16 February 2021 By Phoebe French
A war-time Citroën truck found in a Bordeaux vineyard and painted with symbols associated with the French Resistance is to be put up for auction.
The WW2 truck as it is now. Image: H&H Classics
The truck, which had been converted from a 1924 Citroën B12 9cv car, was found abandoned in a Bordeaux vineyard by a British tourist in the early 1990s.
The owner of the vineyard, Ernest Carrier, said the vehicle had belonged to his father who had used it on the farm and on occasion to transport members of the Resistance.
In January, the City of London announced that it would take down and re-sited the statue of William Beckford in Guildhall. Beckford, who was a two-time Lord Mayor of London in the late 1700s, accrued wealth from plantations in Jamaica and held African slaves Photo: Stephencdickson
The UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden will stoke the debate raging over controversial historic monuments by telling museum and heritage leaders later this month that they “must defend our culture and history from the noisy minority of activists constantly trying to do Britain down”.
According to the
Daily Telegraph, Dowden is due to tell the leaders of the National Trust, Historic England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England, the British Museum and the Imperial War Museum at a roundtable meeting how to put into practice the government s “retain and explain” approach towards heritage. A source close to the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Spo
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ and the production crews traveled the world to film the adventure.
Some have been lucky enough to have already seen
“Wonder Woman 1984,” while others have to wait. However, this year’s Christmas blockbuster movie is definitely worth seeing. The epic adventure was filmed in some of the most stunning locations in the world. Those beautiful scenes aren’t all CGI – they are the real deal and you can see them for yourself.
Filming Locations Of ‘Wonder Woman 1984’
This year’s movie theater experience was filmed in some of the most stunningly beautiful places in several different countries in the world. Let’s have a peek into where the action traveled to.