Off Topic Lest We Forget

I have this book " the Hull Pals". Gives very good understanding of the Hull mens history.during ww1...!00th anniversary of Battle of Ancre tomorrow. Big loss of life from Hull and East Yorkshire that day. Rip your relatives

 

I have the same book. I anyone knows of a relative who served in the Hull Pals, I will see what I can find for them. Just PM me the details.

 

A poem by Tom Walker, who served in the Royal Navy in the 2nd World War.
When greed sups with the devil
And principles are shed
When power is corrupted
And truth stands on its head
When fear pervades the confused mind
And fools are easily led
When reason is a prison
The bell tolls for the dead.

 

Agree with this post. The National Memorial Arboretum, just south of Burton upon Trent, a 150 acre site, has many memorials, large, small and in between, as well as all the services has memorials to firemen, police, RNLA, railwaymen, etc., etc.

 

RIP all of those lads who died.

 

How different the world would look if ww1 and ww2 had never happened...Who knows

 

Certainly Hull would look very different.

 

Bowie would never have written Heroes.

 

So would all the cities around Europe which were far more badly damaged. Though they rebuilt the old parts of some cities so that it is impossible to tell, others, like Rotterdam just flattened what was left in the city centre and started again. In this country we didn't do one or the other and ended up with an unco-ordinated mess in a lot of cities.

 

Let's send Castro there.

 

Just for one day

 

I wasn't on about Hull in particular. The point is cities in Germany, Poland, Russia and elsewhere were a lot more badly damaged than any in this country but rebuilt a lot more quickly and in most cases did a better job of it.

 

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Been there to see City. No point going now.

 

Im sure I once read that a lot of the aid the USA gave Europe to re build was spent by the UK on the forming of the NHS. Could be wrong.

 

Good article here if you have a few minutes to spare to plough through it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/marshall_01.shtml

 

Good read cheers

 

Worst examples of waste just after the war, but this one caused amusement and became a byword for how not to do things. Didn't mean anything at the time but I remember my dad saying to my grandad when Labour got back into power in 1964 "Oh my God, let's hope there are no more ground nut schemes".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_groundnut_scheme

 

If i didnt know better I would think it was April fools day

 

It went largely on keeping up the armed forces.