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Very
British Memorable Images [sequenced pages]
Very
British! Memorable Images Introduction: A - Z Index
Very
British! Memorable Images 1: From the Wolf Cubs "The
Grand Howl" and British Telecom's"Buzby"
Very
British! Memorable Images 2: Nipper and His Master's
Voice
Very
British! Memorable Images 3: "The Beano Comic",
"The Magnet" with Billy Bunter, and "Pip,
Squeak and Wilfred"
Very
British! Memorable Images 4: The Eagle Comic with Dan
Dare, the Mekon, and Harris Tweed
Very
British! Memorable Images 5: Chocolate and Sweet
Nostalgia - Fry's, Cadbury's and Blue Bird
Very
British! Memorable Images 6: "Jennings and
Derbishire" by Anthony Buckeridge, and "Just
William" by Richmal Crompton
Very
British! - Memorable Images 7: Ovaltineys, Sambo, Muffin
- some crosslinking to other Sterlingtimes pages
Very
British! - Memorable Images 8: Guy Fawkes' Night and
fireworks
Very
British! - Memorable Images 9: Toys. John Bull printing
oufit, Mamod steam engines and meccano
Very
British! - Memorable Images 10: The Bulldog Breed. Stella
Matthews traces the origins of two of our nation's most
potent and endearing symbols - John Bull and the British
Bulldog and The Bulldog
Breed - continuation of text from above
Very
British! - Memorable Images 11: Stephen Lowe writes about
the part his late father Arthur Lowe, who played Captain
Mainwaring in the long-running Dad's
Armycomedy series, actually played
in the Second World war.* Continuation
page 1.* Continuation
page 1.
Very
British! - Memorable Images 12 - Votz Zo Funny. The United Kingdom
has had to give Germany a good spanking on several
occasions.And now here they are complaining about our
advertisements for beer - see below. Here we see a few
fun images of British humour.
Very
British - Memorable Images 13 - The figure of Britannia.
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee - the greatest
celebration of the British Empire
Very
British! - Memorable Images 14 - The Lion and the
Unicorn. The lion and the unicorn were fighting for the
crown
Very
British! - Memorable Images 15 - Sir Edward Elgar. Edward
Elgar was arguably the leading English composer of his
generation and a significant figure among late Romantic
European musicians
Very
British! - Memorable Images 16 - British Flags
Very
British! - Memorable Image 17 - Pounds Sterling. The day
we lost pounds, shilling and sense.How it once
added up
Very
British! - Memorable Images 18 - Spitfire
Very
British! - Memorable Images 19 - The British Empire.
"Buy Empire Good from Home and Overseas".
Empire Map from Empire Marketing Board 1926 to promote
trade with Colonies and Dominions and encourage British
people to buy Empire goods
Very
British! - Memorable Images 20 - The Roast Beef of Old
England. When Mighty Roast Beef was the Englishman's
Food, It ennobl'd our veins and enriched our Blood: Our
Soldiers were Brave and our Courtiers were Good: Oh! The
Roast Beef of Old England, And Old English Roast Beef
Very
British! - Memorable Images 21 - Foxhunting
Very
British! - Memorable Images 22 - Nursery Rhymes. Nursery
rhymes (or as they came to be known in the United
States-"Mother Goose" rhymes) are part of the
oral tradition-most cannot be dated with any certainty.
Like fairy tales and folk tales, many are centuries old.
Very
British! - Memorable Images 23 - Saint George and the
Dragon* Will the
Real saint Geogre Stand Up?
Very
British! - Memorable Images 24 - Common Ma\rket or Bust?
I chose bust!
