tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132782792024-03-14T00:18:31.263+00:00Paul Rance's BlogA blog about everything, from author, artist, failed musician, photographer, and editor and publisher at Peace & Freedom - Paul Rance. More info on his website - see link below. Open the cage, the monster has been released... Paul Rancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10439206226841822750noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13278279.post-28591479225797247052023-11-28T12:09:00.018+00:002023-11-30T11:33:30.442+00:00Made in Luton by Paul Rance (Extract)<p style="text-align: center;">Made in Luton by Paul Rance is available at Amazon.co.uk and Amazon sites worldwide in <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Made-Luton-Boy-Brown-Eyes/dp/B0CNXHWJ2W?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1701166981&sr=8-1&linkCode=ll1&tag=peacefreedpre-21&linkId=ee5b41efcc0d97689f1464d810ba0581&language=en_GB&ref_=as_li_ss_tl" target="_blank">paperback, hardback and Kindle format</a>. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://paulrance.com/MadeinLuton.html" style="text-align: left;">Made in Luton Page on paulrance.com; Extracts from Paul Rance's book, Made in Luton</a></p><p align="CENTER" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 0.5cm;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chapter
One - In the Beginning (Extract)</span></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;">It's always irritated me when people criticise Luton - I suspect most of the critics never travelled past the train station. So, their loss. As they never got the chance to see Galley and Warden Hills, Dallow Downs and Winsdon Hill, Bradgers Hill, Wardown Park and Stockwood Park. Even when I was in the womb the critics were, no doubt, turning on something synonymous with the town - Luton Town FC.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In May of 1959 the Hatters, when favourites, lost 2-1 to Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup final. It was a final notable for quite a few things. Elton John's cousin, Roy Dwight, scored one of Forest's goals and broke his leg. While Forest fans sang the theme tune of the popular Robin Hood television series; and consequently started a trend for the diverse variety of songs and chants that exploded onto British football terraces in the 1960s and 1970s.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Oblivious of events at Wembley I was still 6 months away from making my grand entrance into the world in Luton & Dunstable Hospital on November 16th. I was a Caesarean. As in keeping with my difficult nature, I wasn't going to make things easy for my dear Mother.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My first family home was Laburnum Grove, Warden Hill and the first few years of my life were certainly happy. Lovely parents Thelma and Peter, lovely pets. Our male tabby cat Whisky was already in the family, having pre-dated me by being brought to the Grove in the second half of 1958 as a kitten. My male white rabbit Candy would be joining us in the second half of 1964.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dad was a hands-on father, changing nappies, for instance, along with my Mother. I was baptised at Luton Parish Church on February 28th, 1960. A few years later I would attend Warden Hill Infant School in Grasmere Road, and would walk the few hundred yards to the school and back again after the lessons had finished for the day. Small children seemed to have more freedom then. Cars were also not quite so prevalent, and my parents never had one. The first part of the M1 was opened in 1959 and had been inaugurated at Slip End the previous year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We lived in a nice semi-detached bungalow, so having a nice home seemed more important than having a nice car. Both of my parents came from working class backgrounds, so they weren't going to spend too much unnecessarily. Bus services were also good in those days, though the town centre was barely three miles away, so it wasn't far to walk to.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mum started work at 13 - just before her 14th birthday. She had been a seamstress for a Mr. Sugar in the centre of town, and the females on Mum's maternal side had worked in the hat trade going way back. Mr. Sugar was enlightened for the times. He was an employer who, from the 1940s, employed disabled people and had an ethnically diverse group of workers. But sexual assaults, including one on my Mother, were common and would be ignored. A typical comment would be: "He's like that with all the new girls."