tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92005568247735530752024-02-20T01:42:29.786-08:00A Guide to the Radical History of Stroud and the Five ValleysAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-26060232336288375282017-02-03T06:13:00.000-08:002017-02-03T06:13:05.631-08:00Beyond Satire; Beyond Hope?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">A quick chat with Jon Seagrave this morning
has got me thinking – we were talking about how dreadful it all is and how it’s
beyond satire and how it’s like the fall of the Weimar Republic and I just
couldn’t find the words to describe how dire it all is here and in the USA.
Perhaps the words don’t exist. It’s something polysyllabic and poly-dimensional
and we need a neologism: what is it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But I thought about it a bit more when
biking up to Bisley to take some pictures of emigrant lists from 1837 …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A key text for my particular political
micro-generation was Marcuse’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One
Dimensional Man </i>– how liberal-capitalism gave the illusion of freedom
through the seeming allowance of opposition: Penguin Marxism, for example. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But that’s gone now hasn’t it? Opposition
is either ridiculed or presented as false news or simply not reported or
obliterated, and then there is the awfulness of the press and the BBC: ‘The
People have spoken.’ ‘The People have spoken.’ ‘The People have spoken.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We’re not imprisoned as at the end of
Weimar, but dissent feels impossible today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And the sense of impotence is, I think,
accentuated rather than reduced by social media. That is the next
dimension<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- for that once more gives
that illusion of freedom feeling; that seeming allowance of opposition arena: the
trick of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One Dimensional People </i>whilst
projecting an image of the opposite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We need a new word to describe this
suffocation of dissent. This multidimensional, all embracing cat’s-cradle of
negation - ‘Oh brave new world that has such creatures in it.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-6466024613475155332016-10-31T05:16:00.001-07:002016-10-31T05:16:31.951-07:00Gigs and the website and the blog and Dorothy and ArchibaldHello everyone,<br />
Just to remind you that www.radicalstroud.co.uk is now your port of call, as the blog winds down.<br />
The website takes over.<br />
http://radicalstroud.co.uk/voices-of-conscience-trenchcoats-for-goalposts-all-our-stroud-yesterdays/<br />
has details about forthcoming performances and the tragic re-creation of the tale of Dorothy Beard and Private Archibald Knee in 1916.<br />
We hope to see you!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-54562671518475852122016-10-13T06:53:00.000-07:002016-10-13T06:53:35.973-07:00Brooklyn and the Slad Brook Conjoined Historically and Inter-Textually<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Brooklyn
and the Slad Brook Conjoined Historically and Inter-Textually<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">I
remember so well that day at Wallbridge in Stroud,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Seeing
the man whose name I do not know,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Yet
with whom I always share the time of day<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Whenever
our paths cross in the street;<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">He
was leaning on the canal bridge,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Gazing
out over the waters, <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Beyond
the information board<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Which
portrays Stroud Scarlet,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Stretched
out on tenterhooks<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In
Rodborough Fields; <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">He
was staring at the Cainscross Road,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Where
the Slad Brook enters the canal -<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In
a reverie about the old brewery, I thought -<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">‘Remembering
the smell of the beer?’ I asked;<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">‘No,
I’m just thinking about all of these cars,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Where
they all comin’ from, and where they all goin’ to?’<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<br /></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">I
thought of him, the canal, the cars and the picture today,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">When
striding out into New York City;<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Some
of that Stroud Scarlet stretched out in Rodborough Fields<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Might
well have ended up in New York,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Nearly
two hundred and fifty years ago,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">A
spreading splash of crimson on Brooklyn Heights;<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">It
had already been traded with the Iroquois,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">A
century before that,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">And
some slaves south of the Mason-Dixon Line <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Would
have been bought with Stroud Scarlet back in Africa;<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Back
home, locals might well have gathered to gaze and chat on the bridge,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Talking
of the war in America, <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">And
of the new Stroudwater Navigation,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Watching
the coaches and the Severn trows,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Wondering
where they all comin’ from,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">And
where they all goin’ to;<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<br /></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Charles
Mason, of the Mason-Dixon Line, <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Was
born back home:Wear </span></em><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Farm,
Oakridge Lynch:</span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Baptized at Sapperton
Church, May Day 1728;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Thomas
Pynchon imagined him over at Randwick, <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Watching
a cheese rolling, admiring Susannah Peach,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Dreaming
of the wealth in her father’s Minchinhampton house -<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Samuel
Peach, ‘a growing Power within the East India Company’;<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">But
Charles met and fell in love with Rebekah – <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">‘he
went toppling on to the grass …<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">As
he arose, holding his head … her Voice first reached him.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">“Were
it Night –time, Sir, I’d say you were at Star-Gazing.”</span></em><em><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">…<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Her looks had him stupefied’,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">There
near ‘The towns around the Golden Valley’, <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">where<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">‘The
precise Geography of the Water-shed was now primary,-<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">where
Races might go, for Wheels to be driven and Workshops<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">to
be run from them… ‘twas like coming before the Final Judge’,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Which
is why whilst Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were making their line,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Twixt
Pennsylvania and Maryland,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Manufacturers
and surveyors and the traders of Stroudwater<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Were
dreaming of a line, a cut and an inland navigation,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Stretching
from the Severn at Framilode, and so on to Stroud;<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">But
in the year when General Wolfe and his Stroud Scarlet troops<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Stormed
the heights of Quebec, <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Rebekah,
<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Mason’s
first wife, died:<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">A
memorial tablet stands upon a tombstone at Sapperton,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<div align="center" style="background: white; line-height: 16.3pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">To
recall her life,<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">When
a few short years before, <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Colonel
Wolfe had ridden down striking weavers <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">in
the valleys around Horsley and Stroud, <o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">And even </span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy";">though he professed some
sympathy for their plight: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">“The
people are so oppressed, so poor and so wretched, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">that they
will, perhaps, hazard a knock on the pate for bread and clothes… the poor
half-starved weavers…beg about the country for food…the masters have beat down
their wages too low to live upon, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">and I
believe it is a just complaint”,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">He was in
charge of six companies of foot soldiers </span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Enough “to beat the mob of all England”;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He reported that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">” Those who are most oppressed have seized the tools <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and broke the looms of others who would work if they could”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And so he obediently awaited orders <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">from “the magistrates to use our weapons against them” – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and so, the production of Stroud Scarlet resumed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Laid out on tenterhooks, in that picture down by the canal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ready for ‘The American War of Independence’,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> ‘The American Revolution’ -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For in 1775, General Howe stiffened Loyalist New York’s resolve<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">With over 30,000 soldiers:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Stroud Scarlet troops landing at Staten Island and Long Island;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ready for George Washington’s march south from Boston,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To the tip of Manhattan, across the East River, to Long Island,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And Brooklyn Heights;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Washington was eventually forced to retreat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">After the redcoats’ stealthy advance up what is now Park Slope,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(With just one solitary victory to his name, at Harlem Heights),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Back across the East River, once more into Manhattan;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Then further along roads on the west bank,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Across the Hudson River to reach New Jersey,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Across the Delaware, and so into Pennsylvania;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The British army and Stroud Scarlet would occupy New York<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For the rest of the conflict,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But it was a hollow victory:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The British army would depart in ignominy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Seven years later, on November 25<sup>th</sup> 1783;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Five more years would pass,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Until King George the Third would lose his mind,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The year in which he would start talking to the trees,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lamenting ‘The loss of my Colonies’,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The year in which he visited the locks at Wallbridge,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And the tunnel at Sapperton,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The year before the French Revolution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Would subsequently lead to more war,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">More tenterhooks,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And more Stroud Scarlet, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And yet more crimson spilt:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Families on tenterhooks,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Hoping husbands, sons and brothers would return,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Uninjured, in one piece<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Rather than forced to beg in tattered red),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To Stroud, its looms, its springs, its brooks and streams,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Its scarlet, and its crimson,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Up there in Rodborough Fields,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Above the Slad Brook,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Unaware of the fate of Nathan Hale,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A generation before,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Arrested in Queens as a spy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘Hanged by the redcoats’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In Manhattan in 1776, aged twenty-one:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country’:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Slad Brook and Brooklyn conjoined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Places to visit:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Saint Paul’s Church, downtown; Morris-Jumel Mansion, uptown;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Rivington Street, named after a Loyalist printer who acted as a spy for
Washington and as a double-agent; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">MacDougal Street, named after Alexander MacDougal, who founded the New
York Sons of Liberty; Hannah MacDougal, his wife, led a Broadway march against
his imprisonment for his ‘To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City and Colony of
New York’;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Murray Hill , remembers Robert Murray and his Wall Street shipping
company and Murray’s Wharf, but even more his wife, Mary, who detained British
officers with a fine meal, thus allowing American troops to escape pursuit;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Francis Lewis Boulevard – Mr Lewis, the merchant, signed the Declaration
of Independence as a representative of New York. The Declaration was declaimed
on July 9<sup>th</sup> 1776, in what is now City Hall Park.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It is interesting to reflect on the fact that New York is named after James,
Duke of York (after the Dutch gave up ‘New Amsterdam’). The Duke, the future
King James the Second, was a leading light in the Royal African Company. So
much so, that slaves were branded DY before the middle passage to the Americas
and the West Indies. There seems to be an amnesia about this: King’s County;
Queen’s County; Prince Street … New York …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Natural confines of space and time:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The lodging of Fire,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Air,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Earth and</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Water,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A numinous presence around these mill walls,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A perpetual elemental infusion and confusion</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Of history, continuity and change:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There have been three fires here: in 1802, 1811 and 1871:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The 1829 Register of Pennsylvania looked at</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The phenomenon of ‘spontaneous combustion’,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">And ‘enumerated several substances, which under particular circumstances spontaneously inflamed, and it may be serviceable to mention, as a caution to woollen manufacturers, that a destructive fire at Lodgemore Mills near Stroud, in Gloucestershire, which happened, June, 1811, was occasioned by a quantity of flocks impregnated by Curier’s oil being left on the floor.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The air, so necessary for this combustion,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Was once, more comforting,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Enveloping the cloth</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Stretched out to dry on tenterhooks;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The subterranean limestone,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Quarried for mill, factory and cottage,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Also gave up its</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Fullers Earth,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">So necessary for the cleaning of the cloth;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The limestone and the Fuller’s Earth,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Also gave the five valleys its springs,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Its streams, rivers, cuts and canals,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Water</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">For Lodgemore Mills,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">For the sluice gates; </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">t</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">he maze of waterways, streams, rivers, Navigations, spumes, flumes and watery divagations,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Water</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dripping down the mouldering walls and rusting guttering;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Fire</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Once stoked beneath the now crumbling chimney,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">And no longer wreaking spontaneous havoc;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Air, Earth and Water</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nurturing the ash trees growing tall above the mill roofs;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Gothic-green ivy clambering over walls</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">And the present tense,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the past reclaims the future,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">In a landscape where nothing is stable,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">All is mutable,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As the elements jostle for their daily lodging at Lodgemore Mills,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Watching us pass by in contemplative, detached amusement:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-38094620451094450922016-09-29T12:03:00.000-07:002016-09-29T12:03:12.300-07:00Inter-Textuality in a Rodborough Churchyard<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">It
was the most perfect equinoctial evening,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But
with the six o’clock sun in drivers’ eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I decided
to walk rather than cycle - for a change,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
chose to walk to Rodborough Church,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Rather
than straight up the hill to the common;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I
sauntered along Spillmans to reach the church gate,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Where,
placed carefully within the clambering ivy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Was
a lost shopping list, a middle class preparation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For
a dinner party: precisely categorized calligraphy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Upper
case black ink, detailing the requirements:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">APPLES BANANAS TOMATOES AVOCADOS CORIANDER LIMES CELERY SALAD</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">EGGS BAGELS BREAD WRAPS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">COLD CHICKEN MINCE SAUSAGES BACON SMOKED SALMON</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">YOGHURTS SOUR CREAM</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
then four items I couldn't read shrouded by the branches and leaves of the ivy
(Why didn’t I move the branch? I dunno. I think it’s because it felt as though
I were regarding an exhibit in a gallery or museum, or perhaps it was the
memory of a Christian upbringing …)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">MAGAZINES</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">KiDNEY BEANS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">TINNED TOMS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">NACHOS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">APRICOTS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">then another couple of ivy covered items</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">FROZEN PEAS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Someone
had scrawled across this notelet in blue biro,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Poshy doshy </span></i><span lang="EN-US">– a young hand,
condemnatory and judgmental,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Turning
the world of class and deference upside down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In
an inter-textual, meta-textual sort of way;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">It
was though Life itself had become the writer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In
this churchyard of embedded narratives;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I
felt compelled to record this postmodernist happenstance -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So
penned these lines, sitting on a gravestone,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In
the evening sunshine, imagining<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That
I would place the scrap of exercise paper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Next
to the shopping list in the ivy;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But
when I turned the church’s shadowed corner,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I
came across this notice:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This is NOT a rubbish bin. Please take all flower wrappings,
pots, wreaths and your graveyard rubbish home with you. Thank you</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As Louis Armstrong put it in High Society:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'End of story</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">.'</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Trains and Boats and Games</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I was due to meet Andy at Temple Meads:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">He was coming on the train from Yate,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was coming from Stroud
