Me and Doreen at Bournemouth

Week Three - Salisbury

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June 23rd 2008
Sunday - went down Fleet Street and passed a group of elderly men all dressed up in their respective defence uniforms - it was Normandy Invasion Rememberance Day and they were marching to the Cenotaph - complete with their own marching band in red coats and those BIG bearskin hats! It was a very solemn ceremony and then they marched on to 'disappear' into 10 Downing Street to be hosted for lunch - ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more