Funny Gloucester poet, Peter Wyton performing at Stroud on Water festival
Funny Gloucester poet, Peter Wyton, performs to a huge and highly appreciative audience, live at Stroud Under Water festival organised by the Stroudwater Canals Trust
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Lechlade on Thames In The Cotswolds.
Lechlade, or Lechlade-on-Thames, is a town at the southern edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable. The town is named after the River Leach that joins the Thames near The Trout Inn.
The town is a popular venue for tourism and river-based activities. There are several pubs, some antique shops, a convenience store, food outlets, a garden centre and a Christmas shop. Near the 15th century Church of England parish church of Saint Lawrence, in the centre of the town, there is a large open space which is now a car park. The main roads through the town are busy, as the town is at the crossroads of the A417 and A361. Where the A361 enters the town from the south it crosses the River Thames on Halfpenny Bridge. Another tributary of the Thames, the River Coln, joins the Thames at the Inglesham Round House. Lechlade has hosted a music festival since 2011. In 2015 the festival's headline act was Status Quo.
Lechlade is the highest town to which the River Thames is navigable by relatively large craft including narrowboats. It is possible to travel by river or on foot from here to London. Indeed, in the early eighteenth century goods unloaded in Bristol were transported to Gloucester, carried overland to Lechlade and sent down the Thames to London. The Halfpenny Bridge is therefore the usual start for a water based Thames meander – the term for a long distance journey down the Thames. The Thames Path also continues upstream to the traditional source of the Thames at Thames Head). The river is actually navigable for a short distance further upstream, near the village of Inglesham, where the Thames and Severn Canal joins the River Thames. Rowing boats can reach even further upstream, to Cricklade. Lechlade is a popular resort for Thames boating. Boats of different types can be hired from here, from rowing boats to river cruisers.
The highest lock on the Thames is St John's Lock, at Lechlade, where there is a statue of Old Father Thames overlooking the boating activities. There is a view from St John's Bridge across the lock and the meadows to the spire of St Lawrence's parish church. The River Leach flows into the Thames at St John's Bridge. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley composed A Summer Evening Churchyard here which includes the lines Clothing in hues of heaven thy dim and distant spire Around whose lessening and invisible height Gather among the stars the clouds of night.
Intro Title Music:-
Cinematic (Sting) by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (
Artist:
Ivor Gurney - To england, a note
Written in the trenches of World War One.
I watched the boys of England where they went
Through mud and water to do appointed things.
See one a stake, and one wire-netting brings,
And one comes slowly under a burden bent
Of ammunition. Though the strength be spent
They carry on under the shadowing wings
Of Death the ever-present. And hark, one sings
Although no joy from the grey skies be lent.
Are these the heroes — these ? have kept from
you
The power of primal savagery so long ?
Shall break the devil's legions ? These they are
Who do in silence what they might boast to do ;
In the height of battle tell the world in song
How they do hate and fear the face of War.
Wordsworths Daffodils
* Sound track to the middle section missing - video to be re-uploaded shortly....
In this, the original video of the concept; BBC poet and playwright John Horder reads William Wordsworth's Daffodils over beautifully shot footage of spring daffodils on the shores of Glencoyne Bay Ullswater in the English Lake District that are, amazingly, descendents of the same family of wild flowers growing at the exact spot that inspired the bard of Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy alongside, to pen the immortal lines in 1802.
Filmed April 2001.
( This recording appears as a supplement on the DVD Little Lakeland Gems, HOV 36LD, available from our website. ).
Music by AKM (copyright-free).
THE ISLE OF WIGHT - PERFECT ENGLAND
English photographer Roger George Clark says:- 'A poet once described the Isle of Wight as 'Perfect England.' That's what I found when I took most of these pictures in the 1960s. The Island, which is situated in the English Channel, just off England's southern coast, was a microcosm of everything we think of as English.
'Besides the little villages and country fairs you'll notice Lord Mountbatten attending a church fete. He was the Island's Governor. And a future prime minister, James Callaghan, brandishing a large onion at a summer show. You can see great liners and paddle steamers steaming by. And everywhere yachts and people enjoying themselves on the beaches.
'As luck would have it the strip of water that cuts the Island off from the mainland has insulated it from the extraordinary social changes that have happened elsewhere in Britain. Although these are historic pictures you'll find the Island today much the same as it was decades ago. If you're sick and tired of modern Britain and long to live in the past - to go back to the world of the 1960s and even earlier - then the isle of Wight is the place for you. It is still 'Perfect England.'
'Along with my royal pictures - see my YouTube video 'Watching the Queen Go By' - this was one of my first attempts to produce a photo essay.
'You can see more of my photos here on YouTube. And please my website:- rogergeorgeclark.com
Adam Lindsay Gordon - Cui Bono
Adam Lindsay Gordon (October 19 1833 – June 23 1870) was an Australian poet, jockey, police officer and politician. Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores, son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon who had married his first cousin, Harriet Gordon, both of whom were descended from Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, of the ballad Edom o Gordon. Captain Gordon, who had retired from the Bengal cavalry and taught Hindustani, was then staying at the Azores for the sake of his wife's health. After living on the island of Madeira, they went to England and lived at Cheltenham in 1840.
Gordon was sent to Cheltenham College in 1841 when he was only seven, but after he had been there a year he was sent to a school kept by the Rev. Samuel Ollis Garrard in Gloucestershire. He attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1848, where he was a contemporary and friend of Charles George Gordon (no relation, later 'Gordon of Khartoum') and Thomas Bland Strange (later known as Gunner Jingo There Gordon appears to have been good at sports, but not studious and certainly undisciplined – and like Richard Henry Horne, he was asked to leave. Gordon was again admitted a pupil at Cheltenham College.
He was not there for long – he appears to have left in the middle of 1852 – but the story that he was expelled from Cheltenham is without foundation. Then Gordon was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester in 1852. Gordon began to lead a wild and aimless life, contracted debts, and was a great anxiety to his father, who at last decided that his son should go to Australia and make a fresh start in 1853 to join the mounted police with a letter of introduction to the Governor.
Gordon had fallen in love with Jane Bridges, a girl, aged 17 who was able to tell the story 60 years afterwards to his biographers. Gordon did not declare his love until he came to say good-bye to her before leaving for Australia on 7 August 1853. With characteristic recklessness he offered to sacrifice the passage he had taken to Australia, and all his father's plans for giving him a fresh start in life, if she would tell him not to go, or promise to be his wife, or even give him some hope. This she could not do, though she liked the shy handsome boy and remembered him with affection to the end of a long life. It was the one romance of Gordon's life.
That Gordon realised his conduct had fallen much below what it might have been can be seen in his poems ... To my Sister, written three days before he left England, and Early Adieux, evidently written about the same time.
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Gloucester
Day two of the beano and I'm off to Gloucester, except my train from Cardiff was cancelled. A journey around everywhere and I was only half an hour late. It drizzled, two new Spoons and no sign of any QR codes.
Alison Brackenbury - 'No'
Alison Brackenbury reads 'No', the final poem in her 2013 collection, THEN, published by Carcanet in paperback and ebook formats:
THEN draws on Alison Brackenbury's lifetime's experience of rural England, its people and its ways, and the threats to its survival. From the lapwings of her childhood Lincolnshire to the recurrent floods in Gloucestershire, where she has lived for many years, the poems reach urgently to both past and future, finding connections and disconnections. The signs of a changing climate are emblematic of larger erasures. The poems keenly focus the beauty and the harshness of the natural world. They remind us of our own fragility, and our responsibility: 'We are made of water. But we forgot.'
'Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet.' -- Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales
You can find out more about Alison and her work at carcanet.co.uk, where you can also order THEN with a 10% discount and free UK delivery.
Charleigh + Alicia In Gloucester -Bored
Rofl.
So Funny Haa
Green Party - Stroud Election Video - Martin Whiteside
Campaign video for Martin Whiteside, Green Party Candidate, 2010 general election.
Printed and published by John Marjoram for the Green Party, 8 Castle St, Stroud, Glos, GL5 2HP on behalf of Martin Whiteside, Hillside, Claypits Lane, Lypiatt, Stroud, GL6 7LU
The Attempt (Edward Thomas)
An essay drama film looking at Edward Thomas' attempted suicide a few years before he was killed in World War One. Includes a reading of Thomas' The Path by Robert Macfarlane and original music by Daniel Thorne of the Immix Ensemble.
National Poetry Day: A poem from London’s Young Poet Laureate - BBC London News
“FAM” - What does it mean to you?
26 year old Caleb Femi, London’s first Young Poet Laureate shares his thoughts on family.
Kate Greenstreet--from [SALT]
Rabbit Light Movies--Episode #2
Cotswolds Country Walk Slad Valley Elves on the Laurie Lee Wildlife Way round
Our video is a guided circular walk in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire. Starting from Bulls Cross just north of Slad village near Stroud we walk through the Slad Valley following the Laurie Lee Wildlife Way through four nature reserves looking for the ten posts inscribed with his poems. This is a lovely family but moderate walk on gravel and grass tracks and paths, some parts can be muddy. There are a few inclines and declines and one very steep incline.
Elevation: Approx lowest point 93.70m (307.4ft) approx highest point 213.80m (701.44ft) approx ascent 344.60m (1130.58ft).
Approx 5.75 miles allow 3 hours using OS Explorer Map 179, Gloucester, Cheltenham and Stroud. This walk is done anti-clockwise.
Start point: Bulls Cross lay-by on the B4070 north of Slad village. Free parking.
For more info and facilities please see our website.
Adam Lindsay Gordon - Rippling Water
Adam Lindsay Gordon (October 19 1833 – June 23 1870) was an Australian poet, jockey, police officer and politician. Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores, son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon who had married his first cousin, Harriet Gordon, both of whom were descended from Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, of the ballad Edom o Gordon. Captain Gordon, who had retired from the Bengal cavalry and taught Hindustani, was then staying at the Azores for the sake of his wife's health. After living on the island of Madeira, they went to England and lived at Cheltenham in 1840.
Gordon was sent to Cheltenham College in 1841 when he was only seven, but after he had been there a year he was sent to a school kept by the Rev. Samuel Ollis Garrard in Gloucestershire. He attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1848, where he was a contemporary and friend of Charles George Gordon (no relation, later 'Gordon of Khartoum') and Thomas Bland Strange (later known as Gunner Jingo There Gordon appears to have been good at sports, but not studious and certainly undisciplined – and like Richard Henry Horne, he was asked to leave. Gordon was again admitted a pupil at Cheltenham College.
He was not there for long – he appears to have left in the middle of 1852 – but the story that he was expelled from Cheltenham is without foundation. Then Gordon was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester in 1852. Gordon began to lead a wild and aimless life, contracted debts, and was a great anxiety to his father, who at last decided that his son should go to Australia and make a fresh start in 1853 to join the mounted police with a letter of introduction to the Governor.
Gordon had fallen in love with Jane Bridges, a girl, aged 17 who was able to tell the story 60 years afterwards to his biographers. Gordon did not declare his love until he came to say good-bye to her before leaving for Australia on 7 August 1853. With characteristic recklessness he offered to sacrifice the passage he had taken to Australia, and all his father's plans for giving him a fresh start in life, if she would tell him not to go, or promise to be his wife, or even give him some hope. This she could not do, though she liked the shy handsome boy and remembered him with affection to the end of a long life. It was the one romance of Gordon's life.
That Gordon realised his conduct had fallen much below what it might have been can be seen in his poems ... To my Sister, written three days before he left England, and Early Adieux, evidently written about the same time.
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Chris the Poet recites
Chris the Poet recites a topical/contoversial poem about the youth of today, and society's class divisions, with particular reference to Stroud, a small market town in the heart of the Cotswolds.