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(I wanted to call in at the Radical Book Fair,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">To collect a pamphlet on smuggling),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">But the signals were down at Parkway,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">So I sat on a bench outside Temple Meads,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Listening to a man talk of seeing the debuts</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Of Colin Bell and Wynn Davies,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">While I ate a cheese and onion pasty,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Awaiting Andy, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">When another man sat next to me,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Opened a map and asked: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">''Do you know Bristol?'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I thought – correctly - that he might be a Derby fan,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">So asked him if he fancied going to the match by boat,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Just as Andy texted: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Train cancelled, he'd have to drive,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">So he'd meet me at the ground with my ticket.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My new, substitute Rams mate introduced himself,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Shook my hand: ‘Peter’; ‘Stuart,’ I replied,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Explaining that I wasn't local, but a Swindon fan -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'We've got something in common then,'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'Dave Mackay,' I replied. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">It was going well.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">We talked of Derby pubs: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The Brunswick, the Alexandra,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> t</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">he Peacock, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And how I’d never been to a match by water before -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Peter has previous, however:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">‘When I watch a match at Derby,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I have a couple of pints in the Peacock,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Then walk along the River Derwent, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">So that’s going to a match by water, I suppose.’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This sounded all a bit Arnold Bennett to me,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Transposed from the Potteries to the Peacock,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And I drifted away:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘Around the field was
a wide border of … hats … pale faces, rising in tiers, and beyond this border,
fences, hoardings, chimneys, furnaces, gasometers, telegraph-poles, houses and
dead trees.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I thought of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Until Peter asked me
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We spoke of Laurie Lee, the Woolpack, Clough, Taylor,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Forest, Mackay, Robertson, the European Cup Final,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Our banner referencing George Orwell at Real Madrid:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'Homage to Clough n Taylor',</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And my letter to Brian Moore,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Asking if the cameras could focus on our pennant,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And his reply, written in fountain pen,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'What a night in Madrid, Stuart! </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Hope you got the message over,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Best wishes, Brian.'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Peter Quinn, for it was he, then talked of his book:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">A Ram's Fan's Fanfayre</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">With chapter headings,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">All starting with the prefix ‘For’:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">‘Fortune, Forgettable, and so on,’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Conversing as the ferry made its way through the docks.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Until we alighted, asked the way of some Bristol fans,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And I left Peter in safe company at a cider- house,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The suitably named ‘Orchard.’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The build up to the game was great – </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Peter and the ferry,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Andy with my ticket, driving befuddled through Bristol,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Eventually meeting me at Ashton Gate,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Then meeting his B.C.F.C. mate, Lee,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Who took us for a tour of the ground …</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Then the constant singing of the beer swilled Derby fans,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'Forest are losing, Forest are losing,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'We are Derby, Super-Derby, Super-Derby, Super Rams', </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'Derby Army', 'Derby Army', 'Derby Army',</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The man in the fancy dress outfit: ‘Sheep on Tour’,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Hearing the half times: Swindon, two nil down,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Meeting my BCFC brother in law, Trevor, after the game,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">With Bruce, my wife's cousin, over from Canada,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Meeting my charming, new grand-nephew,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Rupert, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">For the first time …</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The match was a slightly tedious one all draw,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">With countless throw-ins, a general air of ineptitude,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And if it wasn't for the Rams fans,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Funereal.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">But the build up, and the aftermath,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The meeting of friends old and new,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Peter the Ram,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Andy the Ram.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Lee the Robin,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Bristol supporters on the ferry,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Bristol supporters at the Orchard,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Bruce, political reporter for the Toronto Star,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The greeting of a new baby,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">A fourth generation Bristol City fan:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Rupert the Robin,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">All mean that the day, and hence the match, too,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Have to be filed under the chapter heading:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">‘Unforgettable’,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Because sometimes a football match</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Is only incidental to the enjoyment of a football match -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">It’s what happens before and afterwards that count:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Trains and Boats not Games.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-88740578460291712222016-09-29T11:57:00.001-07:002016-09-29T11:57:49.124-07:00Newbridge to Oxford<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Swans,
Bridges, Feudalism and Modernity: From Newbridge to Oxford<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
Windrush joins the Thames at Newbridge,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Flowing
beneath the elegant Taynton stone bridge,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once
a port of call for that Burford quarried stone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On
its way to Oxford and London,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As
well as a defeat for the Parliamentarians …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
sight of so many swans gliding on the waters,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So
close to King Charles’ Oxford,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With
their mute depiction of feudal hierarchy:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">These
birds are for monarchs old and new, not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Yoemen
and husbandmen and other persons of little reputation’;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A
heron interrupted the flow of my thoughts down stream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To
Hart’s Weir footbridge – more English quaintness:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
weir has gone, but a right of way remains to Erewhon;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then
Northmoor Lock, before reaching literary Bablock Hythe:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Matthew
Arnold’s scholar-gypsy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Oft
was met crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hythe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Trailing
in the cool stream thy fingers wet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">As
the punt’s rope chops round’;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">None
of that now at the Ferryman Inn and its chalet purlieus,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Instead
a meander inland before returning to the waters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At
Pinkhill Weir, before another short roadside detour,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
a boatyard and chandlers and a stride to Swinford Bridge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(Swine-ford),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Where
feudalism and modernity meet:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A
toll bridge, built at the behest of the Earl of Abingdon in 1777,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Where
a company still charges drivers today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(But
not pedestrians!),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Then
on to the now invisible Anglo-Saxon cultural importance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Of
Eynsham, and Eynsham Lock, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Evenlode
Stream and King’s Lock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(King
denoting kine),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Underneath
the Ox-ford by-pass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(You’ve
heard its constant roar for over an hour),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">To
Godstow: ‘Get thee to a nunnery!’ –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">‘The
use of detectors is strictly forbidden’,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Fair
Rosamund, Alice Liddell and Charles Dodgson;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Pat
the astonishing free grazing common lands of Port Meadow:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Horses
gallop free, while a train passes in the distance,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Kine,
countless, standing in the waters,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Swans
gazing at the stationary herds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Port
Meadow, a feudal gift to the burghers of Oxford,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Courtesy
of Edward the Confessor, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Honoured
by William the Conqueror;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But
the industrial revolution was calling:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A
boatyard, a footbridge, Osney Bridge, a canal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
a train back to Stroud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-58516185215273611892016-09-11T03:46:00.001-07:002016-09-11T03:46:35.724-07:00Lechlade to Newbridge<div class="Body">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The day started early
in Cirencester, where our Chartist</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Allen Davenport was a
cobbler before he married Mary,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And moved to London,
where the writings of Thomas Spence</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Led him into
revolutionary politics, writing, and action -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But that was less on
my mind than finding the bus stop:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The bus for Lechlade
left from near the Job Centre</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">('Didn't know we had
one,' said one young man;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">'You mean the Labour
Exchange,' said an older man),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And was twenty minutes
late and anonymous:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">'Damned thing kept
stalling,' said the driver,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">As she drew a large 77
on a piece of paper</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Which she stuck to the
windscreen, to denote the service -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But we got there in
the end, dropped off by Shelley's Close:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Percy Shelley, admirer
of the Luddites and the Spenceans.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I crossed the bridge
and turned left for London,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was just the sort
of light I like for a riverine walk:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Waves of silver
rippling through the dark waters,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Moody clouds and a
humid air;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I made my way to the
statue of Old Father Thames,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Once of Crystal
Palace, now recumbent at St John's Lock -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But the nineteenth
century was soon forgotten:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It all got a bit </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mrs Miniver</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> and </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Went the Day Well?</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">After Bloomer's Hole
footbridge:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I lost count of the
pillboxes in the fields and on the banks</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">('Mr. Brown goes off
to Town on the 8.21,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But he comes home each
evening,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And he's ready with
his gun'),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">As I walked on past
Buscot, with its line of poplar trees,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Planted to drain the
soil in its Victorian heyday of sugar beet</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And once with a narrow
gauge railway dancing across</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">A lost Saxon village
at Eaton Hastings;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then on past William
Morris' 'heaven on earth'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">At Kelmscott Manor
('Visit our website to shop online!'),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Walkers occasionally
appearing beyond hedgerows,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Like Edward Thomas'
'The Other Man',</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Wandering past teazles
and Himalayan balsam;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Grafton Lock, and
on to Radcot's bridges and lock</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">(The waters divide
here with two bridges:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The older, the site of
a medieval battle after the Peasants' Revolt;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">A statue of the Virgin
Mary once in a niche in the bridge, too,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mutilated by the Levellers,
before their Burford executions;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The newer bridge was
built in the hope and expectations</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of traffic and profit
in the wake of the Thames and Severn Canal),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Past Old Man's Bridge,
Rushey Lock and Rushey Weir:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">A traditional
Thames<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>paddle and rymer weir</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">(The paddles and
handles, called rymers,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dropped into position
to block the rushing waters).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now it's on to
isolated Tadpole Bridge on the Bampton turnpike,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now past Chimney
Meadow - once a Saxon island,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Tenfoot Bridge -
characteristically,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Where an upper Thames
flash weir</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Used to pour its
waters,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Until Victorian
modernity silenced that;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then past Shifford
Weir and the hamlet of Shifford,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Once a major Wessex
town, where King Alfred</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Met with his
parliament:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">'Many bishops, and
many book-learned.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Earls wise and Knights
awful'.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But you finish your
waltz through a Saxon landscape:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">(The honeystone bridge
at Newbridge is in sight)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Buscot, Eaton
Hastings, Kelmscott, Radcot, Shifford;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And along the Red Line
of resistance from the summer of 1940,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The skeins of geese
and ducks no longer calling,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dragonflies and
butterflies making way for moths and bats,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Swallows no longer
swooping, nor rooks so persistent;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">There's an evening
mist gathering over the river:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">'The lowing herd wind
slowly o'er the lea,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The ploughman plods
his weary way</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And leaves the world
to darkness and to me';</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It's time for a pint
at the Maybush (the Berkshire bank),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And a sleep at the
Rose Revived (the Oxfordshire bank) -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I hope I sleep well -
no 'Night awful', I trust, at Newbridge;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The bridge is actually
13th century, and only called Newbridge</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">As it's newer than the
original 12th century bridge at Radcot:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">'The Thames Path 40
miles to the Source153 to the Sea.'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The bridge, built 'to
improve communications between</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">the wool towns ... and
the Cotswold farms. In 1644 ... </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">the Battle of
Newbridge was fought on the banks of the river. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Parliamentarian
William Waller attempted to cross in order to surround Oxford and capture King
Charles, but was defeated.'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I rather like the use
of the word 'but.'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="Body" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But it’s time for a
sleep.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">On to Oxford,
tomorrow.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">I arrive at William Cobbett’s rotten borough of
Cricklade:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">‘I passed through that villainous hole … the labourers
look very poor, dwellings little better than pig beds and their food nearly
equal to that of a pig. This Wiltshire is a horrible county.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">But last January, Cricklade looked like a Thomas Hardy
film set,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">A gently rising hill of a quaint and prosperous street,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">All purposeful early morning bestirring,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Inns, butchers, bakers and - who knows – candlestick makers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">While beyond the bridge, fritillary water meadows,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">With light like pewter - steel grey clouds - shafts of
sunlight,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Aspen and willow, silver light on rippling water,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Sepia post card Victorian baptisms at Hatchett’s Bridge;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Today, the first of September,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">‘Where are the songs of spring?’ –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Mists from Keats over the river, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Gossamer webs; plump, ripe apples …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Mellow fruitfulness and cider oozing from the presses;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">But the trickling Ray wanders down from the Downs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">To offer the Thames its tribute,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">And the sunlight trips through time:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Saxon peasants till the harvest fields,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">A numinous presence in the mist-lands;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">King Cnut crosses the various watercourses,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Crushing the yellowing leaves, slashing the blood red
hawthorn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">The wind soughs in the reeds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">As I cross the line of battle, to reach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Castle Eaton’s seeming quietude,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Once the scene of Dark Age carnage:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">The clash of sword on sword,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">The cries of pain and anguish,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">The crimson ground and river,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">The runes and riddles of death;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Today, an army of house martins,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Betwixt Mill Lane and the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">We cross back into Wiltshire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Along an ancient bridleway’s grassy track,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Dividing two open, brown ploughed fields,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">A tractor working its way across the broad expanse,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">While cows chew the cud and the barns fill with hay
