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Showing posts with label derby. Show all posts
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Friday, 29 June 2012
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
COMMENT: Why no memorial for Emily Davison?
This weekend, alongside the ubiquitous Jubilee "celebrations", Epsom racecourse will host the Derby. One of the pinnacles of the horse racing calendar made all the more significant by what happened 99 years ago.
On Derby Day in 1913, Emily Wilding Davison stepped out from behind the railings at Tattenham Corner into the path of Anmer, one of the king's horses as part of the campaign for "Votes for Women". She died four days later from her injuries. Davison was the only suffragette to die in pursuit of the campaign.
Shockingly the Epsom racecourse has no memorial to Emily Davison - no plaque or statue, nothing to identify the place where she stepped out in front of the galloping horses. Her selfless act of protest, and one of the most significant acts of protest in recent British history, is forgotten by the race horsing community, the racecourse owners or even Epsom council. and yet there are statues of horses that won the Derby (including one who won the race as recently as 1991 and whose statue was erected in 1995).
I used to live near Tattenham Corner and find it shocking that so much money was pumped into the tiny, under-used rail station (because the Queen uses it once a year) and not a single penny was put towards anything to mark the 1913 protest.
Surely it's time for a monument at Tattenham Corner? A blue plaque perhaps? Something to mark one of the most heroic acts of campaigning for civil rights this country has ever seen.
Next year is the centenary of Davison's death, the lack of appropriate recognition is something that needs to be addressed in time for that anniversary.
On Derby Day in 1913, Emily Wilding Davison stepped out from behind the railings at Tattenham Corner into the path of Anmer, one of the king's horses as part of the campaign for "Votes for Women". She died four days later from her injuries. Davison was the only suffragette to die in pursuit of the campaign.
Shockingly the Epsom racecourse has no memorial to Emily Davison - no plaque or statue, nothing to identify the place where she stepped out in front of the galloping horses. Her selfless act of protest, and one of the most significant acts of protest in recent British history, is forgotten by the race horsing community, the racecourse owners or even Epsom council. and yet there are statues of horses that won the Derby (including one who won the race as recently as 1991 and whose statue was erected in 1995).
I used to live near Tattenham Corner and find it shocking that so much money was pumped into the tiny, under-used rail station (because the Queen uses it once a year) and not a single penny was put towards anything to mark the 1913 protest.
Surely it's time for a monument at Tattenham Corner? A blue plaque perhaps? Something to mark one of the most heroic acts of campaigning for civil rights this country has ever seen.
Next year is the centenary of Davison's death, the lack of appropriate recognition is something that needs to be addressed in time for that anniversary.
Thursday, 26 April 2012
baked
This is a short piece for solo piano.
The tune at about 2'08" uses the musical letters from the word baked (B,A,E,D).
baked is a new bakery and cafe opening in Derby on May 5th 2012 and I had just been reading their tweets (@bakedderby) which gave me the idea for the piece!
For more information about baked: http://www.baked-derby.com/
The tune at about 2'08" uses the musical letters from the word baked (B,A,E,D).
baked is a new bakery and cafe opening in Derby on May 5th 2012 and I had just been reading their tweets (@bakedderby) which gave me the idea for the piece!
For more information about baked: http://www.baked-derby.com/
Monday, 23 April 2012
World Book Night 2012
World Book Night is a celebration of the written held annually on 23rd April - Shakespeare's birthday.
The idea is simple.
This evening 1,000,000 books will be given away for free by people who have chosen a book that means something to them from a list.
I'm at Derby QUAD, sitting in the café drinking a hot chocolate, waiting for the book give away to begin at about 7pm.
I know what I'm getting, a copy of The Damned United (David Peace's account of Brian Clough's tumultuous time as manager of Leeds United) because I follow the person doing the giving away on Twitter.
All the books are softback special editions of well-known books - some classics alongside more contemporary fare - and the idea is to help promote reading in society by taking it out of libraries and book stores and putting it in unusual places, and, by having interested people give away the books, it's hoped that their enthusiasm will rub off on others.
It's a novel approach (yes, that was deliberate) and a great idea.
Who knows, maybe in years to come I can write a book that's given away at a future World Book Night.
For more information:www.worldbooknight.org
The idea is simple.
This evening 1,000,000 books will be given away for free by people who have chosen a book that means something to them from a list.
I'm at Derby QUAD, sitting in the café drinking a hot chocolate, waiting for the book give away to begin at about 7pm.
I know what I'm getting, a copy of The Damned United (David Peace's account of Brian Clough's tumultuous time as manager of Leeds United) because I follow the person doing the giving away on Twitter.
All the books are softback special editions of well-known books - some classics alongside more contemporary fare - and the idea is to help promote reading in society by taking it out of libraries and book stores and putting it in unusual places, and, by having interested people give away the books, it's hoped that their enthusiasm will rub off on others.
It's a novel approach (yes, that was deliberate) and a great idea.
Who knows, maybe in years to come I can write a book that's given away at a future World Book Night.
For more information:www.worldbooknight.org
Friday, 13 April 2012
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
Saturday, 12 November 2011
REMEMBRANCE: Derby Rail Station War Memorial
Here are two photos I took of the war memorial at Derby Rail Station.
So many wasted lives....
So many wasted lives....
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