Andy Saunders
@1940andy.bsky.social
History is just one effing thing after another.
Home front privations, 1942:
March 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Home front privations, 1942:
A regular Yuletide ‘tradition’ is to visit this lonely grave at Battle, East Sussex, and leave flowers. At 16, she was the youngest female casualty of WW2 commemorated by CWGC.
January 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A regular Yuletide ‘tradition’ is to visit this lonely grave at Battle, East Sussex, and leave flowers. At 16, she was the youngest female casualty of WW2 commemorated by CWGC.
No Northern Lights in the rain sodden SE tonight. Anyway…
January 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
No Northern Lights in the rain sodden SE tonight. Anyway…
Well, ‘tis the season for ghost stories…
December 20, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Well, ‘tis the season for ghost stories…
When one realises that it is necessary to get out more. This is Queen Vic on St Leonards seafront with her usual Xmas finery - but with a German bullet hole in her skirts. Why do I need to get out more? I have a shortlist of Luftwaffe pilots who probably did it.
December 18, 2024 at 2:46 PM
When one realises that it is necessary to get out more. This is Queen Vic on St Leonards seafront with her usual Xmas finery - but with a German bullet hole in her skirts. Why do I need to get out more? I have a shortlist of Luftwaffe pilots who probably did it.
When Hastings Post Office closed few years back and moved to W H Smith I campaigned to have these memorials moved to the store. It didn’t ‘fit the corporate image’ of @WHSmith and so they are now hidden away and rarely seen by the public at the sorting office.
December 18, 2024 at 7:33 AM
When Hastings Post Office closed few years back and moved to W H Smith I campaigned to have these memorials moved to the store. It didn’t ‘fit the corporate image’ of @WHSmith and so they are now hidden away and rarely seen by the public at the sorting office.
No 1 son (with London Fire & Rescue) was selected to receive his Coronation Medal at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Elderly relative: “How wonderful that they took him there in that carriage.”
December 17, 2024 at 11:05 AM
No 1 son (with London Fire & Rescue) was selected to receive his Coronation Medal at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Elderly relative: “How wonderful that they took him there in that carriage.”
Out with a bang! My last issue of ‘Iron Cross’ magazine under my editorship has landed from the printers. Handing over the editorial desk from this issue forward. On to other things for 2025!
December 14, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Out with a bang! My last issue of ‘Iron Cross’ magazine under my editorship has landed from the printers. Handing over the editorial desk from this issue forward. On to other things for 2025!
Another of the Osprey titles that left my desk in 2024. Maybe you didn’t know all that you thought there was to know about the Bf 109 in the Battle of Britain? 😉
December 13, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Another of the Osprey titles that left my desk in 2024. Maybe you didn’t know all that you thought there was to know about the Bf 109 in the Battle of Britain? 😉
This new book in the Osprey Books ‘Duel’ series is now out. A few more will leave my desk in 2025 - all being well!
December 12, 2024 at 9:35 AM
This new book in the Osprey Books ‘Duel’ series is now out. A few more will leave my desk in 2025 - all being well!
Having just signed off my very last issue of ‘Iron Cross’ magazine it is on to new projects once the desk is cleared. Major project next year is editing a re-worked and updated ‘Battle of Britain Then & Now’
December 4, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Having just signed off my very last issue of ‘Iron Cross’ magazine it is on to new projects once the desk is cleared. Major project next year is editing a re-worked and updated ‘Battle of Britain Then & Now’