The Axenals @ Hare & Hounds..!!!!
Watch us do the 'Axenal' dance at Hare & Hounds in Burstwick...!!!
Greyhounds racing, Belle Vue Greyhound Stadium, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Belle Vue Stadium is a greyhound racing track in Belle Vue, Manchester, where the very first race around an oval track in Britain was held on 24 July 1926. It is also used for speedway as the home ground of Elite League team Belle Vue Aces since 1988 and since 1999 has British Stock Car Association (BriSCA), the British governing body for stock car racing and banger racing. The stadium holds a number of BriSCA events and has become one of the most popular venues in the North-West of England. The track has always been the property of Greyhound Racing Association Ltd. (GRA), which has invested heavily in it right through to the current day. The stadium offers luxury glass-fronted grandstands, restaurant, hospitality boxes, and several bars. Greyhound racing takes place on Friday and Saturday evenings. In 1925 Charles A. Munn, an American businessman, made a deal with Smith and Sawyer for the rights to promote the greyhound racing in Britain. Although the earlier attempt to introduce mechanical racing at Hendon had almost been forgotten, the pastime of coursing was as strong as ever in Britain. Fortunately for Munn, the first person he contacted with regards to reintroducing greyhound racing into Britain was Major L. Lyne Dixson. The Major was a leading figure in British field sports and was quickly won over to the idea presented to him by the American entrepreneur. Finding other supporters proved to rather difficult however. With the General Strike of 1926 looming, the two men scoured the country in an attempt to find others who would join them. Eventually they met Brigadier-General Alfred Critchley, who in turn introduced them to Sir William Gentle JP. Between them they raised £22,000 and formed the Greyhound Racing Association Ltd. When deciding where to situate their new stadium, Manchester was considered to be the ideal place because of its sporting and gambling links. Close to the city centre, the consortium erected the first custom-built greyhound stadium and called it Belle Vue, where the very first race around an oval track in Britain was held on 24 July 1926. More than 1,700 people were attracted to the meeting where they watched a greyhound called Mistley win over 440 yards (402 m). By June 1927, the stadium was attracting almost 70,000 visitors a week. Six races with seven dogs in each race were held in the first meeting. Fifty years later a stand was named after Mistley, the winner of the first race. Running the quarter-mile flat course in 25 seconds, Mistley romped home eight lengths clear at 6–1. Belle Vue increased the number of runners per race to seven, but after the formation of the NGRC in 1928 the maximum number of dogs per race was limited to six. Since 2007 protests have been held against greyhound racing at Belle Vue. Greyhound Action, an animal rights organisation which campaigned for an end to greyhound racing, held weekly protests outside the races each Saturday and occasionally on Fridays. In 2010 The Belle Vue Greyhound Action Group also organized and held a series of demonstrations to protest at the entertainer Dara O'Briain's participation in greyhound racing. Campaigners at Belle Vue got an article published in the Irish press about O'Briain's greyhound, Snip Nua, which it is believed was the first ever in the Irish press to state that racing greyhounds are killed for economic reasons. In 2008 the Sunday Times revealed that Belle Vue dogs were being sent for research at Liverpool vets school by trainer Richard Fielding. Further instances of injury were highlighted in 2014, when a trial session was halted after several dogs sustained serious injuries and one death. In 2010 concerns were raised about the high injury rates at Belle Vue. Since Greyhound Action disbanded in 2011, the protests have been held by a protest group who call themselves Shut down Belle Vue. A 2012 article in the Sunday Express also called the kennels of two Belle Vue trainers, Beverly Heaton and Nigel Saunders, disgusting. The article alleged that dogs were kept in cramped dilapidated kennels without heating and in some cases doors and that faeces and urine had not been adequately removed. A greyhound protection group, Greytexploitations, provided video footage to substantiate allegations of the poor conditions, these included the image of a Greyhound skull on a dog waste heap. In January 2014 Caged North West held a protest demo at Manchester's Deansgate Hilton hotel against the Greyhound Board of Great Britain's awards night. Around 400 protesters attended the demo but despite this the event failed to be mentioned by the media. CAGED NW publicized the event. In July 2014 CAGED NW and other greyhound protection groups held a remembrance event in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens, held on the 88th anniversary of the opening of Belle Vue. The event featured a service by a church minister and a fly past by a light aircraft carrying a banner displaying the words YOU BET THEY DIE.
False lights play Beverley Folk Festival 2017
False lights play Beverley Folk Festival 2017
RideOffRoadUk Scunthorpe 2012 round 2
Kids Start Youth A Riders, Me 3rd From The Left:)
The axenals live @ The Humber Keel, Beverley
3 Dances; The Westmorland Step & Garland Dancers 2015 ~
3 Dances by the Westmorland Step & Garland Dancers kindly performing at the Crook Morris Wassail Day 2015.
The Westmorland Step & Garland Dancers are a Kendal-based dance side performing both Westmorland step dances and garland morris dances (and variations thereof).
Clog dancing is most notably associated with the 19th century Lancashire cotton mills, with towns like Colne. It is here that the term ‘heel and toe’ was first used, derived from the changes made to the clog in the 1500s. Coal miners in Northumbria and Durham developed the dance too.
nitially, the dancing was started simply to alleviate boredom and warm up in the cold industrial towns. It tended to be men that would dance and, later, as its popularity grew to its peak between 1880 and 1904, they would compete professionally in music halls. The money awarded to winners would be a valuable source of income for the poor working classes. There was even a World Clog Dancing Championships.
