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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How would you describe your social media reach?

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Football and War Network @footballandwar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@chathmuseum.bsky.social in partnership with @footballandwar.bsky.social, WFA, Army FA and the Armed Forces Addicks will host a Remembrance Event at The Valley on 2nd November which will include a talk, panel discussion and a Blitz Walk Places are limited More details 👇

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A great afternoon guiding a group from the Royal School of Artillery, Larkhill. Always a pleasure to greet returning friends!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Interesting contrast in the station signage at Chalfont and Latimer station with the older signs spelling the name correctly and in full, whilst the newer signs use the ampersand. Personally, I prefer the “AND” version!

Original CHALFONT AND LATIMER station roundel, with the name spelled out in full

Newer CHALFONT & LATIMER sign using an ampersand instead of spelling the word “AND” in full.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why do businesses continue to use Facebook as their “website”? I’m trying to look at a micropub but because it’s deemed to be “over 18/adult content” I have to create a FB account to view it. Sorry, they can do one - I’m not helping Zuck in any way!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That’s the only reality tv I’d allow. And the tv audience can select their favourite means of execution!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Televised live on the Execution Channel (which I will start should I become Supreme Leader)

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Likewise, I’d only seen roadkill ones before. This was quite a big old lump!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think as has been suggested those are shadows caused by the lifeboats. In the second photograph, the ship appears to be turning away from the camera and the shadows have disappeared, or lessened.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’d say it’s two photos of the same ship but either Georgic or Britannic. They were both used as troopers during the war.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you enter those names on the search function of the Arnold Hague convoy database, you should be able to see if they were part of an Iceland bound convoy at that time. I’d do it myself but am just about to meet a group.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Those two squat funnels look like the Georgic or Britannic

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Sidmouth Folk Festival @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Huge thanks to Julian May for this gorgeous write up in Songlines. Come and join us 30th July - 6th August 2027.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In other news, I saw my first live badger yesterday - we have them in Ickenham. The road I live in has no street lights and this one came sauntering out of a garden as I was walking home last night. Saw me and scuttled back in the opposite direction. Actually quite thrilled to see one!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another school group today, this time from Marymount International School in Kingston, who will be exploring the wartime secrets of Southwark and Lambeth with me.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Work finished for the day, so time to enjoy the last of summer.

View from the Nursery End at Lords Cricket Ground, Middlesex v Northants

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Football and War Network @footballandwar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Love that sound. Was in Italy a couple years ago and had a similar experience on a beautiful late summer evening.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The interior looks well cared for but the gardens less so. This was once a bowling green - the bowls club who once played here were evicted and it’s been left to rot! Swakeleys Roundabout is still going strong!

Dilapidated bowling green at Swakeleys House.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Open House Weekend, so taken the opportunity to visit Swakeleys House, built 1638 and which is literally two minutes walk from me. Now owned by a property company who are doing the bare minimum to engage with the community. Two rooms and one staircase open - but better than nothing I guess!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hard labour at the cricket club today!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bit late to the party but ordered!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Mine too! Love the image of Hitler cowering under a table. “Thus always to tyrants!”

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes, when you think of Zaheer, Majid, Imran, Javed, Intikhab and so forth, it’s quite a fall from grace.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not sure what the Pakistan equivalent of the salt mines is but I suspect this lot are destined for it! In all seriousness, I’d far sooner be watching a contest rather than a rout.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river. Mine is the River Pinn (a tributary of the Colne, in turn a tributary of the Thames)

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Matey, the pub cat at the Plume of Feathers, Maze Hill.

Matey, the pub cat in the Plume of Feathers, Maze Hill, taking life easy.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Look at the absolute state of this bunch.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What’s an example of perfect casting?

Alec Guinness as George Smiley in the BBC adaptation of John Le Carre’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “Smiley’s People”.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My Mum worked in the Pay Office at the Arsenal, so quite possibly paid his wages!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My Mum probably paid his wages - she worked in the Pay Office there from 1938-1947!

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Station Officer “Jerry” Knight of the London Fire Brigade. Sadly killed the next day - all they ever found was his boots.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Across the Thames, Canning Town, Silvertown and the Royal Docks were also severely hit as we can see in the following photo, probably taken by the same aircraft, at around 6pm that evening./END

Canning Town, Silvertown and the Royal Docks well ablaze on 7th September 1940.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

..also well alight, as we can see from the reconnaissance photograph taken from a German bomber during the actual raid. As I used to live in the area, I have annotated the photograph with a few local landmarks.

Reconnaissance photograph showing fires burning at Woolwich Dockyard on 7th September 1940

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

...Edward E Creffield of the New York Times showing the Surrey Commercial Docks ablaze from the incendiary bombs of the Luftwaffe. The Surrey Docks was at the centre of London's timber trade and thus provided a ready source of fuel. Further downstream, the Royal Docks and Woolwich Arsenal were....

The Surrey Commercial Docks and the East End ablaze on Black Saturday, 7th September 1940. Photograph taken from London Bridge by Edward E Creffield of the New York Times

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

THREAD/Today marks the 86th anniversary of "Black Saturday" - 7th September 1940, what would prove to be the first day of the London Blitz. The docks, the East End, Woolwich Arsenal and the entire eastern half of London suffered most on this day. Here we see the first of two photographs taken by...

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Watching “A Night to Remember” on Talking Pictures. Still the best movie about the Titanic sinking.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Apart from the remnants of the church transferred to nearby St Lukes, the apartments built on the site which bears the name of the late church, are the only reminder of the "other" St Paul's, the first church to be destroyed in this country during the Second World War.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

War Damage compensation was assessed at £3,823 in July 1943 but it wasn't until March 1956 that the Church Commissioners agreed to sell the site to the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for £2,000. A new apartment block was built on the site, which was named St Paul's Close, in memory of the church.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

a few items that could be salvaged, such as the crucifix and two attendant figures and part of the reredos, which today form part of the Lady Chapel of nearby St Luke's Church, the building remained derelict for the remainder of the war. The church was de-consecrated and demolished after the war.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

sad sight. The vicar, the Rev. William Campling inspected the ruins during the following morning, when large crowds came from across London to view what was then a novel sight of a bombed-out building in the London suburbs. It quickly became apparent that the church was beyond repair and apart from

The interior of St Paul's Church after the bombing.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

However, these attacks had been inching closer to London and at 21:40 on Wednesday 4 September, a solitary aircraft flew low over the church and dropped a high explosive bomb, which fell squarely on the roof of the building, almost completely destroying it. The next morning, the ruins presented a...

Rev. Campling, vicar of St Paul's Church inspects the ruins of his church

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

right into the 1930s. Sadly, the life of the church was to come to an abrupt halt in the early days of September 1940. At this time, the Luftwaffe's activities had been limited to attacks on RAF airfields, Channel convoys and targets that were deemed to be of strictly military value.

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Whitechapel Bell Foundry and in 1884/85, sufficient funds were available for the rectory to be built, as well as a Mission Room that was available for Sunday School services and other activities. The church became an integral part of the local community and continued to attract good congregations

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Steve Hunnisett @blitzwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

of accommodating 900 people, heavy snow kept the attendance down to 600 (still very creditable by today's standards). The church was built of brick with stone dressings, with the interior faced in Suffolk white brick, red and blue Staffordshire bricks in bands and devices. The bell was from the....

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