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The old Leeds Grammar School building viewed from Woodhouse Moor. The building was designed by Edward M Barry, the son of Sir Charles Barry, the architect responsible for the Houses of Parliament, and it was opened in 1859.
The land the Grammar School was built on used to be a part of Woodhouse Moor. But the Lords of the Manor who owned all this land, sold the land the school's built on to the school, just a few months before they sold the rest of the land to the Town Council so that it could become the city's first park.
“What’s the most creative thing you’ve ever done?"
“I had a poem published once, it was part of a national press competition and I got runner-up. It was about grammar. The nouns were characters and the verbs were personified, and there was a definite article who had a line of dialogue. I don’t even know how I thought of it, I think it was subconscious as I was revising for my English language exams at the time."
Palazzo Trinci at Foligno (Umbria) contains many beautiful frescoes, painted between 1411 and 1412 by Gentile da Fabriano, with the assistance of Jacopo Bellini and many pupils. The best of medieval culture is represented. The frescoes relate to the style of Ottaviano Nelli, who painted the chapel of Palazzo Trinci in 1424.
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"Slide 509 - Coronation procession, Keighley, 1953"
Graham Mitchell, 2023: "This is The National School's Coronation Display and I am the 10 year old boy with back to camera, playing the The Rector of Keighley. In later years I learned always to face the camera!"
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was held on Tuesday, 2nd June 1953. After the ceremony, which for the first time had been televised, a parade was held in the town that started at Lund Park and proceeded to Victoria Park. This float depicts an historical reenactment of the Rector of Keighley and W. B. Ferrand of St. Ives preventing an overlooker from beating a latecomer to the mill. A lorry belonging to Merrall & Son Ltd. of Lees and Ebor Mills in Haworth can be seen in the background.
The day was written up in 'The Keighlian', the magazine of Keighley Boys' Grammar School, in the Summer 1953 edition (edited by J. Binns and J. H. Learmonth): "Coronation Day itself dawned damp and misty. However the weather improved towards noon and the afternoon was quite reasonable, but the rain clouds returned about four o'clock. Keighley was deserted, except for queues outside the various halls where there were public exhibitions of the BBC's television broadcasts of the procession and ceremony. At a very early hour, households could be seen making their way to rich relations who had television sets and who, like almost every other viewer, were keeping 'open house'. Family gatherings of twelve and fifteen were the order of the day.
A procession of tableaux staged by the various schools in the Borough was timed to start from Lund Park at 3 p.m. but, as the radio and television broadcasts had not yet finished, the crowds of spectators were rather thinner than was anticipated. School provided two tableaux: 'Nelson on H.M.S. Victory' and 'The Press Gang'.
In the evening, the main buildings in the town were flood-lit, the recently cleaned Memorial in the Town Hall Square looking especially fine. The climax of the evening was the Beacon on Rivock Edge. It blazed brightly beneath an overcast sky. Here indeed was something to impress the home-going Keighlian, something to epitomise the meaning of all the celebrations, something to make him want to shout:
'Vivat Regina Elizabetha!' "
History Society member Eddie Kelly (writing in December 2021): "The Coronation Procession took place on the day Tuesday 2nd June 1953 leaving Lund Park at 3:00PM shortly before the deluge commenced. This isn't obvious in the pictures and it is more than likely those images were captured as the procession is leaving Lund Park before the downpour. Apart from the bunting a good clue is the presence of beefeaters attending each tableaux. A neighbour was one of those carrying out this duty. We as a family watched it pass by on South Street. As a spectating youngster I can still remember getting drenched! The procession continued to Victoria Park where most of the planned entertainment was abandoned. The firework display taking place on Thursday evening instead. There was a civic procession on the morning of 31st May 1953 when the Mayor & Corporation with other dignitaries processed from the Town Hall along North Street to the Parish Church to attend the official service of thanksgiving."
One of a set of colour slides taken in the 1950s by an unidentified photographer. The slides were bought on eBay in November 2021 by History Society member Tim Neal and were donated to Keighley and District Local History Society in December 2021.
I grew up reading the backs of cereal boxes. Generally, I'm not a morning person, so when I was young, I would sit, slowly eating my cereal as my half awake brain read every word on the box of "Cookie Crisps", "Apple Jacks" or whatever was being heavily marketed on Saturday morning cartoons.
