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[Carruthers]

I wonder if there was any sub-surface element to that shelter.

The paving slabs appear to have been cut away in a large key hole pattern so perhaps giving a hint to a space below.

Whatever the case, the sound of lumps of shrapnel hitting the metalwork would have been terrifying.

It's difficult to tell exactly where the picture was taken but I suspect I'm not too far away in this Streetview link.

Marlborough Road

[xoxoxoBruce]

That looks like a good candidate. I don't understand the queen dowager bit. George V married her (his dead brother's fiance) then became King so she became Queen? Must have got along they had six kids, although there was no TV yet. But when George V died she didn't rule, their son took over so she was demoted from queen to kingmother or dowager queen?

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That looks like a good candidate. I don't understand the queen dowager bit. George V married her (his dead brother's fiance) then became King so she became Queen? Must have got along they had six kids, although there was no TV yet. But when George V died she didn't rule, their son took over so she was demoted from queen to kingmother or dowager queen?

The rules of succession, aka 'who gets what' baffle me, so I defer to Wiki:

Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress consort of India as the wife of King George V.

Although technically a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, she was born and raised in the United Kingdom. Her parents were Francis, Duke of Teck, who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, who was a granddaughter of King George III. She was informally known as "May", after her birth month.

At the age of 24, she was betrothed to her second cousin once removed Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, but six weeks after the announcement of the engagement, he died unexpectedly during an influenza pandemic. The following year, she became engaged to Albert Victor's next surviving brother, George, who subsequently became king. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales.

As queen consort from 1910, she supported her husband through the First World War, his ill health, and major political changes arising from the aftermath of the war. After George's death in 1936, she became queen mother when her eldest son, Edward VIII, ascended the throne, but to her dismay, he abdicated later the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. She supported her second son, George VI, until his death in 1952. She died the following year, during the reign of her granddaughter Elizabeth II, who had not yet been crowned.

Wiki

Admittedly the above is more an explanation of what happened and less of why it happened.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

The rules of succession, aka 'who gets what' baffle me, so I defer to Wiki:

According to this article in Readers Digest(who have been wrong before) this is the line of succession.

1. Prince Charles
2. Prince William
3. Prince George
4. Princess Charlotte
5. Prince Louis

And this article says...

Male royals have traditionally had precedence over their sisters when it comes to inheriting the crown. But thanks to the Succession of the Crown Act in 2013, a female child can officially maintain her place in line for succession, no matter the gender of her younger sibling or siblings.
That spells good news for Princess Charlotte, who is currently fourth in line for the throne. She may not be the youngest anymore, but her status for the crown doesn’t change—even though she now has a little brother, age takes precedence over gender for the first time in royal succession history.