CREATOR OF THUNDERBIRDS GERRY ANDERSON - RIP Updated

UPDATE:  16 February 2013 -- It is amazing the great demand of Thunderbird and therefore it has been decided to make a new series but with cartoons.  Gerry Anderson left such a legacy and so timeless.

Thunderbirds ware a wonderful TV serial for children and even grown up were fascinated. It was the creation of Gerry Anderson. He also was part of TV hits Captain Scarlet, Stingray and Joe 90. He gave children a wonderful time with modern, technical ideas but still something to dream about it and a lot to imagination.

Sadly Gerry Anderson died but they certainly honoured him for his legacy he left behind. At his cremation a full seized replica of Lady Penelope’s Rolls Royce was driven to his funeral. The FAB1 stopped outside the crematorium in Reading, Berks and the funeral was attended by 300 people. They heard tributes to Gerry about his wonderful creations.

The flowers were arranged in the shape of transport Thunderbird 2 and placed on top of his coffin. The marionettes from these TV series were also on display.

Gerry died at the age of 83 in December 2012 and his son Jamie added to the great tribute of his dad’s life that he left a phenomenal legacy behind.

Well, Gerry Anderson may you rest in peace but all your fans of these TV series will never forget these wonderful and spellbinding experience watching Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray. The children certainly were clued to the TV.

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It must have been such a satisfactory life to look back and realised to have given so much pleasure to young and old. Even the mothers stopped working and watch these fascination TV series. He certainly was given a great tribute at his funeral and he deserved it. 

WEATHER DISASTERS SINCE 1800

HAIL STORM CLOUD

RAIN ST

SNOW STORM

You will not believe what I am going to tell you about the weather. Talking about Global Warming and Pollution which supposes to have an effect on the weather but when we look back and at this list it makes you wonder. I found all these weather information in the newspaper and they are official weather reports.

1800 The largest hailstones ever recorded in Britain fell in Buckinghamshire. It measured a monstrous 90 mm (3.5 cm) in diameter.

1843 August 9, tornadoes, thunderstorms and hailstones 25 mm (1 in) in dia. smashed glass, flattened crops and settled in drifts of 1.5 meter (5 ft) deep.

1846 August - hailstones smashed 7000 panes of glass in the House of Parliament and destroyed the glass arcade in London's Regent St.

1879 August 2nd and 3rd, hailstones the size of teacups fell in London.

1893 August 10th, a massive 31 mm (1.25 in) of rain was reported to have fallen in just five minutes in Preston - massive floods. The manhole covers were forced 1.8 m (6 ft) into the air.

Are you still sitting on your chair? Hold on there is more.

1906 August 2nd, tornado and thunderstorms killed 2 people in Guildford and hailstones 13 mm (5 in) and piled up 31 cm (1 ft) high, were recorded in north Bedfordshire.

1912 August - wettest month on record, widespread gales, temperatures around 12 c (54F)

London had only one day with 21, Birmingham and Manchester 19 c and Aberdeen had frost of - 3.8 c

It was also the month of the great Norfolk flood, 6 in 12 hours. Norwich was cut off for two days. More then 40 bridges were destroyed; flood was 4.5 m (15 ft) deep. Rain fell non-stop for more than 30 hours.

Fens stayed under water for the followed winter.

Yarmouth had rain of 94 mm (3.7 in) in 24 hours.

The damage of the torrential rain on the cereal crops was catastrophic. Earlier in July the crops looked very promising but were ruined by heavy and continuous rainfall. On exposed ground the crop was beaten to the ground by widespread gales.

Part of the railway between Bourne and Seaford in Lincolnshire were submerged and water was flowing over with such a force that the ballast was washed away.

In Nottingham the water rose 18 in. Everywhere the corn crops and potatoes were destroyed.

1917 August was the second wettest of the last century. Canterbury had 53 hours if rainfall.

1931 August 8th, Boston, Lincolnshire, had 155 mm (6 in) in the morning with 100 mm (4 in) of it falling in just two hours.

1934 August 30, the overnight temperature in Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire dropped below freezing.

1935 August 23, Croydon Airport had 5.1 mm (2 in) of rain in just one minute.

1952 August - devastating flood in Lynmouth, North Devon after 21 hours of heavy rain stayed in people's memory. Then after another downpour for much of the first two weeks, the rain began again about noon on August 15 and continued for most of the day over greater part of Devon with seven-hours of intense rain it was devastating. In 22 hours fell 225 mm (9 in) of rain on Exmore.

The flood came at night with a sudden surge of water and there was a loss of 34 lives and 93 buildings destroyed. 28 bridges swept away. The water even moved large rocks.

Apart from 1952 disastrous year there were no Atom bombs before that, pollution or Global warming. How can the scientist explain this terrible weather? It'll be hard but have a try, boys.

