Longpier (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Friday (27th Nov) sees the much-anticipated return to Southend for the 2009 Battle of the Bands winners, The JONS. The south Essex five-piece will headline at the Railway Hotel in Clifftown Road as a warm-up to a series of gigs throughout the county and London. The JONS have played the popular Southend venue before, in their previous guise as a quartet. Since then, lead singer Tom McFaull has joined...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has recently been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond the local area including: - North Weald Talk - Life as an Essex Agricultural Labourer: 1840 – 1920. Part 3 (the whole work is available in booklet form from the Priory Church of St Laurence, Blackmore, price £1.50) - The 1911 Census - Book Review. Harry...
Learning with 'e's (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Earlier this year I published an edited volume entitled 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' which was a compendium of papers written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field of learning technology. Over the next few days I will present an abridged, bite size series of exerpts from one of my chapters which was entitled: 'Digital Tribes, Virtual Clans'. I hope you enjoy it and look forward...
Real cycling (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Straddling the border between the City and the East End, Liverpool Street Shopping Centre - sorry, Station - is London's third busiest (Waterloo and Victoria being the top two). If you're off with your bike to catch a ferry at Harwich, or fly from Stansted, you'll be coming here. And if airline baggage handling is up to its usual standard, on your way back through, you'll be straight to the nearest...
Drinking During the Game (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
A number of the Sunday papers were running the story that David Sullivan has expressed a desire or intention to own and run Chartlon Athletic Football Club. Strictly speaking, after printing the letters D-a-v-i-d S-u-l-l-i-v-a-n, I think there is a legal requirement to then qualify who he is and how he's made his money. That seems to be the way and the obvious implication is that it is in some way...
fredbutlerstyle (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
*CONTENT WARNING* this post could potentially be mistaken for an ES Magazine party page type review...............to all intents and purposes I suppose it is, but please don't take it seriously.........I'm merely a fly on the fashion wall, not a deluded aspirational partaker Esser are finally back from touring the states over the summer. YAY! Thanks to Esser HQ for inviting me out to celebrate last...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
NHS neonatal experts anxiously await a government taskforce report on an underfunded service with a proud record of saving the lives of seriously ill babies At 1.57pm, paramedic Grahame Pickford switches on his ambulance's siren and blue lights, leaves the Royal London hospital in the capital's East End, and turns right, weaving in and out of traffic that parts helpfully. Ajay Sinha, a consultant...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
The Quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group has recently been issued to members. It contains a number of items about and beyond the local area including: - The Rectors and Patrons of Stapleford Tawney & Theydon Mount - The East End Maternity Hospital at Theydon Mount – Part 1 - The Suckling Papers – Greensted (previously published on this blog) - Life as an Essex Agricultural...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Andrea Arnold has reimagined a corner of England - and its womenfolk - previously held by some in contempt What do you call an Essex girl with half a brain? Answer: Gifted! Witticisms of this kind are all that many know of England's eighth largest county . Some are aware it's the preferred retirement destination for East End gangsters. The refined classes shudder at accounts of its unlovely new towns,...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
EastEnders babe SAMANTHA JANUS has re-started her music career – with the help of DAVID ESSEX.She’s helping out the permed one with a duet on his new album All The Fun Of The Fair, which she hopes will be released as a single.If it’s anything like her 1991 Eurovision entry A Message To Your Heart, Sam would be better off hoping it will be released into the wild.
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