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Here's an interesting clip i stumbled across recently Christopher Proudfoot demonstrates music boxes and phonographs 1975 BBC Nationwide
Here's an interesting clip i stumbled across recently Christopher Proudfoot demonstrates music boxes and phonographs 1975 BBC Nationwide



![Uffa Fox Sailor Yacht Designer & Friend of Prince Philip singing Spanish Ladies & Rule Britannia
Heres Uffa Fox Sailor Yacht Designer & Friend of Prince Philip singing Spanish Ladies & Rule Britannia from a vinyl record of sea shanties and Jack ashore sea songs recorded in 1960.
Uffa Fox, CBE (15 January 1898 – 26 October 1972) was an English boat designer and sailing enthusiast.
He was responsible for many of the developments which have contributed to the modern popularity of dinghy sailing. He first introduced the technique of planing to dinghy racing, and was influential in the introduction of trapezing.
He became a friend of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1949 and they raced together at Cowes Week on many occasions. They raced on Foxs Dragon Fresh Breeze or the Dukes Royal Dragon Bluebottle. He also took the Royal children sailing at Cowes.
Apart from having a highly successful racing, cruising and sailing career, he ran successful boat design and boatbuilding businesses in the south of England. He designed many of the significant classes of boats around today, including the planing International 14, the Foxhound, the Foxcub and Super Foxcub, the Flying Fifteen, the Flying Ten, the National 12, the National 18, the Albacore, the Firefly, the Javelin, the Pegasus Dinghy, the Jollyboat and the Day Sailer. Many of his designs exploited the wartime developments of moulded plywood, extruded aluminium, Tufnol etc..
In addition to dinghies, he designed several keelboats all loosely based on the same concept as the flying fifteen, with separate fin keel and rudder. They were very lightweight compared with other boats of the era. Huff of Arklow for Douglas Heard was 30-0 on the waterline and Flying Fox for Fred Brownlee was 35-0 waterline length.[3]
Uffa Fox designed the Britannia rowboat, used by John Fairfax for the first solo-rowing expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1969.[4] The Britannia was described as the Rolls-Royce of rowboats, made of mahogany. It was self-righting, self-bailing and partly covered.[4] He also designed Britannia II, used by Fairfax and Sylvia Cook to row across the Pacific Ocean in 1971 through 1972.
His character is perhaps best indicated by an escapade whereby he led a group of Sea Scouts, without their parents consent (they thought it was a weekend sailing camp), across the English Channel and up the Seine to within a few kilometres of Paris in a 25 ft open boat.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life in January 1963 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Colston Hall in Bristol. He was also among the crew of the Typhoon, an account of which was written and published by William Washburn Nutting in In the Track of Typhoon (1922). Fox joined the crew in England for her transatlantic return via France, Spain, and the Azores into New York City. Uffa Fox Sailor Yacht Designer & Friend of Prince Philip singing Spanish Ladies & Rule Britannia](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qXROKlos9yQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![Scottish Border British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Record.
Scottish Border British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.
The British Drama League was established in 1919 to promote amateur and professional theatre in England, 3 a head office based at Fitzroy Square, London. It was founded by Geoffrey Whitworth. Its work included pursuing the creation of the National Theatre, offering library and research services, founded the journal Drama in 1919, and encouraging the introduction of drama into the national curriculum.[1] Its name was changed to the British Theatre Association in 1972.[2] The Association was disbanded in 1990, due to financial pressures. Play scripts held in its archive are now in the possession of the Theatre Museum, London Scottish Border British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Record.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qkG8BgxGvtg/mqdefault.jpg)



![Devon - The British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.
Heres Devon - The British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.
The British Drama League was established in 1919 to promote amateur and professional theatre in England, with a head office based at Fitzroy Square, London. It was founded by Geoffrey Whitworth. Its work included pursuing the creation of the National Theatre, offering library and research services, founded the journal Drama in 1919, and encouraging the introduction of drama into the national curriculum.[1] Its name was changed to the British Theatre Association in 1972.[2] The Association was disbanded in 1990, due to financial pressures. Play scripts held in its archive are now in the possession of the Theatre Museum, London Devon - The British Drama League Lyntone Flexi record reissue of 1920s 78 rpm Gramophone Record.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sO6GWx9CfUo/mqdefault.jpg)