bales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">We walk past ridge and furrow and nettled old
thoroughfares<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Of the deserted medieval village of Inglesham,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">With its 13<sup>th</sup> century church<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">(St. John the Baptist, originally Saxon),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Wall paintings guarded by William Morris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">A wave of weeping willow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Roundhouse on the river,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Confluence of canal and river,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Where I used to swim as a boy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Mum too in her gilded young days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Broad, confident river, now,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Girth increased by the Colne and Leach,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Halfpenny Bridge by the old wharves,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Linking the Midlands, the West Country, London,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Hubbub of clanking, scraping, lifting, carrying,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Rattle of toll coins, babel of banter, accent and
dialect;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">There: iron, copper, wool, cheeses, brass, coal and
hides,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Stone for St. Paul’s and Cobbett’s Great Wen,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">But over there, in the quiet solemnity of the churchyard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="ecxmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Shelley composes his summer evening verse:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘The wind has
swept from the wide atmosphere
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Each vapour that
obscured the sunset's ray,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">And pallid
Evening twines its beaming hair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In duskier
braids around the languid eyes of Day:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence and
Twilight, unbeloved of men,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Creep hand in
hand from yon obscurest glen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">They breathe
their spells towards the departing day,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Encompassing the
earth, air, stars, and sea;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Light, sound,
and motion, own the potent sway,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Responding to
the charm with its own mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">The winds are
still, or the dry church-tower grass
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Knows not their
gentle motions as they pass.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thou too, aerial
pile, whose pinnacles
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Point from one
shrine like pyramids of fire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Obey'st<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in silence their sweet solemn spells,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clothing in hues
of heaven thy dim and distant spire,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Around whose
lessening and invisible height
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gather among the
stars the clouds of night.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">The dead are
sleeping in their sepulchres:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">And, mouldering
as they sleep, a thrilling sound,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Half sense half
thought, among the darkness stirs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Breathed from
their wormy beds all living things around,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">And, mingling
with the still night and mute sky,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Its awful hush
is felt inaudibly.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus solemnized
and softened, death is mild
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">And terrorless
as this serenest night.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here could I
hope, like some enquiring child
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sporting on
graves, that death did hide from human sight
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sweet secrets,
or beside its breathless sleep
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">That loveliest
dreams perpetual watch did keep.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Shelley, Mary
Godwin - future author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Frankenstein - </i>and
Thomas Love Peacock were at Lechlade, about to abandon plans to explore the
country by river and canal. Shelley had been rusticated from Oxford for writing
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Necessity of Atheism</i>; the
churchyard plaque doesn’t mention this…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">While Shelley was developing his radical ideas, Allen Davenport
had left his Ewen -Thames obscurity behind, and was in the thick of the action
in London, as we have already seen. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here’s another snippet about Mr. Davenport:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He penned republican poems,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Would have been part of the
20,000 strong-crowd at Spa Fields in 1816,<span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stirred by the speeches of the
Watsons:<span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘The Land is the People’s Right!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘The produce of the land belongs to those
who cultivate it’,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘Will Englishmen any longer suffer
themselves to be trod upon, like the poor African slaves in the West Indies, or
like clods or stones?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">He might have pinned up some of the 5,000
planned for posters:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">BRITONS TO ARMS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Whole Country waits the Signall from London to fly to Arms! Haste, break open <u>Gunsmith</u>s,
and other likely places to find <u>Arms</u>!! Run all Constables who touch a
man of Us. No Rise of <u>Bread</u>, No <u>Regent</u>! No Castlereagh. Off with
their heads. No Placement <u>Tythes</u>, or <u>Enclosures</u>! No Bishops, only
useless lumber! Stand true or be Slaves for Ever!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I met
Jim Pentney at Lechlade – he had made the journey by canoe – and I placed Jim’s
carving of our Allen Davenport stone from Ewen on the table with our afternoon
tea. It was like Livingstone and Stanley: ‘Mr. Pentney, I presume.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another
stage completed on the journey of the stone to the Reformers’ Memorial at
Kensal Green – a very different landscape from the flooded and impassable
fields of last January.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-67872084172145979622016-08-31T12:47:00.001-07:002016-08-31T12:47:25.869-07:00Weavers and Workhouse Walk
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, that was a walk, that was, and even
though it’s over, it’s hard to let it go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well over one hundred people gathered in
the Ale House in Stroud for the stroll through Stroud up to the cemetery, and then
other people, attracted by our purpose, joined us as we made our way through
town. It was a most - literally – moving sight, to witness such a number of
people making their orderly way along Nelson Street and up Bisley Road. It must
be a long time since those streets saw such a scene: a scene of gentle, studied
pilgrimage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was feeling a little nervous as the clock
approached four, our starting time. I expected twenty people, but was beginning
to wonder that we might have fifty; Angela Findlay, my co-presenter thought seven
would turn up, with the threat of rain; I then began to witness an almost
biblical sight as more and more and more and yet more walkers, visitors to the
town, artists, notables and historians relentlessly surged into the front bar,
like some epic flood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We met in the Ale House not just because of
the excellent beer festival, but also because a key text for our walk lies upon
the wall in the front bar: a commemorative 1842 plaque praising the beneficence
of the workhouse overseers. I contextualized this with an introduction about
Chartism locally and nationally; Angela contextualized this with a prologue
about the relationship between Stroud’s workhouse and the cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Next, some performance: I read a poem about
the paupers’ graves; Gemma Dunn, visiting from London, read a first person
account of the May 1839 Chartist mass-meeting on Selsley Hill, and Tim Johnston
from Historic England read a 1795 anonymous threatening letter from Uley. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was hot and humid and full to the
gunnels, and after each speaker had alighted from their stool in the thronged
room, our troupe made its way to Nelson Street. It looked almost Pied
Piper-like - but this was a collective walk that broke down the barriers
between guide, performer and audience: the line of walkers seemingly had its
own collective mind, as well as both a conscious and unconscious sense of
direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I came up the rear – and joined the orderly
assembly by the Black Boy clock. The little triangle of land, opposite, with
its overhanging tree, provided a natural stage and here we discoursed on General
Wolfe, Stroud Scarlet, rioting weavers, Gloucestershire slave owners, local
parish registers, the Black Atlantic, the black boy clock, and
counter-memorialization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Janet Biard
read a first person account from the 1825 riots; Chris William spoke of forty years
ago when the Black Boy flats were the teachers’ centre - one of his tasks was
to wind up the clock every three days; John Marjoram spoke of his time with the
clock, too; Trish Butler gave each walker a copy of a Stroud Scarlet poem, in
the spirit of active counter-heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I found this utterly moving: the sun was
shining, we were reclaiming the streets – we had to make way for one car only
in the half an hour we were there in Castle Street – and such a open air
meeting was a compelling medium for a discussion on 18<sup>th</sup> century
history: entirely in the spirit of the subject matter in a lah di dah
self-referential post-modernist sort of way. There was also talk of
psycho-geography and mythogeography, but time marches on and we needed to <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">walk up Bisley Road to the cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A long line of walkers made its sentient, serpentine
way along the pavements: this was an absolute spectacle in itself, and to
witness one hundred people making their studied way up the steep incline of
Bisley Road is something I will never forget. It’s hard to find a parallel or
simile for such a sight – there probably isn’t one. It was a unique and
ineffable experience. Thanks to Stroud Fringe for making it happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Angela addressed us </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #191919; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">from the front of her house; she
spoke of its history as the Cemetery Gate Lodge, former home to the Cemetery
Superintendents, and the symbolism of the sculptures in the cemetery, before</span><span lang="EN-US"> before leading us to the chapel, where she spoke to us from the
back of a waiting and handily placed open van. She spoke of the ecumenical
nature of the internments and Pauline Stevens informed the crowd of the
comprehensive research available on the Stroud Local History website. Other
members of the audience added their thoughts too, in the spirit of this shared
experience. Angela spoke of her work on memorialization and
counter-memorialization. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was now time to move to the area of the
paupers’ graves. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #191919; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The
audience was visibly moved by Angela’s recitation of her research and previous
art installations, counter memorials to those long forgotten by history. A
litany of the occupations of the buried indigent inmates of the workhouse,
gleaned from the Death Records and revealing Stroud’s industrious
past, plus details of the rudimentary nature of their graves, left an </span><span lang="EN-US">almost tangible, numinous atmosphere in the leafy, shadowed gloom of
the graveyard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fellow walker later
told me that he was moved to tears by Angela’s gentle evocation within such a
mute yet haunting landscape. I know from other later conversations that he was
not alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Jim Pentney concluded with a few words
about our Allen Davenport Chartist pilgrimage along the banks of the River
Thames. Jim held aloft the stone he has carved from Allen’s birthplace at Ewen;
we are taking this to the Reformers’ Memorial at Kensal Green, where Allen’s
name appears. Finally, in the spirit of the shared collective experience of our
walks and explorations, Jim said that all are welcome to join our Thames side
ambles to London; information will appear on this website.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of us then retired to the Crown and Sceptre for some excellent and varied beer,
where Angela, enthused and overwhelmed by the huge and positive response,
thought that we really should put it on again next year. </span><span lang="EN-US">She most definitely has a point: as I first left the Ale House, some
visitors who couldn’t get into the bar for the introduction, had already asked
me if we could reprise the event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">There you stand, not so much a sentinel,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Nor servant, but rather more a slave of time,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Obeying the diktat of cog, wheel and pendulum,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The mechanics of the hours and minutes,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">For every second, until the end of time.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">You have no name; identity obscured</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">By a costume bestowed, courtesy of fashion,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And the Age of Enlightenment and Reason,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And the iniquities of the slave trade.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Yet you shall not grow old</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">At the setting of the sun</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And the rising of the same:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">For you are a child of your own time:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Born a year after Samuel Harrison's chronometer</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Began to measure maritime longitude,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">When John Miles of Kendrick Street made you,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In 1774, the black boy clock.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In 2003, a Jubilee grant was awarded</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">To restore this black boy clock,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">With a plaque honouring John Miles,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The Stroud artificer;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">But you, black boy, remain anonymous,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The biblical Jubilee, Leviticus 25:1-4, 8-10 forgotten:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of
the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send a horn all through
your land. You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">It shall be a jubilee for you.'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The Jubilee brought you no release from bondage,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Turning your head, lifting your club, morning, noon and night,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Glancing quickly down at </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">‘An explanatory plaque</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">That foregrounds horology rather than slavery...</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">No reference ... to the Age of Enlightenment…</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The engendering of an ideology of justificatory racism,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Nor to the black boy being the slave of relentless Time...'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Did you ever see any of the 'blacks and blackamoors'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Mentioned so</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">tersely in Gloucestershire parish records?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Were they brought to gaze on you in your costumed foppery,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Watching the measuring of your and their bondage?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In 1773, Francis London, 'a servant to the Rt. Hon. Lord Ducie
supposed to be 17 years of age - a native of Africa' was baptised;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In 1778, in Rodborough, 'William Jubiter - black', was buried;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In Stroud in 1786, Adam Parker, Negro, 32, was buried with a
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In Frocester in 1790, William Frocester, 'supposed to be 11 or
12 years old, born on the island of Barbados, and now a servant of Edward
Bigland Esq. residing in Jamaica, was baptised';</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Stroud, 1801, 'William Ellis, son of Qualquay Assedew, a Negro
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">1815, Bisley Testimonial from Richard Raikes, for John Hart,
Writing Master, to the post of master at Bisley Blue Coat School:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'Unfortunately he is a Mulatto, a native of the West Indies';</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Minchinhampton, 1826, Thomas Davis, 'an infirm travelling Black'
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And now, people pass you by on their way to the shops,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">School, restaurants, cafes, pubs, clubs, homes and houses;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">You gaze down at them, for you notice them in the street,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Walking beneath your station;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">But they pass you by, oblivious of your history,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Your anonymity, and melancholy:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">All faith and hope dashed by the Jubilee.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">WEAVERS and WORKHOUSE WALK</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"> <i>Saturday August 27<sup>th</sup> 4 of the afternoone clocke , startinge<span> </span>at Ye Ale House:</i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 19px;">INFORM – EDUCATE - ENTERTAIN</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">Stuart Butler </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.radicalstroud.co.uk/" id="LPlnk731035"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">www.radicalstroud.co.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"> will lead a performative walk through the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries, meeting atte Ye ALE House: time for a 4pm drink and a<span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span> chat about Chartism and the workhouse at the top of town. Then a walk thence, via a history of riots, anonymous letters, mass meetings, strikes, slave owners and the Black Atlantic.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #191919; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">The tour will then reach the cemetery where Angela Findlay, resident of the Cemetery Gate Lodge and artist of the 2009 installations <i>Re-dressing Absence, </i>will lead a stroll around the cemetery to reveal the history of the workhouse and the paupers’ graves </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0000f6; font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.angelafindlaytalks.com/">www.angelafindlaytalks.com</a></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">THE SPECKLED MONSTER</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Born in 1749, Edward Jenner lived
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">In that time of calendrical change:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A Julian age of Pope and happenstance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">(Where African slaves were mocked <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">For their
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And a Gregorian world of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Science, Revolution, Reason and Experimentation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">(Of Tyburn Tree skullduggery,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Where even necrophiliac surgeons
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Would baulk at payment for smallpox victims),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And walking the enclosed hedgerows, he would
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Have heard the shouts and cries:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Pockmarked mechanics and labourers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Whose right to roam was balked by the new hedges and fences,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Together with the retort of property’s muskets:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Indigent Berkeley
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Forced to poach, where
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">To kill Tom Till, and
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In a parish of poverty
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Even the castle chaplain
thought</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'Colonel Berkeley had run
the matter of game so hard'.</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">So it was, that some
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Swore revenge, taking a
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'Not to peach on each
other, so help me God'.</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">A bloody battle ensued,
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">But the cudgel-wielding
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">For the jury's tearful
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">And execution for two
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Launched into the presence of that </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Being whose laws they had
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Gloucester Mercury</span></i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> put
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Doctor Jenner saw it quite
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">'My intention is to quit
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reviled, but obdurate to the end,</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">But, a careful student of farm and field,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Doctor Edward Jenner saw how the smallpox
