oldgattonian2

Tylney Hall was once a Boarding School, my sister attended there in the early 1960's-nice place.

Merc800 : I agree with you so I have posted the words.

This tune actually belongs to the The Anacreontic Society Catch and glee club founded in 1766 in London. It held fortnightly meetings (Haydn was a guest performer in 1791) and disbanded in 1794. The tune of its constitutional hymn, John Stafford Smith's To Anacreon in Heaven, was adopted (1931) b...

This isn't London, England but another London somewhere around the Globe.

The music to your national anthem is more English than you think, it was written by English composer John Stafford Smith in the mid-1700s called the Anacreontic Society, a London Gentleman 's club

Thank you for your comments friend.

The music to the American National Anthem happens to be an old London pub tune written by English composer John Stafford Smith for a song titled "The Anacreontic Song". Go google it.

As a little boy of 6 years old I just loved this song, every time I hear it it takes me back to 1956. I might add that we don't see enough of Doris Day's films on the TV these days.

Starr married Maureen Cox in February 1965.

See amid the winter's snow,

Born for us on earth below,

See the tender Lamb appears,

Promised from eternal years.

Chorus

Hail, thou ever-blessed morn!

Hail, redemption's happy dawn!

Sing through all Jerusalem,

Christ is born in Bethlehem.

Try 2,000 years of history.

I know this answer is long in coming. It's Figges Marsh half mile from where I live.

Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten

12 Dec 2009 5pm

Performed by the Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral and motets sung by the Vicars Choral.

Harpist Sioned Williams.

All are welcome to attend. Retiring collection.

As I listen to this very moving music I think of my 5 great uncles who were killed in WW1 and also both my grandfathers who were wounded, one losing a leg. I also think of both my parents who served in WW2 and one of my Uncles held prisoner of war by the Japanese for 3 years. I find nothing bomba...

I don't know where you get that 8 inches of snow was the deepest in London since 1947. You should check out Boxing Day 1962 it was a foot deep when we woke up and still snowing. By the time we went back to school there were drifts of snow 8 feet or more high and the snow stayed until Easter.

One thing people are forgetting. Paramedics on motor cycles would have been at the scene very quickly. I suffer from a severe form of epilepsy and heart trouble and every time an Ambulance is called a paramedic is sent out first to stabilize me.

The best of the best.

The words were

written by Edward Caswall (1814-1878). Caswell was the son of a vicar and attended Oxford University. The music was composed by John Goss (1800-1880). John Goss was an organist at St Paul's Cathedral, London.

The reason some are not singing

is because they are not meant to, not because they don't know the words. Your talking about one of the finest choirs in the world.

so do I angelbrook2 and being and being English and Anglican It makes it even more special to be able to listen to choirs of this stature that send shivers down my spine. Please take a look at my posting of "See amid the winters snow" by the London Bach Choir, I would like to hear your comments. ...

When I was a lad growing up in a childrens home in Teddington, Middlesex from the age of 4-10 I attended the SA with the other children. When I was 7 I started to lean to play 2nd cornet and aged 8 I was playing in the junior band at Sunday School and then with the Adult band in the main service....

I have just checked out his biography and the following is a sample of what I read. This clearly shows you are wrong.

Affectionately nicknamed "the singing bus driver" he drove the Number 27 bus from Highgate to Teddington.

This took me back a bit because I was in a Children's Home in Teddingto...

The thing that amazes me about Jack Wild in Oliver is his Cockney accent. I am a born, and bred Londoner and I always thought he was until I read his Biography which said he was born just outside of Manchester. His family did move to London 3 years before he made this film, but I cannot imagine h...

It took 4 years for countries to turn from a peacetime industry to a wartime industry. Germany had been Arming for years, Britain started in 1938 although our modern fighter like the Spitfire and Hurricane were already being produced. Germany only had 2 engined Bombers designed for a European wit...

No it didn't.

The American prisoners, some of whom had worked on the tunnel "Tom," had been moved to another compound seven months earlier. No American prisoners of war actually participated in the "great escape." as shown in the film.

Handel lived most of his life in England, and became English by Act of Parliament in 1727. Check it out.

this ia one of my favourite tunes especially when sung by a welsh male voice choir and I'm English