Sapphire and Surprise
Sapphire and Surprise, St Mary's Boatmen Association. Arriving at St Agnes.
Halton Royal Air Force Station - Song Medley - HMV Private Record - 78 rpm
Here's A Medley of songs with a flying theme sung by the 500 apprentices at the Technical school at Halton Royal Air force Station near Wendover, Buckinghamshire in the Chilterns. I guess this was recorder during World War Two when it would have been the most heavily staffed it has ever been. Halton Airforce Station is still operational today,but has been earmarked for closure in the defence spending cuts by 2020.
I haven't found any information about this private recording by HMV no doubt for the air force to give copies to the participants I also have 2 more Red Label records recorded by Columbia records which I will upload videos of eventually of a selection of further interesting songs.
Royal Air Force Halton or more simply RAF Halton is one of the largest Royal Air Force stations in the United Kingdom, located near the village of Halton near Wendover, Buckinghamshire. The site has been in use since the First World War but is expected to be disposed of by 2022.
HRH the Duchess of Cornwall is the Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Halton.
The first recorded military aviation at Halton took place in 1913 when the then owner of the Halton estate, Alfred de Rothschild, invited No 3 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps to conduct manoeuvres on his land. Following a gentlemen's agreement between Rothschild and Lord Kitchener, the estate was used by the British Army throughout the First World War. In 1916 the Royal Flying Corps moved its air mechanics school from Farnborough, Hampshire to Halton, and in 1917, the school was permanently accommodated in workshops built by German PoWs.[2][3]
The estate was purchased by the British Government for the nascent Royal Air Force at the end of the First World War for £112,000.
In 1919 Lord Trenchard established the No. 1 School of Technical Training at RAF Halton for RAF aircraft apprentices,[4] which remained at the station until it moved to RAF Cosford in the early 1990s.[5] Also in 1919, Halton House – a French-style mansion built for Lionel de Rothschild – was re-opened as the station's Officers' Mess, a role which the grade II listed building continues as today.[6]
Princess Mary's RAF Hospital Halton was opened in 1927 as a large purpose-built military hospital, replacing an earlier makeshift medical facility housed in wooden huts that had been opened in 1919. The hospital was the second unit in the United Kingdom to have a renal facility, and besides developing a cure for Sandfly fever, the hospital was the first in the world to use penicillin on a large scale in 1940, just after its discovery.[7] The hospital was closed in 1995 due to Government defence cuts. The buildings remained derelict until 2007–08 when they were demolished for new housing in a development called Princess Mary Gate.[8]
During the Second World War, RAF Halton continued its training role. Additionally No 112 Squadron and No 402 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force were based at Halton for part of the war. No. 1448 (Radar Calibration) Flight was converted into No. 529 Squadron at Halton in June 1943. Initially, the squadron flew the Cierva C.30 and the de Havilland Hornet Moth and by the end of the war, the squadron was competent with autogyro aircraft.[9][10]
In July 1952 the uncrowned Queen Elizabeth II performed one of her first duties as Sovereign by presenting a colour to Number 1 School of Technical Training; the first to be awarded to an apprentice school, and the first to be presented to an 'other rank' when Sergeant Apprentice Hines, of the 63rd Entry, received the colour from Her Majesty.[11]
When No. 1 School of Technical Training moved to RAF Cosford in 1993, they took over guardianship of the Queen's Colour and on 31 October 1997, Her Majesty presented RAF Halton with its second colour. RAF Halton was the only station to be granted the dignity of two Queen's colours.[12] The move of No. 1 School of Technical Training to RAF Cosford afforded space for the RAF School of Recruit Training to be moved from RAF Swinderby to RAF Halton in July 1993, where it has been ever since.[13] In the year 2004-2005, RAF Halton trained 24,000 personnel, though not all were Phase 1 recruits; some were attending the Airman's Command School which trains Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) in Phase 2 and 3 discipline
The Spell of Egypt by Robert Smythe Hichens Video / Audiobook
Why do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost dreams of old; to gild your life with the drowsy gold of romance, to lose a creeping sorrow, to forget that too many of your hours are sullen, grey, bereft? What do you wish of Egypt?