I think I remember that the boxes back then mostly had complete sentences.
Cowbridge Grammar School, Cowbridge, South Wales, 24 July 2020. Founded in 1608 by Sir John Stradling and owned by Jesus College, Oxford from 1685-1918. Converted to houses in 2006-08. Note the mediaeval walled town's South Gate (late 13th Century) in the distance to the right.
The 'your' and 'you're' confusion annoys me almost as much as the 'there,' 'their,' and 'they're' confusion.
my old entry for the threadcakes contest! i did not win, but was still rewarded nicely by threadless for participating.
On Friday 12 July 48 Year 9 students left Enfield Grammar School at 5.00am on the History trip to the First World War Battlefields near Ypres. Our numbers increased to 49 at the Eurotunnel: Remaine Newland finally arrived!! His alarm hadn't worked - Remaine's mum put her driving skills to the test and successfully pursued the coach to Folkestone.
The boys visited the Trench of Death, one of the longest preserved sections of trench in Belgium. This gave them an opportunity to see the strategic significance of the river Ijzer and the importance of defending it from the Germans. From there, the group went on to the museum at Zonnebeke for a tour and lunch.
The afternoon's visits included a tour of Polygon Woods Cemetery and Hill 60. The two cemeteries allowed the boys to compare the layout of a concentration cemetery with a battlefield cemetery. They paid their respects to the Australian soldiers buried at Polygon Woods. At Hill 60, the boys learnt about the different battles that were fought around Ypres and were told how the mine crater we visited was created. Many were shocked to learn that the explosion at Hill 60 was so loud it had been heard in London.
Despite the highly dramatic, but non-serious, head injury sustained by a member of the group, everyone managed to enjoy the visit to the Menin Gate and the town of Ypres. When looking at the Menin Gate, the boys not only saw names from Middlesex and Essex but India, Australia and Jamaica - further emphasising the fact it was a world war.
A final highlight for many was the visit to the chocolate shop where they stocked up on presents for their parents and snacks for themselves.
If the grammar or spelling in this story is bad, please keep in mind the base of the story.
It all started yesterday...
My wife and I had to go up to Oklahoma City for reasons I can't talk about....at least not right now. I'll give you a hint though; it's somewhat related to one of the top political issues today.
Since my car sucks and has almost 200,000 miles on it, we decided to rent a car for the trip. We got the car yesterday around 4:00 p.m. before going to work.
Since yesterday, my sleep patters have been strange, even for me. That morning we stayed up all night and slept till around 2:30 p.m.
I went to work that evening then came home like normal. This is where the fun started. I came home, got into bed, but couldn't sleep. I got up around 5:15 a.m., took a shower and got dressed. I was ready long before Merita (big shocker), so I decided to go outside to run my Buick. It's still having the electrical problems and if I don't start it at least once a day it will be very difficult to get running (especially during the winter). In fact, I had to jump start it this morning.
We had to be at this place in OKC for 10:00 a.m. morning. We never been there and I can't even begin to tell you how important this was/is, so we left around 6:00 a.m.
We got on the road and as we left the city limits a strange warning light on the dash board came on. I'm a little gun shy with engine coolant, so I decided to stop at a gas station to check all the levels. Let me ask this.... Is it normal for Kia's not to have an coolant overflow tank? Anyway, it was fine; the only problem was the car was low on washer fluid.
We got to our destination at around 8:30 a.m. Her appointment, like I said, was at 10:00 a.m. so we had to wait in the car till 9:15 when she went inside. I waited in the car so I can relax and maybe sleep some. Lol, no luck for me; all I did was shoot some video of me going crazy from being tired and listen to the Keith and the Girl podcast (They cuss too much for Merita. That made a fun trip).
Anyway, Merita came back out a little after 10:00. I expected her to be in there much longer. I can't remember it, but we came home after that. I assume I drove.
We got back in a little after 12:00 and I went straight to bed, started playing something recorded on the DVR and I was out before the first commercial. Honestly,I don't remember if I even took off my shoes.
Merita woke me up a little after 2:00 so we can return the car. At this point my body was done; I don't remember ever being so tired. I was so tired I didn't even think of caffeine; usually that's my first thought.
