Gunner in tin hat and sheepskin coat, by William Dargie, 19 February 1942.

AWM ART22226

Holes made in 1643 by musket balls can be seen on both sides of the door, together with a loophole (now filled in) between and above the two handles. My photo.

The doorway to the Church of St. Lawrence in Alton, Hampshire, still peppered with musket-ball holes from the Battle of Alton, 13 December 1643. To the right, above and between the handles, is a loophole to allow firing out by the Royalist troops inside the Church.

Whitehall doorway.

No.36 was the former home of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (government lawyers who specialise in drafting legislation).

My pic.

Malta Convoy: Basutos Deal with Overflow Mail on the Causeway, the Palace, Valletta, 1943, by Leslie Cole.

IWM ART LD 3254
(Photo taken at the current IWM exhibition.)

Goodnight.

Brigade HQ, by Edward Ardizzone.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 118)

Elizabeth Amery, a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, computes range at 428 Battery, Coastal Defence Artillery Headquarters, Dover, December 1942. Original colour.

IWM (TR 561), War Office Official Photographer

I fear that the miscreant youth will have made a clean getaway, chalk in hand, by the time effective enforcement measures are taken.

Trying to work out if ‘No’ qualifies ‘idling’, ‘children’ and ‘breathing’ as three separate prohibitions, or if it’s only idling and children breathing that are banned… .

Monday.

IWM A6441, Lt Parnall

Dive bombers attacking, fire from an Oerlikon, by Dennis Adams, 1943.

AWM ART22824

One of the Burghers of Calais, by Auguste Rodin, Victoria Tower Gardens, London. My pic.

A Churchill of 34th Armoured Brigade demonstrates its ability to deal trees in the Reichswald Forest, Germany, 10 February 1945.

IWM (A70 239-6), Sgt Colllins, AFPU

AWM description: "Depicts Private First Class James E Janava, No 32096974, from ? and three unidentified men from the United States Army, 565 Signals Air Warning Battalion."

Four Americans from 565 Signallers AW Battalion (PFC James Janava), by Roy Hopkinson, 1943.

AWM ART21701

Friday.

IWM (E 18522), Sgt Chetwyn

Utopia Next Stop, by Eric Fraser, 20 November 1942.

© the artist's estate

Lt Vanderson captures shadows in the western desert, 25.2.42.

IWM (E 8856), Lt Vanderson, AFPU

Midget Submarines: April 1944, by Stephen Bone.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 5794)

Cecil Beaton photographs Major David Stirling at No. 4 Middle East Training School, RAF Kabrit, near Suez, 1942.

IWM (CBM 1515)

Thank you for sharing this - what a great memento!

A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, by Maggi Hambling. Adelaide Street, London.

Good morning.

It’s quite small (about 3-4 small rooms), but worth a visit, I feel. It’s on for a while yet.

Tagging @lydiajane13.bsky.social as a big Halifax fan.

I haven’t, one for the list…

Cecil Beaton’s photographs.

Henry Carr, Familiar Silhouettes, 1942.

John Edgar Platt, Wartime Traffic on the River Thames series, 1942.

Frank Dobson, An Escalator in an Underground Factory, 1944.

I visited the IWM’s ‘Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art’ exhibition recently. I post so many of these that it’s great to see some of them in person. Enjoyable, followed by a general mooch round the museum.

Spot on.

Day out.

Sounds an opportunity for important historical reconstruction…

Good Friday divine service held at 18th Army Group in North Africa, 24 April 1943.

IWM (NA 2292), Capt Black, AFPU