SUMMARY:  The weather just does what it wants but I do agree that we had to cut down the waste and on pollution as much as possible and to a certain extent it has an impact However, it does not justify the excuse of non-existing Global warming to ruin the English country side with wind farms which do not produce the electricity which the politician claim. It only adds to our electricity by all this false claim of Global warming.

PLEASE READ – IPCC ADMIT FALSE GLOBAL WARMING

LAST MAN OF THE 1936 JARROW MARCH DIED - RIP

In my opinion:  Typical, arrogant Tory PM Baldwin had not so much decency to go out of  10 Downing Street and meet these men who went through such hardship and saw it as a last hope to gain employment. Typical Tories!!!

Con Shiels died and was the last man of the Jarrow March -- may he RIP. He was 96 years old.

This wonderful 1936 protest against unemployment must go down in British history and never be forgotten.  Con Shiels was 20 years when he joined the men at the last stage of the march, including his father, Con Senior.  200 very weary men walked 300 miles for work from the depressed Tyneside town of Jarrow to the capitol.

Before the death of Con Shiels there was Cornelius Whalen who done the full length of the march of 300 miles. He died a decade ago.

The Jarrow Crusade which was the real name was unfortunately not met, for which they had hoped for. Tory, it would be, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had not even the decency to meet them, typical Tories. These proud men covered 300-miles with great dignity and hardship, right through England. to ask for jobs and not charity. 

How on earth could a PM Stanley Baldwin be so arrogant and cruel not to meet these men who were so desperate to march 300 miles? Or was he too much a coward to face the result of his politics? 

The Labour MP “Red Ellen” Wilkinson joined the march and went all the way through her constituents.  She admitted that it was a disappointment in her history of Jarrow book titled “The Town That Was Murdered.”  It shows again the attitude of the Tory to tread proud men like that after such an incredible sacrifice they made. They just ignored them.

It is amazing Hitler’s bombs and investment to re-arm Britain for the Second World War saved Jarrow and not the characterless Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin nor the fat cats of shipbuilders and steel works owners. All of them callously sacked the breadwinners and couldn’t care less about families starving to death.

Although there were many other marches during the 1930s but the Jarrow Crusade somehow stands out.

Maybe because it was a march of 300 miles but nevertheless none of them should be forgotten.  They were just ordinary people who stood up for their rights demanded nothing more than just jobs. Right through history there were demonstration for voting, jobs, decent income, home, to join a trade union, free speech and fair trial. This is the real history of Britain not to bow down and to be trampled on.  Now again the Education Secretary Michael Gove only re-introduce history of glorious battles.

The battles by women for equal rights; to be a unionist which fights for a decent wage for a decent day work,  fought by ordinary people against the ruling class who only sees and thinks for themselves is always push aside in the hope that it will be forgotten eventually.

All along British History which was not always fairly written because again, the ruling class wrote it there were Martyrs, Suffragettes and Luddites. Luddites were labelled as backward when they smashed the machines of mill owners who were only after the profits. Nowadays we can see under what horrendous situations these people had to work.

In 1926 the General Strike was only forced upon people because they just could not take it any more.  But again they were defeated by the government bringing in Irish workers and the men had to swallow the bitter, bitter bill and start to work for devastating cut wage.  This actually developed into the Jarrow Crusade.

In the Manchester   Museum where people’ real history is preserved.  The museum has a collection of banners with great art works showing the rise of organised labour.  It is more than worthwhile to visit with many paintings giving evidence of hardship, fight and endurance beyond belief.

Amongst the artefacts are Harold Wilson’s pipe and his “donkey jacket”.

This year, 2013, is the 125^th anniversary of the match girls' strike working at Bryant & May. Very young girls were working 14 hours a day and their jaws became rotten from the phosphor used in matches. All that for a very low pay while the owners lived in all the splendour you can imagine.  One day they had enough and down the matchboxes went.  The Unite union organising a play in the memory of the dispute which will re-tell their story.

Today we had the bankster who created the financial collapse and escaped punishment yet they put countless families into untold hardship. 280 food bank, at that time, had to be establish to avoid a widespread famine.  This is an incredible situation to happen in Britain and again the ruling classes could not care less.

Experts even have the audacity to forecast a rise of unemployment in the next two years. There seem to be a repetition of 1936 and the Jarrow march brings it back to reality. Will the people take a leaf out of their book even so they noble intention failed?

Today people’s attitude changed so far because of their soft life. What will they do if or when the situation gets worse?  So far, even while Cameron’s austerity is biting more and more the people still treading the mills to keep above water but with promise of rising food prices and all the benefit cuts which come into affect in April will the people able to cope with further hardship?