On This Day

[Raybosailor]

On this day 34 years ago, my dad died. He would have been 94 now.

I'm sure the thoughts of all the forum members are with you on this day Gill.

[GillD46]

On this day 34 years ago, my dad died. He would have been 94 now.

I'm sure the thoughts of all the forum members are with you on this day Gill.

Thanks Ray.

[Raybosailor]

10th July 1954. Big Party On The Green

Looking at some old photos this morning it reminded me of this day.

Although food rationing had finished a week earlier food was still in short supply but there was a party held on our local green. I can't remember what the celebration was all about but everyone in the neighborhood chipped in and we had a big tent where all the food and drink was kept.
There was a barrel of beer for the adults and the local dairy donated 1/3 pints of orange juice for the kids, my dads family were market traders and managed to get their hands on a load of fruit and this was the first time I had seen a banana in my life.
I remember it was an overcast day but it managed to stay dry and people were dancing and singing to a piano borrowed from the church hall. I remember being able to stay up until really late that night but I think that was to keep an eye on my little brother and baby sister while dad helped to empty the barrel.
It will always be in my memory because I have never seen such happy times enjoyed by so many people since.

[Gill W]

8th July 2001

I embarked on my first cruise - 'Images of the Mediterranean' on Aurora

Any cruises since Gill ?, we have yet to sail on Aurora but we did a ship visit on her and maybe we will try it later.

I've done 3 further cruises on Aurora. She is a beautiful ship, but the last, in 2011, was a slightly lacklustre cruise for various reasons.

But she's had a re-fit since then and I'm looking forward to sailing on her next February, for 45 nights!

[Dancing Queen]

8th July 2001

I embarked on my first cruise - 'Images of the Mediterranean' on Aurora

Any cruises since Gill ?, we have yet to sail on Aurora but we did a ship visit on her and maybe we will try it later.

I've done 3 further cruises on Aurora. She is a beautiful ship, but the last, in 2011, was a slightly lacklustre cruise for various reasons.

But she's had a re-fit since then and I'm looking forward to sailing on her next February, for 45 nights!

Funnily enough the last cruise we did on Aurora was in 2011 and for various reasons didn't enjoy it but we had already decided to leave P&O so I can't say this had anything to do with it.

Aurora has always been my favourite P&O ship so I would agree Gill she is a beautiful ship .. what I call a proper ship we've probably been on her more than a dozen times and never had a bad cruise, the last one we didn't enjoy but it was nothing to do with the ship or the crew ( who were as wonderful as ever ) more to do with Carnival who imo didn't deliver !!

[Raybosailor]

11th. July

1274 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland was born.

1848 Waterloo Station was officially opened it is now Britain's busiest station.

1859 Tale Of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, was published.

1930 A record score of 309 runs in one day was hit by Australian cricketer Don Bradman against England, in a Test match held at Headingley.

1987 War veterans returned to the scene of the bloodiest battle of World War I to commemorate its 70th anniversary. The fields of Passchendaele in Belgium claimed the lives of 250,000 troops of the British Commonwealth between July and November 1917.

Birthdays

Yul Brynner 1915
Caroline Wozniacki 1990 - Tennis player

[qbman1]

On this day in 1997 voters in Wales narrowly approved the creation of a Welsh assembly in a national referendum.

Another great day in history !

[Raybosailor]

12th July:
1543 Henry VIII married Catherine Parr, his sixth and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace.

1910 Charles Rolls co-founder of Rolls-Royce was killed when his bi-plane crashed.

1969 Tony Jacklin became the first British golfer since 1951 to win the Open Championship.

2013 TV broadcaster Alan Whicker died aged 87, he spent nearly 60 years in brodcasting.

1730 The birth of Josiah Wedgwood.

1947 The birth of Gareth Edwards, former Welsh rugby union player.

[qbman1]

Here's a topical one (!)

On this day in 1096, the Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reach Sofia in Hungary.

I'll bet Sofia was a busy girl that day !!

[qbman1]

This one's more like it:

On this day in 1962, The Rolling Stones made their live debut at the Marquee Jazz Club, London, with d**k Taylor on bass (later of The Pretty Things) and Mick Avory on drums, (later of The Kinks). Billed as The Rollin’ Stones, they were paid £20 for the gig, the equivalent of £330 in 2010.

[Raybosailor]

13th. July

1713 A treaty signed between Great Britain and Spain at Utrecht ceded Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity, watch this space they are knocking on the door again.

1811 James Young a chemist best known for his method of distilling paraffin from coal was born. His works, in West Lothian became the first commercial oil works in the world.

1955 Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in Britain - executed at Holloway Prison for the murder of her lover David Blakely.

1985 Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia raise £30 million.

2016 Theresa May, the former Home Secretary, becomes the second lady Prime Minister after David Cameron resigned following a referendum that voted in favour of leaving the European Union.

Birthdays
Harrison Ford 1942
Erno Rubik 1944 - Creator of Rubik's Cube puzzle

[qbman1]

John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat died on this day in 1551 (who knew?!)

[Raybosailor]

14th. July

1766 The official opening of the 137 mile long Grand Union Canal (Britain's longest canal) that links London to Birmingham.

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.

1939 The government announced that all infants and nursing mothers would get fresh milk free or at no more than two pence a pint.

1940 World War II: Britain tackled the threat of a German invasion by forming the Home Guard - a part-time volunteer army, comprising men too old for national service. (shove it up em Mr. Mannering).

