The National Monument in Amsterdam was built in 1956 as a memorial to those killed and injured in World War II.
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Throwback Thursday: The National Monument, Amsterdam
Categories: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tags: national monument, photo post, Second World War, war memorial
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HM Treasury
The HM Treasury building is directly opposite the Foreign and Commonwealth offices in Whitehall. The area you are allowed to visit here as part of Open House London was significantly smaller than at the FCO; only a fraction of the vast area composing the Government Offices Great George Street, or GOGGS, which houses HM Treasury, HM Revenue and Customs and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport among others was accessible.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, HM Treasury, Open House London, photo post, Second World War, self-guided tour
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Liverpool Parish Church
On my final day in Liverpool I decided to take a walk down from my hotel towards the Albert Dock in order to visit the museums there but the first building I actually stepped inside was the Liverpool Parish Church.
Categories: England, Liverpool
Tags: architecture, church, cross, history, Liverpool Parish Church, Second World War, stained glass window
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The Dutch Resistance Museum, Amsterdam
The Dutch Resistance Museum, or Verzetsmuseum, is directly opposite Amsterdam Zoo which made it very convenient to visit. It focuses on the Netherlands in World War II exploring briefly what life was like before the war and then on to the different ways the Dutch people survived and fought back whilst under Nazi occupation.
Categories: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tags: Dutch Resistance Museum, museum, photo post, Second World War
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The Imperial War Museum
The Imperial War Museum is one of those major London museums that I’d never managed to find time for until a recent trip to the Old Vic found me a quick 10 minutes walk away. Founded during the First World War in 1917 I was impressed by the range and detail of items on display both from the site of war and at the home front and the interactive nature of many of the displays.
Categories: England, London
Tags: british intelligence services, enigma machine, first world war, free museum, imperial war museum, museum, photo post, plane, poppy, posters, Second World War, war
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Norway’s Resistance Museum, Oslo
Although I was aware the the Nazi’s occupied Norway, I knew very little about it; it’s simply not something that gets taught in British schools (at least not in my day) and I have to say that the Resistance Museum provided the perfect starting point to learning more about that time.
Categories: Norway, Oslo
Tags: norway, norwegian resistance museum, oslo, photo post, Second World War
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The Museum of Nottingham Life at Brewhouse Yard
Recently I decided to visit the Museum of Nottingham Life at Brewhouse Yard which, as I mentioned in my post about Nottingham Light Night, I didn’t think I’d visited before, though it actually appears I may have made a trip there when I was at primary school. Regardless it all felt new and has certainly undergone some changes since that trip. It is based just around the corner from the entrance to Nottingham Castle, right next to Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem and traces the social history of Nottingham over the past 300 years. It spans five 17th century houses and includes a school room, kitchen and bedroom, shop fronts such as grocers and pharmacies and an air raid shelter from the Second World War.
