"in Slough in recent years, including grand Art-Deco-styled factories by the likes of Wallis Gilbert and high-quality post-war offices. More are to come down as the town tries to erase its past and reinvent itself from scratch. Despite famously heckling Slough, John Betjeman's praise for the town hall's architecture as 'a striving for unity out of chaos' in 1948 has never been so relevant as today. C20 believes that the redevelopment of the town hall would be an act of vandalism to the civic centre and is supporting the Campaign to Save Slough's Heritage in their request for a review"
"""Come Friendly Bombs"", and an earlier song entitled ""Swarm Over Death"" (released on the band's 2005 demo) features the lyrics ""Come friendly bombs/ And fall here now/ It isn't fit for humans now/ Swarm over death"". Morrissey used a similar theme in relation to the decline of British coastal resorts in his song ""Everyday Is Like Sunday"". In the first series of ""The Office"", which is set in Slough, Ricky Gervais, in the character of David Brent, reads extracts of the poem interjected with comments such as ""You don't solve town planning problems by dropping bombs all over the place."""
"fall on Slough""<br>""It isn't fit for humans now."" Lycett Green wrote about the organisation of these various events, noting the intricacies of the rail schedules (""How long will the train stop at Ruislip so that [the poem] ""Middlesex"" can be read over the tannoy?"") and being followed around Cornwall by a television crew (""I have had a microphone down my bra for almost two days now""). In 2007 Lycett Green was a member of ""an alarmingly grown up"" panel of judges to select a sculptor (Martin Jennings) for a bronze statue of her father that was erected on the concourse"
"The poem is reproduced in full on the liner of the video and DVD releases of the series. Slough (poem) ""Slough"" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in his 1937 collection ""Continual Dew"". The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years, and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II. The sudden appearance of this ""Trading Estate"", which was quickly widely reproduced throughout Britain, prompted the poem. Seeing the new appearance of the town, Betjeman was struck by the ""menace"
"about the desecration caused by industrialization and modernity in general, with the transformation of Slough being the epitome of these evils. Nevertheless, successive mayors of Slough have understandably objected to the poem. The poem was published two years before the outbreak of World War II, during which time Britain (including Slough itself) experienced actual air raids. Much later, in a guide to English churches, Betjeman referred to some churches as ""beyond the tentacles of Slough"" and ""dangerously near Slough"". However, on the centenary of Betjeman's birth in 2006, his daughter apologised for the poem. Candida Lycett-Green said her father ""regretted"
"friendly bombs and fall on Slough / It isn't fit for humans now..."" The Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant comedy ""The Office"" is set on Slough Trading Estate. The opening sequence shows several locations in Slough and the Crossbow House building on the Trading Estate where fictional paper merchants Wernham Hogg are supposedly located. It is also referenced in the song ""Slough"" from the 2016 film . Slough Trading Estate The Slough Trading Estate founded in Slough in the south of Buckinghamshire in 1920, was an early business park in the United Kingdom. According to the estate's owners and operators, SEGRO (formerly"
"best-known poems, ""The Scholar Gipsy"" (1853) and ""Thyrsis"" (1866), the latter written in memory of Clough. The famous phrase in the latter ""the dreaming spires"" encouraged people to visit the hill and settle there. Three prominent poets lived on the hill, the first being Margaret Louisa Woods in the 1880s. She was followed by Robert Bridges and John Masefield, successive Poets Laureate. For a couple of years after World War I, they were joined by three of the war poets: Robert Graves - Masefield's tenant - and Edmund Blunden, both future Oxford Professors of Poetry (as Arnold had been) and"
"used part of ""High Flight"" in a speech written by Peggy Noonan on the night after the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. At RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, a memorial to Red Arrows pilots, Flight Lieutenants Jon Egging, killed on 20 August 2011, and Sean Cunningham, killed on 8 November 2011, bears an interpretation of the poem on a brass plaque atop a wooden plinth in front of a gate guardian aircraft outside the RAF Aerobatics Team hangar. The plaque reads ""...they have slipped the surly bonds of Earth / Put out their hands and touched the face of God..."
