Sir Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965)

[The Saint]

Recently I visited Sir Winston Churchill’s grave in the grounds of the Church of St Martin in Bladon, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

I attach a selection of photos of Sir Winston's grave and the graves of other Churchill family members that are located within the Churchill family plot.

The black & white images were taken at Sir Winston’s funeral service in 1965.

The Saint

[Sam Tyler]

Good pictures and a great man, thanks for posting Simon. 

Annie and I visited his home Chartwell back in April, the weather was grotty but the house and grounds were stunning. Did you also go to Blenheim Palace while you were there at Woodstock? We went there a couple of years ago just before one Christmas, again the weather was grotty but the house and grounds magnificent - although in saying that I preferred Chartwell.

Sam.

[The Saint]

Oct 28, 2018 18:12:13 GMT Sam Tyler said:

Good pictures and a great man, thanks for posting Simon. 

Annie and I visited his home Chartwell back in April, the weather was grotty but the house and grounds were stunning. Did you also go to Blenheim Palace while you were there at Woodstock? We went there a couple of years ago just before one Christmas, again the weather was grotty but the house and grounds magnificent - although in saying that I preferred Chartwell.

Sam.

I didn't go to Blenheim Palace Sam, as I wasn't in the area for too long.

I went to a classic car show at Chartwell about 20 years ago, it was a very windy day so we had to sit in our cars most of the time!

The Saint

[Cartman]

Good pics, ta for posting. I do vaguely remember his funeral on TV when I would have been 5. I didn’t know anything about him, obviously, and remember asking mum and dad who he was. 

Undoubtably, he was the right man to lead the country in world war 2. Strangely, his career until the outbreak of the war had been pretty much a bit of a disaster. In world war 1 he was responsible for Gallipoli, which was a huge mess, although he managed to talk his way out of trouble and Kitchener got the blame for it. Later, in the 1920s, he was Chancellor and mistakenly tried to keep on the gold standard, which resulted in export markets collapsing, due to an overvalued pound. 

However, he recognised Hitler as a menace and a threat very early on, but as he was, at that stage, a backbencher and a bit marginalised, he was ignored for a long time. Appointing him as Prime minister in 1940, after the Norwegian campaign had failed was a decision which surely won the war for Britain. 

He was Prime minister again between 1951 and 55, but was ill quite a lot of time and delegated much work to Rab Butler, but he will always be remembered forever for his great work as wartime leader

[Vienna]

Great pictures Saint. Thanks for sharing these photos with us on the forum 

I lived in the Oxford area during the sunny summer of 1989 and remember meeting up with my parents in Woodstock and visiting Blenheim Palace.

Vi

[Sam Tyler]

You may have got into Blenheim okay but there's always a resident ginger cat at Chartwell called Jock so fur could fly if you went there!

Sam.

[D.C. Burtonshaw]

Thanks for those Saint, very interesting and somewhere I've not been to yet