from London – Bletchley Park

29th April 2019 Alan T History, News in and around Bow

During WW2 German Enigma, then Lorenz messages were being decoded 50 miles north of London at Bletchley Park. You can visit the site to see how the Bombe machines, and the later Colossus computers cracked

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Norma’s Story

14th June 2013 Ted Lewis History

War had been declared and within months arrangements were being made for all London and Outer London children to be evacuated to the country where they would be safe from the bombing which was expected

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