As well as telepathic communication with them it seems.
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As well as telepathic communication with them it seems.
Nikola Tesla claimed to have fallen in love with a white pigeon, with which he could communicate telepathically, saying “I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.”
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drcdcb.substack.com/p/the-gillin... A rather sombre piece about another postcard in my collection, an incongruous image for what was an appalling tragedy.
open.substack.com/pub/drcdcb/p... I’ve written about the second life of old postcards, disconnected from their original context these images now afford the subjects of exploitation a form of posthumous power and immortality.
The story of Medway Film Studios, which nearly became a centre of Anglo-Chinese film-making.
Contains contortionism, Hitler, and some not so great films.
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Here's an older piece about how statues are often presented as the most solid form of public memory. In popular imagination they appear immovable, both physically and symbolically reflecting a society’s values frozen in material form. drcdcb.substack.com/p/unquiet-mo...
An overview of some Medway teen hangouts, lots more to write on this… drcdcb.substack.com/p/milk-bars-...
"Winifred Alice Ryeland became a first a ballroom dancer, and then an acrobatic contortionist, under the soubriquet Winsome Winnie. She also toured provincial variety theatres as The Human Spider with a stage set that involved a giant web" open.substack.com/pub/drcdcb/p...
In the slang of Chatham’s dockyard maties... a “rabbit job” was work done on work time using Dockyard materials and equipment, and they were considered to be one of the perks of the job.... Removing this stuff from the premises became something of an artform. substack.com/@drcdcb/note...
Does it have anything about The Wimbledon appearing at the opening of the Pentagon Shopping Centre in November of 1975 in it?
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A new Oral History Medway podcast explores Short Brothers and their Medway factories. When Rochester Cathedral exhibition of a restored Short Scion floatplane, we recorded visitors’ family stories and memories.
Chatham Standard - Tuesday 18 April 1989
Ithell Colquhoun drawn by Mervyn Peake
(In: Peake Studies*, Vol. 4 No. 4, Spring 1996)
*they spell her name as Ethill Colquhoun
"If the future matters, start saving things now, even if imperfectly. Write the story, label the photo, date the flyer, back up the voice memo, and share what is known in forms that can travel, be understood, and be retrieved later." www.commondreams.org/opinion/docu...
Share the sporting story of your club, organisation, or community with us on National Sporting Heritage Day #NSHD2025
To Kick Off here's “#Gillingham Football Club - The Supporters' Stories” #oralhistory #medway vimeo.com/1070405466?f...
Today is National Sporting Heritage Day #NSHD2025
Here's “Gillingham Football Club The Supporters' Stories”, compiled by Oral History Medway and made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the Medway Heritage Place Programme
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"Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it."
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Crouch End Vampires F. C. 1908-9, formed in 1883, still playing today.
Jazz Drug Menace - Melody Maker December 1st 1951
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"Conservator Alexandra Wade for the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust said the discovery was a "tangible reminder of the lives once lived here - a small, personal object that has survived nearly three centuries"."
"The music of our hearts is roots music: musics which we call history, because without the knowledge of your history you cannot determine your destiny; the music about the present, because if you’re not conscious of the present you’re like a cabbage in this society" youtu.be/gM2VxbQDERw?...
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“They have clearly shifted to it being a resource for BBC business priorities,” said Wyver. “The corporation no longer recognises the value that working with scholars brings”
"For a normal, cultivated human being… our brain can operate only within certain limits: what our environment, with books, knowledge, information, has put in our brain. And, at some point, probably our brains may no longer have the capacity to understand."
The worst part of this story is rather buried;
“The guards came to his bed, opened his pillow, took all the poetry and letters he’d been writing, and all the notes he’d been taking about his experiences, and told him he’s no longer allowed to write.”
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"Interest in Short Brothers has been overwhelming, so many people globally have been in touch with fascinating stories and artefacts to share."
We're always looking for more stories... get in touch
A wonderful evening at Gillingham Football Club last night for the launch of the Oral History Medway Supporters' Stories film. Thanks to everyone who came, especially to Brigadier Andrew Wood, Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, Mayor of Medway Cllr Trevor Clark. oralhistorymedway.co.uk/.../gillingh...
It was amazing to be part of this reunion, 50 years to the day since the band Cathedral played in Rochester Cathedral with Anaconda Music Theatre and Paul Laurence. A glass was raised to the late Andy Dungate. A beautiful, moving afternoon of memories
"Yet most of it is closed down. Boarded up. Under threat. The Crown especially should be the site of (un)holy pilgrimage for every Sabbath fan, Metal Head, Ska Revivalist, Punk and Folkie globally - showcasing the best Brum music, beer, food and creativity." www.bbc.com/news/article...
“We are trying preserve memories, to fix them”
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One inscribed “SKULL DRINKING CUP USED BY LORD BYRON AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY” was auctioned in 2017, but the write up seemed fairly sceptical about its provenance