Drum Major, Grenadier Guards, London [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.1 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of the national government and parliament. London grew rapidly in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest city at the time. Since the 19th century the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority.

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The Bandmaster, c.1950s - Photograph

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Today's poem:

And The Guards Came Through
- by Arthur Conan Doyle

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On 14 September 2022, the coffin of Her Majesty #QueenElizabethII left #BuckinghamPalace for the last time, and was in a procession to #WestminsterHall in the #HousesOfParliament for the lying-in-state before the funeral.

Here is the procession along #Whitehall, surrounded by an escort of the #GrenadierGuards.

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