Very
British! - Memorable Images 25 - Post Office Tower. The
British Telecommunication Tower is located in the heart
of the old City of London surrounded by famous buildings
like Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and St. Paul's
Cathedral* Post Office
Tower continued
Very
British! - Memorable Images 26 - The decline and fall of
the middle class and how it is fighting back
Very
British! - Memorable Images 27 - Possibly the most famous
clock face and chimes in the world. BIG BEN is actually
the name of the largest bell inside The Clock Tower which
forms part of the HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. The accuracy of
the clock movement is controlled by placing of old
pennies in the mechanism
Very
British! - Memorable Images 28 - Sir Winston Churchill
Very
British! - Memorable Images 29 - The Black and White
Minstrel Show and the history of minstrels
Very
British! - Memorable Images 30 - The BBC"Sounds
then... " Part 1* Sounds
then..." Part 2
Very
British! - Memorable Images 31 - Bowler Hat Heroes
Very
British! - Memorable Images 32 - George Morland* Fifty
illustrations of George Morland's works 1_2_ 3_4_5_6_7_8_9_10_11_12_William
Redmore Bigg
Very
British! - Memorable Images 33 - I'm Backing Britain
Very
British! - Memorable Images 34 - Fish and Chips
Very
British! - Memorable Images 35 - John Peel
Very
British! - Memorable Images 36 - The English Language
Very
British! - Memorable Images 37 - Police
Very
British! - Memorable Images 38 - Land's End to John
O'Groats
Very
British! - Memorable Images 39 - Seaside and Piers
Very
British! - Memorable Images 40 - Beatric Potter
Very
British! - Memorable Images 41 - Meriden and the Cardinal
Points of Great Britain
Very
British! - Memorable Images 42 - Tradional Counties of
Great Britain
Very
British! - Memorable Images 43 - Shakespeare and
Stratford
Very
British! - Memorable Images 44 - Cricket
Very
British! - Memorable Images 45 - Openair Museums
Very
British! - Memorable Images 46 - The Queen
Very
British! - Memorable Images 47 - I'm a British Bulldog -
not a Brussels Sprout
Very
British! - Memorable Images 48 - The Englishman
Very
British! - Memorable Images 49 - Enoch Powell
Very
British! - Memorable Images 50 - The Little People of
British Advertising
Very
British! - Memorable Images 51 - Children's Clubs -
"Free Trips for NigNogs
Television
[sequenced pages]
Television
Nostalgia Entry Page - with a nice little Tony Hancock
"video" for all to see.
Television
Nostalgia 1 - Bill & Ben the Flowerpot Men, Muffin
the Mule and more nostalgia.
Television
Nostalgia 2 - Brum, the little car from
Bourton-on-the-Water, the Singing Ringing Tree, and the
Teletubbies who live near Stratford.
Television
Nostalgia 3 - Thomas the Tank Engine and wanted items.
Television
Nostalgia 4 - Pinky & Perky, Tingha & Tucker, and
Portland Bill.
Television
Nostalgia 5 - visual images of early sixties' television.
Television
Nostalgia 6 - visual images of early sixties' television.
Television
Nostalgia 7 - "Tales from Europe"_The Singing
Ringing Tree_The
Tinerbox_ Snow White_Rumpelstiltskin
Television
Nostalgia 8 - Bleep and Booster
Television
Miscellaneous
Television
Midi Files
Torchy the
Battery Boy Page - pictures of Torchy and his friends.
Muffin the
Mule - pictures of Muffin and a useful Real Video link to
the BBC.
Bill, Ben,
Weed and Andy Pandy - nice picture and some really silly
flob-a-dob sounds.
Portland
Bill - a couple of Portland Bill pictures from the video
cassette.
"Flobadob
the Sequel" - about the return of Bill and Ben the
Flowerpot Men - clippings from the Daily Mail
Tingha and
Tucker Club Annual 1969
Tingha and
Tucker Club Rules
Tingha and
Tucker Club Song
Radio and
Television Theme Tunes [sequenced pages]
Radio and
Television Music Themes Introduction section index - with
picture of old vinyl theme tune record covers.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 01 - Favourite TV Themes - with
Black Beauty and Upstairs Downstairs.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 1 - Great British Experience - a
collection of old BBC radio theme tunes.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 2 - This is Henry Hall and the
BBC Dance Orchestra - includes the record, "Radio
Times".
Radio and
Television Music Themes 3 - This is the return to cult
fiction - with the themes of "Snowy White
Horse" and "Vision On".
Radio and
Television Music Themes 4 - We love the pirate satations
- Themes of Radio Caroline, Radio Nordsee, and We Love
the Pirate Stations.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 5 - 75 Years of the BBC - from
2LO to Radio 5 Live.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 6 - The Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe - the 1964 television series.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 7 - The Avengers and other top
sixties television themes - with "Who do you Think
you are Kidding Mr Hitler" and "Steptoe &
Son".
Radio and
Television Music Themes 8 - Battlestar Galactica: A-Z of
fantasy themes: Fireball XL5, Singray, Doctor Who.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 9 - Radio Luxembourg theme - some
remarkable early theme tunes - "Tune-In" and
"Bonjour les Amis".
