Poetry Riverboat Cruise

Poet in the City and the Twickenham Town Business Association are delighted to invite you to a very special Poetry Riverboat Cruise with Canal and Rivers Laureate Jo Bell.

Spend a delightful summer evening cruising along one of the most beautiful stretches of the River Thames from Eel Pie Island in Twickenham to Hampton Court, and back. The perfect way to spend a summer evening, the cruise will include a drinks reception, and a fish and chips supper (vegetarian option available), as well as performances by one of the UK's finest poets.

Jo Bell is the UK's first ever Canal and Rivers Laureate, appointed in October 2012 by the Poetry Society and the Canal and River Trust. Her first collection, Navigation (2008), drew on her life as a boat-dweller and former archaeologist, while her live poetry show, Riverlands, with Jo Blake Cave, celebrated the river Nene in Northamptonshire. Jo Bell was director of National Poetry Day from 2005-2012, and she also runs workshops and is a facilitator for Winning Words and the Poetry School.

If you loved Swallows and Amazons, or Tales of the Riverbank, or if you have ever played pooh-sticks, this is definitely the event for you!

 

Start: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 06:30PM
End: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 09:30PM
Address: Twickenham

Poetry Riverboat Cruise

Poet in the City and the Twickenham Town Business Association are delighted to invite you to a very special Poetry Riverboat Cruise with Canal and Rivers Laureate Jo Bell.

Spend a delightful summer evening cruising along one of the most beautiful stretches of the River Thames from Eel Pie Island in Twickenham to Hampton Court, and back. The perfect way to spend a summer evening, the cruise will include a drinks reception, and a fish and chips supper (vegetarian option available), as well as performances by one of the UK's finest poets.

Jo Bell is the UK's first ever Canal and Rivers Laureate, appointed in October 2012 by the Poetry Society and the Canal and River Trust. Her first collection, Navigation (2008), drew on her life as a boat-dweller and former archaeologist, while her live poetry show, Riverlands, with Jo Blake Cave, celebrated the river Nene in Northamptonshire. Jo Bell was director of National Poetry Day from 2005-2012, and she also runs workshops and is a facilitator for Winning Words and the Poetry School.

If you loved Swallows and Amazons, or Tales of the Riverbank, or if you have ever played pooh-sticks, this is definitely the event for you!

 

Start: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 06:30PM
End: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 09:30PM
Address: Twickenham

Poetry Riverboat Cruise

Poet in the City and the Twickenham Town Business Association are delighted to invite you to a very special Poetry Riverboat Cruise with Canal and Rivers Laureate Jo Bell.

Spend a delightful summer evening cruising along one of the most beautiful stretches of the River Thames from Eel Pie Island in Twickenham to Hampton Court, and back. The perfect way to spend a summer evening, the cruise will include a drinks reception, and a fish and chips supper (vegetarian option available), as well as performances by one of the UK's finest poets.

Jo Bell is the UK's first ever Canal and Rivers Laureate, appointed in October 2012 by the Poetry Society and the Canal and River Trust. Her first collection, Navigation (2008), drew on her life as a boat-dweller and former archaeologist, while her live poetry show, Riverlands, with Jo Blake Cave, celebrated the river Nene in Northamptonshire. Jo Bell was director of National Poetry Day from 2005-2012, and she also runs workshops and is a facilitator for Winning Words and the Poetry School.

If you loved Swallows and Amazons, or Tales of the Riverbank, or if you have ever played pooh-sticks, this is definitely the event for you!

 

Start: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 06:30PM
End: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 09:30PM
Address: Twickenham

Poetry Riverboat Cruise

Poet in the City and the Twickenham Town Business Association are delighted to invite you to a very special Poetry Riverboat Cruise with Canal and Rivers Laureate Jo Bell.

Spend a delightful summer evening cruising along one of the most beautiful stretches of the River Thames from Eel Pie Island in Twickenham to Hampton Court, and back. The perfect way to spend a summer evening, the cruise will include a drinks reception, and a fish and chips supper (vegetarian option available), as well as performances by one of the UK's finest poets.

Jo Bell is the UK's first ever Canal and Rivers Laureate, appointed in October 2012 by the Poetry Society and the Canal and River Trust. Her first collection, Navigation (2008), drew on her life as a boat-dweller and former archaeologist, while her live poetry show, Riverlands, with Jo Blake Cave, celebrated the river Nene in Northamptonshire. Jo Bell was director of National Poetry Day from 2005-2012, and she also runs workshops and is a facilitator for Winning Words and the Poetry School.

If you loved Swallows and Amazons, or Tales of the Riverbank, or if you have ever played pooh-sticks, this is definitely the event for you!

 

Start: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 06:30PM
End: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 09:30PM
Address: Twickenham

Reggie Watts and Mac Lethal - Meltdown 2013

On: Tue, 18 Jun 2013
Address: Belvedere Road

Meltdown Festival - Julianna Barwick

On: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 07:45PM
Address: Southbank Centre

Big Green Coach Travel to the Isle of Wight Festival

On: Tue, 18 Jun 2013, 11:59PM
Address: Ticketmaster Uk LTD

Paintings by Anna Mirecki
Times: All year Wed-Fri and Sun 12.00-17.00, Bank Hol Mon 14.00-17.00. Sat by appointment. Closed Good Fri and Easter Mon, plus 23 Dec-9 Jan

Anna Mirecki's work has been inspired from her avid interest in photography and extensive travelling.
Start: Wed, 19 Jun 2013, 12:00AM
End: Sun, 30 Jun 2013, 12:00AM
Address: New End Square

“PRINTING THE LEGEND”- THE STORY BEHIND "THE STORY" OF THE BURIED BURMA SPITFIRES at the RAF MUSEUM HENDON

 

It was a CSI Cold Case like no other.

