And Fulton actually has a Churchill Museum right next to the church and wall. This is not surprising because just over 67 years ago and just 9 months after I was born, Churchill made one of the signature speeches of the 20th Century at Westminster College in Fulton. The museum contains correspondence between him and the college inviting him to give the John Findley Green Foundation Lecture it in March 1946, a gathering at which President Harry S Truman was present.
The lecture was the first occasion in which the term Iron Curtain was used. The museum itself contains a huge amount of material, some original, documenting Churchill's entire life from birth to death and I now have a CD of the speech itself. Unfortunately, neither he nor the museum mention the my mother actually talked to the great man inside the cliffs of Dover when he paid the WRACs a visit during the war. The following pictures give some idea of the flavour (or is it flavor) of the museum, which was fascinating. Some of the pictures might not turn out the right way up. Apologies!
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The lecture was the first occasion in which the term Iron Curtain was used. The museum itself contains a huge amount of material, some original, documenting Churchill's entire life from birth to death and I now have a CD of the speech itself. Unfortunately, neither he nor the museum mention the my mother actually talked to the great man inside the cliffs of Dover when he paid the WRACs a visit during the war. The following pictures give some idea of the flavour (or is it flavor) of the museum, which was fascinating. Some of the pictures might not turn out the right way up. Apologies!
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