A Taste of Britain A Few Pictures And A Few Words
A Taste of Britain
A Few Pictures And A Few Words
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green ?
And was The Holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen ?
And did not the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills ?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills ?
Bring me my bow of burning gold !
Bring me my arrows of desire !
Bring me my spear ! O clouds unfold
Bring me my chariot of fire !
I shall not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Til we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - K.G., O.M., C.H.
1874 -1965
Sir
Winston Churchill
HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchy of Cornwall
Prince
Charles
Buckingham Palace/ Windsor/Sandringham/Balmoral etc
The Royal
Residencies
10 Downing Street - The Prime Ministers Residence
with information about previous Prime Ministers
And the day to day activities coming from :
10
Downing Street
An interesting link to
The
Houses of Parliament
And recommend to anyone to visit if you can - as this is living
history.
http://www.parliament.uk/
The
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
The Confederation of British Industry
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The Last Night of The Proms
and The BBC Promenade Concerts
The Proms
Another interesting link is to This site dedicated to :
William Shakespeare - The Complete Works
Here you can read all of his Plays and Sonnets
the-tech.mit.edu/shakespeare/works.html
The Royal Shakespeare Company
To keep audiences in touch with Shakespeare
and understanding his work through today's
artists, actors and writers
rsc.org
A great Victorian Writer
Ous views of The Victorian age are based
more on Dickens works than anything else
Charles
Dickens
' Letter From America '
Alistair Cooke understood and explained
better than anyone else - things about America
Probably the best story teller of the 20th Century
Alistair
Cooke 1908-2004
BBC World Affairs Editor
John Simpson
A remarkable news reporter
John
Simpson
David Attenborough
The best story teller about
Planet Earth's Natural History
David Attenborough and his colleagues have
created some of the best Television programmes
ever made. Television at it's best
BBC's-David
Attenborough
Fawlty Towers is probably the best
and funniest comedy series ever made
Fawlty
Towers
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Licenced to kill - 007
James Bond
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Cricket
The England Cricket Team
The MCC and
The Lords Cricket Ground
Lancashire County Cricket Club
And for those who do not understand this great game
The Laws of
Cricket
BBC's Test Match Special
BBC tms
Bedford Rugby Union Football Club
Gloucester Rugby Club Home
Gloucester Rugby Union Club
And the other Premier Clubs
The Rugby Club
The legendary England and Spurs striker - Jimmy Greaves
Has a shot saved by Russia's Great goalkeeper - Lev Yashin
in an England versus the Rest of The World
Match at Wembley Stadium in 1963
The England Football Association
Tottenham Hotspurs Football Club
Wimbledon
Tennis Championships
All England Badminton Championships
Badminton, England
Horse
Racing and The Jockey Club
Cheltenham Gold Cup Festival Week
Cheltenham
Racecourse
The Derby and The Oaks
Epsom Racecourse
Badminton Horse Trials
Badminton Horse
Trials
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Roman Invasion
The Roman Empire
Anglo Saxon Britain
Anglo-Saxons.net Timeline
The Crusades
Medieval Sourcebook
- The Crusades
1066 - The Battle of Hastings
The last time there was a successful invasion of England
Invasion of England, 1066
The Crusades
Robin Hood
Myth, legend or fact ?
history
The Magna Carta, 1215
British Library treasures in full Magna Carta
The Hundred Years' War
3 Great Victories
The
Battle of Poitiers 1356
The
Battle of Agincourt 1415
Henry V - 1415
The War of The Roses
Wars Of The Roses.com - Wars of the Roses
The Spanish Armada - 1588
The Spanish Armada
The English Civil War, 1649
Civil War - Home
The Duke of Marlborough
The
Battle of Blenheim 1704
The Battle of Culloden Moor, 1746
The last battle on British Soil
CULLODEN MOOR AND THE STORY OF THE BATTLE
The Battles of The Nile 1800, Copenhagen 1801 and Trafalgar 1805
Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson
The Duke of Wellington defeats Napoleon
The
Battle of Waterloo
Regiments
and Battalions of the British Army
Who Dares Wins
Special Air Service
SAS
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The Edinburgh Military Tattoo
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The Birth place of Winston Churchill
The home of The Dukes of Marlborough
Blenheim Palace
Royal Horticultural Society
The Chelsea Flower Show
The Garden and Flower Olympics
rhschelseaflowershow
The British Library
british
library
National Maritime Museum
And
The Royal Observatory Greenwich
nmm-rog
The Victoria and Albert Museum
vam
The Imperial War Museum
IWM
The British Museum
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms
The National Gallery
The Tate Gallery
Florence Nightingale Museum
Madam Tussauds
The Geffyre Museum
The London Transport Museum
The Sherlock Holmes Museum
The Design Museum
National Army Museum
RAF Royal Air Force Museum
The Science Museum
Museum of London
The Natural History Museum
nhm
The Tower Of London
The Tower
The National Gallery
National Gallery
The Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew
KewGardens
Zoological Garden, London
London Zoo
The National Trust
was founded in 1895 and was set up
to preserve
and protect coastlines, countryside and buildings. Today, The Trust
looks after 600 miles of coastline, 248,000 hectares of land, and
more
than 200 buildings and gardens of oustanding interest and importance
The National
Trust
St Paul's Cathedral
St
Paul's Cathedral
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Interesting places to visit
Sir Peter Scott, son of 'Scott of The
Antartica'
was the visionary behind this fascinating
and one of the first ever conservation projects
Slimbridge - Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT)
Longleat
Longleat - Home Page
Blackpool
Visit Blackpool.com - Home
The English Lake District
Lake District the lakes
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In Britain there are many mysteries and
legends -
But also these are supported by hundreds of man made
stone circles and mounds etc , some older than the Pyramids.
