Showing posts with label John Betjeman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Betjeman. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

John Betjeman on Mystery at Witchend by Malcolm Saville

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John Betjeman chose to survey children's books for his About Books column in the 16 December 1943 issue of the Daily Herald. He wasn...
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Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Jago Hazzard on Barbican station and its many identities

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Jago Hazzard explains the history and many names of Barbican station. This is the John Betjeman poem he mentions. Monody on the Death of Ald...
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Monday, July 31, 2023

Jim Parker, John Betjeman and A Shropshire Lad

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The composer Jim Parker has died - you can read his obituary in the Guardian. He was a hugely successful composer of music for television, ...
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Saturday, November 07, 2020

John Betjeman visits St Mary the Virgin, Wellingborough

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St Mary the Virgin, a 20th-century church near Wellingborough railway station, is famous for the interior by its architect Sir Ninian Comper...
Friday, November 15, 2019

John Betjeman goes north: Leeds in 1968

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In 1968, John Betjeman was asked by the BBC to make a television programme about Leeds. The resultant film was never broadcast
Friday, October 04, 2019

John Betjeman visits Southwell Minster

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This programme was broadcast in the BBC Radio series Choirs and Places where they Sing in 1967. The first six minutes feature John Betje...
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Sunday, November 25, 2018

John Kirkpatrick: A Shropshire Lad

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Coming back through Oakengates yesterday I was naturally reminded of John Betjeman's poem A Shropshire Lad. In it, the ghost of Captai...
Sunday, July 08, 2018

A Southampton blue plaque for John Arlott

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Yesterday Mark Pack posted a 1950 film celebrating cricket with narration from Ralph Richardson and John Arlott. Attentive reader'...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Happy St Pancras Day

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As John Betjeman once wrote: St Pancras was a 14-year-old Christian boy who was martyred in Rome by the Emperor Diocletian. In England,...
Monday, March 05, 2018

Six of the Best 774

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Natalie Bloomer lists 32 homeless people who have died on our streets this winter. She is sure there are many more. "The Social Li...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Huddersfield railway station in 1983

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Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "one of the best early railway stations in England". John Betjeman said it was like "a st...
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Sunday, March 08, 2015

John Betjeman: A Shropshire Lad

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Late in his life, John Betjeman recorded four albums of his poetry with musical accompaniment. The first of these, Banana Blush, was relea...
Saturday, March 01, 2014

The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway 3

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In which we and John Betjeman arrive in Burnham-on-Sea. Now watch part 1 and part 2 .
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway 2

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I posted part 1 the other day. This second part introduces the strange concept of Glastonbury as an industrial centre, and there is plent...
Friday, February 21, 2014

The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway 1

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This 1986 documentary looks at the remains of this much-mourned line. It contains footage from an earlier film by John Betjeman. This ap...
Monday, January 30, 2012

The Guardian, the M25 and the 15th century

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Today's Guardian carries the welcome news that English Heritage has bought the Great Barn at Harmondsworth, which John Betjeman once cal...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

John Betjeman on the Somerset & Dorset in 1963

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Thursday, June 02, 2011

In praise of Stamford

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England's most attractive town - John Betjeman The climax [of Lincolnshire] in terms of historical as well as architectural signifi...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Barnacle Bill: A late Ealing comedy

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Charles Barr, in his great book on Ealing Studios , pulls no punches: Barnacle Bill marks an unmistakable end of the line for Ealing Com...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

King's Lynn to Hunstanton with John Betjeman

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This film was made in 1962, seven years before the line closed. Some still dream of reopening it.
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