The woman who took back the car had to wonder how the hell we got back with the car in once piece. Honestly, I don't know. I have to admit to many cases of having to stop short from nearly rear-ending people. That was one of those things I have to credit the grace of God, I suppose.
After getting home from Hertz, you know where I ended up...no lunch, no shower, no bathroom....again fully clothed..... Well, to be perfectly honest, I don't even remember; as far as I know, I could have been wearing my wife's panties and a wig. Hmm, on that thought, hope Merita doesn't have a secret Flickr account!
I had work today as you can see in this photo. There was no way in hell I was going to make it there by 6:00. I didn't get up till 6:30. I was dressed and out before 7:00. Since the car was sitting in the cold all day without going anywhere all I wasn't surprised it needed to be jumped. I connected up my booster box and let it charge for a while. Well,long story short, I drained the battery in my booster box trying to get the car to turn over. At this point it was a quarter after 7. I had to ask our neighbor for a jump. Thank God for nice neighbors!
And as soon as we got the car going, I was given another problem; the car was low on gas; very low. That sucked! I had to take one of two chances. Either stop for gas and risk losing my charge, or risk running out of gas. The negative of the former seem to be the least damaging. Luckily the car started right up after filling up.
Now I'm here at work. Not as tired as I was earlier, e.g. all day, but it still sucks. I got to work at 7:40, an hour and forty minutes late. Oops! Lol, no one even noticed, and if they did, they don't care. Man I love this place. Depending on how long my body is able to remain vertical, I'm planning on staying here till 3:00 a.m. Got a butt load of video to edit anyway.
Delivered today to the Transdev York yard are two new additions to the fleet in the shape of Plaxton President bodied Dennis Tridents V519 ESC and V520 ESC. These ex-Lothian open topper's are for the citysightseeing tour route and are to replace Leyland Olympians originally from the same source - Ironically these Presidents are replacing exactly the same buses here and now that they did a few years ago in Edinburgh. These particular two are currently still diesel-powered and have been sent to York simply so that the tour can be run by low floors vehicles and thus the two Olympians that have been working the tour for the month so far can be retired, these Presidents are expected in service in the coming day or two.... in the last week or March a delivery of 2 or 3 is expected, these will have been fully converted by Magtech to electric traction and their arrival will mean a boost to the electric buses for the tour just in time for easter and then 4019 and 4020 will leave York temporarily to be converted. East Lancs bodied Tridents 4010 and 4011 will remain diesel-powered.
This set of photos is taken on board 4020 and shows the work undertaken to ready this for its new life here. The lower saloon is smartly appointed, whilst the rearward-facing seats at the back have been removed as they'd be pointless for tour bus work. All seat pairs have an electronic console for selecting an audio commentary guide when this bus is running the multi-language tour service, of which passengers will plug in a set of headphones so as to listen to the commentary (the headphones will be provided in a box to the right as passengers enter the bus, and a 'used headphones' bin is provided on the cab door for passengers leaving the bus). Warning notices are provided upstairs reminding passengers not to put up umbrellas or to stand up whilst the bus is moving due to overhead hazards (the photo I took of the umbrella warning notice amuses me, because the way the sun is falling on the notice makes it look as though it has been given the 'triangle chunk' effect that is part of current Transdev branding). The upper deck has Grammar moulded plastic seating, which is very hard and certainly is only suited for hop-on and hop-off tour work, only the very back bench seat upstairs has any padding - and unlike some of the Olympians these Presidents will replace, the upper deck is fully open top with no partial canopy to provide shelter from the rain. Each pair of seats also has an audio speaker fitted alongside for when either the driver or a seperate guide is providing live commentary - provision for a live tour guide has been made by means of a pair of rearward-facing seats at the front of the upper deck, in addition there are two other locations where a microphone can be plugged in (the first offside seat pair after the staircase upstairs, and also beside the main door downstairs) whilst the driver is also provided with a hands-free microphone. An LCD monitor is also provided downstairs - I would like to think this will be used to show a live feed from a camera mounted upstairs of views outside the bus so as to go along with the commentary. Behind the drivers seat is a digital tachograph, for some reason, and a box under the ticket machine looks as if it is used to jog the pre-programmed commentary forward or backward to points along the route.
This is the design for the Grammar Girl temporary tattoo that will only be available during the 2009 book tour.