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WillTullett: John Betjeman in 'Summoned by Bells' remembering the smell of the London underground in the late 1910s:
The Central London, with its cut-glass shades
On draughty stations, had an ozone smell –
Not seaweed-scented ozone from the sea
But something chemical from Birmingham.
AllOur_Stories: CLEVEDON PIER OPENED OTD 1869 with parade, bands & cannon volley by First Somerset Artillery. Paddle steamer excursions to Wales. ‘The most beautiful pier in England’ (John Betjeman). Think bathing machines on the beach, stripey bathing suits, moustaches & saucy postcards.
samfaith: I forgot I took this photo last week.
One for the Stymie Bold / Egyptian Gothic fans.
It's at Trebetherick in Cornwall and it's a nice thought that John Betjeman's phone calls might've gone through here.
FelicityCox14: To paraphrase John Betjeman:
"Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Chester
It isn't fit for humans now..."
Dream_TeamTips: 1 point - John Betjeman won us some money last time out at Ffos Las as winner and has not been penalised at all for this next race, looks strong to finish in top two in a small field.
Added with Greece to win to add some extra value. Lithuania have only scored in 2/10 games.
Lokster71: Today I discovered that J Hunter Dunn from the John Betjeman's 'A Subaltern's Love Song' was actually a real person.
BetjemanSociety: Congratulations on your 900th anniversary. John Betjeman regularly attended Sunday services at the church when he lived in Cloth Fair.
FieldsHighbury: May God Save the Old North London!
- John Betjeman
racehorsetips: Most satisfactory start to the day for onsite followers of The Racehorsetipster .
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3 winners -John Betjeman,Uncle Bert & Richmond Park
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JamesHu29812484: St Pancras Station, London. Opened in 1868. Such an iconic masterpiece, all thanks to John Betjeman.
TheRidgeway1972: Another hardy Ridgeway writer with a Ridgeway memorial is Penelope Betjeman, the wife of poet John Betjeman
This is where we need your help: her memorial stone reads ‘In memory of Penelope Betjeman who loved The Ridgeway 1910-1986’ but we don’t know where it is. Do you know?
ThePostSeries: World Poetry Day: John Betjeman's Cornwall
culturealgap: as irritable and rude. C-T is the Rees Mogg of architecture, but far more entertaining!
Two not mentioned, are the Fleetwood Hesketh brothers and their close friend John Betjeman. Peter F-H, and John published Ghastly Good Taste, a humerous treatise on English architecture.
cornishtimes: World Poetry Day: John Betjeman's Cornwall
culturealgap: said he was snobbish and rude. C-T is almost the J R Mogg of architecture, but far more entertaining!
Three names, which should have been mentioned are the. Fleetwood Hesketh brothers and their close friend John Betjeman. Peter F-H and John produced an entertaining book (+)
johnbranson999: Christmas by Sir John Betjeman [with text] - Read by Arthur L Wood
RacingGav: Elsewhere Bannow Bay Boy caught my eye in the 1:30 Ffos Las but even money is too short for me, especially against John Betjeman who won the race last year by 10 lengths off the same mark...
Hermino AA should win the 2:15 Warwick but again 5/6 is too short.
GetYourTipsOut: Not quite sure how Bannow Bay Boy has got beat there. Jockey inexperience probably cost him as pitched after the last.
John Betjeman handed another chance and took it.
hehe_racing: What a ride by Joe Anderson on John Betjeman. Was anyone on it?
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EBloodaxe19: In A Bath Teashop by John Betjeman
"Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another—
Let us hold hands and look."
She such a very ordinary little woman;
He such a thumping crook;
But both, for a moment, little lower than the angels
In the teashop's ingle-nook.
CapelLofft: Jason Statham is John Betjeman in the new live action adaptation of 'Summoned by Bells'. The meditations on Archibald the Teddy Bear, buttered toast and High Mass are interspersed with high octane run-ins with Chinese triads and Kung Fu fight scenes
MercerCait: I’m reminded reading this of John Betjeman saying when the end of the world was nigh,he wanted to be in the haberdashery department of Peter Jones as nothing unpleasant ever happened there
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MadsDavies: ‘John Betjeman once joked that when the end of the world came, he wanted to be in the haberdashery department of John Lewis’s store in Chelsea, west London, which is called Peter Jones, “because nothing unpleasant could ever happen there”.’ I get this
M_Steeples: Off on rattler to Slough (AKA 'Slag' or 'Slooth') to collect a patient from the hellish hospital there. God help me and please wish me a speedy exit from said place of which Sir John Betjeman CBE once wrote: " Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!"
