Celtic Moment

INTO London students visit Shakespeare’s Globe for a taste of English history.

Andrea forgets to introduce the band in their live in London performance. This scene was cut out of the DVD.

Heres a virtual movie of the great poet ,artist and mystic William Blake reading his wonderful profound almost pre-Dickensian poem “London” London is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. It is one of the few poems in Songs of Experience which does not have a corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence. As with most of Blake’s poetry, there are several critical interpretations of London. The most common interpretation, favored by critics such as Camille Paglia[2] and EP Thompson, holds that London is primarily a social protest. A less frequently held view is that of Harold Bloom; that London primarily is Blake’s response to the tradition of Biblical prophecy. The use of the word ‘Chartered’ is ambiguous. It may express the political and economic control that Blake considered London to be enduring at the time of his writing. Blake’s friend Thomas Paine had criticised the granting of Royal Charters to control trade as a form of class oppression.[3] However, ‘chartered’ could also mean ‘freighted’, and may refer to the busy or overburdened streets and river, or to the licenced trade carried on within them.[4] In Blake’s notebook, the word ‘chartered’ originally read, ‘dirty’ In Thompson’s view, Blake was an unorthodox Christian of the dissenting tradition, who felt that the state was abandoning those in need. He was heavily influenced by mystical groups.[5] The poem reflects Blake’s extreme disillusionment with the suffering he saw in London.[6] The …

december live on television tv jim sharon caroline andrea instrumental amazing performance!!

I am planning a trip to London from Edinburgh. The home office has my passport, as I am trying to obtain a tier 1 visa. Do I need a passport to travel on a plane from Edinburgh to London? I assumed I only needed a picture ID, but I recall in an episode of Airport a man being very angry because he needed a passport to fly between Scotland and England. I wasn’t sure if this was because he just needed some form of photo ID or actually needed a passport.
Thanks for your help!

The time from landing to departure between flights is 5 hours and 30 minutes, and I may not have to recheck baggage since I´m travelling with British Airways for the whole trip. Should I hang out in the terminal for 5 hours or will I be able to see Windsor Castle since I´ve already seen central London? I am a US Citizen and will therefore have to wait in the Immigration Queue before leaving the airport, so I don´t know whether it would be worth it to leave and return after a quick trip to Windsor.

I’ll be in London from Wednesday night – Sunday morning and I’d like to see Stonehenge if it’s possible. I’m not interested in spending much time doing this, just want to see it to check it off the bucket list.

Any ideas for how to do this quickly/cheaply?

I am Irish living in Dublin but I am a British citizen and have a British passport because my mother was born there.

I want to go to university there so how do I get in? I would like an arts degree with maybe English and History. The system is different in Ireland than in the UK they don’t have the leaving cert in UK like they do in Ireland.

So how would I get in? Would I have to go for interviews or something?

Sons of Admirals: sonsofadmirals.com Alex Day: www.youtube.com Tom Milsom: www.youtube.com Eddplant: www.youtube.com Ningmaster Tom: www.youtube.com Lidewij: www.youtube.com ELMIFY! www.youtube.com Charlie: www.youtube.com songsfrompaul: www.youtube.com Tobias: www.twitter.com Secret Sister Rosianna: www.youtube.com In which John Green discusses his trip to the United Kingdom to support his novel, Paper Towns, which has just been published there. Also he talks about Isaac Newton, Snooki, lust for objects, great music, nerdfighting, unfinished monuments, and the right to choose what we care about. Thanks to everyone who gathered in London and Edinburgh. I can’t wait to come back to the UK!

The first Powered Passenger Bus was exhibited up and down Bond Street, London in England in 1803. This could be called the first London Bus. The traditional red Routemaster has become famous features of London, with much tourist paraphernalia continuing to bear Routemaster imagery. Despite its fame, the previous London bus classes are often mistaken for Routemasters by the public and by the media. As my family are from London I thought it would be a good idea to write about Routemaster Buses.

The AEC Routemaster is a model of double decker bus that was built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) in 1954 (in production from 1958) and produced until 1968. Primarily front-engined, rear open platform buses, a small number of variants were produced with doors and/or front entrances. Introduced by London Transport in 1956, the Routemaster saw continuous service in London until 2005, and currently remains on two heritage routes in central London.

The Routemaster was developed by AEC in partnership with London Transport, the customer for nearly all new Routemasters. In total 2,876 Routemasters were built with approximately 1,000 still in existence.

A pioneering design, the Routemaster outlasted several of its replacement types in London, survived the privatisation of the former London Transport bus operators, and was used by other operators around the UK. The unique features of the standard Routemaster were both praised and criticised. The open platform, while exposed to the elements, allowed boarding and alighting away from stops; and the presence of a conductor allowed minimal boarding time and optimal security, although the presence of conductors produced greater labour costs.

Designed for and largely operated in London, over 2,800 of the original Routemaster buses were built between 1956 and 1968, following a design effort started in 1947. So robust was the design that the Routemaster outlived newer buses intended to replace it, into the deregulated era. It was not eventually withdrawn from regular London passenger service until December 2005.

While older buses were exempt from the disability discrimination requirements until 2017, after the 2004 election, TfL adopted an internal policy aim of requiring all of its bus routes to be operated by low-floor buses, thereby requiring the withdrawal of the Routemaster from London. Contributory factors to the withdrawal were said to be the risk of litigation over accidents arising from using the rear platform, and the cost savings of one man operation, and that passengers preferred the comfort levels of modern buses to the now vintage Routemaster.

The Routemaster continues in operation on two heritage routes awarded as TfL contract tendered routes, but they do not contravene the TfL accessible public transport policy requirement as they are paralleled over their entire route by low-floor vehicles of the same route number.

The new Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, in 2008 announced the re-introduction of the routemaster. The new routemaster will be updated to modern hybrid engineering and the new design has been chosen. It is hoped that the new bus will be operating across London in time for the London Olympics of 2012.

My family tree has been traced back to the early Kings of England from the 7th Century AD. I am also a direct descendent of Sir Christopher Wren which has given me an interest in English History which is great fun to research.

I have recently decided to write articles on my favourite subjects: English Sports, English History, English Icons, English Discoveries and English Inventions. At present I have written over 100 articles which I call “An Englishman’s Favourite Bits Of England” in various Volumes. Please visit my Blogs page http://Bloggs.Resourcez.Com where I have listed all my articles to date.

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Originally posted 2010-11-04 16:00:24.