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here's me reading a Poem Found on the Graves of the War Dogs in The Falkland Islands. I came across the poem o twitter somebody had posted it as a tribute to a little Jack Russell suffering from cancer that was due to be put to sleep last Saturday so my sadness when reading the poem was sincere particularly as I have been quite unwell myself,
here's me reading a Poem Found on the Graves of the War Dogs in The Falkland Islands. I came across the poem o twitter somebody had posted it as a tribute to a little Jack Russell suffering from cancer that was due to be put to sleep last Saturday so my sadness when reading the poem was sincere particularly as I have been quite unwell myself,
![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)



![Corpus Christi Carol - The Keeper Sung by John Goss Baritone Rare 78 rpm
Heres Corpus Christ Carol - The Keeper Sung by John Goss Baritone from a rare 78 rpm shellac record released in the mid 1920s .
The Corpus Christi Carol or Falcon Carol[1] is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol), first written down by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill around 1504.[2] The original writer of the carol remains anonymous. The earliest surviving record of the piece preserves only the lyrics and is untitled. It has survived in altered form in the folk tradition as the Christmas carol Down In Yon Forest. The structure of the carol is six stanzas, each with rhyming couplets. The tense changes in the fourth stanza from past to present continuous.
While a number of different interpretations have been offered over time, Eamon Duffy writes that there can be no question whatever that the carols strange cluster of images are derived directly from the cult of the Easter sepulchre, with its Crucifix, Host, and embroidered hangings, and the watchers kneeling around it day and night.[3]
One theory about the meaning of the carol is that it is concerned with the legend of the Holy Grail. In Arthurian traditions of the Grail story, the Fisher King is the knight who is the Grails protector, and whose legs are perpetually wounded.[4] When he is wounded his kingdom suffers and becomes a wasteland. This would explain the reference to an orchard brown.
John Goss (1894-1953) was an English singer who revived interest in traditional folk music, which he orchestrated and sang in his beautiful baritone voice, and thus inspired people like Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger.
John Goss was born in Birmingham, England in 1894, the son of a labourer. He worked in a variety of factory jobs, and once led a protest of electrical apprentices. He might have spent his life on the shop-floor, but his fine singing won him a scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford, and by great perseverance he succeeded in building a career for himself; he spent some years studying in Germany, the musical centre at that time, and acquired a broad, humanitarian outlook.
His family was fiercely working class, and be had difficulty explaining his decision to go into something so refined as music. Thus he determined to devote himself to the revival of folk songs, the music of the people, and to perform these in the factories and union-halls, where working people tended to gather. He was a close friend of the composer Peter Warlock, and on good terms with Benjamin Britten.
After performing far and wide, he came to Canada around 1940; and started giving concerts in Vancouver then. He started a summer school of music on Galiano Island in 1947, at the property known as Lyons. This was at the same time that there was a thriving artistic scene at Arbutus Point Resort, frequented by painters like Molly Lamb Bobak and Jack Shadbolt, so the island must have been a hive of creativity. This was also about the time that Nigel Morgan, head of the B.C. Communist Party, established his Communist retreat and study centre near Retreat Cove.
John Goss, with his pacifist, working-class leanings was also suspected of being a communist. He addressed a peace conference in New York in 1949, in company with other musical figures like Aaron Copland, Dimitri Shostakovich, Paul Robeson, Benjamin Britten and many others. Just as the event was ending, he was approached by the police: they told him he could leave the country immediately or suffer the indignity of being deported.
He left the United States quietly but that was not the end of his problems. There was as much nastiness in Canada; the Vancouver Parks Board terminated his contract in the interest of good public relations, and he had to close the summer-school on Galiano Island. Broken in health he returned to Birmingham, where he died in 1953.[1 Corpus Christi Carol - The Keeper Sung by John Goss Baritone Rare 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t0CavQaqDpk/mqdefault.jpg)
