Posts Tagged ‘American War of Independence’

Ready Set Go! Election 2010

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Grunge View of the Triumphal Arch

Day two of the 2010 election campaign, and as I drove up past a rather sinister looking Triumphal Arch, see picture above, I took a few moments out to grab a shot of it. I believe it was trying to tell me something, it was erected as a rejection of the policies of Lord North and the monarch George III, with their unpopular civil war against the American Colonialists. I would love to change the inscription to address the issue of the corrupt parliamentarians of our time, to: “Victory by the People of Britain over their Corrupt Political Class, 2010″.

Historian visits the Triumphal Arch

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

An american authoress, Prof. Stephanie Barczewski, a specialist in modern British history at Clemson University in South Carolina, USA, visited Parlington last weekend to learn about the Triumphal Arch for a new book she is undertaking. We met and discussed what I know of the history of the monument and the reasons for it being built. Details of the structure are on the main site here.