France

There are two blippers to thank for today's contribution to our collection of images of places mentioned by Lorna Lloyd in her Diary of the war (previously blipped in the LornaL journal). Thank you SparseRunner for taking a photograph that we can use to represent France (as a whole) in our blip-sourced 'album', and to Livresse, who sent it to the Platform to Platform project* team at h.hall@napier.ac.uk. 

Lorna mentions France several times in her war diary. Her writing shows that she was especially upset on 14th June 1940, the day that the Germans began their occupation of the city. It's this diary entry that inspired us to use César Franck’s symphony in D minor as the theme tune to our podcast series of Lorna's Diary of the war. Lorna's chronicle of the fall of Paris (and the series theme tune) can be heard in episode 6.

If you are a blipper based in France, or have photographs from visits to the country, we would love to hear from you with images of some specific places. These are Bailleul, Boulogne, Dunkirk, Forest of Compiègne, the Maginot Line, the river Marne, Roncesvalles, and Wimereux. 

*If you have just stumbled across this journal and are curious about this project, do please read the short summary.

Here's the full list of places that remain to be included in this journal. Please send any that you think suitable from your own archive (preferably not blipped before) to h.hall@napier.ac.uk. Thank you!

ENGLAND: CITIES AND LARGE TOWNS
Birmingham
Bolton
Bristol - we'd love a shot of Lorna's grandfather's shop, still in business at 81 Henleaze Road
Cheltenham
Coventry
Gloucester
Ilford
Sheffield
Southampton
Swindon
Worcester

ENGLAND: SMALLER LOCATIONS
Aust, Gloucestershire
Leigh, Gloucestershire
Sand Bay, Somerset
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire
 
ENGLAND: VERY SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
Callow End, Malvern 
Caxton Hall, London

EUROPE - SPECIFIC PLACES
Albania: Durrës (Durazzo)
France: Bailleul, Boulogne, Dunkirk, Forest of Compiègne, the Maginot Line, the river Marne, Roncesvalles, Wimereux
Finland: Hanko (Hangoe), Mannerheim Line, Petsamo, Viipuri
Germany: Elbe (river), Heligoland, Munich, Siegfried Line
Greece: Thermopylae
Italy: Romagna, Taranto
Netherlands: The Hague
Poland: Silesia, Warsaw, Westerplatte
Russia: Karelian Isthmus
Spain: Guernica

REST OF THE WORLD - SPECIFIC PLACES
Argentina: Buenos Aires, River Plate
Epypt: Sidi Barrani
Iraq: Babylon (Hillah)
Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria: Lake Chad
Senegal: Dakar
South Africa: Mafeking (Mafekeng)
Uruguay: Montevideo

REST OF THE WORLD - GENERAL
Belgium
Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic)
Finland
French Equatorial Africa (now Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon)
Germany
Greece
Italy
Libya
Luxembourg
Middle East
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
South Africa
Sweden
Uruguay