Images Dated 6th April 2020

London, Hyde Park, June 1929

A GWR Publicity view of the Wellington Monument in London's Hyde Park, in June 1929. The 5.5m high statue of Achilles was erected in 1822 to honour the Duke of Wellington's victories in the Peninsular War and Napoleonic Wars and was made from captured enemy cannon from Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse and Waterloo

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Stoke Poges Church, Buckinghamshire

A GWR Publicity view of St Giles Church in the village of Stoke Poges, near Slough, Buckinghamshire. The poet Thomas Gray was believed to have written his Elegy written in a Country Churchyard here. Gray is buried in the churchyard with a memorial nearby

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Buckinghamshire, Church, Churchyard, Graveyard, Poet, Slough, St Giles, Stoke Poges, Thomas Gray, Village

Didbrook Church, Cotswolds, June 1937

A GWR Publicity view of the parish church in the village of Didbrook in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, June 1937. St George's Church dates from the 13th century, and in 1471 after the Battle of Tewkesbury retreating Lancastrian soldiers took refuge within the church only to be massacred by Yorkist soldiers. The walls still bear the scars of musket shot

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