Bespoke Western Front Battlefield Tours

28/01/2025

We found this a fascinating story having lived in Combles near Albert for nearly five years.

24/01/2025

20/01/2025

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Alongside my personal security portfolio, it’s a privilege to have also forged a parallel career as a writer and historian which complements being a historical…

07/01/2025

Amazing imagery

Then and Now - Take a closer look at the colour photo and the soil marks. This is Thorpe Abbotts at the western end of the airfield. Most of the main runway and perimeter tracks are long gone, but, together with the soil marks, enough remains to echo what once was. 351st Squadron hardstands 1 to 5 are shown in the wartime photo with hardstand 5 still remaining today. A public road now bisects the line of the main runway running North to South in the colour photo.

01/01/2025

31/12/2024

24/12/2024

The team really have excelled with their Hutvent series this year and this final episode is so interesting.
We had the chance to hear this story in person from Taff earlier in the month, and it’s just so engaging.

It's Christmas Eve and, in our final HutVent of 2024, Taff talks Truce (of course!) and our part in a remarkable piece of Christmas Truce popular culture...

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Sainsbury’s Christmas Advert, 2014:
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Hovis Go On Lad, 2008:
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17/12/2024

We were lucky enough to attend the GWH Trenches by Twilight event at the weekend just gone.
Taff, Lyndsay, Kev, Kieran and the entire crew are preserving a crucial part of our history with an unrivalled passion and vigour.
The Hutvent reels on their YouTube channel are a real testimony to their knowledge and commitment.

Every one is worth a watch!



https://m.youtube.com/greatwarhuts

Great military history from Great War Huts - a First World War heritage project based in Suffolk, UK. About the Great War Huts project: Part of a groundbreaking First World War visitor centre; Great War Huts is a heritage project preserving a number of original First World War Barrack Huts, based in...

11/11/2024

Humbling.

11/11/2024

26/10/2024

Very fitting for all those at the 100th museum who have kept the history alive.

26/10/2024

Book signing day!
Come along, art fair too, so at least there’s something interesting too …😉😉😉😉😉

20/10/2024

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