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Killed one in ten in town and village,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And saw how it disfigured survivors
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">With blindness and itinerant beggary,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And he studied the epidemic <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Of King George’s first strange madness year,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And he listened to the farmyard yarns
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Of the protective power of cow-pox, and these
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Rustic milkmaid tales convinced this thinker,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">That vaccination, as he would call it,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Could save the nation’s health; and in the years
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">When the “Rights of Man” spread its virus
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Through the common swinish multitude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">(To the alarm of Pitt’s body politic),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Edward Jenner listened to Sarah Nelmes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">‘My cow Blossom has recently had the cowpox, sir,’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Examined the rash on her hand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Took cowpox from the dairy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And gave it to the 8 year old James Phipps,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Who gained, as this iconoclast forecast,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Resistance to the ubiquitous smallpox; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Now, two centuries after such success:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">"It now becomes too manifest to admit of controversy, that
the annihilation of the Small Pox, the most dreadful scourge of the human
species, must be the final result of this practice."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">[Edward Jenner, 1801, on Vaccination (with cowpox)]</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Smallpox is secreted in arsenals,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A scientific threat of germ warfare;
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">How this country doctor and poet,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">How this coiner of neologisms,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Would have despised a term like germ warfare:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">He called it the Speckled Monster.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-32373941262479567722016-08-05T01:25:00.001-07:002016-08-05T01:25:56.785-07:00London Pub Pilgrimage: A Baker's Dozen Or So
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Buddleia
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Crazy
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The 9.08
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">(1966 and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Then the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And early
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">(‘Example
of fin de siècle social stratification’),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Evoking
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘In
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">snug
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Or upper
class men pursuing music hall conquest:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">An Inspector Calls.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Then on to
<b>The Flying Horse</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">(‘The
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Named The
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘Regulars
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">once
London’s finest music hall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The three
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">by Felix
de Jong, the leading decorative artist in music hall’:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">An Inspector Calls </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">again…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">But I
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">From
Newgate to Tyburn Tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Touched
on Oxford Street,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And my
next port of call took me past St. George’s in Bloomsbury,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Its spire
discernible in the Hogarthian chaos of <i>Gin Lane,</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">But it’s
hard to keep away from Victoriana in London,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Especially
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The Lamb</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">
in Lamb Conduit Street,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Plush
leather sofas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Endless
pen pictures of Victorian beauties,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Adamantine
porcelain and tiled lavatories;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I ordered
a lemon and lime,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And
explained that this was a local of mine some forty years ago -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
solitary drinker there told me she was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘In a pub
in Camden Town yesterday, they played my music,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
Rolling Stones, The Beatles; I was so happy.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">She was
over from Sweden, her daughter lectured at UCL,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I
mentioned that I was once an undergraduate there,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">She
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘A
student of UCL is a student of UCL for life.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I talked
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Walked
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘See you
in twenty years,’ she called,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">As I left
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And the
art deco <b>Duke of York</b>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Suitably
close to where Dorothy Sayers lived,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">This is a
passport to the ‘30s:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘Every
day when Big Ben chimes, it’s Radio Times’,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘There
won’t be another war will there, sir?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
mirrors, the fireplace, the exterior, the font …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">A session
in there and you’d end up being Sandy Powell,
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘Can you hear me, mother?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">But
Charles Dickens is more likely to hear you here,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">In the
environs of Bloomsbury:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I’m not
talking so much Dombey Street, Brownlow Street,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
Charles Dickens Museum, and so on,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">But more
the way London presents itself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">As one huge
Dickens theme park,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">All his
characters larger than life,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">All beer
and skittles and victuals and wittles,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">All Sam
Weller and Mr. Jingle,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">With not
a workhouse in sight,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Only the
offices of the trade union UNITE,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">To remind
us that a Victorian reality lies behind the façade –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Then it’s
all box files and Jarndyce and Jarndyce,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And Bleak
House around Gray’s Inn,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Until you
walk on to High Holborn,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Where I
at last give some money to a beggar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Holding
the placard about the 1824 Vagrancy Act,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And so to
the 1920s Mockabethan </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Century Gothic";">Cittie
ofYorke</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And the
tiled Victoriana of the <b>Princess Louise</b>;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Next up:
Lincoln’s Inn Fields,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Where I
must have been the only person on a park-bench,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">With
homemade sandwiches, nor on a mobile ’phone,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Then
Chancery Lane and Fleet Street,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">For <b>Ye
Olde Cheshire Cheese</b>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Rebuilt
after the Great Fire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Crepuscular,
Gothicke atmosphere,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Here in
Wine Office Court,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">With the
ghosts of Samuel Johnson, Congreve, Pope, Goldsmith,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And
Reynolds, Gibbon, Garrick, Burney, Boswell smoking clay pipes;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Over there,
Carlyle, Macaulay, Tennyson, Dickens, Hood,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Thackeray,
Cruickshank, Leech, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Mulling
over glasses of port and the intricacies of plot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Then on
to the <b>Viaduct Tavern</b> in Newgate Street,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Opposite
the Holborn Viaduct,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">(Which straddles
the subterranean River Fleet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> And
the consequent steep dip in the road,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Between
Holborn and Newgate Street);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Queen
Victoria opened the viaduct in 1869,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The same
year the pub opened,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">All
curving frontage,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And
inside, three huge paintings of pre-Raphaelite maids,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Like
something out of Christina Rossetti,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And <i>Cousin
Kate,</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Symbols
for agriculture, banking, and the arts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Towering
over the lunchtime topers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I decided
to aim for the 15.36 back,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">With time
and space to relax and write up my notes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">So aimed
for just one more pub:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
secretive and difficult to find <b>Ye Olde Mitre</b>;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">It’s down
an alleyway between 8 and 9 Hatton Garden,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The
alleyway indicated by a strange old street lamp,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">But
easily missed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">In Ely
Court, Ely Place, by Holborn Circus,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘Ye Olde Mitre
1546’,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The date
reminding me that I had to hotfoot it to Paddington,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">So walked
to Chancery Lane, for the central line to Notting Hill,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The line
eerily echoing the route taken by Jack Sheppard and his ilk,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">From
Newgate to Marble Arch and Tyburn Tree:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">halted at a tavern for Jack to quaff his last drink,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Until the cart reached its woeful and final destination at
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">‘They groan’d aloud on London Stone</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">They groan’d aloud on Tyburn’s Brook</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Albion gave his deadly groan,</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And all the Atlantic mountains Shook</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">.’</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">(</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">William Blake)</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Victorian London
pub experience continued</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">With a newspaper
article on the train again,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">This time about the fact
that not since 1893</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Had so few days been
lost to strikes -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But the Bakerloo was
back on at Paddington,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Two weeks ahead of
schedule,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And so I caught the
underground to Piccadilly Circus,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">To walk past top
hatted Fortnum and Masons,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And onto the <b>Red
Lion</b> in St James's,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Off Jermyn Street, at
2 Duke of York Street:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was closed, so I
missed all the mahogany,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The sparkling glass
and mirrors of this 1870s pub,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But it looked grand
enough from the outside,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">With its ornate
ironwork, and hanging baskets.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Next up, a walk
through London's theatre land,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hobson’s Choice </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">and beggar
land,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">To the <b>Dog and Duck</b>'s
Victoriana in Soho,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">In Bateman Street: a
glazed tile oasis of calm,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Where Dante Gabriel
Rossetti supped,’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And George Orwell
mused,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Possibly about his
ideal pub:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘The Moon Under Water</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> ... two
minutes from a bus stop ... on a side-street ... it's whole architecture and
fittings are uncompromisingly Victorian ... it is always quiet enough to talk.'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I passed a clothes
shop called <i>A Child of the Jago</i>,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Where you pay through
the nose for your clothes -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">A Child of the Jago</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"> was a
Victorian novel about slum life,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">But postmodernist
Victoriana is everywhere in London,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It deceives the eye
and the mind,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">As people on phones
talk money, money, money;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And as I hear a scouse
voice say:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">'The Strand. That's on
the monopoly board innit?'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Monopoly ... A game
that was originally devised to reveal</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The essentials of
capitalism, rather than encourage</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mercenary
competitiveness and selfishness...</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And so to the gilt
edged splendour of <b>The Salisbury</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">(Faux 'Pie Shop' and a
board for 'Fish and Chips'),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Lord Salisbury, high
aristocrat and Tory grandee,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Top hatted prime
minister of ‘Splendid Isolation’,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Gazing down on the art
nouveau ambience,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The cut glass, the
mirrors, and the fruit machine.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And so on past
Somerset House, and the Thames,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">To Blackfriars Bridge
and the delight of the cornered</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Blackfriars Pub</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">, 174 Queen
Victoria Street,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">An art nouveau four
storey angular gem,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">With a carved black
friar and a clock above the door,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Inside: ecclesiastical
depictions in wood and stained glass,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The pub saved from
1960s demolition, and vandalism</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">By, inter alia, John
Betjeman.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then on past the Old
Bailey, once the site of Newgate,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Did I see the ghost of
Jack Sheppard climbing down the wall?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Past Smithfield, and
the medieval splendour of St Bartholomew's,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">To reach the <b>Hand
and Shears</b>, Cloth Fair, Middle Street:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The site has a
medieval history,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">The pub, an early 19th
century provenance,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Matchboard walls, an
oak floor, delightful prints,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And friendly company -
I wanted to walk to the British Library</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">To meet the daughters,
and received great directions:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Turn into Aldersgate,
and then continue left along Goswell Street</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">(Where our famous
Gloucestershire Chartist,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Allen Davenport lived
and died),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then past Clerkenwell
Green where Lollardy thrived,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And the Artful Dodger
and Fagin had their fictions,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Where Chartism was
nurtured and Marxism fostered;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">On to Islington and
the Pentonville Road,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Twenty men on their
own bicycles,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Awaiting instructions
at Deliveroo,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Using their own phones
to navigate …</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">For all the world,
just like a modern day depiction</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of the docks before
the strike of 1889,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">When dockers queued in
the hope of work,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Until unionised in the
strike waves of the unskilled:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">‘The New Unions’.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Walking on, I remember
what I had read earlier on the train,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feel the ground rise
and fall beneath my feet,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">By Pentonville Rise,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And hear the
Situationist cry:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">'Under the pavements,
the beach!'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And so to Kings Cross,
the British Library, the canal,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And a picnic with my daughters
on artificial grass,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Somewhere near where
the marshaling yards used to be,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">And then back to
Paddington and this train,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Where I sit typing
this final line about this London Pub Pilgrimage,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">To <i>‘The Moon Under
Water</i> ... two minutes from a bus stop ... on a side-street ... it's whole
architecture and fittings are uncompromisingly Victorian ... it is always quiet
enough to talk.'</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Addendum:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aiming for a group Radical Stroud comes to Town pub pilgrimage
on the third weekend of November</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19.0pt;">.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Walking
and/or Cycling: Roads and Lanes not Fields<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sometimes,
I like to walk paths, lanes and roads, rather than the fields: a route that can
also be cycled on another occasion; or held in reserve for a wet winter spell,
when the fields are waterlogged. The following is one of my favourites: from
Stroud to Selsley and back to Stroud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Start at the
bottom of Rodborough Hill and walk along the cycle path – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">See the rusting mighty iron capstans,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">One,
now toppled, but one still firm and strong,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Once
used for winching trucks down the gas works siding,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To a
coal tippler (concrete remains there still),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Where a
hydraulic ram tipped the trucks' coal
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Down a
chute to a narrow gauge hopper,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And
thence over two bridges and the Frome,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To its
destination at Stroud Gasworks –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">2. When you get to the bridge, climb up to the road
to descend towards Sainsbury’s. Have a look at the waters at Dudbridge Flour
Mill and the clothier’s marks and doorway set into the Sainsbury’s supermarket
wall. You might want to turn right here, to have a look at the waters of the
Frome channeled at Dudbridge Mills, and then try to follow its subterranean
path to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">3. The confluence of the stream from Nailsworth and
the River Frome, by the pelican crossing at the bridge. Time for a ponder. Then
walk up the hill to find the street sign, Meadow End – there is a tragic
history here: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://radicalstroud.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/a-great-war-dudbridge-to-woolwich.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">http://radicalstroud.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/a-great-war-dudbridge-to-woolwich.html</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">4. Cross the road to pick up the railway track
again. Dudbridge railway station was near the roundabout – lots of industrial
blue brick to be seen near the tunnel. Time to climb the hill and pass on your
right, the Old Lodge; then the cricket ground; then the Arts and Craftsy
looking Old Vicarage on your left before turning right at the junction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">5. There’s an interesting triangle at the junction,
but also glance over to your right into the fields below to spot the monument.
