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Watercolours of Normandy by Gordon C. Home – guest artist blogger

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Our guest blogger is Gordon Cochrane Home.  An artist, traveller and writer, Gordon visited Normandy at the beginning of the 20th century. This week Gordon is sharing illustrations of chateau Gaillard, Saint-Lô, Ouistreham, Domfront, Vire, Rouen and a Normandy farm. These paintings first appeared in his book 'Normandy Illustrated, the Scenery & Romance

A red jumper & the Major of Saint-Lô: two sides of 1944

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That stub of a tower part of the remains of the Church of Notre Dame Many shattering images of Saint-Lô in 1944 cannot be erased from our memories but one in particular stands out.  It shows a young boy in a grey jumper and long trousers with his arm around his

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