With a lot of help from the internet, I have been doing research into local heroes. Here is an offering about Henry Hotspur.
Henry Percy, "Hotspur", is one of Shakespeare’s best-known characters. In Henry IV, Part I, Percy is portrayed as the same age as his rival, Prince Hal. In fact he was 23 years older than Prince Hal, the future Henry V who was a youth of 16 at the date of the Battle of Shrewsbury. The name of one of England's football clubs, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, acknowledges Henry Percy, whose descendants owned land in the neighbourhood of the club's first ground in the Tottenham Marshes. Henry Percy was born 20 May 1364 at either Alnwick Castle or Warkworth Castle in Northumberland. He was the eldest son of Henry Percy, 1 st Earl of Northumberland and Margaret Neville, daughter of Ralph de Neville, 2nd Lord Neville of Raby, and Alice de Audley. (Ralph Neville led the victorious English army at the Battle of Neville’s Cross.) He was knighted by Edward III in April 1377 together with the future Richard II and Henry IV. He was appointed Warden of the East March either on 30 July 1384 or in May 1385, ] and in 1385 accompanied Richard II on an expedition into Scotland. As a tribute to his speed in advance and readiness to attack on the Scottish borders, the Scots bestowed on him the name "Haatspore". In April 1386, he was sent to France to reinforce the garrison at Calais and led raids into Picardy. In appreciation of these military endeavours he was made a Knight of the Garter in 1388. Reappointed as Warden of the East March, he commanded the English forces against James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas, at the Battle of Otterburn on 10 August 1388, where he was captured, but soon ransomed for a fee of 7000 marks. In spite of the favour that Henry IV showed the Percys in many respects, they became increasingly discontented with him. Among their grievances were:
Spurred on by these grievances, the Percys rebelled in the summer of 1403 and took up arms against the king. It is thought that the Percys were in collusion with Owain Glyndwr, in his campaigns against the English. The circumstances of Percy's death differ in accounts. The chronicler Thomas Walsingham stated, in his Historia Anglicana that "while he led his men in the fight rashly penetrating the enemy host, [Hotspur] was unexpectedly cut down, by whose hand is not known". Another account states that Percy was struck in the face by an arrow when he opened his vizor for a better view. The legend that he was killed by the Prince of Wales seems to have been given currency by Shakespeare writing at the end of the following century. Identify the CORRECT movie titles from the edited photos below.
"Like A Rainbow Shining" by Will Todd. A lovely song by local composer and musician Will Todd. Choirs can access free resources to sing this in the future. Our Codebreaker Project Just in case anyone interested - this was released on Sunday when Newcastle Choral Society should have done a Sage concert and we’re releasing another one on VE Day. Regards Maureen Can you name the musicals from the following clues?
How many of these can you identify?
They said the world was closed today
So I went to have a look, I found it with the shutters down And the phone was off the hook. So I stood there for a little while But no one was around, Then silence came and startled me With the most alarming sound. I asked him where the others were, And why the streets were bare, He whispered ‘Life had ran away While death was playing there’ ‘Oh no’ I said ‘It can’t be true For life is not afraid’ ‘But no one ever goes’ he said ‘Where death has ever played.’ I understood and walked away As Hope was standing there With Courage in her afterglow And the sunlight in her hair. She said ‘Go home to those you love This is no place to be, For if we walk these streets today Then no one shall be free’. She threw her light to lead the way And showed me where to go, The very road that life had gone Where the future flowers grow. Then death showed me another way But I didn’t want to look, So I stumbled home in time for tea And I read another book. It was called The World is Closed Today And the streets we shouldn’t roam, The first line said ‘Just please be safe’ And the ending - ‘Stay at Home’. Stay safe Xxx
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