Take a moment to reflect on how important – and beguiling – this junction could
have been for conversation before the motor car. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How many people would have been thronged here,
making their way to the 1839 Selsley Hill Chartist meeting …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Carry on past the house – Selsley Green – then on
past the farm and Stanley Park to reach the church (All Saints); walk inside
and read of its Pre-Raphaelite/William Morris stained glass windows (the Virgin
Mary – was the model Lizzy Siddall or Christina Rossetti?); reflect on social
class and the Church of England – ‘The Tory Party at prayer’, as it was called
by some in the nineteenth century; return outside and take in the view, and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Cheltenham Examiner, 14<sup>th</sup> of
August, 1839: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“A report is current
that an anonymous letter has been received by Messrs Marling, of the Ham Mills,
desiring them to close their mills on Monday the 12<sup>th</sup> inst. to give
their people an opportunity of keeping the sacred month … unless the request is
complied with they are marked men.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(I remember as a very
small boy, sitting at a pub’s outside skittle alley, Vimto (anagram of ?) and
crisps, gazing down at the twinkling lights of Stroud, and falling in love with
it all. I’m sure the pub was along this road somewhere.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at
the slightly Thomas Hardy farm on your right; enjoy looking at, and closing,
the church gate; take a look at the war memorial and its commanding view – how often
war memorials are placed at cross roads … return to the road for another
Hardyesque limned farm …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">7. And so past Poachers Pocket on your right … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Horsley gaol register</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">GA Ref: Q/Gh/10/2 entry number
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Name:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> John Flight, aged 30, labourer</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Offence:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> Unlawfully entering certain inclosed land at King
Stanley at night with a Gun for the purpose of destroying game.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Order of commitment:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> Three Calendar months hard labour and to find 2
sureties in the sum of £5 each or one in £10 and by recognisance himself of
£10, or further imprisonment 6 cal months hard labour</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Magistrate committing:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> Thos Kingscote Esq; A Shakespeare Esq</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Commencement of term:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> 28 Sept 1835</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">When discharged:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> 4 Jan 1836</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Remarks:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> 4 times before vide 641. Taken before Thos
KINGSCOTE Esq and found sufficient sureties and was discharged 4 Jan 1836</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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general</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">GA Ref:
Q/PC/2/49/A/74 -</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Name:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> James Coleman of Kings Stanley, labourer, for the crime
of keeping and using a bludgeon to kill game in Woodchester, dated 18 December
1829 [printed form]</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">H Burgh, JP, at Stroud.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">James Kenyon, gamekeeper of
Nympsfield, informer.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Thomas Prout, labourer of Kings
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Fined £5 each</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #950000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Crime committed 21 November 1829<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8. But it was hollyhocks in season as I passed by, and
so to Old Church Lane, and on past Old Church Farmhouse (Why Old Church?). Then
past Weavers Cottage:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We all
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We put
on our best blouses, aprons and hats<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">(We
mightn’t have looked as fine as Miss Austen’s ladies,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it’s not as though they’ve got the vote either),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The men
shaved their chins, put on their caps,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Moleskin
trousers and fustian waistcoats,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And out
we strode into the lane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Such a
sight you never did see!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Hundreds
of working men, women and children,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">All
marching in an orderly line past our cottage,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And
serpentine lines climbing up every valley side,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">There
must have been thousands!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">All
laughing and cheering, but sore determined,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Determined
to get our rights and right our wrongs.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">9. Past another grand house on your right and the
spring on your left:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Some Five Valley Spring Names<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">What toponymic messages are sent <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">When we tramp the lane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Rather than drive the road,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">When we disconnect the sat-nav and navigate</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">By the tracks that connect our ancient springs?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Cherington Springs, Seven Springs, Toadsmoor Brook,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Blanche’s Bank, Baker’s Pool, Frogmarsh Lane,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Snakeshole, Puckshole, Derryhay,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Tankard’s Spring, Dimmel’s Dale, Hell Corner,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Be-Thankful Fountain, The Combs, Severn Waters,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Well Hill Spring, Bubblewell, Troublewell,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">The Bubbler, the Blackgutter, Spriggs Well,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Springfield, Springhill, Bulls Bank Common,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Sweetwater Spring, Stanfields Spring, Millbottom,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">St. Tabatha’s Well, Cud Well, Gainey’s Well,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Then Verney Spring and Ram Pitch Spring,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Farmhill Well, Double Spout and Turner’s Spring.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Keep the traces of the past as lapidary reminders,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kings Stanley seems to take us into a different historical and social ecology:
a 17<sup>th</sup> century chapel; a lane referencing the name PENN (did they
meet with the Quakers of Painswick and the Diggers at Slimbridge?); another
chapel, red brick; a house down a side street with ‘The People’s Hall’ still
legible beneath a coat of paint …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Henry Burgh, May 5<sup>th</sup>,
1839, in a letter to Lord John Russell: “ I had heard that they were making
hand grenades at Wotton-under-Edge where the greatest number of Chartists
reside. I employed a person that I could rely on…and find that report not true,
but they are making Pikes there and also at Stroud, Cainscross and King’s
Stanley.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Peter Leversage, JP,
later in the year: 'It is right to inform your Lordship that a meeting of
Chartists was held in the village of King’s Stanley…on Wednesday last at one
o’clock in the day … Vincent of notoriety addressed the meeting for about two
hours…the only available civil power at our command was two police and a few
village Constables, the latter not being a very efficient body, we thought it
advisable to request the officer commanding the 12<sup>th</sup> Lancers now in
Stroud to have an Officer and 20 men in readiness should a riot or disturbance
take place. We also sent a person whom we could depend upon, to attend and
report what took place there. He states that Vincent spoke for two hours “but
gave utterance to no sentiment that could be characterised as dangerous, or
calculated to lead to a breach of the peace”, also “that the meeting consisted
from 300 to 500 persons, the greater part being women and children and they all
quietly dispersed at the conclusion of Vincent’s address after singing what <u>was
called</u> a Hymn”… Although the addresses do not lead to actual breaches of
the peace, I am bound to state my opinion that they leave the minds of the
class of persons who attend in a very unsettled and excited state.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">11. I then picked up a road, then
track, that led on up to the woods beneath Nympsfield, and then took the right
hand path that leads to Leonard Stanley. It leads into what I used to know as
Marsh Lane, if it is still called that, and so to the cottages where my gran
and gramp (2 Woodland View, Marsh Lane) lived, and Mr. and Mrs. Lusty used to
live, half a century ago and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">11. I plucked up courage to ask the
people in the garden about Mr. Lusty and was told he lived to be well over a
hundred; both cottages now had solar panels on the roof, and I walked through
the gate and along the grassy path to gran and gramp’s old cottage. Onions were
laid out in the sun; the apple trees were burgeoning, and I was made very
welcome after I introduced myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when he removed the outside lavatory is still there, and it was probably gramp
who filled in the well, over a half a century ago – my sister can’t remember it
– but it has been reopened and now used again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mrs. Gibberd, exchange email addresses and learn of Vernon (Gibberd) at </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.themicrofarm.com/">http://www.themicrofarm.com/</a></span></span></div>
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medieval and Saxon Leonard Stanley is a must – there is an informative notice
board at the church; have a look at the Lusty name on the war memorial; you might have a stop in the White Hart and think of our
treat of being allowed INSIDE a pub when we were children, to play table
skittles there; or of Stanley Spencer staying there. Or wander down to Gypsy
Lane and re-imagine John Clare here:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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route? Frocester and the tithe barn and Frocester Court? (1834: J</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">ohn Altham Graham
Clarke Frocester Estate:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>482 slaves in
Jamaica and £8, 934 8s 8d compensation.) Then the canal towpath back for some
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back to Selsley, to follow the Roman and prehistoric track of Water Lane back
to Woodchester, and the site of the old church and the Roman Villa? Water Lane
connected Bath with the Roman river crossing point of the Severn at Arlingham -
in an earlier carnation, it is easy to imagine it as an important track linking
tumuli, barrows and sacred spots at Sesley, Minchinhampton, Avening and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A first Sunday walkout for August!<br /></div>
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Sunday 7 August 10.00</div>
Meet outside 44 AD Gallery, 4 Abbey St, Bath BA1 1NN<br /><a href="http://www.walknowtracks.co.uk/walks.html" id="LPlnk991607" previewinformation="1" target="_blank">http://www.walknowtracks.co.uk/walks.html</a></div>
A photo walk as a contribution to the Find Another Bath project. I want to gather images of the plaqued and unplaqued homes, visitors and residents of Bath, with a special interest in exploring the legacies of slave ownership. Part of the walk will take place along the National Trust's Walk to the View and I hope we will find and share other views as we go.<br /></div>
Much of the walk will be in the City but we will finish in the fields overlooking the Abbey and the view west. The walk goes ahead regardless of the weather , I'll do a second email shot nearer the date.<br /></div>
I am very keen to discuss with you a cycle of walks based on this past few months work and building on the fringe walks. The walk on Sunday will be a contribution to the Find Another Bath project and I really hope that together we can capture images and sounds for future exhibition. When we start asking questions about the obscured heritage of Bath, thinking the difficult thoughts of legacy, where does it take us? In the hurly burly summer season city can we find another Bath. Is it hiding in plain sight?<br /></div>
Maybe on Sunday 7 August we will capture a few glimpses of that other Bath.<br /></div>
Please join me on foot or online! Let me know if you can be there and do share this widely.<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
church in Sapperton is dedicated to St.Kenhelm,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">A
much venerated Anglo-Saxon saint, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Whose
shrine at Winchcombe <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Was thus
extolled by William of Malmesbury:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">‘There
was no place in England to where more pilgrims travelled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">than
to Winchcombe on Kenhelm’s feast day’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The
church at Sapperton is outwardly modest and yew tree shadowed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But
inside is a huge rococo stone effigy to Sir Robert Atkyns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">(Once
of this Frome valley parish at Pinbury Park);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">His
father owned and lived at Sapperton Manor,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">‘A
very grand building, rather overpowering’,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">According
to Alan Pilbeam in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gloucestershire 300
Years Ago.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">A
1712 picture of the house and grounds is engrossing:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">It
shows umpteen bays, finials, gables, chimneys and trees,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
a vast estate of sylvan straight-line avenues,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Progressively
receding into far distant vanishing point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A
bowling green stands in the foreground of this landscaped geometry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With
three diminutive figures triangulated in leisured sport -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Their
pose captured forever like a draughtsman’s contract.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And
as these figures went about their contracted play,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Sir
Robert completed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ancient and Present
State of Glostershire<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Before
dying of dysentery – his book published posthumously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The
house was demolished some twenty years later,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But
you can walk to its ghosts down the track by the side of the church:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">‘A
grassy mound of rubble below the church marks its former site …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The
unusually flat surface beside the mound was the bowling green’ –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">We
descended to this spot to recreate and limn the bowlers’ triangle,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">In a
draughtsman’s liminal contact, contracted through time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Surveyed
with scales of justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The Sapperton
estate was acquired by the Bathursts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">(Patrician
beneficiaries of the profits of slavery),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Who promptly
demolished the grand house <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">(The
Age of Elegance and Reason),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And
though Alexander Pope might wander through this valley,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Augustan
couplet praise, two a penny,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The
Door of No Return and the Middle Passage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Meant
a different triangle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">(In
the Atlantic Ocean,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">With
sharks and Bristol slaving ships):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But
a contract must be honoured,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Even
in the face of hypocrisy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">King
