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AppShopper.com: Price Changes (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
London: Westminster Abbey Guide & Audio 1.0 Category: Travel Price: $4.99 -> $1.99 ( iTunes ) Description: SPECIAL PRICE DURING CHRISTMAS! SHORTLISTED FOR BEST TOURISM EXPERIENCE IN BT VISIT LONDON AWARDS 2009 • Experience the coronation from a front row seat • Hear Westminster as it was a thousand years ago - a desolate marshy island • Re-live the emotional...
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Express & Star (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Two Black Country campaigners who have helped run events to honour veterans will be special guests at Westminster Abbey for this year’s Remembrance Service.
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The Monarchist (Free subscription) | yesterday
King George V arriving at Westminster Abbey for the burial of the unknown soldier, the unknown British warrior who represents all the Fallen of World War One, 11 November 1920. On the second anniversary of the armistice, the Unknown Warrior was drawn in procession to the Cenotaph. This national war memorial on Whitehall was then unveiled by His Majesty. At 11.00am there was a two minutes...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
In a quiet corner of Westminster Abbey, away from the crowd gathered at the Cenotaph, Arthur Bright's voice cracked as the 11am tolling of Big Ben approached. Stood in front of rows of small wooden crosses marking the British dead from Afghanistan, the D-Day veteran said: "There was a time not so very long ago when this day was a history lesson. Not today. Young men are getting...
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Mrs Jones' Home Thoughts From Home (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Actually, that's not strictly true. I wanted to go to St Stefan's basilica to photograph his preserved, wizened zombie hand. The basilica is Budapest's version of St Paul's Cathedral or Westminster Abbey, i.e., big and important. We assumed that there probably wouldn't be services. We were wrong. It was raining when we set out at about 10.30 this morning. I would have preferred something...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
On Remembrance Sunday, pictures taken in the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey from the Londonist Flickrpool. A service of remembrance takes place at the Cenotaph this morning at 10.30am with the 2 minute silence at 11am. Tune in to Radio4 or BBC1 to follow it live and you can watch highlights of the Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance on the BBC website . Thanks to...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
My dear friend Amber Carroll, who has died aged 62, began her career as a teacher in her native South Africa, but then fled the apartheid regime and came to London. At first, she lived briefly in the shadow of Westminster Abbey, and taught the choirboys there. When I first met her in 1996 she was teaching at a Roman Catholic school (although she was a Quaker) in Elstree, Hertfordshire....
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
After another bloody week in Afghanistan I stood in the Field of Remembrance by Westminster Abbey and wondered if the war was worth it.
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dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | yesterday
'They buried him among the kings because he had done good toward God and toward his house' I shall do a further Remembrance post on Wednesday but I recently looked into the history of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior thanks to Richard Jenkyns' book Westminster Abbey published by Profile. This one of course made me realise that I haven't been to Westminster Abbey in years...
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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | yesterday
Havengore Leads Remembrance Service on the Thames With the passing of the last British servicemen to see active service in World War I during the last few months and the rising number of tragic deaths of serving British soldiers in Afghanistan, November 11th takes on a special significance this year. To coincide with a national service of commemoration is to be held at Westminster Abbey...
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Periodic Pearls | Margaret Evans Porter's Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... services were unavailable on other lines. But I got myself where I needed to go, and arrived at Westminster Abbey. The bells were pealing. The tolling continued for hours, and mingled with the organ inside the abbey, where a worship service was taking place. I couldn't visit the graves of my characters but I did have a nice wander through the cloisters.Poppy wreaths laid at...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... idea for what Peter Parker calls "this representative of all the dead" to the Dean of Westminster, who had put it to George V. The king didn't like it, but the prime minister, Lloyd George, did, and having claimed the scheme as his own, got it through Cabinet that October. On 7 November, four unidentified bodies were exhumed from battlefield cemeteries and one randomly selected...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Harrison Published: 8:00AM GMT 08 Nov 2009 Amanda planting a small cross in Sean's honour at the Royal British Legion field of remembrance outside Westminster Abbey Photo: DAVID ROSE The letters were written by Sean, a corporal in the British Army but didn't reach her until a few days after . There were five letters in all. Mrs Binnie, read one of them at her husband's grave...
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Adullamite (Free subscription) | yesterday
... situations.' All lies! Also in 1920, on the 11th of November, the 'Unknown Warrior' was buried in Westminster Abbey. This also brought thousands to London, many convincing themselves that this was their son, husband, brother, father. The sense of loss was deep and a permanent scar left in the hearts of many. My aunts mother in law, who died around 1960, kept the letters her son, shot...
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mountainear (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The caption below the photograph on the front of today's Times read: 'For every fallen soldier, a poppy. Some of the 60,000 crosses planted in the field of Remembrance outside Westminster Abbey. For the first year there are dedicated plots for the 229 killed in Afghanistan and the 179 in Iraq, each with a photograph attached'. The photograph caught my eye, it had a certain pattern - a...