"13 November 1861. He is buried in the English Cemetery there, in a tomb that his wife and sister had Susan Horner design from Jean-François Champollion's book on Egyptian hieroglyphs. Matthew Arnold wrote the elegy of ""Thyrsis"" to his memory. His youngest child was Blanche Athena Clough (1861–1960), who devoted her life to Newnham College, Cambridge, where her aunt (his sister Anne) was principal. Shortly before he left Oxford, during the Irish potato famine, Clough wrote an ethical pamphlet addressed to the undergraduates, with the title, ""A Consideration of Objections against the Retrenchment Association at Oxford"" (1847). His Homeric pastoral"
"The Dry Salvages The Dry Salvages is the third poem of T. S. Eliot's ""Four Quartets"" and marks the beginning of when the series was consciously being formed as a set of four poems. It was written and published in 1941 during the air-raids on Great Britain, an event that threatened him while giving lectures in the area. The title comes from the name of a rock formation near a town he spent time at as a child, which reflects Eliot's references to his own past throughout the poem. The poem discusses the nature of time and what humanity's place"
"Hove, Sussex. Bryan Clough Bryan Clough (born 1932, Oldham, Lancashire) is an English writer. Clough has written several books and articles dealing with phreakers, hackers and computer virus writers; credit card fraud; banking; and the activities of MI5 during World War II, specifically the Tyler Kent – Anna Wolkoff Affair (2005). In 1990, Clough and Paul Mungo, a journalist, wrote ""Approaching Zero"" (1992) a book that covered the activities of phreakers, hackers and computer virus writers. It was later published in North America and translations appeared in French, Spanish, Turkish and Japanese. Three incidents of credit card fraud described in"
"Bryan Clough Bryan Clough (born 1932, Oldham, Lancashire) is an English writer. Clough has written several books and articles dealing with phreakers, hackers and computer virus writers; credit card fraud; banking; and the activities of MI5 during World War II, specifically the Tyler Kent – Anna Wolkoff Affair (2005). In 1990, Clough and Paul Mungo, a journalist, wrote ""Approaching Zero"" (1992) a book that covered the activities of phreakers, hackers and computer virus writers. It was later published in North America and translations appeared in French, Spanish, Turkish and Japanese. Three incidents of credit card fraud described in the book"
"of an age of transition, although ""Through a Glass Darkly"" suggests that he did not lack certain religious beliefs of his own, and in particular a belief in the afterlife where the struggle for virtue will be rewarded. His work is interesting to students of meter, owing to the experiments which he made, in the ""Bothie"" and elsewhere, with English hexameters and other types of verse formed upon classical models. Clough is perhaps best known now for his short poems ""Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth"", a rousing call invoking military metaphors to keep up the good fight (which fight"
"back of the stone is the text of the John Gillespie Magee, Jr. poem ""High Flight"", which was quoted by then President Ronald Reagan when he addressed the disaster. Although many remains were identified and returned to the families for private burial, some were not, and were laid to rest under the marker. Two crew members, Scobee and Smith, are buried in Arlington. On February 1, 2004, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe dedicated a similar memorial to those who died when the Shuttle ""Columbia"" broke apart during reentry on February 1, 2003. Astronauts Laurel Clark, David Brown and Michael Anderson, who"
"Goblin Feet ""Goblin Feet"" is a poem written in 1915 by J. R. R. Tolkien for Edith Mary Bratt, his wife-to-be, which was published in ""Oxford poetry 1915"" before being reprinted in anthologies such as ""The Book of Fairy Poetry"" (1920): it thus marks Tolkien's first appearance in the capacity of a writer for children. His fiancée, had expressed her liking for “spring and flowers and trees, and little elfin people”, and the poem with its rather twee references to “the tiny horns of enchanted leprechauns...their little happy feet” reflects her preferences. Tolkien himself would later wish that “the unhappy"
"has now been closed and filled in, and the area turned into a tourist trail. There was a campaign to have the lido rebuilt during 2014 but an enthusiastic online campaign (including a Facebook campaign group (""Rebuild the Knap Lido"")) has not been successful, despite a number of celebrity endorsements (including local BBC weatherman Derek Brockway). Cold Knap Lake is the title and subject of a poem by Gillian Clarke, which has been included in an English literature GCSE syllabus in England. Cold Knap Point is the site of a sewage pumping station serving Barry. It was also the location"