Charles had already paid for sleeping at Sapperton with his head,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">King
George the Third visited Sapperton in 1788,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And went
mad that year,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Talking
to the trees,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Rather
than his courtiers -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">For
here is an enchanted landscape,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Disenchanted
by by slavery:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">For
the infant River Frome would wend its way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">To
the Severn, the Bristol Channel, the Atlantic Ocean,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And so
to Benjamin Bathurst, Deputy-Governor of the Leeward Islands,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">‘And
a high-ranking official and shareholder in the Royal African Company’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(Madge
Dresser: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Slavery and the British Country
House</i>),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
golden, cankered, guineas would make so many return voyages,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Across
the Atlantic Ocean,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
so, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To
that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Grassy
mound of rubble below the church’,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Where
three figures re-limned ‘a triangle of persons at bowls’,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And
reconfigured a historical contract,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On
Saturday 23<sup>rd</sup> July, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In
the Year of Our Lord,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">MMXV1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-71039828552559037012016-07-29T03:46:00.000-07:002016-07-29T03:46:31.676-07:00My Memories of July 30th, 1966<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Summer holidays were long then:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Eight weeks,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And by the end of July,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">We’d run out of money and run out of fags,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And that was the big talking point:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">We had no fags for the match,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">No fags,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">No Embassy, no Number Six, no Gold Leaf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span> </span>I told my mates of my dad’s jungle Chindit trick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">(I’d read it in <i>Safer than A Known Way,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">About a soldier escaping back to British lines in Burma),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Smoking fags made out of tea leaves and bog roll,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And things were that desperate,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">What with nerves and all,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">That my mates thought it a good idea;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">We gave it a go,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The fags were a fiasco,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">But you look on the bright side when you singe your eye brows,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And even though we burnt our noses in the flames,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Mickey Hamm said that at least it got rid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Of the smell of my old Mice and Men dog, Chum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">We stared forlorn at the burnt Typhoo – Hornimans mix,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And the charred fragments of Delsey and Sellotape,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">We had one last hope:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Extra time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Dad took a last fag from his packet of Senior Service -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">
We hoped he might give us a drag,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Especially if we stared at him all the way through the tab;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">He smoked slowly and obliviously and he smoked the lot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And then stubbed the dog-end <span> </span>out in the ash tray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">We thought it was all over,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #f50000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">It was now.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-83340049362684186402016-07-27T11:49:00.000-07:002016-07-28T05:49:34.810-07:00John Keats and Bobby Moore and the Likely Lads and Jean Baudrillard at the Crown and Sceptre<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Buddleia
in broad gauge bloom down on Stroud station,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Crazy
golf flags out at the Brunel Goods Shed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As I
lazily read the Stroud News on the train to London,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Until
I came across Rodda Thomas of Crown and Sceptre fame:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘’
The whole game, in real time, kicking off at 3pm on Saturday,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">exactly
50 years to the minute since the real game kicked off …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We
will also pretend not to know the final score and it will be only 10 shillings <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(50
p in new money) a ticket too.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This
struck me as a sort of post-modernist collision with the Likely Lads:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
No Hiding Place episode when they try to avoid finding out <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
score of an England game before watching the highlights on TV …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But
now with the clever conceit of a pub post-modernist TV twist …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This
time we actually know the score but pretend we don’t ...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Not so much a suspension of disbelief as a suspension of knowledge ...</span><br />
I suppose that's why Chris Farlowe was number one on the day:<br />
'Out of Time', July 30th 1966.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
train trundled on to Swindon and more Stroud news from 1966,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Real,
this time, no pretending:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
Cainscross and Ebley Co-op bread vans were being withdrawn,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Losing
money, shopping habits changing, supermarkets …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mr.
and Mrs. Staines, directors of Taylor Bros Ltd since the war,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Were
retiring and so the 70 year firm in Gloucester Street was to close:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The
newspaper said it <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Had
served generations of cycling schoolboys <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">and
vehicle owners in its 70-year history.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There
was no mention of where cycling schoolgirls might go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By
Didcot, I was on to the Guardian, to discover another World Cup tale:<br />
The blue plaque unveiling at Bobby Moore’s childhood Barking home -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">His
daughter, Roberta, said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“This
is where it all began – kicking a ball out here in the street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">with
his friends before embarking on an incredible journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">which
we all know led him up the steps to collect the World Cup<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">from
the Queen at Wembley 50 years ago this week.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By
now, I really was beginning to think that everything really is all interlinked,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In a
cosmic hyper-reality Alice through the Looking Glass sort of way,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Obvs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Especially
when we got to Reading,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Where
I was now on the Guardian G2, and serendipitously reading<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">About
John Keats’ ‘negative capability’, or, as Stuart Jefferies put it:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Humanity
‘is capable of being in uncertain systematic doubt,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">without
any irritable reaching after fact and reason.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Which
is just what we’ll be doing up at the Crown and Sceptre, I suppose,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In a
sort of post-modernist, knowingly ironic self-referential way,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Where
John Keats meets Bobby Moore meets the Likely Lads<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meets
Jean Baudrillard sort of thing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(Blimey!
There goes Battle of Britain class, Lord Dowding, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">34052 in
steam at Southall – perhaps it is 1966.),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And
it was all very well for Baudrillard to say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Power
is only to willing to allow football <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">a
diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses”,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And I daresay I might agree with that some times,</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But
I’ll see you up the pub on Saturday,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For
once, I really can’t see us losing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Can
you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Might
go to extra time though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-68926531443711892322016-07-23T12:04:00.000-07:002016-07-23T12:04:23.965-07:00Paul Southcott's Seasonal Observations<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I sing to my dear friends the Trees that grow all around
Haresfield Beacon ... they've given me a lot of love and teachings, and they
seem to enjoy singing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Full moon... my eyes full of her glorious bright broad face, the
chilly breeze blowing around my head, the fire warming my legs and my ears
ringing with the song of the stars.... beauty and blessings and peace to
everyone …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Spring is on my mind, and what a subtle and slippery business
the seasons can be... There's a special light around on some days now, which
seems to show itself just in those extra few minutes as the days lengthen...
blink and it's gone! A bit like the first young leaves, or the primroses...
they're suddenly all there, then suddenly gone, and something else is
happening... In the woods now you can the woodpecker drumming … that's a sound
that's just not been there for months, and the tiny tinny sound of a flock of
long tailed tits up in the high branches of the trees.... You have to be out
there and catch all these things, because the seasons don't stop, they keep
rolling and the world changes, and changes again, then again, and so on... and
the wild garlic's back!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today I went walking over the Beacon and found violets and
bluebells and anemones, all growing in a place I call The Singing Place,
because you have to sing to it when you go there, and now I've been sitting out
with the Moon, watching her rise up through the branches of the big Ash Tree at
the end of the garden... when I focused on her full on through the network of
branches, the whole tree changed, and looked like a big spreading piece of
embroidery against the sky …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">we made a long overdue visit to Avebury today, in the Springtime
sunshine.. I love the country around there...the kindly hills and hollows and
the clear bright streams of water, the Ash trees and the Beech trees and the
feeling that it's all lived in and loved by strong ancient Spirits who have
been there since the beginning of things... we walked around the Circle and
down the Avenue and up Warden Hill and down and along past Silbury Hill, across
the road and the Stream and up to the Long Barrow, and the Sun shone and the
Larks sang and the Breezes played and the Buzzards soared and we came home
tired and I made a cheese souffle! First time ever! And it wasn't bad either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Spent a lovely day today up around the chimney of local Stately
Pile Frampton Court, with my Faithful Companion Tonto Cockings, knocking off
some ancient render with a view to replacing it with some new render of the
same kind... the Sun shone and warmed us, and we had the most glorious view
over parkland full of Geese and sheep, to a beautiful lake... five beautiful
white doves flew around, their translucent wings and white breasts quite
breathtaking against the blue of the sky.. we had to remove some stones from
the top of the chimney, which is an enormous double one that is also used as a
bell tower, and under one of the stones was a whole colony of ladybirds,
huddled in the sooty darkness, waiting for the right moment to come out and
sort out all the aphids.. I know it's work, but you can't help feeling blessed
sometimes...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nobody ever talks about Jackdaws, so I'm going to. I don't know
anything about them, but I see them a lot. There's a whole flock of them living
in the rocks up on the way to the Beacon, and they're always flying around
among the trees, chacking and chawking and generally making a lot of noise ...
they seem very genial, busy sociable and curious creatures … when I was young I
knew somebody who had one for a pet, and it could say a few words of speech,
and in the old house where I've been working recently, there were some living
in the chimney. Every day you could hear conversing with each other, and giving
the odd squawk... does anybody know any folklore about Jackdaws? I'm very fond
of them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">… lovely coming home, down the lane away from the street lights,
into the dark where the owls and the foxes and the badgers live and the trees
hold up the sky and the little diamond-pin stars stop it from blowing away...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My friend Godfrey Lacks has just sent me a flute that I asked
him to make for me... I'm going to use it to play in various places where I
walk that seem to be asking for a bit of music...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A beautiful afternoon up on the Beacon... It was grey, misty and
raining, but there was lots of birdsong, and everything greening up.... The
Hawthorns are really lovely at the moment, their branches stitched with tight,
bright green buds like beads, or some with tiny feathery leaves just beginning
to spread themselves into the light and the warmth… There are lots of bluebells
under the beeches, and violets all along the edges of the paths, and in the
open grassy spaces, suddenly, cowslips are everywhere ... It's a precious time,
and it's easy to miss these subtle changes, the little steps towards Summer...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our house is old, built of stone. The back wall is built into a
bank of earth. Sometimes, when it's wet or cold, rats hide inside the back
wall. They've never come into the house; they seem to have a safe place
somewhere inside the wall. The piano stands against the back wall, and
sometimes, when she can hear the rats, our dog Bella gets very excited and
sniffs and squeaks all around the piano. She did that this evening, and got
more and more excited, till we thought that a rat must have come out into the
room. I pulled the piano away from the wall, and a face peeped out and
disappeared... then a tiny fox cub ran out and jumped up on a chair! I managed
to catch him.. what an amazing thing, to have a fox cub in the house.. and took
him out into the garden and let him go. Off he went, back to his fox family, I
hope, and we all had a dram to calm our nerves and celebrate this visit of a
lovely wild creature into our house ... Hurray!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Went up on the Beacon to day, and there's one particular place
where I like to sit, between an Oak Tree, an Ash tree, and a Thorn tree... a
Gentle place, maybe. And looking down from it, across the fields, there's a big
old Oak, who has stood out pretty black and jagged and Gnarly all through the
winter, but suddenly he looks quite different... the young leaves, which have
shown a kind of yellowy orange for the last couple of weeks have really
unfolded and turned a beautiful clear green... his shape has filled out and
become really graceful, and now when you see him you would think he was dancing
… it's very special! Then this evening we sat by the fire in the garden and
watched the Swifts, high, high up in the sky, and listened to the birds
finishing their day and saw the Bats beginning to fly and saw Jupiter appear
and felt the quiet grow, and now it's finally dark and the Owls are calling ...
