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Those two huge cannons (15-inch naval guns): are they trained on any particular target? The forward guns of HMS Belfast (another part of the IWM) are trained on Scratchwood Services on the M1, supposedly.
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Google Earth suggests that their line of fire possibly includes Mount Pleasant, the Angel and the Emirates Stadium - (the latter is sort of appropriate given that it's the home of the Gunners)
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Dang! Now I want to go there to see that Family In Wartime exhibition, but it looks like I've missed it altogether if it was going to close in April anyway. :(
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Was closed for many months last year too. Looks like a big transformation.
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The Holocaust exhibition is superb, even if you think you know enough about it.
I always found the rest of the museum too cluttered, with vast numbers of small exhibits. All well labelled but scruffy and overwhelming. Therefore I look forward to the reopened museum. |
timbo, thanks - and right over (?!) my road a bit further on, then.....
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Thanks for the news from Lambeth, once again I like the way you generously hyperlink your text. I lunched in the park when working nearby at the Central Office of Information.
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the museum was partly closed for improvements during 2013 but during this building work, major problems with the infrastructure were discovered which made the 6 month closure necessary. it's very badly timed, but apparently there was no alternative.
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Did they still have that glass case with a (theoretically extremely rare and valuable, due to paper shortages) wartime copy of the Beano, cut to pieces so you could read the interior pages (and, furthermore, with a racist picture in the corner of the front cover guillotined off)?
I saw a photo of that printed in the comic once, sent in by a well-intentioned reader. It was incredible. I suppose they're only comics - it's not like they damaged a real exhibit... |
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