Speaker: Hugh Gayler – Probus Member

Topic: “London: The Post-Imperial City, 1945-2025”

London in 1945 and the aftermath of war and the annual remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall attended by the reigning monarch. This is an important link to the past as London has gone on to be a very different city.

The presentation will also discuss the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I in 1914 when over 880,000 ceramic poppies were fashioned in the moat of the Tower of London (one for every Commonwealth serviceman or woman killed in that war). Afterwards, these poppies were sold off for charity, and I was able to buy one.