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dad saw a lot of the world while he was in the Navy - Australia, South Africa, Japan, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore (a place so hot apparently that you'd sweat sitting down, though the one time Dad ever suffered from sunstroke was in the UK), New Zealand, and cities such as Naples, Cape Town and Barcelona. He did say that the abuse hurled at the British sailors could be heard some way off before they entered Sydney - he was possibly joking... Dad saw Australia play the West Indies in a Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and remembered a young woman in a bikini on, I presume, Bondi Beach getting into trouble with the police on grounds of indecency - the bikini was still a new thing (invented in the summer of 1946 by French designer Louis Réard) and some countries took a while not to freak out about it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dad would say that Cape Town was a beautiful place, Naples was interesting and that he and his pals cheered on the bull at a bullfight in Barcelona. I did inherit some photos of that grisly event but threw ‘em out in disgust.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But it was Japan that made the biggest impression on Dad and not just because of the gentleness of the pretty geisha girls. He saw the cherry blossom out in the spring and visited Hiroshima in 1951. This was just six years after it had been annihilated by the Americans in the first-ever nuclear attack on a city. The solitary building standing, named the A-Bomb Dome, and the memorial for the well over 100,000 killed - not including all the non-human life that was also incinerated - must have made a big impression on my Father who was in his early 20s at the time. Then the Americans did the same to Nagasaki shortly afterwards. Those of us born after the War, right up until when Mikhail Gorbachev became President of the then USSR, had lived in the shadow of possible nuclear war, but, in truth, it didn't dominate our lives. Lots of other bad things could happen, of course.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After leaving the Navy in the mid-1950s and serving in the Korean War, Dad, who had become a qualified electrician in the Navy, worked at Vauxhall for many years and at the engineering firm, George Kent, in Biscot Road where my maternal Grandad had also worked. In the late 1950s Dad had worked with some of the first computers to appear in the UK at Vauxhall. My Father could have gone to university and delayed his National Service, but, after his Dad Alfred had died when he was 14, Dad felt compelled to earn some money to send back home.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a child Dad had lived in Midland Road in High Town and near the train station. Not a great location to live during the War, as the train station was targeted by German bombers. Dad once made a grim discovery nearby (he also witnessed fatal accidents more than once in his life) which I'll spare you from, but there was some dark humour when he was once about to eat a sausage when the power of a nearby (bomb) explosion blasted the sausage off his plate. Further south, of course, things were very bad. Dad would recall, when living at Midland Road (which was built on a hill), that he'd look into the distance and see a red glow - when the Blitz in London was at its worst.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm doubtful if there were wild celebrations at the end of the War by the Rance family. There would have been relief that my Uncle George got back safely from the campaign in Africa, but Dad had lost his Father. He died in January 1945 following a heart attack.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dad seemed to enjoy his time at Hitchin Road School and would say that he was best pals with future Luton Town footballer Terry Kelly. Terry was Syd Owen's understudy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My Dad would say a lot of things to me when I was young that I didn't believe at the time, like the guy called Frankie Soo who played for Luton. Frankie indeed did play for Luton and represent England in wartime internationals. Frankie is still the only oriental to play for England I believe. My Dad also said he knew Sean Connery in the Navy, and that Sean just wanted to get home. Again, I didn't really believe my Father, but I later learnt that Sean had been in the Navy...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Though, I did believe my Dad when he said that he saw Gracie Fields in Capri, met Princess Margaret and the future queen, but then merely Princess Elizabeth. Dad liked to think that Princess Margaret took a shine to him. The attractive actress Barbara Murray did (she of the Fairy Liquid ads), Dad reckoned, when he worked as a teenager behind the scenes at a theatre in Luton.