Author: Robert Smythe Hichens
Published: 1910
Chp 1: THE PYRAMIDS, Pg # 2
Chp 2: THE SPHINX, Pg # 14
Chp 3: SAKKARA, Pg # 25
Chp 4: ABYDOS, Pg # 35
Chp 5: THE NILE, Pg # 44
Chp 6: DENDERAH, Pg # 50
Chp 7: KARNAK, Pg # 65
Chp 8: LUXOR, Pg # 90
Chp 9: COLLOSI OF MEMNON, Pg # 109
Chp 10: MEDINET- ABU, Pg # 123
Chp 11: THE RAMESSEUM, Pg #135
Chp 12: DEIR-EL-BAHARI, Pg # 151
Chp 13: THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS, Pg # 170
Chp 14: EDFU, Pg # 177
Chp 15: KOM OMBOS, Pg # 201
Chp 16: PHILAE, Pg # 216
Chp 17: PHAROAH'S BED, Pg # 231
Chp 18: OLD CAIRO, Pg # 255
Visit our Website to see a collection
Like us on Facebook here
The Eyes of the Movie by Harry Alan Potamkin - Film Criticism & Cinematography Audiobook
The Eyes of the Movie by Harry Alan Potamkin - Film Criticism & Cinematography Audiobook
▶ Do not forget to subscribe to my channel for the most beautiful audiobooks selected from literary classics.
(The best way to learn English is to listen to audio books.)
Librivox: The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Impresario, Imperialist. So begins Harry Alan Potamkin's The Eyes of the Movie, a posthumously published indictment of Hollywood. It is a savage socialist critique of the film industry, its practices, and products. Potamkin takes aim at the conservative element infiltrating Hollywood's dream factory, investigating mainstream cinema's double function as propaganda and passing amusement. (Summary by ChuckW)
▶ Audiobook Bestseller - Playlist:
▶ The Best Audio Books HD Playlist:
▶ Popular Classic Literature AudioBooks:
▶ Literary Classics And Audio Books To Learn English:
#audiobook #audiobooks #freeaudiobooks #bestaudiobooks #movie #film #cinema #criticism #potamkin
Title: The Eyes of the Movie
Author: Harry Alan Potamkin
Reader: Chuck Williamson
Genre: Art, Design & Architecture
More infromation:
Antwerp | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Antwerp
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Antwerp ( (listen), Dutch: Antwerpen [ˈɑntʋɛrpə(n)] (listen), French: Anvers French pronunciation: [ɑ̃vɛʁ(s)]) is a city in Belgium, and is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders. With a population of 520,504, it is the most populous city proper in Belgium. Its metropolitan area houses around 1,200,000 people, coming in second behind Brussels.Antwerp is on the River Scheldt, linked to the North Sea by the Westerschelde estuary. It is about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Brussels, and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) from the Dutch border. The Port of Antwerp is one of the biggest in the world, ranking second in Europe and within the top 20 globally. Antwerp was also the place of the world's oldest stock exchange building, originally built in 1531 and re-built in 1872.Antwerp has long been an important city in the Low Countries, both economically and culturally, especially before the Spanish Fury (1576) and in the Dutch Revolt. The inhabitants of Antwerp are nicknamed Sinjoren (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪnˈjoːˌrən]), after the Spanish honorific señor or French seigneur, lord, referring to the Spanish noblemen who ruled the city in the 17th century. Today Antwerp is a major trade and cultural centre. The city hosted the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Not George Washington by P. G. Wodehouse | Audiobook with subtitles
It has been said that behind every successful man is a good woman. This is certainly true in the case of James Orlebar Cloyster. However, some funny things happened on his road to success. His story is humorously told from the point of view of several parties involved.
According to Wikipedia, the book is a humorous, fictionalized account of Wodehouse's early years as a journalist, with Wodehouse being portrayed by the character of Cloyster. (Summary by Debra Lynn)
Not George Washington
P. G. WODEHOUSE
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction
Our Custom URL :
Subscribe To Our Channel:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Audio Book Audiobooks All Rights Reserved. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org.