or “All Stations to Hadfield”… I like wikipedia. Sometimes it isn’t correct though. Another problem is that it always sounds authoritative. But sometimes it is mistaken. Like the information about the trains to Glossop in the 1980s. So here are some extra facts:- The service with the Class 506 units was very good. Towards the … More Glossop and Hadfield (Day Return) or A Trip in the Eighties…
R S Thomas the poet spoke about Evans. (Link here) Yes. He knew him well. And Evans was lucky. For Thomas (R S) gave him a place in all eternity. A solid place. In a black and white printed eternity. Nothing grey about that. Unequivocal. Thomas (apparently) faced the world in his Black and White. … More unrhyw un neb a rhywun
There aren’t those Wednesdays now. They are gone. There isn’t even climate like that. (Everybody should understand that too). That is gone. Blown away. (By the wind though – not amazement). So what was it? Nice is what it was. The colours of spring and summer were really Ilford (sometimes Kodacolor) but never Agfa (time … More Rewarding Music
And I have not always lived here. I lived there. And there. Oh, and there. Also. Most solutions are urban. That is to say that most solutions are for cities. But all problems are universal. But solutions are not universal. I lived an urban life. Urban support. Urban need. Urban facilities. Urban entitlement. I took … More Eleven Eleven Eleven
We have all had days like this. Days that loom ahead. The days that we do not want to happen. But inevitably those days roll up. As signal days or red letter days they are inevitable. They are unstoppable. They are the opposite of celebration days. Alec Kendall in his song about the coming of … More Leaving Home
Things are seldom what they seem/ Skim milk masquerades as cream/ Highlows pass as patent leathers/ Jackdaws strut in peacock’s feathers/ Very true. So they do. (W. S. Gilbert 1836-1911) And here I am, browsing through a local history magazine – and a good venture it is too. It is full of the right kind … More Every Picture Tells A Story? Hmm…
Civic Pride is not much written about these days. That is sad. Often now the only mention of towns and their administration is negative. Pride in a town seems to stop at the football team if there is one. Sometimes local loyalties may also be diverse and point in other directions. (W. S. Gilbert had … More Rochdale Town Hall Bells – Broadcast 2018
Violet’s Live Performances – A Partial List 1942 to 1951 From the first appearance of Violet Carson in “Songs That Father Sang” in 1937, Violet Carson worked with “The Colunio Singers”. This group appears to have been based in Colne, Lancashire (not the Colne Valley Male Voice Choir based near Huddersfield in the West Riding). … More Violet Carson – Pianist, Singer, Musician 1898-1983 Part 4 of 4 – War Work; Broadcasts and CEMA Concerts; Post War Music
Some Reviews and Live Performances and Concerts by Violet Carson ================================ Lancashire Evening Post – Saturday 26 November 1938 Lancaster’s New Ballroom – More that 200 people attended a dinner dance at the King’s Arms Hotel, Lancaster, last night, organised by the management (Mr an Mrs Alexander MacAskill) to introduce to the public the new … More Violet Carson – Pianist, Singer, Musician 1898-1983 – Part 3 of 4 – Reviews of Concerts
The Hawthorn tree – Crataegus monogyna As a boy, I was walking with my Grandfather and he pulled a leaf from a hawthorn tree. “Chew it” he said. And I did. “Bread, Butter and Cheese” he said. And thus it was, like many before me and many others, I ate – and tasted nothing. So … More Hawthorn – Bread, Butter and Cheese
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