Sweden

Many thanks to esiuol for sending us this shot to represent in Sweden our blipper-sourced album of places mentioned in Lorna Lloyd's Diary of the war (previously blipped in full in the LornaL journal, and now available as a podcast series). 

esiuol explains that the building is Malmo Castle. This now houses the Museum of Natural History and Malmo Art Museum.

Towards the end of World War II, the castle became a refugee camp for women and men who were rescued by the Red Cross from the concentration camps in Hitler's Germany. They came to Sweden on the White Buses (Vita Bussen), one of which is on show next to the castle wall. Find out more about the White Buses on Wikipedia.

Lorna is rather critical of Sweden in the two war diary entries in which she mentions the country: see the blips in the LornaL journal for 13th March 1940 and 15th March 1940. These both appear in Episode 4 of our podcast series.

If you have any photographs not previously blipped that we could add to this journal's pipeline (which is diminishing day by day at the moment), please do send it(them) to h.hall@napier.ac.uk so that we can will feature it(them) alongside the others that we have been blipping here since 13th July 2022. 

We realise that it is going to be difficult to source shots of some of the locations listed* We will therefore also be happy to receive photographs from blippers to represent these 'tricky' places (see for example our blip of 4th December). Thank you!

ENGLISH CITIES AND LARGE TOWNS
Bolton
Coventry
Gloucester
Ilford

ENGLAND: SMALLER LOCATIONS
Leigh, Gloucestershire
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
 
ENGLAND: VERY SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
Callow End, Malvern 
Caxton Hall, London

EUROPE - SPECIFIC PLACES
Albania: Durrës (Durazzo)
France: Bailleul,  Dunkirk, Forest of Compiègne, the Maginot Line, Roncesvalles
Finland: Hanko (Hangö), Mannerheim Line
Germany: Heligoland, Siegfried Line
Greece: Thermopylae
Italy: Romagna, Taranto
Poland: Silesia, Warsaw, Westerplatte
Russia: Karelian Isthmus, Petsamo province (part of Finland until 1944, Vyborg (Viipuri in Finland until 1944)
Spain: Guernica

REST OF THE WORLD - SPECIFIC PLACES
Egypt: Sidi Barrani
Iraq: Babylon (Hillah)
Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria: Lake Chad
South Africa: Mafeking (Mafekeng)

EUROPE AND REST OF THE WORLD - GENERAL (i.e. we just need a shot from anywhere in the country listed)
Czech Republic
French Equatorial Africa (now Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon)
Libya
Poland
Romania

Thank you to all the blippers who have already supplied pictures for this project to date:

ArcLight
1bluebell 
bibba 
CaitlinA
Colstro
DarkEyedMary
digitaldaze
esiuol 
hazelh
hjarald
iaint
Ingeborg
jelleybaby
jonmountjoy
Joyful
LauraMuir
Livresse
Munroist4113
Myceliumme
Nettenet
Pandammonium
Pinkhairedlady
Ridgeback13
rosewiles7
Sallymair
SMLP
SparseRunner
Tigger101
Tweedy
walkingMarj
whome
Winsford