Tony B Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 On tonight 29/07/11 on BBC2 21:00. A repeat but if you missed it the first time worth watching and I'll be watching again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norton 1926 Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 thanks Tony, I will watch it should be interesting I like WWI air craft, I have a sparking plug from a 1916 air craft. when I was a apprentice mechanic the men who trained me had something to do with the interrupter on the machine guns. he gave it to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Grundy Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Quite a poor and fragmented so-called documentery. It is very well torn apart on the Great War Forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Watched it, some interesting parts, but too much time spent with CGI reconstructions. Does show how badly the villages were trashed and how limited the clearing up had been, by 1919. I've got a book dating from the 1930s, of "The Western Front Then & Now", shows further progress in the restoration of the major building, like the Ypres' Cloth Hall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 The "Then and Now" photograph albums dating from the war period are fascinating, if depressing - they show beautiful buildings 'then', and as they've been blown apart 'now' from the same vantage point. They were published for each of the big towns/cities which suffered serious damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Here's an example from the Ypres album. Edit: What a coincidence, just realised it's the Cloth Hall!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 It was 1962 before the cloth hall was finished. Knock the proggramme as much as you like, but, I know from talking to the Great Unwashed at events it sparked a lot of intrest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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