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then there was Dad's story of playing hockey against the Wrens. The ladies didn't go easy on the poor lads, and a few injuries ensued apparently from busy hockey sticks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dad was a tough guy, but then one day he crumbled and the tears flowed. I loved him for that, because that would have been very difficult for him, as it is for anyone who gets called the rock of the family. They're not meant to crumble, are they? Dad was never quite the same again, and he would not be so reticent about showing this side of himself again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not too far from Midland Road, and after the War, Diana Dors was a barmaid at the Rabbit (which later became the English Rose), Old Bedford Road, Luton, as Diana's father-in-law, Stanley Gittins, was the landlord of the pub. His son was Dennis Hamilton, who was Diana's first husband. My parents would mention the wild parties actress Diana would host - not that they were present, I'm sure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Around this time, the Luton Sack Murder of the 1940s shocked Lutonians, and my parents remembered seeing grim images of the murder victim, Caroline Manton.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaVhFbKtQKf-ZAh6GLSTzjdLmyOycNnWnCS-0e2gAL6WdNOaprBRlFXCKne1ssr2aYFdb9gH1AAtm6uYWYrbJM7SUTVd8PmDAPZClAApstgfZE_7h6sd8oxjiT7xEDSASY_rPDL7G04qiln1kvJQB1PWUyIgA7DbhbOhfgXrJ-CdwPx95ydoq9YQ/s2500/MadeinLutonKindleCover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Made in Luton by Paul Rance; Kindle cover" border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaVhFbKtQKf-ZAh6GLSTzjdLmyOycNnWnCS-0e2gAL6WdNOaprBRlFXCKne1ssr2aYFdb9gH1AAtm6uYWYrbJM7SUTVd8PmDAPZClAApstgfZE_7h6sd8oxjiT7xEDSASY_rPDL7G04qiln1kvJQB1PWUyIgA7DbhbOhfgXrJ-CdwPx95ydoq9YQ/w205-h320/MadeinLutonKindleCover.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Made in Luton</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Kindle cover</span></div><em style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;"><div><br /></div></em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Photographed by Paul Rance on June 22nd, 2023. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhduiBPBk-oEzGosx1hUcz77xI-pG0MXWMUVIj3iWh9EiEIpC0j27ZLCEUlBtRgfXq2dlIIt0Gen8l5RhiSPiOyn4KvMsHH06rqEbktCEATomo6ZUMe-gWFFXAYS2jfdZIKpCUWSs_MvY0asaFjHI2dj3StHexiSa66vtJtLYWr0z2iux9Y_qB6Qg/s1046/Swan01Spalding.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="715" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhduiBPBk-oEzGosx1hUcz77xI-pG0MXWMUVIj3iWh9EiEIpC0j27ZLCEUlBtRgfXq2dlIIt0Gen8l5RhiSPiOyn4KvMsHH06rqEbktCEATomo6ZUMe-gWFFXAYS2jfdZIKpCUWSs_MvY0asaFjHI2dj3StHexiSa66vtJtLYWr0z2iux9Y_qB6Qg/s320/Swan01Spalding.JPG" width="219" /></a><br /><br />Grace on the River Welland</div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTAuXue7FsluCN0ReIaZ_0IlZXl62daPddihBVeAtTrasGTcpcU2DCKcH7y-kFY8ZS0Kl0SQDm0ABSCi5fpqybkA3dBsSDn6hNA4boW-v-HgnHaf2sCp1X1f3uUpTPlb7VQdlOxJf_1yUTUZz9ziA39L48VynltTU1HyWSLv_EhEV-GosaktoXPg/s1037/Swan02Spalding.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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But, there is no doubt that the Hedda Stone has religious significance, whether the figures on the Stone immortalise murdered monks during a Viking raid, or include Jesus and the Virgin Mary.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These photographs, reproduced here with permission, were taken by Francesca Heaney, daughter of esteemed history professors Helli and Dorothy Koenigsberger. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Click on an image to enlarge.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkK3JGDUd7M-c-rnlWvUn7EQMuxsA6-XItS_Ro_W8pQtCe57VgycWTZbd0vvivO1KuN8xihPM-UtljMWJWdViapoc3H7NgGXnArbdVm_QNcqiW6hvI8KKgyth478HewcVQ_8ODW0bhO18iyk_bpYXo5xXQQ-GYJMiI9PCqRn2A9rN0oAndrAk/s1280/FrancescaHeddaStonec.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkK3JGDUd7M-c-rnlWvUn7EQMuxsA6-XItS_Ro_W8pQtCe57VgycWTZbd0vvivO1KuN8xihPM-UtljMWJWdViapoc3H7NgGXnArbdVm_QNcqiW6hvI8KKgyth478HewcVQ_8ODW0bhO18iyk_bpYXo5xXQQ-GYJMiI9PCqRn2A9rN0oAndrAk/s320/FrancescaHeddaStonec.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Writer <a href="https://www.paulrance.com/">Paul Rance</a> and Peterborough Cathedral guide Peter Larke (far right) studying the images on the Hedda Stone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;">Photos </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">© </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;">Francesca Heaney</span></span></div></span><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Rex: The Killer Question</i>, the exhibition happened to end the day my friend Francesca Heaney and I visited last Saturday. Over the course of the near 7 weeks the exhibition ran some 50,000 visitors came to be awed by creatures that continue to fascinate. One little boy exclaimed on seeing a T. rex: "A beautiful dinosaur!" Beauty wasn't really one of Rexy's attributes, but I loved the child's sense of wonder.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">With nine animatronic dinosaurs, and some static ones too, plus skeletons, bones and skulls all supplied by the Natural History Museum in London, one wonders what Catherine of Aragon, who lies in the Cathedral, would have made of the roaring dinos. I'm sure ex-hubby Henry VIII would have given a T. rex a good meal.