Shrivenham
Arachne has just been to Shrivenham in Oxfordshire. Remembering that this location was on our list of places to blip in our LornaLPodcast journal, she kindly took this shot of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom as a contribution to our blipper-sourced online photo 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).
Shrivenham features in Lorna's war diary because it is here in early 1940 that her brother Theo completed a searchlight course at the Military College of Science (the predecessor organisation of the Defence Academy). Lorna notes her brother's activity there on 17th February that year.
Theo's great-grand daughter actress Bethany Ray plays his sister (and her great-great aunt) Lorna in our podcast series. Hear Bethany read out this particular war diary entry in Episode 4.
Do you have a suitable shot to offer for this journal - either of a place(s), or something that could represent it (them)? If so, please send your contribution(s) (not previously blipped) to h.hall@napier.ac.uk to feature alongside the others that we have been blipping here since 13th July 2022. Thank you!
Here's the list of the locations that we have left to cover:
Albania: Durrës (Durazzo)
Czech Republic/Germany/Poland: Silesia
Egypt: Sidi Barrani
England (2): Coventry; Leigh, Gloucestershire
France (3): Bailleul; Dunkirk; Forest of Compiègne
Finland (2): Hanko (Hangö); Mannerheim Line
Germany: Heligoland
Greece: Thermopylae
Italy: Taranto
Russia (3): Karelian Isthmus, Petsamo province (part of Finland until 1944); Vyborg (Viipuri in Finland until 1944)
Spain: Guernica
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this challenge so far:
Arachne
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