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I took a photo which looks almost exactly the same as the first one, when we walked back from Westminster Pier to The Strand at Christmas. Just forgot to post it.
It is a very moving tribute.

Made me think not just of Auntie Alice, who served, but also those who "kept the home fires burning". Nanny Robinson (Dad's Mum) came back to London so she could be there when her sons and husband were able to come back and visit. She missed quite a bit of Uncle Charlie's childhood as he was evacuated and she couldn't go with him. It was very hard to get billeted with two boys of such different ages (Dads was born in 1940).

Nan (Mum's Mum) also lived through the Blitz in London. She was younger than Alice and Daisy and had no children, but she literally risked her life to earn money and help keep the family fed, including smuggling leftover food home in her underwear - something she could have been imprisoned for. One day they'd be eating powdered egg or potato milk pudding from their official rations, the next day smoked salmon which she'd stuffed into her Liberty bodice.