…King Charles III’s coronation. The super human feat of rescuing 338,226 Allied soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk between May 26 and June 24, 1940 was described by Winston Churchill as a “miracle of deliverance”. A miracle partly carried out by a fleet of small boats co-opted by the Admiralty in a strategic evacuation …
Author archives: Patricia Stoughton
Ninety minutes…
…on Lambeth Reach, May 3, 2023. Sometimes while watching the river from Victoria Tower Gardens there’s little traffic but during a ninety minute stretch at the beginning of May there seemed to be more activity than usual. Logged in the order photographed, here are a few of the boats that passed during that time. Thames …