Cumbrian archive offered at auction recalls D-Day’s floating harbours

An historic archive belonging to the engineer who oversaw the design of the Mulberry Harbours in the Second World War comes to auction in Cumbria later this month.

The cache from Colonel Vassal Charles Steer-Webster (1897-1970) will be sold by his only relative …

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