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gMfFtVHbIaTedP1NX9SPn29U61Pz5RwcNb4pMYrAZKYNCJJ5eAz9KH0n8JTYjda_ffEE6H86Gm6b7wg-rObFhGoYZheeraPs0MazvFLRh_tdGgikmw09BOvT3ImNE9bQ86ZK3lE2Kq6xiYGtmU18lTCJ1Wqa_R47mpFeMo_XFta3cISh4P0/s605/PaulTRex.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="454" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gMfFtVHbIaTedP1NX9SPn29U61Pz5RwcNb4pMYrAZKYNCJJ5eAz9KH0n8JTYjda_ffEE6H86Gm6b7wg-rObFhGoYZheeraPs0MazvFLRh_tdGgikmw09BOvT3ImNE9bQ86ZK3lE2Kq6xiYGtmU18lTCJ1Wqa_R47mpFeMo_XFta3cISh4P0/w416-h554/PaulTRex.jpg" width="416" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A terrified Paul Rance evades a T. rex just in the nick of time</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo <span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">© </span>Francesca Heaney</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy_dQJfZrpjCRIA_2mfDQCu9nZ_QSTVl3UMLu5M5-0GgHTiepB1GC7kcerz9cTMnfCXy8wFl8QD9jByGtR7vXdXVtZT6qpTdS6qXs9Oh3GmyZ_RLM_VICArg02Cu22ynOwrxyHo8xYxa811jjh-qauU8oj1F5LlQ0xhMEkYnl_cY7BU9Wkdh8/s463/PaulFrancesca.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="347" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy_dQJfZrpjCRIA_2mfDQCu9nZ_QSTVl3UMLu5M5-0GgHTiepB1GC7kcerz9cTMnfCXy8wFl8QD9jByGtR7vXdXVtZT6qpTdS6qXs9Oh3GmyZ_RLM_VICArg02Cu22ynOwrxyHo8xYxa811jjh-qauU8oj1F5LlQ0xhMEkYnl_cY7BU9Wkdh8/s320/PaulFrancesca.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Paul Rance and Francesca Heaney outside Peterborough Cathedral</div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo <span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">© </span>Francesca Heaney</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BZyC6FoAzWD7aPb5L5OBYwAsUumMu1kGS-emwOEl16EU7XQN7yrtxjHJ2weCNdR9uzS3DYaI2JIfrAmmK1gYNKy5f9OGzl-YVzaXVw7bcxY0RO5RxSNvqY3yFdu-7ZA7LemQnAdDZAOvrXqKDe3PZ_oz_RvDmySEQD93u-tlOt9i8iFUCtI/s612/DinosaurBabies.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="612" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BZyC6FoAzWD7aPb5L5OBYwAsUumMu1kGS-emwOEl16EU7XQN7yrtxjHJ2weCNdR9uzS3DYaI2JIfrAmmK1gYNKy5f9OGzl-YVzaXVw7bcxY0RO5RxSNvqY3yFdu-7ZA7LemQnAdDZAOvrXqKDe3PZ_oz_RvDmySEQD93u-tlOt9i8iFUCtI/s320/DinosaurBabies.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Edmontosaurus babies hatching</div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo © Paul Rance<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnxbCZwQ9jgJU4tjWOfvSxRpMFayiArEtFC-xBmY1z36YNKPFlXq4ahJSvDUIcYwG20KbOS5_xsfmifmdk-qrSqGBDlyEOmwTB_tLLxobjW_WfZjs2tnjRlw8sCvFq-8qIeht8-yfWIo8lFzxy9Wepz_Kq7O8_cxrcR79C3DTQvP135FDnbI/s480/AnkylosaurusTRex.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnxbCZwQ9jgJU4tjWOfvSxRpMFayiArEtFC-xBmY1z36YNKPFlXq4ahJSvDUIcYwG20KbOS5_xsfmifmdk-qrSqGBDlyEOmwTB_tLLxobjW_WfZjs2tnjRlw8sCvFq-8qIeht8-yfWIo8lFzxy9Wepz_Kq7O8_cxrcR79C3DTQvP135FDnbI/s320/AnkylosaurusTRex.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Don't look behind you, Ankylosaurus!<br />Photo © Paul Rance<br /><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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One guy looked particularly menacing as I had no food...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjabclFDK6meoogUurJCW57JmJM3QO-yNIzz5cZjhCnfa4zz2Jzr-RQ147qE_JM6jKmHbCC9GDCpDCm70ySpUU5cfFc4rxuh_6hAf6w0sAGEa0gPNbhwieK-cEa5aXAyJ4tr6JKay192mmTYN5R6A8cK7hD0f0-C4djmS3iL6afFCvzCFYGL6g/s614/SwanGangsta.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="614" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjabclFDK6meoogUurJCW57JmJM3QO-yNIzz5cZjhCnfa4zz2Jzr-RQ147qE_JM6jKmHbCC9GDCpDCm70ySpUU5cfFc4rxuh_6hAf6w0sAGEa0gPNbhwieK-cEa5aXAyJ4tr6JKay192mmTYN5R6A8cK7hD0f0-C4djmS3iL6afFCvzCFYGL6g/s320/SwanGangsta.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwEuU7Mr5OaOt0qas_DdzyGXOaoAkb7_uGz6Kgi0dkx6hbttErGTC-_KWK2i7dkxGcB4M_GK5wdpeG6ns0gZ7zc5umnPImrhdAzkv9TKc5At3mN5t6Xh3y2n2qO6BUT0TWtmIbyS3cf06aXkj1eF8G-LzsNoV8S54dEYsx4-ESja8Sfq9llgs/s128/SwanEyes.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Tragedies</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some of the names of
my Great-Grandmothers could have been the names of characters in a
Jane Austen novel: Caroline Foxlee, Tabitha Tompkins, Rosanna
Dollimore, Hannah Bedford, Sarah Pepper, Sarah Goldthorp, Sophia
Williams. But tragedies seemed all too frequent for my ancestors. My
second Great-Grandmother Caroline Foxlee's Father <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Job
died after falling off a haycart.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While
one of the hardest things to deal with looking into the family
history is coming across the distressing number of infant deaths. My
Great-Greatparents x 5 Joseph Bedford and his wife Susannah lost a
son called Joseph in 1773, when he was just a baby. In 1776 they had
another son called Joseph (it seemed a custom to give a later child
the same name of a child who had died young). He also died when just
a baby. </span></span>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