Radio and
Television Music Themes 10 - Songs of "The
Ovaltineys" and other War Zone hits.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 11 - Radio Days British 30s Radio
- I have this CD on order - too good to miss for British
radio fans.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 12 - Music of the 20th Century
1900 - 1939 - with the early radio-related song by Flotam
& Jetsam - "Little Betty Bouncer loves an
announcer down at the BBC".
Radio and
Television Music Themes 13 - The Best of Monte Rey -
Uncle Monte, the "Spannish" tenor from
Scotland, appeared with the Ovaltineys.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 14 - 500 British TV theme tunes
available from The Music Factory - a huge checklist of
500 TV themes just in case you have any missing in your
collection.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 15 - Index of TV theme clips that
are available on the Internet. There are still record
clips available on the Internet if you know where to
look.
Radio and
Television Music Themes 16 - Children's TV Themes
available on video
Radio and
Television Music Themes 17 - More Children's TV Themes
available on video
Radio and
Television Music Themes 18 - More videos still available:
Sir Prancelot, Belle et Sebastien, and Tales from Europe
Radio and
Television Music Themes 19 - BBC World of Sound with an
excellent and unusual selection of radio and TV themes.
Includes "Radio Newsreel"
Radio
Broadcasting
Radio
Normandy
Radio
Normandy Photoset
"The
First Pirate" - The story of Captain L.F. Plugge and
Radio Normandy. Documentary in Emblaze Audio.
Radio
Luxembourg
Radio Enoch
Pirate
Radio
Pirate
Radio 2- Emblaze Test
Radio Times
Remember
the Enemy is Listening
Pages about
the 1930s sponsored English language sations in Europe 1
- These pages record some of the history of the early
English-language sponsored or commercial stations that
transmitted to the United Kingdom during the 1930s
Pages about
the 1930s sponsored English language sations in Europe 2
-This might be described as an early DX-pedition from the
"Radio Pictorial" May 3, 1935 Number 68. The
picture is of the NBC Studios. "Across the Atlantic
with a Portable" by Frank Lamping
Pages about
the 1930s sponsored English language sations in Europe 3
- Programme
Schedule for Radio Cote D'Azur from Juan Les Pins for
Sunday May 5 1935. Also IBC shortwave Empire
Transmissions
Pages about
the 1930s sponsored English language sations in Europe 4.
Referral to aThis wonderful French site covers Radio Lyon
and Radio Poste Parisiene that both transmitted to
England with sponsored programming
Pages about
the 1930s sponsored English language sations in Europe 5
- About Captain Plugge and Radio International
Radio Jolly
Roger - The story of pirate radio in Birmingham
Vintage
Music [sequenced pages]
Sterling
Music 1 - Introduction and Index
Sterling
Music 2 - English Country Garden - wonderful English
songs - the very best!
Sterling
Music 3 - 49 Golden Treasures - early recorded music
including, "The man who broke the bank at Monte
Carlo" with Charles Coborn.
Sterling
Music 4 - "Laugh, laugh, laugh!" - An Anthology
of American Comdey including, "The Pig got up and
slowly walked away"
Sterling
Music 5 - Casablanca Steps - Crazy Words, Crazy Tunes
Sterling
Music 6 - There'll always be an England
Sterling
Music 7- I am the naughty Lola - Marlene Dietrich
Sterling
Music 8 - Tiny Tim - Tiptoe through the tulips
resurrection
Sterling
Music 8a - Animal crackers in my soup
Sterling
Music 9 - "Home in Pasadena"
Sterling
Music 10 - By Jingo It's British Rubbish
Sterling
Music 11 - Pennies from Heaven
Sterling
Music 12 - The Wibbly Wobbly Walk
Sterling
Music 13 - The Charleston Era
Sterling
Music 14 - Sing a Song of England - Flotsam and Jetsam
Sterling
Music 15 - Laurel and Hardy
Sterling
Music 16 - Fiddle Faddle
Sterling
Music 17 - Sing a Song of England
Sterling
Music 18 - The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Cornology
Sterling
Music 19 - The Golden Years
Sterling
Music 20 - Lili Marlene
Sterling
Music 21 - We'll Still Sing Rule Britannia by Dave the
Plumber
Children's
Music
Hello
Children Everywhere - Classic Children's Records
Children's
Records Page 2 - Featuring - The sun has got his hat on,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wuz a bear, Rosemary Clooney records, Three
wheels on my wagon, Champion the wonder horse,
application of Napster, The wedding of the painted doll.
