19 Jan
1999
19 Jan
'99
9:48 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
Indeed it is, Tony, but spires are rather commonplace in England -
although at 400 odd feet, it is rather more obvious than others - and
Stonehenge is just a bit unique.
- don
A recent program on Stonehenge on the Discovery channel said the RAF wanted to
level Stonehenge with explosives, but the person who owned the land they were
on refused to let them. *boggle* Is it just me, or does all this suggest
that in the 1930s and early 40s good maps were much harder to come by than
A lot of it was propaganda to the British public to convince them how
important the war was....
Of course there were maps. Ordnance Survey maps were originally produced
for military use (hence the name), but nowadays are available just about
anywhere in the UK (most bookshops keep at least the local ones). During
the war they were probably impossible to obtain, but before the war, trivial.
And you can bet they had got them in Germany as well. After all, the
British certainly had German maps.
The other thing that worries me is that Stonehenge is not the best
landmark in that area. Salisbury Cathedral's spire is probably a lot
easier to see from a distance.