fifth Great-Grandmother Lucy Carter died during childbirth in 1790.
Her husband George Doggett was a yeoman, so they were a middle class
couple, and probably had a comfortable life up to that point.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
first cousin four times removed, Mary Williams Gascoigne, was married
and had her first child before she was 17. Both Mary and her husband,
James Olney, died in their 30s.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The family of
William Doggett (my second Great-Granduncle) certainly endured their
fair share of tragedies. William who, when 22, married 19-year-old
Hannah Sutton in Clophill in 1866, died in a well. Though it was
never established whether William’s death was suicide or not. One
can imagine the impact on his wife and their 16 children. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">William’s son John
was killed in the First World War. He was 42, and was an example that
not all British WWI soldiers were young men. John, brought up in
Clophill, had been living with his wife Frances Swann and their five
children in Derbyshire, where he worked as a coal miner.</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" lang="en" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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The comments are interesting too.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://angelogravity.blogspot.com/">https://angelogravity.blogspot.com/</a><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Also...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Amazon UK are selling an interesting three disc box set of hits that featured on <i>Top of the Pops</i> from 1975 to 1979. 1975 was the year that I really got into music, and so this box set contains a lot of songs I remember liking at the time - Sailor's <i>A</i> <i>Glass of Champagne</i>, Roxy Music's <i>Love Is the Drug</i>, Jim Capaldi's <i>Love Hurts</i>, even The Stylistics </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)</i>.<i> </i>While 10cc's<i> I'm Not in Love</i> got me heavily into their music. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Top of the Pops 1975-1979 </i>is<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: arial;">a good compilation of songs from this period, but it would have been better to have had the songs in some kind of chronological order.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>Top Of The Pops 1975-1979</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Track Listings from the first disc</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>M / Pop Muzik<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">2</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Roxy Music / Love Is The Drug<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">3</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Sailor / Glass Of Champagne<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">4</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Abba / Mamma Mia<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">5</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The Buggles / Video Killed The Radio Star<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">6</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Squeeze /Cool For Cats<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">7</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Siouxsie & The Banshees / Hong Kong Garden<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">8</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The Stranglers / No More Heroes<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">9</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Sparks Get In The Swing<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">10</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Joe Jackson / Is She Really Going Out With Him?<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">11</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Bay City Rollers / Bye Bye Baby<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">12</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Status Quo / Rockin' All Over The World<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">13</span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Thin Lizzy / The Boys Are Back In Town<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">14</span><span style="font-family: arial; 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Probably never going to have such a great day again playing the Google cricket game - two highest scores in consecutive innings (210 and 113 - only two innings of the day). Heard that someone scored over 800 in an innings, though I choose not to believe that, as that snail bowler is relentless.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An Andrew Bruce instrumental that featured on the Peace & Freedom Band album 'Earth' - which, when released in 2000, was an early example of mp3s being released in an album format.</p></span></div>
