Hamble - ATA Ferry Pool (No 15)

An ATA Ferry Pool started at Hamble in September 1940, lead by Captain Brian Wardle, and at the beginning it was a sub-pool of No 1 Ferry Pool, but soon it became No 15 Ferry Pool and a year later became an all-women Ferry Pool. 

https://www.hugofox.com/shared/attachments.asp?f=32006ca2-033b-4b1f-9bdb-3b78a49f7a0e.pdf .
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/hambles-female-ww2-pilots-7286014 .

Hampstead pit garage - London

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Highgate, Hampstead

Highgate Cemetery - Britannia > .

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Highgate Cemetery, Hampstead Heath - Britannia >> . 

Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West Cemetery and the East Cemetery at Highgate Cemetery. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London.

The "Magnificent Seven" is an informal term applied to seven large private cemeteries in London. They were established in the 19th century to alleviate overcrowding in existing parish burial grounds. Highgate cemetery in its original form—the northwestern wooded area—opened in 1839, as part of a plan to provide the seven large, modern cemeteries around the outside of central London. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. The initial design was by architect and entrepreneur Stephen Geary. The first burial was Elizabeth Jackson of Little Windmill Street, Soho, on 26 May.

Highgate, like the others of the Magnificent Seven, soon became a fashionable place for burials and was much admired and visited. The Victorian attitude to death and its presentation led to the creation of a wealth of Gothic tombs and buildings. It occupies a spectacular south-facing hillside site slightly downhill from the top of the hill of Highgate itself, next to Waterlow Park. In 1854 the area to the east of the original area across Swains Lane was bought to form the eastern part of the cemetery. Both the cemeteries are still used today for burials, but these areas are closed to the public. Most of the open unforested area in the East Cemetery still has fairly few graves on it.

The cemetery's grounds are full of trees, shrubbery and wildflowers, most of which have been planted and grown without human influence. The grounds are a haven for birds and small animals such as foxes.

Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people interred there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve. Karl Marx is buried in the East Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery is designated Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificent_Seven_cemeteries .
https://highgatecemetery.org/visit/cemetery/east .
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Highgate-Cemetery/ .
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History of London

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Five Catastrophes That Made London - Gresh > .

A brief introduction to the complicated evolution of the historic city of London. Here, Peter Murray explains the development of the capital, from its inception 2,000 years ago with the Roman settlement on the Thames to its role as a major trading city and establishment of seat of British government, and discusses particular challenges it has faced, including the Great Fire of 1666, the onslaught of the Blitz in World War II, and the expansion of the city.

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IWM - Imperial War Museum

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Founded during WW1 to tell the stories of those whose lives had been touched by the conflict – objects were still being collected for the new Imperial War Museum whilst WW2 raged on.

The Imperial War Museum opened its first 'permanent' exhibition at Crystal Palace on 9 June 1920, after three years of temporary exhibitions and scattered storage.

In October 1939, the decision was made to expand the remit of the museum. Although the outcome of the current conflict was uncertain, the museum would also cover the events of the new war. A skeleton staff was maintained and the Lambeth Road site was used as a timber dump and a Royal Army Ordnance Corps billet. A barrage balloon was tethered in front of the building.

Ernest Blaikley, IWM’s first keeper of art, oversaw the evacuation of key works of art from the Imperial War Museum. The remaining collection proved useful. The library continued to function and the map collection was constantly reviewed. Photographs from WW1 were used for training and propaganda purposes. 

In 1940, after the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from Dunkirk created an acute shortage of equipment and weaponry, the museum was asked to help the military by handing over items from its collection. The trustees of the museum agreed to hand over some exhibits – but, because of its significance to the museum, refused to give up the gun manned by Jack Cornwell at the Battle of Jutland.

The Ministry of Works questioned the museum (1940) about failure to evacuate more of its collection. Some additional items were removed to the countryside – but the majority of the collection remained at the museum to face the risk of German bombs.

A short seaplane which had flown at the Battle of Jutland was shattered when a German bomb fell on the Naval Gallery on 31 January 1941. The group of men who had been working in the gallery repairing earlier damage had a narrow escape as they had left for lunch shortly before the bomb landed. This was just one of more than 40 incendiary hits on the building throughout the war.

Although the museum had been reopened briefly in 1940, and held two small exhibitions in 1944 and 1945, it did not officially reopen until 26 November 1946.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/iwm-during-the-second-world-war .

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum .