HEINEKEN BrewingGood Cheer at The Wheatsheaf in Woodplumpton
National Poetry Slam champion Solomon O.B is using the power of verse to shine a light on the important role Britain’s pubs play in building community spirit. London-born Solomon O.B has travelled around the country listening to heart-warming, real-life stories of publicans and locals about the crucial role of pubs in creating a sense of togetherness in their communities.
Following his tour, Solomon then used these real life community stories as the inspiration for a new powerful piece of original poetry, which he has called BrewingGood Cheer. To view Solomon’s journey please visit:
Uncovering stories of community spirit alive in pubs across the UK
As part of his journey of poetic inspiration, Solmon O.B met staff and regulars of The Crown and Horses, in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire: a pub that was forced to close in 2015 due to torrential floods. It has only managed to re-open its doors through the sheer hard work of the local community that banded together and returned the pub to its former glory.
Another location visited by Solomon on his journey to discover daily acts of kindness in pubs was The Wheatsheaf in Woodplumpton, Lancashire. Following the closure of the village’s post office, locals had to travel miles to the next town to post letters deposit takings and draw out pensions. To help, the pub literally brought the post office to them - by opening a postal service facility in the pub!
Solomon O.B, who describes himself as a hybrid of rapper and poet, also embarked on a trip to Liverpool’s Elephant pub to learn about the establishment giving mothers in the community a place to get together every morning and socialise over a cup of tea and biscuits.
Launching #BrewingGood Cheer
The release today of Solomon’s poem is being used to officially mark the launch of HEINEKEN’s #BrewingGood Cheer: a nationwide campaign to show the role pubs play in nurturing community spirit and bringing people together. At the heart of #BrewingGood Cheer, will be a series of festive pub lunches for locals who don’t have many friends or family around to spend Christmas with.
Also joining the campaign will be community charities including Royal Voluntary Service, Salford Start and Golden Oldies that will co-host the lunches to help reach people most in need of some company.
The campaign will be taking place in the run up to Christmas: a period traditionally associated with selflessness, good will toward all, kindness and when families and communities traditionally come together.
Claire Matthews from HEINEKEN said: “Pubs are the original social networks, so they’re the perfect place to bring people together and help foster a tight-knit community spirit.
“We hope that #BrewingGood Cheer will shine a light on the wonderful examples of community togetherness and the role pubs play in this - from the everyday to the extraordinary.
“And by showing that even a small gesture, such as chat over a drink and food, can make a big difference if you’re feeling lonely, we hope to encourage people to think about reaching out to someone they know in need of some compmay.
As well as the #BrewingGood Cheer lunches, HEINEKEN will be donating £50,000 to 50 charity and community projects that support people who are lonely or isolated across the country.
The #BrewingGood Cheer lunches will be taking place in pubs from Wednesday 7th December in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Herefordshire and Tadcaster. To find out more about #BrewingGood Cheer, please visit neighbourly.com/brewinggood.
New Milton, Soap Box Derby, Sunday 14th July 2013, Hampshire, England ( 18 )
New Milton is a market town in south west Hampshire, England. The town has a high street and holds a market every Wednesday. Situated on the edge of the New Forest, the town is about six miles ( 10 km ) west of Lymington town centre and 12 miles ( 19 km ) east of Bournemouth town centre. New Milton dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, and encompasses Old Milton, Barton on Sea, Ashley, Bashley, and Wootton. It is recorded as having a population of around 23,000 in 2001. The traditional village centre of Milton was just south of the church. Up to the 1960's, moated earthworks were still visible next to the road known as Moat Lane. Excavations of these earthworks in 1956 revealed a series of peasant enclosures and hut remains dating from the 9th to the 12th century, but no evidence of a manorial farmstead was found. The parish church of Milton is dedicated to Mary Magdalene and consists of a chancel with vestry, a nave and a western tower. The medieval church was pulled down and replaced around 1830, although the tower is of an earlier 17th century date. In 1835 a Church of England National School was founded on an island of land near the village green, where children were taught until just after World War I. In 1881, the population of the entire Milton parish was only 1489 people, and Milton was still a small village. The location of the village on the main Christchurch to Lymington road ( now the A 337 ) meant that there were two coaching inns - The Wheatsheaf and The George - the former of which is still operating.
In March 1888 New Milton railway station was opened, which is still in operation today. A new town developed, which expanded rapidly with the coming of the railway and the name New Milton was used for the first time and can originally be traced back to the Post Office that stood opposite the railway station. In 1895, the owner of the Post Office, Emma Newhook, commissioned a sign, which read - New Milton Sub Post Office to differentiate it from the post office in Old Milton. This was officially accepted in 1896, and so the name New Milton caught on. Much of the local farmland has been developed, first in the 1960's for commuter housing and again in the 1970's for small industrial / trade units. There is a mix of housing from cottages on the outskirts to more modern, urban housing in the central area. Milton village subsequently became known as Old Milton, and lies between New Milton and Barton on Sea. There are a few notable architectural points of interest in the local area. However, a distinctive row of Coast Guard Cottages are to be found in Barton Lane, Barton on Sea, which were built at the end of the 19th century by the Government of the day to house armed guards to try to stop the smuggling that was rife at the time. The Barton on Sea and Mudeford coastline was renowned for smuggling with many of the offshore seaways and routes to shore being named after well known local smuggling families. It was in this context that Frederick Marryat, author of The Children of the New Forest, was sent on patrol here as a young naval lieutenant in 1821, to watch over the Christchurch Bay area. Britain's first reinforced concrete bridge was built in 1901 just outside New Milton at Chewton. There was an earlier experiment in building with this material in its un reinforced form at Sway ( Sway Tower ).
New Milton water tower. Built in 1900 was the Tudor style water tower, which can be found adjacent to the car park in Osborne Road. It has a staircase and is constructed with a turret, slit windows and battlements. It is a striking orange - red colour, was built from locally manufactured bricks. The German Luftwaffe carried out bombing raids on New Milton on the 23rd August 1940, the 8th August 1942 and on January 22nd 1943.The town's water tower was suggested as the target. During the Second World War, New Milton homed evacuees and was a transit station for soldiers going to the battlefields. It also had an army hospital. It was a favourite for the American airmen who were based at the nearby airfields at Lymington and Holmsley. The Memorial Centre in Whitefield Road commemorates those who died in the raids, as well as towns people who have died more recently. Bricks can be purchased for inscription and insertion into the wall of the Memorial Room, which stands to the left of the front door and contains mementos saved from the original building, which was destroyed by fire in the 1970's.
Heineken BrewingGood Cheer Lunch in Manchester
Heineken teamed up with two Greater Manchester charities and a local pub to provide free lunches and entertainment for socially isolated people in the community as part of nationwide campaign, entitled #BrewingGood Cheer.
The project aims to show the role pubs play in nurturing community spirit and bringing people together. At the heart of #BrewingGood Cheer, will be a series of festive pub lunches for locals who don’t have many friends or family around to spend Christmas with.
Heineken partnered with Start In Salford, a charity that uses creativity to help vulnerable people improve their confidence, learn new skills and make new friends, to offer its members a free lunch at Bird L’th Hand, in Urmston. Elderly locals and a team of volunteers from Wythenshawe Good Neighbours, an organisation that provides carers for vulnerable people in the community will also be joining them.
Bernadette Conlon from Start In Salford said: “Christmas is a particularly difficult time for many people especially those on their own who will be spending long periods of time without seeing other people.. The #BrewingGood Cheer project offers locals a unique opportunity to meet and talk with others in similar positions, to help build a new network of friends and hopefully many more lunches together in the future.”
The campaign will be taking place in the run up to Christmas: a period traditionally associated with selflessness, good will toward all, kindness and when families and communities traditionally come together.”
SPOKEN WORD POEM
Guests at the lunch were treated to a performance by National Poetry Slam champion Solomon O.B, who recited a bespoke poem on the #BrewingGood Cheer project and shines a light on the important role Britain’s pubs play in building community spirit.
London-born Solomon O.B travelled around the country listening to heart-warming, real-life stories of publicans and locals about the crucial role of pubs in creating a sense of togetherness in their communities.
Claire Matthews from HEINEKEN said: “Pubs are the original social networks, so they’re the perfect place to bring people together and help foster a tight-knit community spirit.
“We hope that #BrewingGood Cheer will shine a light on the wonderful examples of community togetherness and the role pubs play in this - from the everyday to the extraordinary.
“And by showing that even a small gesture, such as chat over a drink and food, can make a big difference if you’re feeling lonely, we hope to encourage people to think about reaching out to someone they know in need of some company.’
Also joining the campaign over the comig weeks will be various community charities including Royal Voluntary Service, Age UK and Golden Oldies London who will co-host the lunches.
The #BrewingGood Cheer lunches will be taking place in pubs from Wednesday 7th December in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Herefordshire and Tadcaster. The second lunch based in Greater Manchester will be co-hosted by Start in Salford and held at The Crescent, in Salford on Thursday 15th December.
To find out more about #BrewingGood Cheer, please visit neighbourly.com/brewinggood.
As well as the #BrewingGood Cheer lunches, HEINEKEN will be donating £50,000 to 50 charity and community projects that support people who are lonely or isolated across the country.
HEINEKEN BrewingGood Cheer at The Elephant in Liverpool
National Poetry Slam champion Solomon O.B is using the power of verse to shine a light on the important role Britain’s pubs play in building community spirit. London-born Solomon O.B has travelled around the country listening to heart-warming, real-life stories of publicans and locals about the crucial role of pubs in creating a sense of togetherness in their communities.
Following his tour, Solomon then used these real life community stories as the inspiration for a new powerful piece of original poetry, which he has called BrewingGood Cheer. To view Solomon’s journey please visit:
Uncovering stories of community spirit alive in pubs across the UK
As part of his journey of poetic inspiration, Solmon O.B met staff and regulars of The Crown and Horses, in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire: a pub that was forced to close in 2015 due to torrential floods. It has only managed to re-open its doors through the sheer hard work of the local community that banded together and returned the pub to its former glory.
Another location visited by Solomon on his journey to discover daily acts of kindness in pubs was The Wheatsheaf in Woodplumpton, Lancashire. Following the closure of the village’s post office, locals had to travel miles to the next town to post letters deposit takings and draw out pensions. To help, the pub literally brought the post office to them - by opening a postal service facility in the pub!
Solomon O.B, who describes himself as a hybrid of rapper and poet, also embarked on a trip to Liverpool’s Elephant pub to learn about the establishment giving mothers in the community a place to get together every morning and socialise over a cup of tea and biscuits.
Launching #BrewingGood Cheer
The release today of Solomon’s poem is being used to officially mark the launch of HEINEKEN’s #BrewingGood Cheer: a nationwide campaign to show the role pubs play in nurturing community spirit and bringing people together. At the heart of #BrewingGood Cheer, will be a series of festive pub lunches for locals who don’t have many friends or family around to spend Christmas with.
Also joining the campaign will be community charities including Royal Voluntary Service, Salford Start and Golden Oldies that will co-host the lunches to help reach people most in need of some company.
The campaign will be taking place in the run up to Christmas: a period traditionally associated with selflessness, good will toward all, kindness and when families and communities traditionally come together.
Claire Matthews from HEINEKEN said: “Pubs are the original social networks, so they’re the perfect place to bring people together and help foster a tight-knit community spirit.
“We hope that #BrewingGood Cheer will shine a light on the wonderful examples of community togetherness and the role pubs play in this - from the everyday to the extraordinary.
“And by showing that even a small gesture, such as chat over a drink and food, can make a big difference if you’re feeling lonely, we hope to encourage people to think about reaching out to someone they know in need of some compmay.
As well as the #BrewingGood Cheer lunches, HEINEKEN will be donating £50,000 to 50 charity and community projects that support people who are lonely or isolated across the country.
The #BrewingGood Cheer lunches will be taking place in pubs from Wednesday 7th December in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Herefordshire and Tadcaster. To find out more about #BrewingGood Cheer, please visit neighbourly.com/brewinggood.
Waggon & Horses celebrates stage 1 of new life
An impromtu video. Sorry about the loss of sound quality in the pub, just too high for the poor microphone :-). Hot footed it to Milton's Waggon & Horses pub to find the party in full swing. David and Louise are in the process of converting the pub into a family friendly place with quality food. The pub was still a hive of redecorating three weeks ago, today was a chance to celebrate the completion of stage 1.
Open Mike at The Crown.MPG
Sam O'Leary, Ian Colberg and Troy Pitt play Purple Haze at The Crown Littlehampton Open Mic night April 2011. Music at grass roots level.
Councillor Colin Davis at the Pub
Councillor Colin Davis talks about Stanwell.
BSL & Spoken Synopsis of John Godber's Up 'n' Under
Set up in a bet with his arch rival Reg, our hot-headed hero Arthur discovers he has to coach The Wheatsheaf Arms; bottom of Castleford’s Amateur Rugby League who have never won a game, don’t have 7 players and spend more time in the pub than on the pitch.
They need to beat Reg’s team The Cobblers Arms who are top of the league, superbly fit, physically enormous and terrify every team they play.
But how does Arthur train his new team? They are Deaf, he doesn't sign and he only has 5 weeks to get his team into shape or he loses his house in the bet.
This fast moving and witty re-telling of John Godber’s award winning and much loved play, Up n Under, will delight audiences, bringing together fingermiths’ visual and physical storytelling with a cast of Deaf and hearing actors using British Sign Language and spoken English.
Tickets and more info: po.st/upnunder
caerphilly river of light Parade 2011
caerphilly river of light Parade 2011
Andrew Welsh in Armstrongs (2) 23 August 2011
Andrew Welsh is an actor / singer from Colwyn Bay in Wales. He's acted in a number of roles to date. IMDB link... In addition to this, he is actively involved in a new project - a dynamic, gritty, British, movie called Treadmarks. Check out the site here...
Bands In and Around Milton Keynes The Rumor Rock Star Son
The Rumor playing at the Wheatsheaf, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. June 16, 2010
The Rumor playing Rock Star Son and Take Me Back.
Luton
Luton (/ˈluːtən/ LOOT-ən, local /ˈluːʔən/) is a large town, borough and unitary authority area of Bedfordshire, England, 30 miles (50 km) north of London. Luton and its near neighbours, Dunstable and Houghton Regis, form the Luton/Dunstable Urban Area with a population of about 258,000.
Luton is home to League 2 team Luton Town Football Club, whose history includes several spells in the top flight of the English league as well as a Football League Cup triumph in 1988. They play at Kenilworth Road stadium, which has been their home since 1905.
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Mark Bosley at The George & Dragon, Sutton Courtenay, 29-08-2010
Kemp's Men, morris dancers, in the Bricklayers, Colchester (3)
Kemp's Men treating drinkers at the Bricklayers, Colchester, to an impromptu performance (3 of 3)
Coppull to Chorley Railway Station
Picking up our niece 'Sweetie' from Chorley railway station.
11 July 2012
Sarah Howe | Two Systems || Radcliffe Institute
Sarah Howe, the 2015–2016 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, presents “Two Systems,” a new sequence of poems in which she explores the historical encounter between China and the West.
St Mary's Cemeteries Visit, Review. LIVE NOW
St Mary's Cemeteries Visit, Review.
Matthew Arnold | Wikipedia audio article
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Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.