Welcome Summer...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #10121b; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Guess where I've been today? Yes! The Beacon! Two things struck
me really strongly when we were up there.. First, it was/is beautifully hot,
sunny with clouds wandering about and a lovely cool breeze, and sitting up on
the side of the Hill and looking across and down towards the Severn made me
feel a strange link with the past.. it's something that happens often, and I
remember it from when I was small, a feeling that this time could be any time
from times long past... my mind always goes back to prehistoric times, in fact,
although I know that the landscape would have looked different, the bones would
perhaps be recognisable, but the Earth, the dear old Sweet Earth, was the same,
the Spirit was there then, and is now ... and then I was struck by how much
time I need to really look at something ... looking at the Trees and realising
that their "voice", or presence, or whatever you want to call it, is
made up of so many things, that become more and more subtle ... going out from
the centre, through the bark, and the lichens and things that grow on it, up
through the boughs, the branches, the twigs into the leaves, the flowers, the
scent, the fluttering of the birds and the buzzing of the insects that spend
time around this tree, because it is the tree it is... and all that makes up
the complete presence and ongoing effect of this tree in the place where it
lives…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sitting watching the rain today.. Rain is falling, birds are
singing, and all the different songs are making a web of sounds that, once I
start really listening to it, becomes something that I can almost see, made of
colours and shapes and depth that move and wind about.. The Trees along the
edge of the field, once I really begin to look, shine out into many more shades
of green and grey and black and brown and yellow and red than my usual thoughts
about Trees would allow ... they show many more patterns and forms and scapes
than I see with my everyday passing eyes.. It's a grey day, the grey sky marked
from time to time with the lines and strokes of the flight of birds, and below
that the treescape is lightened by the streaks and drops of falling rain.. What
a double - edged thing our senses can be.. where we 're used to seeing Trees,
Rocks, Hills, it can be that that's all we see, but there's a trick to just
letting things be, and they then allow our senses to really become our
teachers, that don't just tie us to what we know, the things we're used to, and
expect, but show us more and more of what's really around us, and all the
possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">An amazing vivid double rainbow, on Full Moon night! Wondrous!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The dear and lovely Moon has just sailed clear of the tops of
the trees.. I've been standing in her light, and now I'm going to bed …
goodnight and Blessings...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The young fox cub who was in our house last week was back again
today, sitting in the garden! It was great to see him there...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Well, what a long way Norfolk is from everywhere. But what a beautiful
place! At least it certainly was today, soft sunlight and a pale blue sky,
green gently rolling fields with poppies marking out the edges, under creamy
white and pink May blossoms ... all very quiet and peaceful... and there's a beautiful poem, supposedly by
Walter Raleigh, that starts: as you came from the Holy Land / of Walsingham /
Saw you not mine own true love / By the way as you came...I found it years and
years ago, when I was a boy, and I learned it and have never forgotten it.. I
always wanted to visit Walsingham, because of that poem, and now I will. I
recommend it to everyone ... I think it's especially beautiful because of the
kind of broken antique language, and lumpy uneven rhythm... anyway find it and
have a read ... it's a beauty... another one that always makes me cry…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Loads of things on my mind ... my family, kids, the people I
know... and today we were in the garden looking at bumble bees. There was a
strange one, with a gingery back with a shiny black spot on it, and a whitish back
end ... It looked very weak or exhausted.. I picked it up and put a drop of
honey water in my hand and it perked up slightly and began to slowly drink it
up. Meanwhile we discovered that it was a Tree Bumblebee. ... An immigrant,
doing what most immigrants do ... i.e. settling down and fitting in and posing
no threat to the native Bumblebees ...after about 30 minutes she pulled herself
together and bumbled off, and I felt quite sad to see her go ... and this
evening I went to a script-reading for a film that some friends in Stroud want
to make about the Chartists and what they had to contend with ... many bells
were ringing, reading about their times and our times. … interesting and
slightly chilling ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">One of the great pleasures of life: Lying in the bath, watching
and listening to the rain pouring down outside the open window... watch this
space for a haiku...?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yesterday morning it rained ... we went out to the Beacon in the
late afternoon, and walked out to the end of the ridge and looked south and
east across the valley, watching the long grass running and rippling in the
wind, and the midsummer crystal sunlight washing over the woods and the green
hills, and listened to the birdsong echoing among the trees and the hawthorn
bushes, which are now full of small, hard berries. Two weeks ago they were
covered in creamy white blossoms.. The tipping point has arrived, again...
there are still orchids, rock roses, buttercups everywhere, and the grasses are
flowering and the knapweed is full of marbled white butterflies, that always
arrive just at the peak of summer, but now the time of ripening has begun ...
It's easy to ignore all these things and get left behind, but Nature has got
things to do, and just gets on with it...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Do I imagine it, or are there really different qualities of
Quietness? Last night, looking at the beautiful shining Moon, the quietness
seemed to come in (soundless) rhythmical waves, while at other times it can be
more like real silence, which I a different kind of thing to quietness I
suppose... silence being absence of sound?, while quietness is as much a mood
or a feeling as it is absence of sound....? Am I just waffling? Anyway, I think
what I'm on about is true for me....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16191f; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cherries. We have them for just a few weeks every year, but what
a difference they make. I know there are different kinds, but I've got some of
these big, black, sweet ones, and I'm afraid I might finish up eating them
all... it's almost as though they're eating me, in fact. It looks like wild
cherries may have always existed in this country, but introducing the
cultivated ones may be the one good thing that the Romans did for us... Dear
friends, they're around now. Eat as many as you can, because there's no better
way to show gratitude and to honour the nature Spirits that have come up with
such a wonderful gift. Plus they're good for you.. in some quite surprising
ways, in fact.. I may have to come back with a bit more on this... meanwhile:
Hurray for Cherries!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-80690864121258172072016-07-22T00:13:00.000-07:002016-07-22T00:13:21.341-07:00 For John Summerbee<div class="comic12" style="background: white;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I knew of Mick and I
knew of Nick,<br />
But I didn’t know of your existence,<br />
Until early one morning on the number 46 bus,<br />
When I was reading a Swindon Town programme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It was back in 1992,<br />
And you told me that Nicky was your nephew,<br />
And I looked at you, someone I had never met or seen before,<br />
And I asked you the next obvious, but risky question:<br />
And it turned out that, yes, you were a boyhood hero’s brother,<br />
You were the brother of Buzzer:<br />
You were Mick Summerbee’s brother!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And it was the best conversation I have ever had on a bus<br />
With someone I had never met before,<br />
It was electric empathy and just the ticket,<br />
As I told you of how I had seen best mates Mick and Ernie Hunt,<br />
Grave-digging, back in the close season maximum wage early 1960’s,<br />
When I was train spotting on Swindon Junction’s Milk Bank,<br />
And how I missed some important engine numbers,<br />
Just so I could watch them walk down the street to the café,<br />
And how Mick and Ernie and Donald Rogers were my idols,<br />
And how Mick had given up his time to coach Swindon Boys,<br />
And had actually passed the ball to me in training,<br />
And I didn’t want to clean my boots for a week, oh no,<br />
And all this came out in a stream of consciousness,<br />
And at no point did I ask about you, who you were,<br />
As a person, as an individual, as John Summerbee,<br />
As Mr. John Summerbee. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But it didn’t bother
you,<br />
And we always said hello in the streets or on the ‘bus,<br />
Or when out walking the dogs in the valleys and fields,<br />
Or having our hair cut in Summerbee’s salon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But I knew nothing of your boyhood, until one Christmas,<br />
When I read Colin Shindler’s book,<br />
And it’s then I read of your dad, George,<br />
And his struggles to make it as a footballer,<br />
The dream move from Aldershot to Proud pre-war Preston,<br />
Going sadly wrong, with wage cuts and wage slavery<br />
And demoralising constant reserve team football:<br />
Obscurity instead of fame, the struggle to make ends meet,<br />
The drop down the divisions, as the body slowed down,<br />
The youthful dream of stardom turned to non-league dust,<br />
While your mum, Dulcie, coped with all the moves<br />
And temporary homes of a travelling journeyman footballer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And I read of your real life as John, your dad’s favourite son,<br />
In whose shadow, Mick nervously walked,<br />
For you were the better footballer and cricketer,<br />
Until you were shattered by George’s early worn out death,<br />
All dreams ruined at the tender age of just forty.<br />
It’s then you turned your back on sport, and used your other talents,<br />
For you were a star carpenter and joiner, too;<br />
And even though I never met your dad,<br />
And have only seen the photographs and read of him in a book,<br />
The handsome dapper young man in his hand cut suits,<br />
With shoes as shiny as a new pin, that you could see the faces in,<br />
I see you in Stroud, immaculately turned out,<br />
And now I know that I am not just looking at Mr. John Summerbee -<br />
But I am also looking at George’s favourite son,<br />
Walking in no one’s shadow, but his own and his dad’s.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-47248865336176403772016-07-18T01:38:00.000-07:002016-07-18T01:38:46.956-07:00Come Back Dad (Again)<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And hide “British History For Boys”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Underneath my pillow while I’m asleep,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">As a surprise coming home present;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And bring home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Mars Bars and eucalyptus sweets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">On Thursday pay nights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">For our weekly treat;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And tap the beer barrel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">At 5a.m. on Christmas Day morning,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Exclaiming: “First one of the day!”
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And put that “How to play Football” book<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Under the tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">So I could learn to play just like you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And make your own telly for the cup final again,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">But this time it won’t blow up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Before our astonished faces;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come back Dad,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And watch Remembrance Day <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">On a brand new bought telly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And remember your fallen comrades,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">With a tear in your eye;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And dig the spuds in on a bird-song Good Friday,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Out in the garden with your memories,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And then lead the sing-song round the Wheatsheaf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And sing “Little Nell” with mum again
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And let’s hear “The Sheikh of Araby” again,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Who else would have Christmas boots on kicking up the dust?
