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GEORGE FREEMAN QUARTET - live@inntoene Festival 04.06.2017 - weitere Fotos unter:
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Jazz am Bauernhof
Besetzung:
George Freeman: guitar
Osian Roberts: sax
Jan Korinek: hammond organ
Jeff Boudroux: drums
Iandra Castle. George and Elizabeth Greene were settlers with a difference when they purchased their 32,000 acre property in 1878. They built their first homestead named Mount Oriel House in 1880. Greene was a NSW politician and a man with ideas. By the time he died in 1911 his Mount Oriel estate had over 20,000 acres sown in crop. His obituary said he came to a landscape of bush and transformed it into a granary. His estate used 700 horses and employed over 600 people plus various chaffcutters, thrashers etc and the woolshed sheared 30,000 sheep. He came to NSW in 1847 with his parents and spent most of his life on pastoral properties before he purchased Iandra. He dreamed of a medieval feudal system to grow vast areas of crop with little labour. He was regarded as the most important wheat farmer in Australia along with William Farrer who developed his rust resistant wheat type. Greene claims to have introduced the concept of share farming to Australia. He provided the land and took half of the value of the crop but the share farmer bought the seed, fertiliser and provided the labour to sow and reap the crop. But did he? Share cropping was common in the American south after the Civil War and Elizabeth Onlsow (nee MacArthur of Camden Park NSW) introduced share farming on their dairy property in 1887. Greene established his village with houses for the fifty sharefarmers contracted to work his lands. He started with one share farmer in 1891 and gradually expanded the system. His estate manager, named Leonard l’Anson came from Waterloo in South Australia and members of the Freebairn family from Alma in SA also moved to Iandra to be share farmers. George Greene wanted a medieval castle like a medieval lord. Iandra castle was built in 1908 with 57 rooms, castellations and towers but the construction was decidedly modern with reinforced concrete walls. The style was slightly Gothic but the interior was very Edwardian with wood panelling and Art Nouveau stained glass panels etc. The external concrete was rendered to appear like stone. It cost around £63,000 to build. The property included stables, a manager’s residence, outbuildings, blacksmith shop, sheds etc. Near the house was a chapel built in 1886 and a cemetery. When George Greene died in 1911 he was buried there. The estate was partially broken up in 1914 and most share farmers were able to buy their 640 acre blocks. I’Anson continued as manager for Elizabeth Greene until her death in 1927. He was then able to buy 2,500 acres and the castle. Later Iandra castle was used as the Methodist Boys Home from 1954 to 1974. The Methodist Boys Farm School was for 15 to 18 year old first time offenders. They were taught farming skills. The Methodist Church sold the centre in 1974.
probably one of my favourite movies ever, of all time, is Hard Day's night, the beatles movie. It is beautiful. and it is in black and white. Yep.
George Harrison
American Arcade card.
George Montgomery (1916-2000) was an American actor who starred in over eighty films throughout his sixty-year career. He starred in many low-budget Westerns and War films.
George Montgomery Letz was born in Brady, Montana, in 1916. George was the youngest of 15 children of German immigrants from Ukraine and was raised on a Montana homestead. He was a boxing champion at the University of Montana, where he majored in architecture and interior design. Dropping out a year later, he decided to take up boxing more seriously. He moved to California, where he was coached by ex-heavyweight world champion James J. Jeffries. While in Hollywood, he came to the attention of the studios. Montgomery was an expert rider and was hired as a stuntman in 1935. After doing this for four years, George was offered a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1939, but found himself largely confined to leads in B-Westerns. He did not secure a part in anything even remotely like a prestige picture until his co-starring role in Roxie Hart (William A. Wellman, 1942), opposite Ginger Rogers. Next, in Orchestra Wives (Archie Mayo, 1942), he played the love interest for Ann Rutherford, but the biggest stars were Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. George attracted as much publicity for his acting as for his liaisons with glamorous stars, like Ginger Rogers, Hedy Lamarr (to whom he was briefly engaged) and singer Dinah Shore, whom he married in 1943. He left Hollywood in 1943 to enlist in the US Army Air Corps. After his discharge in 1946, he went back to Hollywood and resumed his career.
