Showing posts with label Hemel Hempstead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hemel Hempstead. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Professor Quatermass in Hemel Hempstead

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Last night I watched Quatermass 2 on Talking Pictures TV – it's currently on the stations catch-up service TPTV Encore . In the clip abo...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Two frogs fell into a pail of cream - You won't believe what happened next

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At Boxmoor County Primary School we had only two pieces of music: Morning by Grieg and Vaughan Williams' Tallis Fantasia. And, as far as...
Friday, June 20, 2025

What was the children's book involving Bourton-on-the-Water?

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That news story about Bourton-on-the-Water , which provided a recent Headline of the Day, was everywhere. Not least, it provided liberal Blu...
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Nowhere to Go: Maggie Smith's first credited film role

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Yesterday we saw the first television appearance by Julie Walters . Tonight it's Maggie Smith's first credited film role, which was ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

The Joy of Six 1312

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Emma Burnell  on the new Conservative leader's poor start: "Badenoch is going to have to do something reasonably soon to show that ...
Saturday, October 05, 2024

GUEST POST No sign of an end to defections in local government

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Thanks to Augustus Carp for his latest bulletin on local councillors changing parties, though I'll have him know that I lived in Hemel ...
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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Lib Dems lose control of Dacorum after eight female councillors resign from group

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From Hemel Today : Eight female councillors in Dacorum have left the Liberal Democrat group after accusing the council leader of “failing to...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Braunston Historic Narrowboat Rally, June 2023

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Here's some canal goodness: last summer's Braunston Historic Narrowboat Rally. I was at Braunston the day before the rally took pla...
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Thursday, February 29, 2024

We were Vikings once: British primary schools in the Sixties

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A few years ago it was the French who had the secret of parenting: their children ate up their vegetables and didn't get ADHD. Now it...
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Saturday, January 27, 2024

In praise of Ladybird Modernism and classless aspiration

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I think it was those parodies from a few years back - some of them published by Penguin, who would once have looked down their beak at the i...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Braunston: the centre of England's inland waterways

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Its position close to the junction of the Grand Union and Oxford Canals has always given Braunston a strong claim to be the centre of Englan...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Lib Dems gain Dacorum, but where is it and why is it called that?

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Dacorum local election 2023 results in full as Liberal Democrats earn majority with six seats gained while Tories fall says the headline . B...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Lib Dems choose their candidate for the new Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency

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The Liberal Democrats have chosen local entrepreneur and environmental campaigner Victoria Collins as their prospective parliamentary candid...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Jonathan Lemalu and Winchester Cathedral Choir: Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar

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This is a 19th-century German carol by the composer Peter Cornelius. It became increasingly popular in Britain as the 20th century progresse...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Television footage of the old Boxmoor Primary School

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I have blogged before about the old Boxmoor Primary School in Hemel Hempstead, which I attended between ages of 9 and 11, and even found a p...
Tuesday, November 01, 2022

The Bargee: The last days of commercial narrow boat traffic on the Grand Union Canal

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The Bargee - described by one writer as one of the three great canal movies - is one the Talking Pictures TV Encore site at the moment. Wr...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Today is the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams's birth

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Ralph Vaughan Williams was born 150 years ago today. The Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, one of his undoubted masterpieces, was first ...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Hemel Hempstead modernism in Market Harborough

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I mentioned yesterday that as a little boy I lived in the new town of Hemel Hempstead. That has left me with an affection for the humane mo...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

In defence of Peter, Jane and Ladybird's history books

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As a video recently posted here went a long way to demonstrate, Ladybird Books were about the most progressive post-war publishers of child...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

Berkhamsted to Guildford by narrow boat in 1965

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Another video from the heroic age of canal cruising. This one starts in Berkhamsted but soon moves on to scenes that are familiar from my ch...