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Karl Jenkins - Cantilena
Karl Jenkins on This Land of Ours - The idea came to me earlier in the year to record an album that reflected two important facets of traditional Welsh popular culture, the male voice choir and the brass band, brought together for the first time on a major record release. Male voice choirs and brass bands have been synonymous with our country since the industrial revolution and although this is true of many mining communities, particularly in the north of England, the male choir has a particular resonance in Wales. It was clear that I had to employ the best possible practitioners in these disciplines to make this project memorable and the choice of both band and choir was easy. It was crucial to have a choir that, while retaining the raw emotion of the traditional Welsh male choir, also possessed superb musicianship and reading ability, in the musical sense, which enabled me to explore more adventurous harmonies and sounds than is perhaps the norm within this genre, with the choral harmonies sometimes consisting of as many as eight separate parts when often two, or even one, is the norm. Ive known Tim Rhys Evans [and his two choirs, the mixed choir Serendipity and Only Men Aloud, his male voice choir] for a few years. Tim is a brilliant choral director and trainer and indeed undertook that role on my Requiem recording. His male choir has now metamorphosed into Cantorion. Comprising young, vibrant voices with the aforementioned skills although only sixteen in number, they produce an enormous sound, made even bigger by a particular recording technique of mine that shall remain secret! I can say no more about the Cory band than that they are simply the best in the world, an extravagant claim maybe, but endorsed by the fact that soon after this recording was made in September 2007, they went on to win, under their musical director Dr. Robert Childs, the British Open Championship, ahead of such luminaries as the Black Dyke Mills & Grimethorpe Colliery bands. At this point in time, they are officially ranked No 1 in the world! On a personal level I first met the band through David Childs [Roberts son] the great euphonium virtuoso [former winner of the BBC Young Musician Brass Finals] who plays all the euphonium solos here, even performing a duet with himself on Flower Duet. Other pieces include classical favourites, Welsh folk songs and hymns and some well known pieces of mine while others, although not intrinsically Welsh, are favourites in the Principality. Two of the pieces have new text, in Welsh, by the outstanding Welsh poet Grahame Davies. These are reworkings of the Largo from Dvoraks New World Symphony as Cysgu Di [Go To Sleep] and of my Adiemus Cantilena: Ysbrid Y Mynyddoedd [Spirit of the Mountains] that was the soundtrack to the C&G Diver commercial.
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Funny man at station on way to gloucester
ZEB DRAGON (NWOBHM) - Underground
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Taken from the Zeb Dragon CD, coming on October 31st, 2018 by CULT METAL CLASSICS records. The booklet will feature lots of old goodies, like pictures, story, etc. A NWOBHM gem, limited to 500 copies.
Zeb Dragon were formed by a group of friends in 1982. All the band members met at Stratford-Upon-Avon high school with the very first line up consisting of:
Jon Maybey – Guitar
Mike Richardson – Bass
Anthony Smith (Spiff) – Drums
Jeremy Herbert (Herbie) – Vocals
The band rehearsed in a portacabin at the high school, and it is here they began to develop their own original hard rock/metal sound and began writing material.
In 1983 Ben Brierley replaced Herbie on vocals and added acoustic guitar, mandolin and violin into the musical arsenal. Crispin Brierley replaced Spiff on drums in the same year also bringing with him flute. This creative line up would remain.
In the early days, the band performed at music nights in the Green Dragon pub Stratford and quickly graduated to headline and support shows in many venues across the midlands.
Zeb Dragon’s first two recordings were recorded at Windrush studio’s, Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire.
The band were playing live prolifically around the midlands and London areas and building up a significant and dedicated following.
Jon, Ben, Crispin and Mike continued to write and perform original music pulling on influences as diverse as Yes, Black Sabbath and Fairport convention.
The third studio recording was recorded at the River studio in Worcester. This was the last studio recording.
Zeb Dragon’s final performance in 1987 was headlining at Stratford-Upon-Avon Civic hall.
Poet laureate in Gloucester (MA)
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