In 1947, George Montgomery got his first serious break when he was cast as Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe in The Brasher Doubloon (John Brahm, 1947). I.S. Mowis at IMDb: "Reviewers, however, compared his performance unfavorably with that of Humphrey Bogart and found the film 'pallid' overall. So it was back in the saddle for George. Unable to shake his image as a cowboy actor, he starred in scores of films with titles like Belle Starr's Daughter (1948), Dakota Lil (1950), Jack McCall, Desperado (1953), and Masterson of Kansas (1954) at Columbia, and for producer Edward Small at United Artists. When not cleaning up the Wild West with his six-shooter, he branched out into adventure films set in exotic locales." For two years, he starred in the TV series Cimarron City (1958-1959). He was also notable as Harry Quartermain in Watusi (Kurt Neumann, 1959). During the 1960s, he appeared in the War film Battle of the Bulge (Ken Annakin, 1965) starring Henry Fonda. He also wrote, directed and starred in several long-forgotten, low-budget War films made in the Philippines. After he retired from the film business, he devoted himself to his love of painting, furniture-making and sculpting bronze busts, including one of his close friend Ronald Reagan. George Montgomery died in Rancho Mirage, California, in 2000. He had two children with Dinah Shore, daughter Melissa Montgomery and adopted son John 'Jody' David Montgomery.
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This was the first ever picture that I took of George. This was his first night with us.
He's changed so much.
Although just a few yards from, and parallel to, Princes Street, George Street in Edinburgh always had a more staid and sober demeanour than its commercialised near neighbour. Onced again showing an assortment of local authority crests, LRT's 359's restrained livery complements the grey stone buildings.
Vehicles of this batch first entered service at about the time of the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, and many were initially used for athletes' transport between the Games Village (which became Edinburgh University's Pollock Halls of Residence) and the games venues. I recall long queues of these buses outside Meadowbank stadium.
2024-12-31-0002-c - "Butcher George" farmed in Cody's, NB and for many years had a stall in the Saint John Market. He brought his goods downriver to the market by steamboat and later, by train.
He and his first wife, Rachel Rankin had two children. He and his second wife, Mary Marr, had eleven children who lived.
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 1018. Photo: Paramount.
American actor George Raft (1901-1980) was born and grew up in a poor family in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. With his dark good looks and sharp dressing, Raft tried his luck in Hollywood. His first big role was as the coin-tossing henchman in Scarface (1932). His career was marked by numerous tough-guy roles, often a gangster or convict. The believability with which he played these, together with his lifelong associations with real-life gangsters like Bugsy Siegel, added to persistent rumours that he was also a gangster. The slightly shady reputation helped his popularity early on, but it made him somewhat undesirable to movie executives later in his career. He somewhat parodied his gangster reputation in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959).
George Raft was born George Ranft in New York in 1901. He was the eldest of ten children of German immigrant Conrad Ranft and his wife Eva Glockner. His parents worked as dancers in New York nightclubs. George grew up in poor circumstances in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. George Raft spoke fluent German, which he had learned from his parents. In his childhood, he befriended the later mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Owney Madden, who grew up in the same neighbourhoods as he did. The friendship between Siegel and Raft lasted a lifetime, with Raft making Siegel's acquaintances in Hollywood and using his popularity to support him in courtroom prosecutions. Raft ran away from home at the age of 13. In his younger years, he tried his hand as a boxer, taxi driver and nightclub dancer. His success as a dancer in New York nightclubs led him to Broadway, where he also worked as a dancer. Fred Astaire, in his autobiography 'Steps in Time' (1959), said Raft was "the neatest, fastest Charleston dancer ever. He practically floored me with his footwork." George Raft married Grayce Mulrooney in 1923 but soon after they would divorce. Grayce, a devout Catholic, refused Raft a divorce, however, and he remained married to her until her death in 1970. Raft later had several relationships with Betty Grable and Mae West. He appeared with Mae West in both her first film, Night After Night (Archie Mayo, 1932) and her last film, Sextette (Ken Hughes, 1977). He openly declared that he wanted to marry Norma Shearer, but his wife's refusal to divorce meant that his wedding plans came to nothing.
George Raft moved to Hollywood in 1929 and first played small roles there. His success came in Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932). He played Guino Rinaldo, the aspiring gangster partner of Paul Muni, who is ultimately killed by him because of an affair with his sister. Raft's charisma made him an ideal gangster on the silver screen. Raft solidified his reputation as a movie star in the 1930s with crime and gangster films such as The Glass Key (1935). In 1938 he played the male lead in You and I, directed by Fritz Lang. He was one of the most popular actors in gangster roles of the 1930s, with James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. Raft and Cagney worked as convicts in a prison in Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley, 1939). From 1945 his popularity waned and from then on he was mostly seen as the lead in B-movies in Film Noir style. He also took leading roles in European films. In the 1950s, Raft, along with Kosher-Nostra head Meyer Lansky and mob boss Santo Trafficante, opened the Capri Casino in Havana, which was initially financially successful. However, he lost it in 1959 to the revolution in Cuba. In 1965, Raft was accused of tax evasion because of his financial problems. However, he got off with a suspended sentence as he pleaded guilty. In 1967, Britain banned him from entering the country because of his Mafia contacts. One of his best-known later film appearances was in the comedy classic Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959), where he played the gangster boss "Spats Colombo" in a parody of his usual roles. Some Like It Hot became one of Raft's last major film appearances. In the 1960s and 1970s, the veteran star mostly had to settle for cameo appearances. Raft's last film Sam Marlow, Private Detective (Robert Day, 1980) was released in the last year of his life and was a tribute to his co-star Humphrey Bogart. George Raft died of leukaemia in Los Angeles in November 1980 at the age of 79. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
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Dad has undertaken a good deal of family history research and here are his notes on my GGG Grandfather and his son George Firth.