Children's
Records Page 3 - Teddy Bears' Picnic
Children's
Records Page 4 - Mole in a Hole - the Southlanders
Children's
Records Page 5 - Mairzy Doats
Children's
Records Page 6 - Daddy's taking me to the zoo tomorrow
Children's
Records Page 7 - The Magic Toy Shop - La
Boutique FantasqueThe Magic Toy Shop - La Boutique
Fantasque
Children's
Records Page 8 - still composing page
Vintage
Children's Record Sources - Classic Children's Records
Children's
Record Selection - a resource for finding some classic
children's records graphical view of children's record
sources with pictures of CD front covers
Emblaze -
temporarily suspended!
Books and Stories
Sterling
Books 01 - "Yesterday's Shopping - The Army &
Navy Stores Catalgoue 1907 - A Facsimile of the Army
& Navy's 1907 issue of the Rules of the Society and
Price List of Articles Sold at the Store"
Sterling
Books 02 - What's on the Box? by David Lazell,
Yesterday's Britain, Remember When
My son
Oliver, aged three at the time of his writing this
webpage, had a singing toothbrush - see it and hear it
here
The Story
of Little Black Samo by Helen Bannerman
The Story
of Little Kettle-head by Helen Bannerman
The Story
of Little Kettle-head by Helen Bannerman (new full story)
Pat and the
Spider by Hlene Bannerman
Little
White Squibba versus Little Black Sambo
Other Books
by Helen Bannerman
Epaminondas
and His Auntie
The Three
Billy Goats Gruff
The Troll
Waiting Under the Bridge
Lonely
Hearts for Trolls
Bill and
Ben Story
Fable
Dick and
Dora
Catalogue
of Children's Books 1907
Links
Sterling
Links 1: Partritoic and Nostalgic Links
Sterling
Links 2: Radio and Television Links
Sterling
Links 3: Music Links
Sterling
Links 4: General links, book links, art links,
internet/technical links, shopping links, Cagnes links
Consumer
Lousy
Companies
Gadgets -
coming soon - my favourite gadgets
Yesterday's
Shopping
Yesterday's
Shopping
The
"Witch" Dust Extractor
The
Aspirator Air Suction Cleaning Machine
The
"Atom" Suction Cleaning Machine
The
Low-Vaccum Pneumatic Dust Extractor
Equestrian
Shopping - Tack 0
Sterling
Pictures
Sterling
pictures from Sterling times - more pictures to add here
in due course.
Wallace
& Gromit: Crackers in Space
The Post
Office Tower in London
British and
Colonial Flags
Empire
Calendar
Rag, Tag, and
Bobtail from Watch with Mother
British Bulldog
Frightening Troll
Ovaltineys
Ovaltine -
a collection of Ovaltineys, memorabilia
The Rule
Book of The League of Ovaltineys: Introduction
The Rule
Book of The League of Ovaltineys: 1 - Front cover and
dire warning
The Rule
Book of The League of Ovaltineys: 2 - Membership Badge
The Rule
Book of The League of Ovaltineys: 3 - Letter from the
Chief Ovaltiney
The Rule
Book of The League of Ovaltineys: 4 - Seven things that
every member must promise to do
The Rule
Book of The League of Ovaltineys: 5 - Secret signs and
signals of The League
The Rule
Book of The League of Ovaltineys: 6 Secret signs and
signals continued
The Rule
Book of The League of Ovaltineys: 7 - The Ovaltineys'
Secret Code
The Rule
Book of The League of Ovaltineys: 8 - Membership
Certificate
Sheet Music
for "We are the Ovaltineys"
Sheet Music
for "The Ovaltineys Say Goodbye"
Good News
for Ovaltineys
Ovaltineys' Long
Play (LP) Record) - 1
Ovaltineys' Long
Play (LP) Record) - 2
Ovaltineys:An
article appears in the Spring 2001 edition of Evergreen
Magazine about "The Ovaltineys". An
advertisment is presented at the end of the article
promoting the CD (or cassette), "We are the
Ovaltineys"
Ovaltineys'
Programme in Emblze Audio from 24 January 1937 - run time
30 minutes
The Ovaltiners Club
and sheet music for club record
The Ovaltiners Club
Record
Politically
Incorrect [sequenced pages]
Politically
Incorrect - Intodduction - Golly versus Mr Sparks and the
patriotic apron for women.