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The suburban homeowner is rarely looked upon kindly. They are normally portrayed as conservative, snooty, and narrow-minded. As a huge percentage of any population aspire to living in the suburbs, this stereotypical image seems unfair.</div>
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In the West in the last century, especially for the aspirational working classes, having a home in the suburbs was a status symbol as much as a home. Inner city ghettoes in the 20th Century either crushed people, or provoked many to try and get out of them. </div>
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The suburban homeowner in the United States is traditionally seen as someone who is happy with their lot. They are often portrayed in movies as reaching a certain level in life, and then feeling no motivation to push themselves further. </div>
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The role of the suburban homeowner is, though, a symbol of aspiration. Suburbia is portrayed as an idyllic place where the only thing to concern the suburban homeowner is to try and attain the perfect lawn. Not true, of course, as no one gets through life without bad things happening.</div>
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Cheesy TV commercials of the 1950s and 1960s would portray the bliss of the American Dream. The perfect family trying out the local kitchen appliance or electrical goods would nearly always be a suburban one. The family would always seem to be squeaky clean, and the viewer could be forgiven for thinking that they had never done anything wrong in their whole life.</div>
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Whether the suburban homeowner began to believe the TV commercials and consider themselves superior to city dwellers, town dwellers, or people from rural areas is open to question. The TV commercials didn't do the suburbanites any favors, as they soon became perceived as rather shallow members of society, who were obsessed with status symbols.</div>
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There is a good and bad aspect to the perceived role of families living in the suburbs. Because of how untroubled a suburbanite's life appears to be, living in the suburbs seems inviting. But, becoming like a suburbanite is not. </div>
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Despite their perceived faults, the suburban homeowner is recognized as being a good neighbour. Another positive effect of living in the suburbs is that there is a feeling of community, and a certain amount of healthy competition. If everyone in the street has an immaculate garden, then there is pressure on all the individuals in the street to keep their standards up. Thus, anyone moving into a suburban street will be instantly aware of one major way of being accepted. </div>
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can be hard work, it can be a release from the stress of everyday
life. We all have problems to deal with, and we sometimes need a
creative outlet to lift our spirits. Writing is a great way to break
free of the intensity of 21st Century living. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Writing frees the
mind in that a writer can immerse themselves in a story, or just
simply by writing about something that they love, or by writing a
poem about a loved one. Writing can be at its most uplifting for the
writer, when the writer just writes about their own personal feelings
- an extension of writing a diary if you like. The mind then isn't
cluttered by concerns about correct research or merely appealing to
other people. You can just write for yourself, and it may well help
you cope with some of your problems along the way. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It can be strange in
seeing how some writers actually do manage to muster the motivation
to write when the world around them is falling in on them. Sometimes
it must seem like writing is the one thing that a writer is in
control of, and maybe that is the key. The words are yours, and
though you can't fully control life's events, you can control what
you write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A writer who has an
otherwise dull life will see writing as an escape also. All human
beings do need something to grab hold of if their lives aren't happy
or joyful, whether it's music, art, writing, reading, or having a
nice walk in the country. All these may not only free the mind, but
can have an uplifting effect on the soul, too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Writing
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Writers can begin
writing in an unhappy state, but within minutes they can be lost in
writing, and though the troubles of the world are still there, during
the time a writer writes then at least all the sadness is in
abeyance. Even when a writer writes about sad things in their own
lives, then that can be a cathartic experience for the writer.