Told that he could have been born in Penistone, Yorks, but later established this was not true, he was born in Kent. In 1883 he married Mary Jane Williams in Hollingborn, near Maidstone, Kent.
The 1901 census records that George (Henry) was born in Boro Green, Ightham, Wrotham, Kent. A corresponding birth certificate records his DOB as 18th August 1858. George's Baptism at Ightham on 29th of October 1859 PB (Presumably Private Baptism - Henry being in the army and marriages frowned upon): George Henry son of Henry & Eleanor Firth - Sergeant of the Royal Fusiliers now quartered at Leeds (Leeds Yorkshire?). There are no other recorded births of a George Firth being born in that area circa that time.
Stated on his marriage certificate that he was 23 years old on 2, August 1883. His rank or profession is shown as, Bricklayer's labourer. His father is named as Henry Firth (deceased) and was a 'sawyer' (wood for pit props? A carpenter? Sawing timber into boards? or an error in transcription? It should have been 'soldier'). Also note that by now he had dropped his second name Henry.
In 1914 when his son (my Grandfather) Albert Edmund James married, George's occupation is recorded as a Platelayer, (a railway track maintenance man). Then residing in Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire.
Died 23rd February 1923 in Montagu Hospital, Mexborough, South Yorks. Cause of death: (1) Cancer of the colon. (2) Intestinal Obstruction. Home address: 59 High Street, Thurnscoe, South Yorks.
When his father Henry left the 7th Foot Royal Fusiliers in 1859 to become a Staff Sergeant in the 6th West Yorks Militia, baby George and his mother Ellen (Eleanor) Firth went to Halifax where Henry was posted. The three of them are recorded on the 1861 census as residing in Tatham Yard, Kings Cross, Halifax. On the 14th of June 1872 his mother Eleanor Firth died. After his father Henry's death in 1873, George then only 14 years of age, presumably travelled south with his younger sisters and brother to his mother's family in Kent. It is possible that he may have gone to his maternal grandparents in Mirfield if they were still living, chances are though, that they were not. However, George and his siblings must have been traumatised at such tender ages having to watch both their parents suffer, and waste away from T.B. and Bronchitis respectively, and to be left orphaned. The next confirmation of George's whereabouts is recorded on his marriage certificate to his wife Mary Jane in August 1883 in Lenham, Kent. Where George was in the intermediate years is not yet known. His sisters Mary and Alice can be found on the 1881 census in Kent, Fred though, like George, cannot yet be found; perhaps he died soon after his birth.
On the 1881 census Alice Jane is recorded as a 'Servant Domestic' for schoolmaster Robert Eades, residing at 14 High Street, West Malling, Kent. In 1891 she is doing similar work at 69 Crystal Palace Park, Beckenham, one of six servants in this rather grand house. And in 1901 she is at a very impressive and prestigious property, number 6 Kensington Palace Gardens, London; today these properties are owned by billionaires. She is a housemaid, one of ten staff including a butler, cook and lady’s maid, etc. to retired
timber merchant Joseph Sien Earle. A house that it is located in the most expensive property area of London, if not the world.
In 1911 she is recorded as a Housemaid Domestic, working for her sister Mary who is married to Frederick William Marchant, a plumber living at 92 Newbury Road, Bromley, which is a much more modest house.
On the 1881 census Mary Ann she is recorded as a 'Cook Domestic' for vicar Charles Robert William Hardy, residing at Oak Lawn, Hildenboro, Tunbridge, Kent.
In July 1887 she marries Frederick William Marchant, a plumber.
In 1891 they are shown as living at 25 Newbury Road, Bromley, they have two children, Helene age 2 and Alice M age 11 months.
In 1901 they have moved to number 92 Newbury Road, Bromley and now have another five children; Henry, Fred, Kathleen, Elsie and Freda.
In 1911 at the same address they have another child, Norah age 9 and sister Alice Jane living with them. Helen Florence age 22 is single and a school teacher, Alice May age 20 is also single and a school teacher. Henry Trend age 19 is a junior clerk at the Inland Revenue. Frederick George age 17 is single and a boy clerk at the General Post Office, Kathleen Emma is 15 years of age and a dressmaker's assistant, Elsie
Eliza, Freda Galdys and Norah Firth Marchant, age 13, 11 and 9 are all at school. Alice Jane is recorded as a housemaid. No doubt she does help out with the necessary work in that obviously busy household.