"Thyrsis (poem) ""Thyrsis"" (from the title of Theocritus's poem ""Θύρσις"") is a poem written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865 to commemorate his friend, the poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who had died in November 1861 aged only 42. The character, Thyrsis, was a shepherd in Virgil's Seventh Eclogue, who lost a singing match against Corydon. The implication that Clough was a loser is hardly fair, given that he is thought by many to have been one of the greatest Nineteenth Century poets (but see line 80: ""For Time, not Corydon, hath conquer’d thee""). Arnold's decision to imitate a Latin pastoral"
"experiences with cancer. In 2006, Lycett Green organised various events to mark the centenary of her father’s birth. These included a gala at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London and a jamboree in Cornwall for eight thousand people. There were excursions by train from London to Bristol and, through ""Metro-land"", to Quainton Road; Lycett Green unveiled a commemorative plaque at Marylebone station to mark Betjeman's fond association with the railways. Presenting the Mayor of Slough, Berkshire, with a book of her father's poems, she made clear that he had regretted his mildly notorious poem of 1937:""Come, friendly bombs, and"
"December 2011, aged 85. There is a reference to Logue in ""Monday Begins on Saturday"", a 1964 science fiction/fantasy novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Magnus Red'kin, a character in the novel, quotes a fragment of a Logue poem: as one of the definitions of happiness from his extensive collection, and complains that ""such things do not allow for algorithmisation"". Christopher Logue Christopher Logue, CBE (23 November 1926 – 2 December 2011) was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a pacifist. Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and brought up in the Portsmouth area, he was the only"
"of the original inscription, written after he died, that describes his life story: The story of the Slough ""Station Jim"" is mentioned in the historical background feature accompanying the BBC movie ""Station Jim"" (2001). Although the movie involves an orphanage, the movie dog and storyline are not based on the true story, and the movie is not set in Slough. Slough railway station Slough railway station, in Slough, Berkshire, England, is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway from to , , and main line services to , and stations to , and on the Cotswold Line. It"
"Clancy's President Jack Ryan quotes Burns' famous line, ""The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley"" in the 2013 novel ""Command Authority"". The ""Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D."" season 5 episode 9 ""Best Laid Plans"" takes its name from this poem. To a Mouse ""To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785"" is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume. According to legend, Burns was ploughing in the fields and accidentally destroyed a mouse's nest, which it needed to survive the winter. In"
"Slough Fort Slough Fort is a small artillery fort that was built at Allhallows-on-Sea in the north of the Hoo Peninsula in Kent. Constructed in 1867, the D-shaped fort was intended to guard a vulnerable stretch of the River Thames against possible enemy landings during a period of tension with France. Its seven casemates initially accommodated rifled breech loading guns, which were replaced by the turn of the century by more powerful breech-loaders on disappearing carriages, mounted in concrete wing batteries on either side of the fort. It was likely one of the smallest of the forts constructed as a"
"Gordon Clough Arthur Gordon Clough (26 August 1934, Salford, Lancashire – 6 April 1996, London), was an English radio presenter and journalist, primarily known for his work on BBC Radio 4. He was educated at Bolton School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read French and Russian. He spent his national service monitoring Soviet radio traffic in the Baltic Sea, and joined the BBC Russian Service. He was banned from entering the Soviet Union as an alleged former spy. In 1968 he entered domestic journalism and then studio presentation, working on ""The World This Weekend"", ""PM"" and ""The World at"
"styles, and in Scotland, the Lunardi Bonnet was named after him (balloon-shaped and standing some 600 mm tall), and is even mentioned by Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns (1759–96), in his poem 'To a Louse', written about a young woman called Jenny, who had a louse scampering in her Lunardi bonnet, ""But Miss's fine Lunardi, fye"". Doubt about the experiment still remained in England, however, at least in some circles. Samuel Johnson, in a letter to Richard Brocklesby (September 29, 1784), dismissed ballooning as ""a species of amusement"": In amusement, mere amusement, I am afraid it must end, for I"
"to flats and student accommodation were submitted but in December 2016 Shropshire Council refused the outline plans, also including restaurants, shops and a gym, on grounds of effects on traffic. The prison is mentioned in ""On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank"" which is part of the poem, ""A Shropshire Lad"" by A.E. Housman. The proximity of the prison to Shrewsbury railway station and junction is highlighted in the verse: Since its closure, in September 2015 it was reported the buildings would be used as a setting for the Sky 1 television drama, ""Lucky Man"" (producer, Carnival Films) being cast as"
