Latest posts tagged with #GreatEscape on Bluesky
A LIFE CUT SHORT 6TH APRIL 1944
AA810’s last pilot Sandy Gunn. Murdered 82 years ago today for his part in the #GreatEscape alongside William Grisman, Tony Hayter, Clement McGarr, Harold Milford, Denys Street, and John Williams.
He was 24 years old.
The last-but-not-least of "The Great Escapes" post goes to the 2013/14 Crystal Palace!
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #CrystalPalace #CPFC #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball #PremierLeagueHistory
The Premier League witnessed a Welsh "Great Escape" in 2017, as Swansea City finished 15th place after Paul Clement took over the team!
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #SwanseaCity #Swansea #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball #PremierLeagueHistory
A picture that sums up an outstanding 2006/07 season for the Hammers.
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #WestHamUnited #WHU #CarlosTevez #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball #PremierLeagueHistory
Sitting bottom of the table as late as March 2012, Wigan went on a run that saw them win 7 of their last 9 matches, allowing them to finish 15th.
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #WiganAthletic #Wigan #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball #PremierLeagueHistory
Another Great Escape from the bottom of the table, the 2005-06 Portsmouth went on to win 20 points in the last 10 matches of the season, finishing 17th.
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #Portsmouth #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball #PremierLeagueHistory
Looking down a corridor of what was a POW camp, people re create the life there on occasions and give talks. This is a corridor leading away from me with side rooms left and right. Some people dressed as German POW's are at the far end. https://www.islandfarm.wales
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforinside
#POW camp in South Wales that had a #greatescape, 70 legged it in 1945.
Volunteers open the remaining building of the camp up on occasions and there are excellent talks how it came to be.
Not sure protocol, link in alt text.
2007-08 Fulham went down to the wire as avoided relegation on the very final day, winning 1-0 and sending Reading to the Championship on account of goal difference!
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #Fulham #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball #PremierLeagueHistory
Sitting 20th at Christmas didn't stop the 2022/23 Wolverhampton Wanderers from pulling out a strong 2nd half of the season with newly arrived manager Julen Lopetegui.
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #Wolves #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball #PremierLeagueHistory
2013/14 Sunderland team spent 111 days at the bottom of the table - and still finished the season in 14th place!
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #SunderlandAFC #Sunderland #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball #PremierLeagueHistory
The original "Great Escape"! 2004-05 West Brom
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #WestBromwichAlbion #WestBrom #WBA #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball #PremierLeagueHistory
Catch up on last night’s Zoom discussion with David McCormack, following the publication of his book, The Great Escapism.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=eAb...
#NewBook #GreatEscape #PrisonersOfWar
Today we remember one of the most famous of The Great Escapes - the 2014/15 Leicester City. They went on to finish 14th that season, just before winning the Premier League title the following season!
#KevinToms #GreatEscape #LeicesterCity #LCFC #PremierLeague #EnglishFootball #EFL #EPL #PLfootball
Tomorrow evening, we will be hosting a live Zoom discussion with David McCormack, following the publication of his book, The Great Escapism.
3 March 2026 @ 20.00
Please register via our Google Form:
forms.gle/NVpPU1UN86n9...
#NewBook #GreatEscape #PrisonersOfWar
Next Tuesday, we will be hosting a live Zoom discussion with David McCormack, following the publication of his book, The Great Escapism.
3 March 2026 @ 20.00
Please register via our Google Form:
forms.gle/NVpPU1UN86n9...
#NewBook #GreatEscape #PrisonersOfWar
This #spring get some fresh #seaside air in this #mercedes500sl convertible from classicreviveanddrive.com - ideal for blowing the cobwebs away on a #greatescape to the country & #coast!
Join us in congratulating David McCormack on the publication of his book, The Great Escapism.
It's available to purchase via our website - www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk
And via Amazon - amzn.eu/d/0azDTzSf
#NewBook #GreatEscape #PrisonersOfWar
Germans could have saved us all a tonne of time if they'd have shot them on day one #greatescape
We have dropped 7 points from winning positions (Oxford, Watford, Preston). If we managed to hold on to those leads we would be on 25 now and out of the relegation zone. Let's just hope those points won't be the ones to take us down in the end. #OTBC #BigPhil #greatescape #ncfc #canaries #norwich
The Longest Tunnel
By Alan Burgess
Another telling of the biggest mass escape of Allied prisoners during WW2, this one offering the backstories of many of the people involved. Includes a photo section. (Cont...)
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#nonfiction
#WWII
#greatescape
#history
Two-part #StalagLuft3 documentary coming up on Nov 2 & 9 on S4C/BBC iPlayer with English lang subtitles.
Features an incredible POW archive of photos from the camp.
Also incls #FleetAirArm, #FaireySwordfish, #ArcticConvoy, #WoodenHorse, #GreatEscape.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/uncover...
#otd 1651
After attack on his troops in Wigan, the Earl of Derby heads to Shropshire's Boscobel House, where kind Catholics, priest-holes & an oak tree sit. On 3 Sep, he'll seek refuge again, with two men named Charles, one part of the family that owns Boscobel. Both can soon meet.
#greatescape
#war
Poem 654 - The Great Escape
Under our noses...
odefortheday.art/2025/08/11/p...
#Poetry #GreatEscape #Crickets
#thespiderwickchronicles #greatescape #tonyditerlizzi #hollyblack #newpurchase #midureads #bookstagram
Aeon Flux (2005)
#aeonflux #2000s #aesthetic #cyberpunk #scifi #neonoir #movies #greatescape #balls #biopunk #ballsofsteel #minimalist #surrealism #walking #androgynous #charlizetheron