1962 The Beatles played their first gig in Wales when they appeared at The Regent Dansette Theatre in Rhyl.

1967 Abortion was legalized in Britain.

Birthdays
1926 My dear late Mother was born on this day, bless you Mum x
1858 Emmeline Pankhurst the suffragette was born in Moss Side, Manchester

[Raybosailor]

15th. July

1573 The birth of the architect Inigo Jones, designer of the London landmarks Whitehall, Covent Garden and the Banqueting House.

1815 French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered aboard the English ship Bellerophon in Rochefort.

1857 British men, women and children were chopped up by local butchers and thrown down a well at Cawnpore, as the Indian Mutiny continued.

1912 National Insurance payments began in Britain.

Bithdays
1606 The world famous artist Rembrandt was born on this day.

[qbman1]

15th July - a great day in history - in 1869 margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries

[Raybosailor]

16th. July

1902 Bills for the building of London underground lines received their second reading in the House of Commons.

1945 The leaders of the three Allied nations (Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman and Josef Stalin) gathered in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

1964 The Rolling Stones had their first UK No.1 single with It's All Over Now.

1970 Prime Minister Edward Heath declared a state of emergency following the start of a national dock strike the first state of emergency issued in Britain since 1926.

1966 Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker formed the band Cream.

Birthdays
Tony Jackson (Searchers) 1940
Desmond Dekker 1941 - Singer, songwriter, musician
Margaret Court MBE (nee Smith) tennis player born in NSW 1942
Michael Flatley American born dancer famous for Irish dancing shows 1958

[Raybosailor]

17th. July

1761 The official opening of the Bridgewater canal, built to transport the Duke of Bridgewater's coal from his mine at Worsley, near Manchester.

1918 The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, was sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55, with the loss of 5 lives.

1964 Sir Donald Campbell set a new land speed world record of 403.10 mph in his car, Bluebird.

1981 The Humber Estuary Bridge was officially opened by the Queen. For 16 years after its construction it was the world's longest single-span structure.

Birthdays
James Cagney 1899
Camilla Duchess of Cornwall,2nd. wife of Prince Charles 1947
David Hasselhoff 1952 Actor of Knight Rider and Baywatch fame, I had the pleasure of meeting David backstage at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham when my granddaughter was in the dance troupe of the pantomime that David was starring in, the nicest guy you could wish to meet.
Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor, I don't suppose anyone from Britain apart from Krankie will be invited to her party.

[Raybosailor]

18th. July

1872 Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot.
1892 The death of Thomas Cook, founder of the travel agency that became the Thomas Cook Group in 2007.
1920 The Cenotaph War Memorial in Whitehall was unveiled to commemorate the war dead. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and takes its name from the Greek words kenos and taphos meaning empty tomb.
2009 Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, died, aged 113.


Birthdays
1848 William Gilbert Grace, cricketing legend, was born.
1950 Richard Branson, British entrepreneur(and Brexit winger), was born
1957 Nick Faldo British golfer was born.

[Raybosailor]

18th. July

1545 The Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII's battle fleet, sank in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives.

1832 The British Medical Association was founded.

1837 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 236 ft steamship, the Great Western, was launched at Bristol.

1843 Just 6 years after the launching of The Great Western Brunel's 'SS Great Britain the first Atlantic liner built of iron, was also launched.

1954 Elvis Presley's first single"That's All Right" was released by Sun Records.

1985 George Bell won first place in a biggest feet contest with a shoe size of 28-1/2. Bell, at age 26, stood 7 feet 10 inches tall.

1999 An academic study revealed that four million children in Britain were living in poverty.

2013 Comic actor and writer Mel Smith died of a heart attack, aged 60.

Birthdays

Samuel Colt 1814 founder of the Colt firearms company.
Brian Harold May (Queen) 1947

[qbman1]

...and most importantly, in 1975 The Bay City Rollers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Give A Little Love', the group's second and final UK No.1.

Calm down girls !

[Raybosailor]

...and most importantly, in 1975 The Bay City Rollers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Give A Little Love', the group's second and final UK No.1.

Calm down girls !

I can see you in your big boots and a tartan scarf round your wrist Cubie

[Raybosailor]

20th. July

1807 Round-arm (over-arm) bowling was introduced to English cricket by John Willes in the Kent v England match at Fenenden Heath.

1837 London’s first railway station opened, in Euston Grove. The new Euston station was described as ‘mightier than the pyramids of Egypt’.

1871 The English Football Association Challenge Cup Competition was formed, to become better known as the FA Cup. The first final saw the Wanderers beat the Royal Engineers by one goal to nil, watched by a crowd of 2,000.
1965 Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" was released.



Birthdays
1938 Diana Rigg, the actress, was born. She was famous for her role as Emma Peel
1943 Wendy Richard the actress was born. She played Miss Brahms in the BBC's Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders.
1919 Sir Edmund Hillary Explorer, first to climb Mt. Everest

[Onelife]

.......my wife takes early retirement

[qbman1]

...and most importantly, in 1975 The Bay City Rollers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Give A Little Love', the group's second and final UK No.1.

Calm down girls !

I can see you in your big boots and a tartan scarf round your wrist Cubie

I confess I did sport several pairs of natty striped socks !!

[Jan Rosser]

Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on the 20 July 1969 and I was pregnant waiting for my first son