MY DAD LEADING AIRCRAFTSMAN LESLIE BRACEY DURING WW2
My dad Leslie Charles Bracey was a leading Aircraftsman in the Royal Air Force signing up as an 18 year old callow youth in the Autumn of 1940, no doubt inspired to join up by the Battle of Britain. Les as he liked us kids to call him was stationed at RAF Tempsford 138 & 161 Squadrons SOE and dropped Air Force Special Operations Command resistance fighters over occupied France 🇫🇷 flying without a…
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Steam Revolution: The Turbine
Incandescent electric light did not immediately snuff out all of its rivals: the gas industry fought back with its own incandescent mantle (which used the heat of the gas to induce a glow in another material) and the arc lighting manufacturers with a glass-enclosed arc bulb.[1] Nonetheless, incandescent lighting grew at an astonishing pace: the […]Steam Revolution: The Turbine
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Steam Revolution: The Turbine
Incandescent electric light did not immediately snuff out all of its rivals: the gas industry fought back with its own incandescent mantle (which used the heat of the gas to induce a glow in another material) and the arc lighting manufacturers with a glass-enclosed arc bulb.[1] Nonetheless, incandescent lighting grew at an astonishing pace: the […]Steam Revolution: The Turbine
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Steam Revolution: The Turbine
Incandescent electric light did not immediately snuff out all of its rivals: the gas industry fought back with its own incandescent mantle (which used the heat of the gas to induce a glow in another material) and the arc lighting manufacturers with a glass-enclosed arc bulb.[1] Nonetheless, incandescent lighting grew at an astonishing pace: the […]Steam Revolution: The Turbine
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Steam Revolution: The Turbine
Incandescent electric light did not immediately snuff out all of its rivals: the gas industry fought back with its own incandescent mantle (which used the heat of the gas to induce a glow in another material) and the arc lighting manufacturers with a glass-enclosed arc bulb.[1] Nonetheless, incandescent lighting grew at an astonishing pace: the […]Steam Revolution: The Turbine
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New print reveal! To mark today's new episode of Fate’s Wide Wheel celebrating Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, I had the chance to design this piece for the episode: "DS9 at 31".
I hope everyone likes how it turned out! Prints available at jjlendl.com/fwwshop.
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New print reveal! To mark today's new episode of Fate’s Wide Wheel celebrating Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, I had the chance to design this piece for the episode: "DS9 at 31".
I hope everyone likes how it turned out! Prints available at jjlendl.com/fwwshop.
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Birmingham in the 19th century
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Bearwood the foodies favourite....
Stirchley Schmerzley the happening place to eat is BEARWOOD! From Indian Street Food at Dhamaka at the top of Bearwood Road to great brunches at Tamu and the Polish influences of the Old Dresser Cafe and Edge Coffee ☕️ at the top of Bearwood next to the bus station
That’s where today’s Bearwood Lunch Club organised by Bearwood Bites (on Instagram) Rosie Wells @RosieWells also on Instagram…
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Keith Bracey the "Brummie Bard" Biography
Keith Bracey: Biography
I was born and brought up in Bearwood, Edgbaston so I’m a Brummie through and through, using the pseudonym the @brummiebard for my Birmingham and Black Country heritage-inspired poetry.
From 1969–1976 I attended George Dixon Grammar School and then went up to read Commerce and Economic History at the University of Birmingham, 1976–1978, representing the University 1st XV…
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TEN TERRIFIC FACTS ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
50 ‘FASCINATING FACTS’ ABOUT BIRMINGHAM
1.CITY OF 1,000 TRADES
Birmingham has always been a hive of activity and was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, which was set in motion by the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of the greatest scientists, inventors and manufacturers of the time who met to exchange ideas and knowledge at Matthew Boulton’s home Soho House in Handsworth.
By 1791,…
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BONNIE AND BELLA THE CATS' WHISKERS
A pampered life with no hassle or strife
Is enjoyed by our Bonnie and Bella
Their servants are Mary, my long-suffering wife
And me, I’m a gullible fella
We feed our two old dears on chicken and beef
As treats they get tuna and liver
And while Bella is calm, young Bonnie’s a thief
But so sweet that we always forgive ‘er.
Keith Bracey the Brummie Bard with amendments by Jen Coley a fellow…
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EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A CAT
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A CAT
This pampered life
With no hassle or strife
Is that led by our cats 🐈
Bonnie and Bella
Looked after by this gullible fella
And his beautiful long suffering Wife
We feed the cats
Who dine on chicken and beef
Along with tuna and liver
Which can be a bit rich
For our two….the serene bitch
Bella and the delinquent teenager Bonnie who eats so much but is so…
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EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A CAT
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A CAT
This pampered life
With no hassle or strife
Is that led by our cats 🐈
Bonnie and Bella
Looked after by this gullible fella
And his beautiful long suffering Wife
We feed the cats
Who dine on chicken and beef
Along with tuna and liver
Which can be a bit rich
For our two….the serene bitch
Bella and the delinquent teenager Bonnie who eats so much but is so…
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Tonight there's a blue moon: This is my poem on the Birmingham Lunar Society
THE LUNAR MEN
Well – met by moonlight
These Lunar Men, these ‘Men of Moment, great men all
Gave thought to science
Held nothing in their thrall
The ‘Natural Philosophers’
Of the widening world
Held mostly against the enslavement of Brothers
Felt deep the pain of others
In Africa, where one of their number by name of Galton
Sold guns as a Quaker,
A real ‘Wrong ‘Un’
At Great Barr Hall…
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Edgbaston the Home of Lawn Tennis poem
EDGBASTON: THE HOME OF TENNIS 🎾
Edgbaston is the place
Where they serve up many an Ace
Invented by Major Harry Gem:
A game for lithe athletic men
At 8 Ampton Road: ‘Fairlight’
You’d see rubber balls in flight
Men and women both
They’d hit balls with all their might
In clothing… Oh so bright!
A game played in Lilywhites
As played on a manicured lawn
In the summer of 1859
Young men…
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