The Faces (BBC live sessions 1972)
This will take you back to a time when Rod Stewart was good..The Faces with Ronnie Lane were really the best.I know drum solos can be boring , are a thing of the seventies, but this one is good,...
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ARMISTICE DAY 11/11/1918
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the...
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Tom Yates, Love is Losing Ground
Tom Yates in concert in an Antwerp club.Two Manchester mates, Mike Billington and John Constantine, have recently begun a venture together and started a new recording label called, EPONA RECORDS. Mike...
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Jane's Birthday 16th December 1775
Jane Austen was born to Cassandra and George Austen at Steventon rectory in Hampshire on the 16th December 1775. In the village of Selborne, some fifteen miles from Steventon, the naturalist...
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MARMITE!!!!! AT CHRISTMAS
"On the first day of Christmas." (Regent Street)OOOH!!!! “Love it or hate it.”Here in the British Isles we eat Marmite on toast, mostly. It’s great in a cheese sandwich too, to compliment the taste of...
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MARBLE HILL HOUSE TWICKENHAM,RICHMOND AND ITS ENVIRONS
The River Thames wends it’s tortuous way across England from Thames Head in Gloucestershire until it reaches the southernmost part of the North Sea. It’s journey stretches for 215 miles. Finally the...
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Sometimes we all need a piece of pure rock music to clear the cobwebs. A vast drum kit, throbbing base, wailing lead and a singer to break your heart. I certainly do. In my head it takes me back 40...
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PAINSHILL PARK (Surrey)
The Honourable Charles Hamilton was born in 1704, the ninth son and one of fourteen children of the Earl of Abercorn.The 6th Earl, Charles’s father, was at his accession an Irish baronet, "of Dunalong...
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AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF CHAWTON!!!!!!
SOMEBODY'S DRIVEWAYALTERNATIVE VIEW OF "THE SIGNPOST."WHAT IS GOING ON IN CHAWTON?JUST ANOTHER ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN.THE PAINTER OF THIS WINDOW FRAME SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE PRECISE AND CAREFUL WITH HIS...
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NOTTING HILL AND PORTOBELLO ROAD
Notting Hill is west of central London. I went there the other day with Marilyn my wife and my youngest daughter, Abigail. It was a sunny Saturday and our British summer seemed at last to have...
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THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO!!! (EARLY DREAMS OF AMERICA) (The year is 1958)
It was the summer of 1958. A hot June Saturday. I was six years old and wearing my cowboy outfit; wellington boots for cowboy boots, a check shirt , a paisley scarf knotted around my neck ,a brown...
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THE PILGRIM FATHERS AND NON CONFORMITY
The MayflowerThe very term, Pilgrim Fathers, denotes a biblical patriarchy. They called themselves, pilgrims, a religious term describing people who go on a religious journey to get close to their...
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A DAY OUT IN BRIGHTON
THE PAVILIONSaturday 3rd August, another hot day in Britain reaching to 30 degrees centigrade and above. The night before, in Wimbledon, thunder had rumbled and lightening split the heavens followed by...
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LYME REGIS
Lyme Regis looking back from The CobbOn the 6th August I was driving back to London from Newquay in Cornwall along the A30. The A30, the road of dreams, a route right through British history that lays...
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WEST BARNES LANE, MOTSPUR PARK in THE LONDON BOROUGH of MERTON
Where I am sitting now, this very spot, just a little over eighty years ago, a cow could have been standing where I am, ripping grass up with its teeth and gently chewing away, ruminating. I suppose...
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EDINBURGH LOG (Feeling alone) (Part 1)
Edinburgh from Calton Hill.I have spent the last four days in Edinburgh, by myself.After I had registered at the Priestfield B&B, just a little out from the centre of Edinburgh on the Jedburgh Road...
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EDINBURGH LOG( Coffee time) ( Part 2)
A cup of delicious coffee.Edinburgh has many cafes. The chain shops such as Starbucks and Costa are there, in fact, recently when I was in Edinburgh, I discovered one of each. They were hard to find. I...
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EDINBURGH LOG (How do you find anything out?) (Part 3)
A piper.As the Easyjet airliner came down low on its approach to Edinburgh Airport I felt quite excited. I had never been to anywhere in Scotland before. I feel that Scotland is part of my spiritual...
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MY CITY (London)
Bait ul Futah Mosque in Mordern South LondonWhen my youngest daughter , Abigail, started in year 1 at The Sacred Heart Junior School, Burlington Road, at the age of five, she had only been there a...
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Haworth and the Bronte thing.
The Moors just outside of Haworth.“ I struck straight into the heath; I held on to a hollow I saw deeply furrowing the brown moorside; I wade knee deep in it’s dark growth; I turned with it’s...
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