Here are a few of the most noted - what is the truth ?
The most famous of all - Stonehenge
Stonehenge
The largest man made Pre-historic
mound in Europe - Silbury Hill
Silbury
Hill
The Megalithic Stone circle at Avebury
Avebury
Glastonbury Tor, Avalon, King
Arthur...........
Glastonbury Tor
Some more Stones and Mounds
in Britain and Europe
Stone Pages •
Megalithic Europe
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Dido - Here With Me.
Click on the link and hear the music.track of your choice
Coming soon................
United Kingdom Shares
build a portfolio of shares in British based equities
These are a selection of my choices at this moment of time
( From October 2005)
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Tottenham Hotspurs
Eurotunnel
Tesco
Rolls Royce
Daily Mail
Virgin Mobile
HBOS
Body Shop
Woolworths
BP
ITV
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P & O
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Astrazeneca
Hornby
Glaxo Smith Kline
British Airports Authority
British Airways
Ladbrokes (Hilton Group)
Imperial Chemical Company
Reuters
Seven Trent Water
Unilever
Willian Hill
QXL Ricardo
Cadbury Schweppes
Scotish & Newcastle
British Energy
Merril Lynch Europe
Wyvale Garden Centres
Group 4 Securicor
Pilkington Glass
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Watch List
Preston North End Football Club
Marks & Spencer
Kingfisher
Prudential
Shell
Rio Tinto
Boots
Bovis Homes Group
Costain Group
Diageo
Marconi
Royal Doulton
Sainsbury
W H Smith
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Some British inventions
The Hovercraft
The Jet Engine
Trains
Trams
Tarmac Roads
Dunlop Tyres
Cats Eyes
The Underground/Metro
The Flushing Toilet
The Computer
Television
Metal Ships
Iron Bridges
Sheffield Steel
The Postal Servive
The Police Service
The Long Bow
Logarithm tables
The Steam Pump
The Seed Drill
Iron making
Steam Engine
Flying Shuttle
The Sextant
Number 4 Chronometer
The spinning Jenny
Boring machine
Spinning mule
power loom
gold leaf electroscope
Threshing machine
Gas Lighting
Hydraulic press
Vaccination
Industrial Lathe
Steam locomatrive
Miners safety lamp
electric motor
'Difference' engine
Electromagnet
portland cement
reaper
'Analytical' engine
Calotype photographs
scrwew propellor
primary cell
electric telegraphy
steam hammer
bicycle
shorthandcarbon-arc-lights
steel converter
synthetic dye
parkesine plastic
antispetic surgery
clinical thermometer
wimshurst machine
filament lamps
Steam turbine
Safety Bicycle
Pneumatic tyres
Vacuum flask
Cathode ray tube
Diode valve
Depth charge
military tank
polythene
radar
colussus computer
holography
optical fibre
atomic clock
float glass
fuel cell
carbon fibres
CAT scanner
in vitro fertiilization
Sizewll 'B' PWR nucleur reactor
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Some 'Classic' writers and their books
Jane Austin
Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
Bram Stoker -Dracula
Sir Walter Scott
J.M. Barrie-Peter Pan
Lewis Carrol - Alices adventures in Wonderland
Rudyard Kipling
Alastair Maclean
Desmond Bagley
J.K Rowling - Harry Potter Books
Agatha Christie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- Sherlock Holmes
Beatrix Potter
Enid Blyton- Famous Five / Noddy
Captain W.E. Johns - Biggles
R.L. Stephensen
Thomas Hardy
Ian Flemming - James Bond - 007 Books
John Le Carre
George Eliot
George Orwell - Animal Farm / 1984
J.R.R Tolkien - Lord Of The Rings / The Hobbit / The Silmarillion
Frederick Forsythe
Isaak Walton-The Complete Angler
Winston Churchill
Bronte Sisters
Sir Martin Gilbert
A.J.P. Taylor
Thomas Carlisle - The French Revolution
Samuel Pepys- Diaries
Roald Dahl
H. Ryder Hagard -Allan Quartermain / She / King Solomon's Mines
A.A Milne- Winnie The Pooh
Kenneth Graham- The Wind in the Willows
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Johnson
Henry Williamson - Tarka The Otter
And Charles Dickens ...............
And William Shakespeare.............
The Folio Society
Founded in 1947 The Folio Society was created to
produce editions of the world's great literature in a format
worthy of the contents , at a price within the reach of everyman
foliosociety
The Music
Cliff Richard and the Shadows
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Moody Blues
The Who
Eric Clapton / Cream
Fleetwood Mac
The Kinks
Jethro Tull
Uriah Heep
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
Procol Harem
Pink Floyd
Slade
Shirley Bassey
Elkie Brooks
Queen
Spice Girls
Gustav Holst
Edward Elgar
and my new favourite..........
'DIDO'[
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to come:
Dunkirk - A glorious retreat
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of The Atlantic
The North Africa Campaign
D-Day 6 June 1944
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The Cricket Test Match Special
Radio Commentators
John Arlott
Brian Johnstone
Bill Frindal
Freddy Truemen
Christopher Martin Jenkins
et al.
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