Category: Blog Post
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The Streets They Left Behind – the animation
In 2014/15 Islington Museum received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create an educational resource to complement The Streets They Left Behind (STLB Mapping Project). The map The STLB is an interactive map commemorating all those with Finsbury and Islington connections who died in the First World War. The…
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Finsbury Park man’s experience: newspaper stories
Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune 7th October 2015 Warfare in Gallipoli ~~~~ Finsbury Park man’s experience ~~~~ We recently published extracts from a letter written by Trooper E.V. Balsom, of the machine Gun Section of the City of London Yeomanry Rough Riders, whose father – the proprietor of a…
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Finsbury park man in Gallipoli: newspaper story
Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune 30th September 1915 Finsbury Park man in Gallipoli ~~~~ How he dodged the snipers ~~~~ “The extravagance or a wash.” ~~~~ If the British Tommy at the Front is asked when he would like to come home, he would reply, “When the Germans…
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Canonbury rate collector’s adventures: newspaper story
Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune 16th September 1915 Canonbury rate collector’s adventures ~~~~ Somewhere in Gallipoli ~~~~ Cake badly wanted. ~~~~ We have received a copy of a letter from Mr. R. A. Jordan, the Canonbury rate collector, who is serving “somewhere in Gallipoli.” He writes:- I have…
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Holloway man who was killed in action: Newspaper Story
Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune 14th September 1915 Holloway man who was killed in action ~~~~ Chaplain’s letter to bereaved mother ~~~~ Mr. W. B. Parker who has already written in regard to the death of Mr. Alfred Jones – a Holloway man who was killed in Gallipoli…
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