Merthyr Imp
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In 1973 a short-lived opera company called Phoenix Opera visited the Theatre Royal. I can't remember now which performances I attended, except that I did go and see 'Martha' by Friedrich von Flotow, a piece which was once part of the standard repertoire of opera companies but which by this time had almost ceased to be performed. It's chiefly notable for incorporating the traditional song 'The Last Rose of Summer'.
The price of a seat in the gods had now crept up to 50p.
Details of the forthcoming pantomime:
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Would I get double points for Nina and Frederick?
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I installed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (I think it's called that) last Friday, and for a spell that afternoon, and again on Saturday the screen kept momentarily going black. It turned out it was installing lots of driver updates for the graphics card on both occasions which the Anniversary Update had seemingly caused to be necessary.
But it's been OK since the second lot on Saturday (typing this with fingers crossed).
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Yes, probably not a particularly old bus when the photo was taken (must be some time in the 1930s), but perhaps it could have been in use by a dance band - if they really are boxes on a roof rack towards the rear.
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4 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:
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I believe astronomers worked out some years ago that Christ's birth probably took place in September, given that there were only ten months in the year in those days?
I know they always used to tell us in school that he was born in the year 4 BC!
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Here's some more:
Jesus Christ and Elvis Presley
Jesus said: “Love thy neighbor.” (Matthew 22:39)
- Elvis said: “Don’t be cruel.” (RCA, 1956)
- Jesus is the Lord’s shepherd.
- Elvis dated Cybill Shepherd.
- Jesus was part of the Trinity.
- Elvis’ first band was a trio.
- Jesus’ entourage, the Apostles, had 12 members.
- Elvis’ entourage, the Memphis Mafia, had 12 members.
- Jesus is a Capricorn. (December 25)
- Elvis is a Capricorn. (January 8)
- Matthew was one of Jesus’ many biographers. (The Gospel According to Matthew)
- Neil Matthews was one of Elvis’ many biographers. (Elvis: A Golden Tribute)
- “[Jesus] appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.” (Matthew 28:3)
- Elvis wore snow-white jumpsuits with lightning bolts.
- Jesus lived in state of grace in a Near Eastern land.
- Elvis lived in Graceland in a nearly eastern state.
- Mary, an important woman in Jesus’ life, had an Immaculate Conception.
- Priscilla, an important woman in Elvis’ life, went to Immaculate Conception High School.
- Jesus was the lamb of God.
- Elvis had mutton chop sideburns.
- Jesus’ Father is everywhere.
- Elvis’ father was a drifter, and moved around quite a bit.
- Jesus was a carpenter.
- Elvis’ favorite high school class was wood shop.
- Jesus said: “Man shall not live by bread alone.”
- Elvis liked his sandwiches with peanut butter and bananas.
- Jesus was regarded by some to have been an extraordinary prophet.
- Elvis was regarded by some to have made an extraordinary profit.
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I understood Kennedy's car was 4th in the motorcade.
Also, Crenshaw was only one of several doctors who attended Kennedy (and they weren't all called Charles!)
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The railway photo at #97 must likely date from 1948 or 1949 as it shows the tank engine with its British Railways number but still with LMS on the tank side.
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More grand opera later in 1972. I must have felt really confident by then as Glyndebourne didn't deign to perform in English so I took the plunge and saw La Boheme in the original Italian. I probably managed OK with the story as given in the programme.
Interesting to note the lesser role of Colline in the opera was sung by the young John Tomlinson, now Sir John and one of the country's leading singers.
This advertisement should perhaps be in the 'Things You Don't See Any More' thread:
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1 hour ago, Jill Sparrow said:
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If you've got Kunzle cakes at 5p each, I'll be round, Ben!
Certainly don't see Kunzle Cakes any more. They seemed to disappear in the late 1970s.
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1 hour ago, Mess said:
Notts County's original nickname was the Lambs
Going off at a slight tangent on this subject, can anyone pinpoint when people stopped referring to Nottingham Forest as the Foresters?
In the drawing of all the local football club nickname characters on the front of the Football Post a forester was still being used for Forest into the 1960s.
E.g. as also seen (between the Magpie and the Stag) on the annual football guide:
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I should have added, as a 16-year-old I was also entitled to Meal Vouchers to the value of 2/6 a day. I used to use mine at Percy Andrew's canteen.
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I was on about £340 a year as a 16-year-old when I started work in 1966.
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Yes - it's not even Goose Fair yet.
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The first week in May 1972 saw another visit by Sadler's Wells with four operas in repertoire I gave the Monteverdi piece a miss but saw the other three - 'The Marriage of Figaro, 'Count Ory' by Rossini, and 'Orpheus in the Underworld'. The latter two featuring the wonderful Valerie Masterson.
By now I think they had begun selling tickets for the Gallery (price 30p) in the Box Office, but of course they were unreserved seats, so in order to get a front seat it was best to start queuing up half an hour before the doors opened. With a 7pm curtain up as all these were, it meant getting there as early as 6.30pm.
I don't know what sort of place Tanya Manor at Castle Donington was, but if you did go there after the show as invited you wouldn't have had very long there.
I didn't go to either of the forthcoming attractions:
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Were telephone kiosks painted white during the war? I thought the one in that photo might be in the silver-grey colour that you would sometimes see :
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Or as it's the League Cup will it be Arsenal reserves?
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West Bridgford Operatic Society's 1972 production followed the D'Oyly Carte line in presenting 'Trial By Jury' as a curtain-raiser to 'H.M.S. Pinafore'.
From now on I began to get my tickets from Derek Revell who played the principal bass-baritone parts and who ran the newsagents on the corner of Hucknall Road and Perry Road which I went past every day on my way to work.
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Here's the first one of the second batch of them. Photographed on Milton Street, of course, early-ish 1970s.
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Thanks, carni, there was a recent discussion of that subject on the Woodthorpe Grange thread so that site adds to it.
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But not all Gilfords had Gruss Air Springs:
http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/?cat=221
Having said that, I'm not sure it quite looks like the Gilford lettering on the radiator either.
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StephenFord - do you think it IS a Leyland - the name on the radiator looks strange, almost lozenge-shaped. But I'm far from sure it's a Gilford - there were so many manufacturers in those days!
I wonder if Cliff Ton can make out the registration on the original photo.
Studying the photo - is that a roof rack towards the rear, with cases piled on it, or is it part of the building behind it?
Singers names of only ONE word.
in Nick Palmer's Nottstalgia General Music Chat.
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I'm not altogether sorry to note that of all the names mentioned I've never heard of half of them.