The Argus Singers
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Concert Reports
  • Sample pieces
  • Concert Dates
  • Rehearsals
  • For Members
    • Information for New Members
    • Catalogue of Pieces
    • Practice lines - by number
    • Our past performances - by number
    • Others' performances
    • Concert programmes
  • Facebook Feed
  • Contact Us
    • Join Us
    • Book Us
    • Feedback

From Sharon (and Ian) - New granddaughter.

28/10/2020

2 Comments

 
Our granddaughter, Lorelei Eleanor Hazel Spencer was delivered in the early hours of this morning [27th October] weighing 6lbs 15 oz.
Mother and baby are both well, though she was an emergency c section as she was breech.
Picture
Picture
2 Comments

From Helen - How to celebrate a 90th Birthday?

7/10/2020

3 Comments

 
In these interesting times (!) it's difficult to think of how to mark a special celebration when you are expressly forbidden from meeting.
It's my Dad's 90th birthday tomorrow (8th October) so we're celebrating via the internet and electronically.
As part of the celebrations all the extended family members were charged with designing a "90" that is meaningful to them in some way. These have been put into a slideshow and printed as a photo album.
... It got the creative juices flowing and kept us all out of trouble for a while.
The picture is a collage of some of the efforts.
Picture
3 Comments

From Sharon - Who lives here?

7/10/2020

0 Comments

 
The answers are a radio or tv programme .

1. Bedrock
2. Portwenn
3. Walford
4. Weatherfield
5. Ambridge
6. Peckham
7. Denton
8. Erinsborough
9. Aidensfield
10. Craggy Island
11. Gotham City
12. Cabot Cove
13. London Borough of Poplar
14. Kembleford
15. Walmington on Sea
16. Metropolis
17. Crinkley Bottom
18. Royston Vasey
19. Sunnydale
20. Bikini Bottom
who_lives_here_answers.docx
File Size: 121 kb
File Type: docx
Download File

0 Comments

From Margaret - Grace Darling and St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh

7/10/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
St Aidan's, Bamburgh
On 7 September 1838, Grace Darling, alongside her father who was the local lighthouse keeper, rescued nine survivors from the wrecked SS Forfarshire off the Northumberland coast.  A memorial and stained glass in her memory can be found at St Aidan’s Church.  A place of worship was founded on this site in 635 by St Aidan; the site of his death is marked by a shrine within the present church, which dates from the end of the 12th century.

Aidan was called from Iona by King Oswald to establish Christianity in his newly united kingdom of Northumbria.  No trace of that wooden building can now be seen, other than perhaps a beam in the Baptistry.  Tradition has it that this is the beam that Aidan was leaning against when he died in AD 652, it is said to have miraculously survived two fires.

The building that is now seen dates from the end of the 12th century.  The chancel, said to be the second longest in the country at 60 feet, was added in 1230.  In 1895 a reredos was added.  Created in Caen stone, it depicts northern saints of the 7th and 8th centuries.  The church works closely with the Grace Darling Museum - just across the road.  Both in the church and in the churchyard memorials to the Victorian heroine can be found.  The north aisle contains an effigy of Grace from 1844 by Charles Raymond Smith.  This formed part of the original monument to her in the churchyard, but was later replaced with a replica due to deterioration of the stonework.  The churchyard memorial, from 1844, is placed so that it can be seen by passing ships, and is by Anthony Salvin and Charles Raymond Smith.
0 Comments

    Archives

    April 2021
    March 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020

    Categories

    All
    Argus History
    Art
    Birds
    Brainteaser
    Brainteaser Answer
    Choir
    Christmas
    Committee
    Cycling
    Easter
    Family
    Flowers
    Garden
    History
    Hobbies
    Humour
    Jokes
    Masks
    Music
    Nature
    News
    Opera
    Photo
    Poems
    Purpose
    Rainbow
    Recipe
    Remembrance Day
    Research
    Sewing
    Songs
    Spring
    Theatre
    Things To Do
    Video
    Weather
    Wildlife

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Concert Reports
  • Sample pieces
  • Concert Dates
  • Rehearsals
  • For Members
    • Information for New Members
    • Catalogue of Pieces
    • Practice lines - by number
    • Our past performances - by number
    • Others' performances
    • Concert programmes
  • Facebook Feed
  • Contact Us
    • Join Us
    • Book Us
    • Feedback