"The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket is an influential poem by Robert Lowell. It was first published in 1946 in his collection ""Lord Weary's Castle"". The poem is written in an irregular combination of pentameter and trimeter and divided into seven sections. It is dedicated to Lowell's cousin, ""Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea."" According to the Notes in Lowell's ""Collected Poems"", ""The body of Warren Winslow . . .was never recovered after his Navy destroyer, ""Turner"", sank from an accidental explosion in New York harbor during World War II."" Section I describes the discovery, by a"
"as in most places in London, graffiti on Primrose Hill. However, the one that seemed to impact the public most was a lyric about Primrose Hill by the band Blur (from their single ""For Tomorrow""). The graffiti read 'And the view's so nice' until it was removed in 2012. Some have tried to restore it, but none have yet succeeded. There are seven English Heritage blue plaques in Primrose Hill commemorating the historic personalities that have lived there. The plaques mark the residences of poet Sir Hugh Clough, historian and broadcaster A. J. P. Taylor and painter William Roberts at"
"penned. Because of the widespread longtime popularity of ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", Christian's hazards — whether originally from Bunyan or borrowed by him from the Bible—the ""Slough of Despond"", the ""Hill Difficulty"", ""Valley of the Shadow of Death"", ""Doubting Castle"", and the ""Enchanted Ground"", his temptations (the wares of ""Vanity Fair"" and the pleasantness of ""By-Path Meadow""), his foes (""Apollyon"" and ""Giant Despair""), and the helpful stopping places he visits (the ""House of the Interpreter"", the ""House Beautiful"", the ""Delectable Mountains"", and the ""Land of Beulah"") have become commonly used phrases proverbial in English. For example, ""One has one's own Slough"
"Darryl Hattenhauer, in his 1998 journal article on ""Harrison Bergeron"", theorized that the story was a satire on American Cold War misunderstandings of communism and socialism. With ""Cat's Cradle"" (1963), Allen wrote, ""Vonnegut hit full stride for the first time"". The narrator, John, intends to write of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, one of the fictional fathers of the atomic bomb, seeking to cover the scientist's human side. Hoenikker, in addition to the bomb, has developed another threat to mankind, ice-9, solid water stable at room temperature, and if a particle of it is dropped in water, all of it becomes ice-9."
"Brian Clough Brian Howard Clough, OBE ( ; 21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English football player and manager. As a player he was a prolific goal scorer whose career was shortened by a serious injury. As a manager, Clough's name is closely associated with that of Peter Taylor, who served as his assistant manager at various clubs in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. They achieved great successes with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. Clough is also remembered for doing frequent radio and television interviews in which he made controversial remarks about players, other managers, and the"
"Pleasure Spots ""Pleasure Spots"" is an essay published in 1946 by the English author George Orwell. The essay considers how pleasure resorts are likely to develop in the future, consisting of artificial environments with vacuous pleasures. Orwell argues that people need peace and to be able to appreciate nature. The essay first appeared in ""Tribune"" on 11 January 1946. Orwell quotes a journalist who met an entrepreneur planning a ""pleasure spot"" with a weather-proof roof covering acres of dance halls, bars, skittle alleys and swimming pools and bathed in artificial sunlight. This followed an encounter with a man who lamented"
"Lowry intended for his magnum opus. Malcolm Lowry Clarence Malcolm Lowry (; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel ""Under the Volcano"", which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list. Lowry was born in New Brighton, Wirral, UK the fourth son of Evelyn Boden and Arthur Lowry, a cotton broker with roots in Cumberland. He was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge (the school made famous by the novel ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"") and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1912, the"
"leader piece for the ""Literary Review"" in 1991 he commented upon sceptic James Randi's dismissal on British television of the supposed art of dowsing for water. Waugh noted that, although he had no great interest in the subject, he lived in a house which had a well sunk through 70 ft (21 m) of rock on nothing more than the advice of a dowser. Waugh died of heart disease at the age of 61, his life shortened by lifelong smoking and the effects of his chest wound. He is buried in the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Combe"