The missing person was a machine and a world icon- the Spitfire fighter.

The crime scene was a battle scarred airfield in the Far East.

And the crime, if it took place at all, took place more than sixty five years ago.

 

In January 2013, the World's media watched as two alternate visions of what happened to the RAF's surplus Spitfires at the end of World War Two were tested on the sun beaten expanse of Yangon International Airport, Burma.

On the one hand Lincolnshire Farmer and aviation enthusiast David Cundall maintained that, based on his interpretation of eye witness evidence and documents, up to thirty six Mark XIV Spitfires lay buried in their transport crates in trenches, dug by American SeeBee engineers, at the behest of Lord Louis Mountbatten and might yet be recovered and restored to fly again.

On the other hand International Computer Gaming Company, Wargaming team of historical investigators, deploying all the techniques of  documentary study, archaeological geophysics and field archaeology, suggested that the Royal Air Force had neither the Means, Motive nor Opportunity to bury the aircraft in the monsoon mud of the former RAF Mingaladon in 1945 and 1946.

As the world now knows, Wargaming team were proved correct and there is no evidence that complete, crated Spitfire aircraft were ever buried at Yangon.  However, that stark truth hides a fascinating story of historical detective work, allied to high tech science and painstaking field archaeology.  

It also hides a fascinating and very human story which goes to the very root of how we regard the iconic machines of World War Two, like the Spitfire, and also the story of the men who flew and maintained them, against all the odds, in a world which is now on the fragile edge of living memory.

For the first time the Wargaming team are going to present the full findings of the investigation at Yangon in a special multimedia presentation at the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon on 19^th June 2013 with the main presentation starting at 19.30hrs.

The evening will be fully illustrated by slides and video of the expedition and will include the team’s suggestion as to how and why the myth of the Burma Spitfires came to be so widely believed by the public and the media.

The evening will include opportunities to ask questions of the team and special arrangements will be made for members of the media who wish to undertake more extensive interviews.

Wargaming Thanks the Royal Air Force Museum for enabling us to mount this event.

 

RAF MUSEUM HENDON 19.30hrs - 19 JUNE 2013

RAF Museum London : Grahame Park Way - London, NW9 5LL

For further details relating to the Event or Press - Please email : --[if gte mso 9]> [endif]-->

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Start: Wed, 19 Jun 2013, 07:30AM
End: Sat, 22 Jun 2013, 04:00PM
Address: Grahame Park Way

“PRINTING THE LEGEND”- THE STORY BEHIND "THE STORY" OF THE BURIED BURMA SPITFIRES at the RAF MUSEUM HENDON

 

It was a CSI Cold Case like no other.

The missing person was a machine and a world icon- the Spitfire fighter.

The crime scene was a battle scarred airfield in the Far East.

And the crime, if it took place at all, took place more than sixty five years ago.

 

In January 2013, the World's media watched as two alternate visions of what happened to the RAF's surplus Spitfires at the end of World War Two were tested on the sun beaten expanse of Yangon International Airport, Burma.

On the one hand Lincolnshire Farmer and aviation enthusiast David Cundall maintained that, based on his interpretation of eye witness evidence and documents, up to thirty six Mark XIV Spitfires lay buried in their transport crates in trenches, dug by American SeeBee engineers, at the behest of Lord Louis Mountbatten and might yet be recovered and restored to fly again.

On the other hand International Computer Gaming Company, Wargaming team of historical investigators, deploying all the techniques of  documentary study, archaeological geophysics and field archaeology, suggested that the Royal Air Force had neither the Means, Motive nor Opportunity to bury the aircraft in the monsoon mud of the former RAF Mingaladon in 1945 and 1946.

As the world now knows, Wargaming team were proved correct and there is no evidence that complete, crated Spitfire aircraft were ever buried at Yangon.  However, that stark truth hides a fascinating story of historical detective work, allied to high tech science and painstaking field archaeology.  

It also hides a fascinating and very human story which goes to the very root of how we regard the iconic machines of World War Two, like the Spitfire, and also the story of the men who flew and maintained them, against all the odds, in a world which is now on the fragile edge of living memory.

For the first time the Wargaming team are going to present the full findings of the investigation at Yangon in a special multimedia presentation at the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon on 19^th June 2013 with the main presentation starting at 19.30hrs.

The evening will be fully illustrated by slides and video of the expedition and will include the team’s suggestion as to how and why the myth of the Burma Spitfires came to be so widely believed by the public and the media.

The evening will include opportunities to ask questions of the team and special arrangements will be made for members of the media who wish to undertake more extensive interviews.

Wargaming Thanks the Royal Air Force Museum for enabling us to mount this event.

 

RAF MUSEUM HENDON 19.30hrs - 19 JUNE 2013

RAF Museum London : Grahame Park Way - London, NW9 5LL

For further details relating to the Event or Press - Please email : --[if gte mso 9]> [endif]-->

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Start: Wed, 19 Jun 2013, 07:30AM
End: Sat, 22 Jun 2013, 04:00PM
Address: Grahame Park Way