Politically
Incorrect - 1 - many politically incorrect images and a
list of things that have been banned in the UK.
Politically
Incorrect - 2 - "Nipper" and His Master's
Voice.
Politically
Incorrect - 3 - Kipling and Rhodes, the banning of our
childhood heroes, and punka wallahs.
Politically
Incorrect - 4 - "Self-defence is no offence" -
Tony Martin, the English farmer - imprisoned for life for
defending his home.
Politically
Incorrect - 5 - Rupert on Coon Island, and Golliwoggs
with naughty names.
Politically
Incorrect - 6 - imperial crime, the hand of the
heavy-handed socialist state on those who will persist in
using imperial weights and measures; they won't give an
inch.
Politically
Incorrect 7 - gay-Par-ie, Enoch Powell's foxhunting. the
politically correct Little Red Riding Hood, politically
incorrect music, and the banned words of our National
Anthem.
Politically
Incorrect 8 - Johnny Seven and Civil War news Cards
Politically
Incorrect 9 - The Environment Page
Politically
Incorrect Miscellaneous
A-Z of
Englishness.
Images of
Empire 1
Images of
Empire 2
Gotcha 1 -
reporting by The Sun of the sinking of the General
Belgrano.
Gotcha 2 -
General Belgrano.
Enoch
Powell: Rivers of Blood Poster
Enoch
Powell speaks about Europe
Enoch
Powell: Rivers of Blood Press Cuttings
Patriotic
Links
Funny
picture of Tony Blair from "The Mirror" during
the petrol crisis
The Last
Great Briton: Margaret Thatcher.
Save Our
Golliwogs!
Racist golliwog toy
makes a comeback
Cagnes
[sequenced pages]
Cagnes
Introduction - The English site about this wonderful
medieval village in France
Cagnes 1 -
Map of Hault de Cagnes and painting of the Château
Cagnes 2 -
Montée de la Bourgade - Haut de Cagnes
Cagnes 3 -
1953 postcards of Haut de Cagnes
Cagnes 4 -
Photographic tour of Haut de Cagnes
Cagnes 5 -
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A Church at Cagnes. 1905. Oil on
canvas. Private collection
Cagnes 6 -
Fête Médiévale at Haut de Cagnes (1) : 6 August 2000
Cagnes 7 -
Fête Médiévale at Haut de Cagnes (2) : 6 August 2000
Cagnes 8 -
Fête Médiévale at Haut de Cagnes (3) : 6 August 2000
Cagnes 9 -
Haut de Cagnes : Vue générale pris de la Route Vence
Cagnes 10 -
Chapell Notre Dame de Protection - painted by Salter
circa 1910
Cagnes 11 -
Other Postcards of Cagnes
Cagnes 12 -
Cagnes Fortin Médiéval. Plan Promenade, édite par les
Amis du Vieux Cagnes* Larger plan
Cagnes -
Streetmap
Favourite
Software [sequenced pages]
Favourite
Software 1.
Favourite
Software 2.
Favourite
Software 3.
Favourite
Software 4 - still constructing.
Genealogy
Stephen
Lewis' Genealogy Page
Lewis
Family Tree
A selection
of family photographs
Bedgebury
Park, Isaac Lewis' home in Kent
Bedgebury
Park 2, Isaac Lewis' home in Kent
Leeuwenhof,
Isaac Lewis' home in Cape Town
Watercolour
painting of Leeuwenhof
Vereeniging
ARR_IV
Lewis Press
Cuttings Index
About
Neustadt in Lithuania
Vintage
Cars
Vintage and
veteran cars 1 - a few of the cars belonging the the
Lewis and Duveen families
Vintage and
veteran cars 2 - a few of the cars belonging the the
Lewis and Duveen families
Horses
Our Horses.
My wife and I are keen riders and now own four horses.
My Horse:
The Smuggler - saddly kicked by another horse during July
2000 and had to be destroyed. He was 17 hands 2 inches
high. A hand is four inches (probably an illegal unit of
measurement in the UK).
Games
Saddam
Hussein Game
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