Sand Bay, North Somerset

We know from Lorna Lloyd's Diary of the war (previously blipped in the LornaL journal, and now available as a podcast series) that in May 1940, Lorna Lloyd and her mother left their home in Malvern to visit relations in Bristol. (Lorna's father was away on active service at the time. He was most likely involved in activities that led to the evacuation of Dunkirk at the end of the month.) 

On Monday 13th May 1940 Lorna, her mother, and other members of the family travelled from Bristol to enjoy a picnic at Sand Bay in North Somerset. Blipper Colstro kindly sent us this shot of modern-day Sand Bay to add to our album of photographs of places that Lorna mentions in her Diary of the war. Thank you Colstro! 

Hear Lorna's great-great niece - actor Bethany Ray - read the diary entry that relates the picnic at Sand Bay in Episode 6 of the podcast series of the Diary of the war.

Listed below are many more locations mentioned in Lorna's war diary that we would like to collect for this journal, including another 17 in England. If you have a photograph(s) of any of the places (that you have not blipped already), please do send it(them) to h.hall@napier.ac.uk and we will feature it(them) alongside the others that we have been blipping here since 13th July 2022. 

ENGLAND: CITIES AND LARGE TOWNS
Birmingham
Bolton
Bristol - we'd love a shot of Lorna's grandfather's shop, still in business at 81 Henleaze Road
Cheltenham
Coventry
Gloucester
Ilford
Sheffield
Southampton
Swindon
Worcester

ENGLAND: SMALLER LOCATIONS
Aust, Gloucestershire
Leigh, Gloucestershire
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire
 
ENGLAND: VERY SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
Callow End, Malvern 
Caxton Hall, London

EUROPE - SPECIFIC PLACES
Albania: Durrës (Durazzo)
France: Bailleul, Boulogne, Dunkirk, Forest of Compiègne, the Maginot Line, the river Marne, Roncesvalles, Wimereux
Finland: Hanko (Hangoe), Mannerheim Line, Petsamo, Viipuri
Germany: Heligoland, Munich, Siegfried Line
Greece: Thermopylae
Italy: Romagna, Taranto
Netherlands: The Hague
Poland: Silesia, Warsaw, Westerplatte
Russia: Karelian Isthmus
Spain: Guernica

REST OF THE WORLD - SPECIFIC PLACES
Argentina: Buenos Aires
Epypt: Sidi Barrani
Iraq: Babylon (Hillah)
Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria: Lake Chad
Senegal: Dakar
South Africa: Mafeking (Mafekeng)
Uruguay: Montevideo

EUROPE AND REST OF THE WORLD - GENERAL
Belgium
Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic)
Finland
French Equatorial Africa (now Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon)
Germany
Greece
Libya
Luxembourg
Middle East
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
South Africa
Sweden