Norway

A short while ago, by complete coincidence, on the same day two blippers sent us photographs to represent Norway in our 'album' of locations mentioned by Lorna Lloyd in her Diary of the war  (previously blipped in the the LornaL journal). We decided to blip two of them.

The main picture is a beautiful shot of Åndalsnes that was kindly supplied by esiuol. The extra from Munroist4113 - a regular contributor to the LornaLPodcast journal - shows German fortifications in the fishing village of Bud. Thank you esiuol and Munroist4113!

Lorna mentions Norway in her war diary several times in Spring 1940. First, on March 13th, she is critical of the country (alongside Sweden) for refusing to allow allied forces to sail an expeditionary force to Finland (by that time invaded by Russia). Listen to Lorna's great-great niece actress Bethany Ray play her great-great aunt delivering her critical appraisal of Norway's actions in Episode 4 of our podcast series of the Diary of the war. 

The next month, Lorna charts the German invasion of Norway from April 9th, covering the flight of the Norwegian royal family on April 10th, the organisation of the Norwegian resistance on April 11th, and the landing of British troops in Norway on April 15th. Lorna's last mention of Norway is made on May 8th, when she reports the allied withdrawal from the south of the country. These war diary entries are all covered in Episode 5 of our podcast series of the Diary of the war.

If you haven't heard the podcast series, please do give it a go. We're very proud of the work that went into transforming Lorna's work held in one digital archive (the Blipfoto journal) into another (the podcast series). If this is the first time that you have come across this journal, please find out more about our project in the short summary.

Listed below are many more locations mentioned in Lorna's war diary that we would like to collect for this journal. If you have a photograph(s) of any of the places (that you have not blipped already), please do send it(them) to h.hall@napier.ac.uk.


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
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: 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
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
Libya
Luxembourg
Middle East
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
South Africa
Sweden