I wonder if Mary Ann and Alice ever reflected back to their childhood living with their ailing parents Henry and Ellen Firth in what probably was a very basic accommodation in the militia barracks at Halifax.
It is heartening to think that they both came through that difficult low period of their lives to eventually have what was at that time, a good standard of living. And imagine the massive change of life style these two girls/women experienced. Being orphaned at the tender age of 11 and 12 years after living in very poor militia barracks accommodation in Halifax, Yorkshire, and then ending up living a good life in decent accommodation.
As many of his sons and daughters were born at different locations around the country it seems likely that his main occupation had been a track-laying railway man. Legend says that he was a 'foreman', a sort of boss who, with a team of men (navvies) moved from place to place to lay tracks for the expanding railways. It is said that he, his wife and family, at one time lived in a sort of mobile home (a railway truck converted for living in one end of it and a space for tools etc. at the other end).
On the 1901 census George, his wife and children were residing at 8 & 9 Old Grimsbury Road, Grimsbury, South Northampton. By 1904 he, his wife and family were residents in Church Street, Thurnscoe, South Yorks.
Notes on HENRY FIRTH (my Great Great Grandfather)
Deceased at the time of George's wedding in 1883. Stated employment - a 'sawyer', worker in a timber yard? Could also be at a pit top wood yard, sawing pit props to size for underground supports, or planks of wood for shipbuilding? More likely it was a mistake by the registrar (Soldier and Sawyer are similar in script and speech).
When George was born Henry is recorded as being a Sergeant in the 7th Foot. (Royal Fusiliers).
Born in Mirfield, Dewsbury 1818? He attested at Leeds on 22nd August 1837 and then travelled to Bolton to join the 1st Battalion regiment. On his discharge in 1859 he was recorded as aged 40 years & 5 months but was possibly 2 years younger.
Details:-
Tuesday 23rd August 1859 7th of Foot.
Pension number 26209
Cpl Henry Firth No. 1069
Age 40 years & 5 months on admission to pension
Conduct - Latterly Good (***See notes***)
Rate of Pension - 2 shillings per day (Maybe 2d per day?)
Born Mirfield, Dewsbury, Yorks.
Trade on enlistment - Labourer
Height - 5ft 8ins
Hair - Brown, Eyes - Grey. Complexion - Fair
Campaign medals awarded: Crimea War Medal (28th March 1854 - 30th March 1855). Clasps for Alma and Inkerman and Sebastopol. And Turkish medal for Crimea.
On his discharge he served on the permanent staff of the 6th West Yorks Militia.
St George, Bradfield St George, Suffolk
The church was open daily before covid, but is locked now. Or, at least, the sign says it is. But as I approached I could see that the south doorway was open and the church security alarm was going off. A van with 'Historic Building Restorations' on the side in the churchyard explained what had happened - the workmen had set it off. Soon after, the churchwarden came to turn it off.
The workmen are obviously working on the church's drainage system, because two 17th Century headstones that had for many years lain flat, partly covered with earth, have been resurrected to clear a path for the drain. They now stand against the churchyard wall. Both appear to have different mason's marks at the base, and the date on the one with a legible inscription appears to be 1675, an early date for such a grand headstone in Suffolk.
More about the church: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/bradgeorge.html
Enjoying a nice weekend with friends up in cooling Payson. That's the Mogollon Rim far in the background.
The George Goodwin House on West 5th Street, which was at one time the Lincoln Highway, in East Liverpool, Ohio. Goodwin was the president of Goodwin Brothers Pottery and had this big house built in the late-1890s.
John McEnroe argues a line-call with umpire George Grime during his quarter-final against Guy Forget on Court One at Wimbledon. (Photo by Adam Butler - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)
Paintings by Leighton Hall Woollatt (1905–1974) after the church of St George in Clyst St George Devon, was reduced to ruins by an incendiary bomb in 1940 when scores of these were dropped on the village on the night of August 31st 1940 destroying several houses and the rectory stables. One dropped inside the organ setting fire to the church which was completely burnt out
The present building was rebuilt and consecrated anew in July 1952 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/T1Su17E4t3
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Statue of Captain George Vancouver Royal Navy, who, during the 18th Century spent three years mapping the west coast of what is now known as Canada and after whom the island and city of Vancouver are named.
This statue stands on Purfleet Quay, King's Lynn from where George Vancouver came. The building in the background is the Custom House, founded in 1683 and still in use up until the 1980s.