Women also participated, though, and later their dancing, too, became popular in music halls. They would also dress up colourfully and dance in the villages, carrying sticks to represent the bobbins in the cotton mills. Dancing clogs (night /‘neet’ clogs) were made from ash wood, and were lighter than those worn to work. They were also more ornate and brightly coloured. Some performers would even nail metal to the soles so that when the shoes were struck, sparks would fly!
Clog dancing involves heavy steps which keep time (clog is Gaelic for ‘time’), and striking one shoe with the other, creating rhythms and sounds to imitate those made by the milling machinery. During competitions, judges would sit either beneath the stage or behind a screen, allowing them to mark performances purely on the sounds made. Only the legs and feet move, the arms and torso remaining still, rather similar to Irish step dancing.
There were various styles of clog dancing, like Lancashire-Irish, which was influenced by the Irish workers that migrated into the mills of Lancashire. The Lancashire style also tended to make more use of the toe in the dance, whereas Durham dancers used more heel. Other styles included the Lancashire and Liverpool hornpipes.
Today, although clog dancing is not as popular as it was in the 1800s, clog makers still exist and performances can be seen at folk festivals like Whitby. Skipton as well as in Kendal Cumbria, north Yorkshire also hosts a festival of English step dance every July, helping to keep the tradition alive.
Grateful thanks to the Westmorland Step & Garland Dancers, the Hare and Hounds and Crook Morris.
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Sam Carter @ Beverley Folk Festival 2016
Since being named Best Newcomer at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Sam Carter has been stirring audiences from Camden to Canada, via an attention grabbing appearance on Later… with Jools Holland and a “dreams really do come true” performance in a specially assembled band to back Richard Thompson at another UK festival in 2015.
False Lights Hare n Hounds 10/02/15
False Lights ripping it up at the Hare n Hounds in Kings Heath 10/02/15
The Toy Hearts - Drunkard's Blues
The Toy Hearts, performing Drunkard's Blues (Hank Thompson cover), at The Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham, on 13 Jan 2013.
Epitaph on a Hare by William Cowper
Epitaph on a Hare by William Cowper
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HERE lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue,
Nor swifter greyhound follow,
Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew,
Nor ear heard huntsman's Hallo',
Old Tiney, surliest of his kind,
Who, nurs'd with tender care,
And to domestic bounds confin'd,
Was still a wild Jack-hare.
Though duly from my hand he took
His pittance ev'ry night,
He did it with a jealous look,
And, when he could, would bite.
His diet was of wheaten bread,
And milk, and oats, and straw,
Thistles, or lettuces instead,
With sand to scour his maw.
On twigs of hawthorn he regal'd,
On pippins' russet peel;
And, when his juicy salads fail'd,
Slic'd carrot pleas'd him well.
A Turkey carpet was his lawn,
Whereon he lov'd to bound,
To skip and gambol like a fawn,
And swing his rump around.
His frisking was at evening hours,
For then he lost his fear;
But most before approaching show'rs,
Or when a storm drew near.
Eight years and five round-rolling moons
He thus saw steal away,
Dozing out his idle noons,
And ev'ry night at play.
I kept him for his humour's sake,
For he would oft beguile
My heart of thoughts that made it ache,
And force me to a smile.
But now, beneath this walnut-shade
He finds his long, last home,
And waits in snug concealment laid,
'Till gentler Puss shall come.
He, still more aged, feels the shocks
From which no care can save,
And, partner once of Tiney's box,
Must soon partake his grave.
Wild Dogs Eat Impala Alive
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Ali Campbell Great British Songs TV spot
Great British Songs the new album by Ali Campbell, ex frontman of UB40. Out in Europe with Bonus DVD on November 19th
Dominic Dyer on Sky News Jeremy Hunt and the Hunting Act debate
Kay Burley Show 4/07/2019
Dominic Dyer from the Born Free Foundation debates with Charlie Jacoby from Field Sports Channel on Jeremy Hunt's announcement that if he becomes Prime Minister he will repeal the fox hunting ban.
1970s, 1980s Dog Races, Greyhound Racing, UK Home Movies
From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit Clip ref. JK15.
Race track, greyhound racing, dog racing, dogs race around track. Men lead dogs out. Men in stands, crowd watching. POV from boat along river.
Henry Priestman greys the new blonde
Playing in Settle April 14
Bundy Ranch - The Hillbilly Bears
The Hillbilly Bears in Bundy Ranch (2014)
Paw Rugg as Cliven Bundy
Shag Rugg as Ammon Bundy
Maw Rugg as Carol Bundy
Vintage Boardtrack Motorcycle Racing
vintage racing. found at motoredbikes.com
Vintage Motorcycle Racing footage
Rare video,from bmw archives, focusing in bmw participation to racing.
Preparations of bikes & riders and their journey to the race, on their own bikes. Service on the road, rare shots of places,people and pre-race,an full race coverage, possibly vintage ISDT. The video lucked of sound,so I added some youtube music.
We're False Lights • False Lights EPK
Sam Carter and Jim Moray talk about the formation of False Lights, the other musicians in the band, and how they could have been called Sam and Jim's Special Relationship.
The new album Salvor is out now from
The Grand Old Uke Of York - The Grand Depart.
The Grand Old Uke of York were invited by Hope & Social to take part in The Grand Depart for the Tour de France on 3 July 2014 at the Leeds Arena. This is a little look at fun we had on the way.