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And sit me on your knee after the pub again,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And tell me about fighting the Japanese in the jungle,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Hearing their long night siren call:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">“Come on Tommy. Look over here Tommy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And tell me one more time about Dixie Dean and Lawton,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And Matthews, Mortensen and Finney<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And how much better they are than today’s lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And stub out your last fag of the day again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And put it behind your ear together with your pencil,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Senior Service ship-shape fashion for the morning;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And study the pools coupon by the firelight again,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">While I read “Roy of the Rovers”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And dream of playing for England;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Come Back Dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And pass the ball to me for just one more time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Just like you do,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Every day,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">And I'll pass it back to you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">On every Christmas Day,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">At 5 a.m.,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">First one of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">My brother, Keith, and me, bleary-eyed, were once greeted by our dad
tapping the barrel at 5 o’clock on Christmas Day morning with a jaunty: ‘First
one of the day!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-29754618510855360722016-07-12T00:48:00.000-07:002016-07-12T01:35:37.706-07:00Walking through the Great War in Bristol<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">It
was eleven o’clock, on a sunshine Sunday in July,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When
we gathered together to way-fare through time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In
Bristol, at Temple Meads station forecourt:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
carriage doors of remembrance troop trains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Slamming
shut, as whistles blew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">To
take troops over the top,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">To a
new experience of gas and smoke,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Far
away from clocking in and clocking out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">At
gasworks, ironworks, glassworks, rope-works,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Railway
yards, engineering works, docks and cuts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Around
St Phillips and the Dings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We
wandered through Edgelands terrain:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">An
urban-industrial cobbled street interface:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Buddleia
in bloom, blackberry in blossom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Bindweed
clustered on rusting railway railings,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Damp,
dripping tunnels of red brick and bedrock,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Street
names recalling a long lost rural past:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Barleyfields’,
and the pub: the ‘Barley Mow’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Victorian
terraced streets, now long gone,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">From
where Arthur and Alfred Jefferies once strode out,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">To
volunteer for the British Army,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And
where their mother, Georgina,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Was
at her washing line,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One
day in September 1916,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">When
the telegram boy called:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The
curtains were pulled tight across the windows,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The
laundering was forgotten,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">A
cry of pain and anguish echoed up the stairs:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Arthur
had been killed in action at the Somme -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Curtains
were pulled tight too at the home <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Of
Arthur’s wife and children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then
one member of our troupe - Roger Fogg -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Pulled
out his grand-dad’s Soldier’s Small Book<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">(With
photographs, addresses, next of kin and a will),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Right
where his grand father – and the Jefferies – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Used
to live before the Great War:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">This
was a theatre of memory –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">We
could see the boys right there before our eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Clutching
an old ragged football,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Laughing
together on their way to the board school:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">‘He
would have known Arthur and Alfred. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">They
would have been mates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">He
would have played with them in the streets just round here.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">(Cars
now edging between the boys, and ourselves,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">To
reach a recycling centre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">At
the end of what was once a street with houses.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">A
pigeon flew into the branches of an edgelands ash tree,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But
with no message travelling through time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">To
us, and nor to mother, from Alfred at the front;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Wounded
at Ypres, shell-shocked at the Somme,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">At
the end of his tether,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Shot
at dawn on November 1<sup>st</sup> 1916,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Part
of that accelerated wave of executions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">That
coincided with the faltering Somme offensive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Georgina
tramped over the cobble stones,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Handkerchief
in hand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Through
the fog and reek of gas and smoke and steam,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Past
a queer, sardonic rat,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">A
sentinel of the docks;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">She
cut herself a bit of bread and marg,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Pulled
the curtains tight shut yet again,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And
sat in the parlour gloom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The
clock ticking its empty time;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">General
Haig glanced at his watch,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And scratched
yet another quick note:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">‘How
can we ever win if a plea like this is allowed?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-11070870603745261542016-07-10T10:38:00.001-07:002016-07-10T10:38:45.447-07:001916-1926: from the Somme to the General Strike<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
British Army at the start of the Great War<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Was
essentially ‘Wellingtonian’:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
predominantly country-set set of officers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
predominantly rural army of men,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Battalions
and companies of men and officers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With
a reverence for tradition and locality,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Be it
the BEF or the Territorials:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘I
daresay it is snobbish to say so, but the fact remains that men will follow a
gentleman much more readily than they will an officer whose social position is
not so well assured.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kitchener’s
recruits changed that, of course,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And
then with conscription, by the end of the war,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5
million industrial workers had joined the army –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘More
than 10% of the … workforce joined up in the first two months of war’;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Two
and a half million men had volunteered by 1916 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And
a further 2 million men indicated <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That
they would willingly countenance conscription;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
patriotism still meant some cultural problems, however: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Trade
unionism, for example;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But,
in the main, military discipline did its job: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From
saluting right through to executions …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Although
when trouble did break out, as at Etaples, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then
the old class antagonisms came to the surface –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As
with General Haig: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Men
of this stamp are not content with remaining quiet, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">they
come from a class which like to air real or fancied grievances…’;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But
class prejudice was of little consequence <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When
placed alongside racial prejudice – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When
colonial support workers went on strike in France, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Summary
public shootings were the response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So,
after this contextualization, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I, do make Oath, that I will be faithful and bear true
Allegiance to His Majesty King George the Fifth, His Heirs, and Successors, and
that I will, as in duty bound, honestly and faithfully defend His Majesty, His
Heirs, and Successors, in Person, Crown and Dignity, against all enemies, and
will observe and obey all orders of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and
of the Generals and Officers set over me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So help me God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So now
on to the Somme:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Pals’
Battalions, on the whistle, lads. Steady pace in straight lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Into
the remembrance of statistics’:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘How
many officers and men went over the top on July 1<sup>st</sup> 1916?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘150,000,
sir.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘What
weight did the men carry?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’66
lbs: rifle, grenades, ammo, rations, cape, helmet, gas masks (two), goggles,
sandbags (empty, four), field dressing, pick/shovel, water bottle, mess tin,
sir.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘And
our casualties?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’19,000
dead and 38,000 wounded. Highest figures ever in a single day, sir.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Good
man. Correct again. And was that it?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘No,
sir: another five months of bloody attrition, sir, and another 420,000
casualties. ’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘How
long was the front?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Eighteen
miles, sir; but listen to this account of the 1<sup>st</sup> of July from
Captain Gerald Brenan, M.C., sir. It gives a flavour of the battle.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The battle opened a little after sunrise on 1 July 1916,
with a bombardment that shook the air with its roar and sent up the earth on
the German trenches in gigantic fountains. It seemed as though no human being
could live through that. Then our men climbed by short ladders onto the parapet
and began to move forward shoulder to shoulder, one behind the other, across
the rough ground. They moved slowly because each of them carried a weight of 66
pounds. Then the German barrage fell on our trenches and their machine-guns
began to rattle furiously. Clouds of blue and grey smoke from the bursting
shells, mixing with a light ground mist, hid the general view, but in the gaps
I could see little ant-like figures, some of them keeping on in a broken line,
others falling, crawling, lying still. Each of them carried on his backs a tin
triangle to assist in their identification by our artillery, and the early
morning sun shone on these triangles and made them glitter. But as the hours
passed I could not see that any of them had reached the German front line and
later I knew why: our bombardment had not penetrated the deep dugouts the
Germans had excavated in the chalk and their machine-gunners had come out and
were mowing our men down …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The sun rose higher and higher in the sky, the heat of
that scorching summer day grew and grew, but though I was never able to get any
coherent picture, the failure of our assault on Serre gradually became obvious.
Those three or four hundred yards of rough ground that lay in front of our
front lines were thickly sprinkled with silver triangles, only a few of which
still moved, while the German parapet was bare and still the pounding of our
front trenches went on …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After fifty-six hours spent in shell-holes, sleeping
among and even pillowed by dead comrades, without water, without food, having
to defend themselves the whole time, a few of the more determined had managed
to creep or fight their way back through the German lines to tell their tale.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘
Now here’s the last two stanzas from a poem by Second-Lieutenant Robert Ernest
Vernede, 3<sup>rd</sup> Battalion, the Rifle Brigade, sir: it’s a poem about
three selfless and quietly heroic sergeants who were killed, sir.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Those
sergeants I lost at Delville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On a
night that was cruel and black,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They
gave their lives for England’s sake,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They
never will come back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What
of the hundreds in whose hearts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thoughts
no less splendid burn? …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
wonder what England will do for them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If
ever they return?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘A
few more statistics please, my good man. Death by our own hands - by the war’s
end, how many of our men were executed by firing squad?'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘346,
I think, sir.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Do
you have any reports in my valise that we could share?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Course,
sir. Certainly sir. Here we are; three cases of privates.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<span style="color: #313131;">The man has a
very bad character both in civil life and in the army. He is probably useless
as a soldier. For the above reasons I feel it my duty to recommend that the
sentence be carried out. I am quite aware that the general worthlessness of the
man is inclined to influence above decision, but I have given due weight to
this point and see no reason to allow it to alter my opinion. I do not think it
affects my judgment.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “This man was not a man who gave much trouble
neither was he in any way a man whom one would pick out as a good man. He is
considered by his Platoon Commander to be of poor intellect, and I consider
that he is a typical slum product of a low level intelligence…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The …Battalion … contains a
proportion of rough characters and lately there has been a certain amount of
insubordination especially when orders are issued for heavy work in the
trenches. I am reluctantly compelled to state that I think an example is
necessary in the interests of discipline of the Brigade.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Is that enough, sir?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Anything on NCO’s?'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Course, sir. Here we are again, happy as can be, all good
friends and jolly good company.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“As an NCO he is a failure, being too familiar with his
subordinates, and surly and morose to his superiors … Chief cause of complaint
is that NCOs will not assert themselves as they come from the same class of men
as those in the ranks and think too much of their position after the war when
they will all be in the workshops again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Were most men executed for funk? Cowardice?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘No, sir. Desertion. Here’s the views of two different generals,
sir.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“‘I consider the extreme
penalty should be inflicted because: (a) the man has already deserted once
on active service (b) he has no intention of fighting for his country (c) is
quite worthless, as a soldier or in any other capacity and is better removed
from the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“He was no rotter deserving to
die like that. He was merely fragile. He had volunteered to fight for his
country … at the dictates of his own young heart. He failed. And for that
failure he was condemned to die …”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘What did the young man say?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘He said, sir, “What will my mother say?”’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘You’re going on a walk today, aren’t you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Yes sir, Bristol, sir; we’re meeting at Temple Meads and then
walking around St Philips and the Dings; we’re remembering the days of the
Triple Industrial Alliance before the war. And remembering Alfred Jefferies who
lived in St Philips and was executed for desertion on November 1<sup>st</sup>
1916: firing squad at dawn, sir. His brother Arthur was killed in 1916 too, at
the Somme, sir. A bad year for the family, sir.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Cheer me up, old chap, for God’s sake. Sing me a song or
something.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Course sir, certainly sir.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“If you want to find the old battalion,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I know where they are, I know where they are, I know where they are<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">If you want to find the old battalion, I know where they are,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">They're hanging on the old barbed wire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I've seen 'em, I've seen 'em, hanging on the old barbed wire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I've seen 'em, I've seen 'em, hanging on the old barbed wire.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘Before I finish, sir, one last thought. I’ve often reminisced about the
old days sir, and one thing’s stuck in my mind but it’s rarely mentioned, sir.
You know how people talk about the sacrifices and heroism at the Somme and so
on, sir. But I’ve often thought what if those men had lived? Then we wouldn’t
have lost the General Strike ten years later, sir. Just a thought sir - but
worth thinking about.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘I’d like to finish, now, sir, if I may, with the last two stanzas of
Siegfried Sassoon’s poem <i>Aftermath</i>,
from March 1919. Thank you, sir, it’s been a pleasure to talk to you.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The nights you watched and wired and dug sandbags on parapets?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Do you remember the rats; and the stench<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Do you ever stop and ask, ‘Is it all going to happen again?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Do you remember that hour of din before the attack –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And the anger, the blind compassion that seized you and shook you then<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘Just think, sir, those boys might have won the General Strike, sir. And
I wouldn’t be calling you sir, sir. Would I?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05729362897865843276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9200556824773553075.post-53427519853856790732016-07-05T05:38:00.000-07:002016-07-11T03:02:35.795-07:00The Anniversary of the NHS: Parity not Charity<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Tucked between the Trinity Rooms and the Hospital we
celebrated the NHS’s 65<sup>th</sup> birthday this week in the Pocket Park. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Built and given to the people in the 1880s, the Trinity
Rooms acted as a ward in the First World War for troops, many, almost certainly,
wounded on the Somme. The stone over the entrance of the hospital follows with
the year 1919.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the Pocket Park we reflected on the debts we all owe the
NHS. James read words of the founding figure, Aneurin Bevan, whose friend,
disciple, successor as MP for Ebbw Vale and biographer was a young Michael
Foot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Also reported this
week is news of Foot’s statue in Plymouth, his home city, defaced and daubed
with swastikas. He was born overlooking Argyll Park, the original ground of
Plymouth Argyll, and he was a lifelong supporter on the terraces where Plymothians
were always proud of him. <o:p></o:p></div>
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James Pentney</div>
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US">I
was born at home in 1951<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(Three
years after the NHS came into being),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In a
prefab, local authority council housing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Provided
for WW2 servicemen and women:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It
was the spirit of 1945,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
word ‘National’ was everywhere and on everything:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There
was to be no return to laissez-faire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There
was to be no return to the 30’s and the Depression,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No
return to the lottery of the market,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It
was a thank you to the working class<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For
all the privations of six years of total war;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My
birth wasn’t easy:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dad
rode out on his bike<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To
collect some gas apparatus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To
aid my mother in her pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
aid my passage into this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I
dunno –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For
all I know,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I
might have died and mum might have died<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Without
the NHS and that gas apparatus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I
wouldn’t be able to remember those visits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To the
NHS clinic for the free powdered milk and orange juice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Or
the visits to my bedside of refugee,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
survivor of fascism, Dr. Liechenstein;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
God knows what life would have been like for dad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And
my sister and brother, without mum;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Granny
and Grampy Butler came to visit me straightway,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For
I was born on their wedding anniversary,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">August
22<sup>nd</sup>;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Gramp
was lucky – even though he was made unemployed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After
WW1 and the family had to live in a Nissan hut,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He
escaped wounding and trauma after four years at the front -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But
in these early July days <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Just
after the centenary of the Battle of the Somme,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let’s
remember what support the wounded,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Traumatised
and gassed veterans could obtain before 1948:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Patchy
charity, the British Red Cross, the British Legion,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Poppy
Day, nurses selling flags on the streets, cuts in the dole:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A
true commemoration of the sacrifice of those soldiers at the Somme,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Would
be the flourishing of a National Health Service in the 21<sup>st</sup> century:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No
back to the future,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No
flag days,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
No war,</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No
charity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But
parity.<sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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