Tag: War

• A Sombre Trip to Ypres.

  When I was a teenager my father told me a story. I must have been around 13 and learning about the First World war at school. I couldn’t quite grasp how devastating the war must have been on the families of England and how so many young men lost their lives in a needless war…

  Alan Peters

  13th Mar 2023

  Cemeteries, Memorials, museums, Uncategorized

  Belgium, first world war, flanders, historicplace, history, Historylover, historylovers, Hooge Crater museum, In Flanders Fields museum, museum, museums, visit Belgium, visit Ypres, War, world history, world travel, world war 1, ww1, ypres, ypres solent

• Wordless Wednesday.

  Alan Peters

  15th Feb 2023

  Uncategorized, wordless Wednesday

  history, Historylover, War, war history, wordless Wednesday, wordlesswednesday, World War 2

• The Curious Case of the Missing Fences

  Go to any town or city in England and you’ll find walls with these little stumpy metal parts. What happened here and what happened to the ironwork that was once attached? These little stumps date back to the early 1940’s. During the early part of the second world war a scrap drive was started to…

  Alan Peters

  3rd Sep 2022

  Buildings, Uncategorized

  fences, iron, ironwork, railing, recycling, scrap, second world war, Sheffield, Sheffield buildings, Sheffield history, War, war history, war stories, World War 2, worldwar2

• Antwerp Bunker Museum.

  Hidden in a park on the outskirts of Antwerp lies this lovely, strange and surprising museum. The bunkers here were built in 1943 as part of the Atlantic wall defense shield around the coast of Europe by the German army during World War II. The troops which were stationed here in the bunkers and surrounding…

  Alan Peters

  4th Jun 2022

  Buildings

  Antwerp, Belgian History, Belgian park. tourism, Belgian war, Belgium, bunker, Bunker Museum, euro travel, Europe, European travel, European War, eurotraveller, historicplace, history, Historylover, historylovers, historynerd, Historyphotographed, historyuncovered, Holiday Europe, Nazis, parc Den Brandt, photojournal, tourist spot, travel, visit Belgium, Visit Europe, War, What to see, world history, world travel, World War 2, WWII