Writing, by itself, won't solve life's problems, but it can help the
mind take a time-out from those problems, and consequently make them
a little easier to deal with. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nobody should really
write with money being their main objective. Writing is a powerful
force, and it can have an amazing impact on our wellbeing. There
can't be a much better reason to write than that. </span></span>
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Ken Barrington's Test average of 58.67 in 82 Tests underlined his importance to the England side of the 1950s and 1960s. Ken was probably at his peak in the mid-1960s, and this period included his Testbest score of 256 (also his best score in his firstclass career) against Australia at Old Trafford in 1964. That is still the highest innings for England against Australia since Len Hutton's 364. Barrington scored 6,806 Test runs, and reached the century mark for England 20 times. </div>
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A major reason for Surrey's dominance in the 1950s, Ken Barrington was a big match player. He averaged just under 40 in the County Championship, but nearly 64 in Tests against Australia. He made his Test debut in 1955 against South Africa, but like many great players he failed to trouble the scorers in his first Test innings. </div>
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Ken scored 76 first-class hundreds, and scored 31,714 runs in his first-class career. His outstanding Test average helped to boost his overall first-class batting average to 45.63. A useful bowler, Barrington took 5 wickets in an innings 8 times, with a best of 7-40, and a remarkable best of 3-4 in Tests. </div>
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A heart attack in 1968 ended Barrington's career prematurely. In 1981, when England's assistant tour manager, Ken Barrington died aged only 50 following another heart attack. England's outstanding young players of the time respected him, and Graham Gooch described Ken as a mentor to him, David Gower, Ian Botham and Mike Gatting. That Barrington is seemingly not so revered as other batsmen of his generation, such as May, Cowdrey and Tom Graveney, is perhaps because of a reputation for slow scoring. That, though, seems to be a contradiction of the facts. He hit the quickest Test hundred of 1966, and also had another reputation - of reaching a Test hundred with a six. Of retired players who scored 6,000 Test runs or more, only Don Bradman has a better average than Barrington's.</div>
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11 - Emotional Involvement</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Being sensitive is
ALWAYS something to be proud of. But it has its obvious dangers.
Bullies tend to home in on you if you are sensitive. Consequently,
being sensitive doesn't mean that you shouldn't be scared of showing
your teeth, or physically fighting back in self defence. That
combination of sensitivity and combativeness is always a winning
combination, whereas being too aggressive never appeals to anyone but
similarly aggressive types.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Where sensitivity
can lead to problems is when becoming emotionally involved in causes.
Because there are always people out there who will harm other people,
animals and nature without a second thought. For anyone who is
sensitive, this type of vicious behaviour will typically be hard to
fathom. Not even if they come out with the lame “I'm just doing my
job” excuse. There is such a thing as having a social and moral
conscience after all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In March, 2018 I was
getting increasingly depressed by environmental issues. Sudan, the
last northern white rhino had died, and on the same day the
destruction of healthy street trees was gathering pace again in
Sheffield. Two days later I was watching a livestream of a beautiful
tree being cut down. Then, as I was on Twitter, I saw that the tree
was Duchess Lime. We followed each other, and communicated. Yeah, I
know, it was a human behind the account... It's not every day you see
a living thing you mutually follow on Twitter being killed live.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Two days earlier I
had gone to bed thinking I was never going to be happy however long I
live, because of the way humans continue to trash Earth. The killing
of Duchess was unthinking, brutal humanity writ large. I went to bed,
and cried my eyes out, and took a break from social media for a week.
This is the danger of becoming emotionally involved with causes. But,
apart from those who are emotionless, there will always be something
that will compel us to throw our support behind something. Whether
it's trying to save our local football club, or a beautiful tree.
There is, though, the risk of what happens when all that time and
effort seems futile, and hope becomes lost. That's when depression
can kick in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This doesn't mean we
should step back forever from ever doing good, but we sometimes DO
need to step back for a week or two to recharge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Also avoid the
negative influences, the naysayers who will always tell you: “Why
bother? You won't make any difference.” Obviously, some causes are
doomed to failure from a very early stage, but it's still important
not to give up completely. If a local library is, for instance,
facing closure, and no one tries to stop that action, then that just
emboldens other local authorities to maybe shut down a library in
their area, as they will expect an easy ride.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The negative
influences are everywhere on social media. They can be subtle enough
to not seem like trolls, but they are even worse if anything. Because
they will seem reasonable and engage in a discussion, when nothing
will change their view. Thus, they waste your time and energy, which
was their intention all along. Not wanting to get into conspiracy
theories, these people are not necessarily plants, but just wind-up
merchants.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There may be also a
feeling of jealousy with these types, because they lack empathy, and
indeed know themselves that they have no real values. So, all they
have left is to sneer and attempt to pull down those people who do
care. An attempt to bring people down to their level.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Emotional
involvement in a cause is a sign of love. Love can be painful, but
without the ability to love we are an empty shell.</span></span><br />
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