Queen s plaque at ICC disappears behind bars in run-up to its 30th anniversary
It was the building designed to reinvent Birmingham, but as the 30th anniversary of the ICC approaches the giant plaque unveiled by the Queen is now behind the bars of a new fence
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Almost exactly 30 years after it was unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen at the opening of the ICC, the plaque in her honour remains the biggest of its kind in town.
A NEW military museum is opening next month near Winchester. The Royal Logistic Corps Museum will be at the Worthy Down base and opens to the public on Tuesday May 18. Visitors to Hampshire’s newest visitor attraction, will be taken on a journey that explores how the British Army was moved, equipped and supplied during its campaigns from the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 to Afghanistan this century. The new state-of-the-art museum at the Defence College of Logistics Policing and Administration is home to a large collection of vehicles, uniforms, equipment and artefacts. It has moved from the Deepcut barracks in Surrey as part of the rebuilding of the Worthy Down base over recent years.
The British Army and the Falklands War
‘The significance of the Falklands War was enormous, both for Britain’s self-confidence and for our standing in the world. Since the Suez fiasco in 1956, British foreign policy had been one long retreat. Victory in the Falklands changed that.’
Margaret Thatcher, ‘The Downing Street Years’, 1993
In April 1982, British soldiers joined a naval task force sent to re-take the Falkland Islands after their surprise capture by the Argentine military. They went on to play a key part in the land campaign that helped secure victory in the war.
Invasion
On 2 April 1982, a tiny British overseas territory, located about 300 miles (almost 500km) off the east coast of Argentina, was thrust violently into public consciousness in the UK.
The secret underground city built near Bath in case of nuclear war
It was known by many as the Burlington Bunker and was built to house the Prime Minister
The telephone Exchange was the second largest in Britain (Image: DE&S Photography/Crown Copyright)
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