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Jeremy Gorden-Smith: ‘Ypres – ruin to restoration’
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The speaker, Jeremy Gorden-Smith, will be giving us a visual tour of post-war Ypres using photographs taken by Corporal Ivan Bawtree, showing the town's reconstruction and influx of battlefield tourists and pilgrims. Aside from his Army work photographing war graves, Ivan took many photographs of towns devastated by war in France and Flanders....
'From this point, the tourist should go on foot: the Somme 1919-1939' by Prof Mark Connelly
Caption: Tourists on the Western Front c. 1920 About this talk: Unlike Ypres, which although devastated was close to the channel ports and had its transport links rapidly re-established, visiting the Somme was a far more challenging prospect in the years immediately following the war. Nearly fifty miles across from Amiens to St Quentin and close...