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In Photos: The 70th Anniversary Of The Battle of Britain

by | 19th, September 2010

TODAY is the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The knobs, great and good were at Westminster Abbey to watch a flyby during the National Commemorative Service.

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The Altazimuth Building, part of the Greenwich Royal Observatory, which has been badly damaged by a high explosive bomb during an enemy air raid. The telescope inside was blown of it's stand and the transit circle smashed, but all the delicate parts and lenses were not seriously damaged and all can be reassembled.



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