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Coming soon to @WhitsMuseum
'Shadow over England'
Memories of the 'V' Weapon Campaign
June 1944 - March 1945
Part of 'The Forgotten Frontline' project
More details to follow
National Rural Crime Network Conference opening address by Tim Passmore, Police & Crime Commissioner for Suffolk raising profile of rural, heritage & wildlife crime and campaign to secure protection and wellbeing of rural communities and the historic environment.
#RuralHeritage
Earlier in the week I had the pleasure to attend the celebration event for the Heritage Youth Partnership delivered by Youth United Foundation in partnership with @HistoricEngland Thank you to everyone who has been involved in the development and delivery of this amazing project!
Great work protecting the historic environment and #MakingCommunitiesSafer
@HistoricEngland @AssocPCCs @PoliceChiefs @LincsPolice @OPCCLincs @MarcJonesLincs @RuralCrimeNtwk @DCCAndyProphet @RachelNolan516 @HistoricEngland
Heritage crime week
RCAT are investigating a report of nighthawking that occurred overnight in the Revesby area on 13/11/2024. The offender was seen by farm staff and fled on foot leaving his metal detector and shovel.
#HeritageCrime
#heritageasb
#makingcommunitiessafer
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Great work protecting the historic environment and #MakingCommunitiesSafer
@HistoricEngland @AssocPCCs @PoliceChiefs @LincsPolice @OPCCLincs @MarcJonesLincs @RuralCrimeNtwk @DCCAndyProphet @RachelNolan516
Sorry we ran out of letters to tag you in the main post!! 🙏
@HistoricEngland
Great work protecting the historic environment and #MakingCommunitiesSafer
@HistoricEngland @AssocPCCs @PoliceChiefs @RuralCrimeNtwk @DCCAndyProphet @RachelNolan516
This #ASBAwarenessWeek and #HeritageCrime Week, we have been working with policing and partnership colleagues from across England to raise awareness of the impact of crime and anti-social behaviour in the historic environment.
@HeritageCrime @RuralCrimeNtwk #heritageASB
ALT A photograph of 2 police officers walking past a castle wall.
Great work by the team in @SuffolkPolice helping to protect the historic environment and #MakeCommunitiesSafer
@HistoricEngland @AssocPCCs @PoliceChiefs @RuralCrimeNtwk
As the end of Anti Social Behaviour Awareness week approaches, we visited Orford Castle. Whilst the team continually support our Heritage sights throughout the year, this is an ideal opportunity to highlight their importance. #1736 #1886 #heritageasb #heritagecrime
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‘SHADOW OVER ENGLAND’
An exhibition to mark the 80th year of the ‘V’ Weapon Campaign June 1944 & March 1945. Six ‘robot’ weapons landed in the Whitstable area.
Scale models 3D printed by Casement Signs & painted by Carole Leith.
#shadowoverengland
OPEN NOW @WhitsMuseum
‘SHADOW OVER ENGLAND’
An exhibition to mark the 80th year of the ‘V’ Weapon Campaign June 1944 & March 1945. Six of the ‘robot’ weapons landed in the Whitstable area.
We tell the story using eye-witness testimony, documents & original illustrations.
Thank you to Alison and all the team at @MSDSMarine & Heritage for sponsoring our bespoke #blakeyerth scale cards.
The cards were well used during the recording and #photogrammetry exercises.
@WorldMonuments @HistoricEngland
#intertidal #climate
#ShadowOverEngland
V Weapon Campaign 1944-1945
V2 LONG RANGE ROCKET CRASHES INTO SEA
Thomas Porter resident of Seasalter, personal diary.
Tuesday 16th January 1945
“Another rocket landed in the sea off Hampton near Herne Bay at about 8.15 this morning.”
Forgotten Frontline retweeted
#ShadowOverEngland V Weapon Campaign 1944-45
Personal Diary of Thomas Porter - Tuesday 27 March 1945
“A Doodle exploded in the sea off Leysdown Monday morning & another in the sea off Long Rock Swalecliffe at 6.20 this morning”
RAF Aerial Photo in 1946 showing crash site.
#ShadowOverEngland V Weapon Campaign 1944-45
Personal Diary of Thomas Porter - Tuesday 27 March 1945
“A Doodle exploded in the sea off Leysdown Monday morning & another in the sea off Long Rock Swalecliffe at 6.20 this morning”
RAF Aerial Photo in 1946 showing crash site.
#ShadowOverEngland
Thomas Porter Personal Diary
Monday 15th January 1945
“This morning at about 11.15 a rocket landed in a field a few hundred yards inland from the town station. One old lady died shock and 52 were injured by flying glass, etc.”
#ShadowOverEngland
31st August 1944
V Weapon Campaign 1944-1945
Thomas Porter personal diary
“Doodlebug German V Weapon shot down by one of our planes this morning & it landed in a field at South Street. German news hint at the early the early use of their V2 weapon.“
#ShadowOverEngland 17th August 1944
V Weapon Campaign June 1944-April 1945
Thomas Porter personal diary
“ Flying bombs come over periodically all day yesterday & one landed at Denstroude it badly damaged a house & demolished a barn, it also fired a hay stack.”
#ShadowOverEngland
June 25th 1944 Thomas Porter personal diary.
“The Germans have announced that the Flying Bombs are still doing much damage in London ‘Doodle Bugs’ the Americans call them, a Spitfire shot one down at Strood this morning fortunately it did not kill anyone”
#ShadowOverEngland
4th August 1944
“Last night there was much Doodle bug activity one fell in the marshes blowing one of our windows out which we omitted to open Fortunately there no were no cows in the field where it fell one was cut on the leg in an adjoining field”
#ShadowOverEngland
August 1944-Thomas Porter Diary
Flying Bombs being shot down by propellor-driven fighters probably Spitfires & Tempests. He then writes:
“One of our new JET PLANES gave it a burst & it burst in mid air”
This was a Gloster Meteor images courtesy @I_W_M
#ShadowOverEngland exhibition will be Whitstable Museum in the Autumn. We will focus on the stories of 4 x V1 Flying Bombs & 2 x V2 Long Range Rockets that came down in the local area. Do you have memory, photograph or artefact please let us know. Images courtesy @I_W_M