East_of_Dulwich: Chat GPT can be quite good but also seems to just make stuff up. AFAIK, John Betjeman never wrote a poem called "To Peckham Rye". And I'm pretty sure Peckham Rye isn't mentioned in Martin Amis' "London Fields", although it's years since I read it. Happy to be corrected!
JlmMorton: John Betjeman narrates this little gem. Might recreate! Watch Eastleach Martin, Gloucestershire on BFI Player
Jujubinhadiniiz: “CHILDHOOD IS MEASURED OUT BY SOUNDS AND SMELLS AND SIGHTS, BEFORE THE DARK HOUR OF REASON GROWS.”
JOHN BETJEMAN
imalpeiris: Childhood is measured out by sound and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows; John Betjeman
mickhumph: John Betjeman's poems about
having tea, we all spout.
They still amuse
and are a muse
for those who observe the devout.
DowryOfMary: What would you be, you wide East Anglian sky,
Without Church towers to recognise you by?
- Sir John Betjeman, 'A Passion for Churches', 1974.
thesquiggleking: Sir John Betjeman pencil sketch. For no other reason than I love his statue in my favourite railway station.
MarkHiggie1: The Imperial Institute, South Kensington, opened by Queen Victoria in 1893 and, appallingly, largely demolished in the 1950s/60s despite public protests led by Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman.
nateffo: I don’t even have anything on this one. It ends with a defence of suburbia from the ‘woke elites’ by quoting John Betjeman’s 1973 film Metro-Land: ‘Your own house, with a front garden and a back garden’. I’m numb to it all
SteveDeparys360: Another stunning English Church. St Mary's church in Wellingborough. John Betjeman said walking into this church. "I have gone to heaven"
VIONAAKOTH51: I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.,John Betjeman,I Am, Thought, Think ,
OxfordPresTrust: Next Wednesday 15th March, at 5.30pm we are in for a treat as renowned art historian Professor Frances Spalding, gives a lecture on ‘John Betjeman, John Piper and the face of England’. Sign up here:
DerekCollett19: Sundry Creditors has been praised by Clive James (‘As a novel about business decisions this book is right out on its own’), John Betjeman (‘…readable and clever’) and Ruth Rendell (‘Balchin […] writes about timeless things, the places in the heart’) so it must be good!
3roger4: In last nights episode of Endeavour the character of Archibald Ormsby-Gore was named after John Betjeman's Teddy bear.
PeyLad: 20142 JOHN BETJEMAN, 20189 Mersey Rail 777012 & 777016,43468 and 43480 work the 6Q77 Crewe C.S to Kirkdale through Winwick in Warrington.
AllOur_Stories: LEANING TOWER ROTHERHITHE SOLD KNOCK DOWN PRICE! As reported by BBC News. Lightermens houses. ‘Bohemians (and celebrities) living in absurdly picturesque wooden tenements.’ Jessica Mitford, Lord Snowdon, Princess Margaret, Marlene Dietrich, John Betjeman and Noel Coward on piano.
Oreilly1Peter: I was surprised to find a pyramid just outside Arklow at Kilbride . It was described by John Betjeman as the largest Pyramid tomb north of the Nile. Interred there are members of the Howard family .
RobertBCollie: Sir John Betjeman fantastic documentary...
A love letter to the suburbs in celebration of Metro-land 50 years on
AuberonWaugh_PE: 4 Mar 1976: Grocer Heath's one golden deed in appointing Sir John Betjeman as Poet Laureate should be counted against the otherwise unrelieved squalor of that shameful episode in British history.
HangBlaa: Come friendly bombs
And fall on Slough
It isn’t fit
For humans now.
John Betjeman, Poet and Prophet.
ignacio_olveira: “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows” - John Betjeman.
wikeleyjb: Or John Wain (rude!): "That so many people find Mr Betjeman the most (oronly) attractive contemporary poet is merely one more sign that the mass middle-brow public distrusts and fears poetry."
Mysisterlola: A morning constitutional to arrive at the historic St Enodoc’s Church; final resting place of Sir John Betjeman CBE.
RyanCurle: Watching John Betjeman's Metro-Land because it's back on iPlayer. Those accents!
mrJonnyDelta: In a Bath Teashop - John Betjeman carolreader posted a photo: -
wplucey: “And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky.”
― John Betjeman
Bronze statue (by British sculptor Martin Jennings) of English poet, broadcaster, and writer, John Betjeman, a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, at St Pancras railway station, London.
MrBrownsEtc: Keep your Northern Dibble nonsense. John Betjeman on the Metropolitan Line is proper telly.
19Averil: John Betjeman’s homage to suburbia -shades of Pinner and Harrow
culham_mark: Thinking about Benjamin Britten and John Betjeman this morning I am going to go out on a limb and say the one did not set the other and that Jane Brown did not photograph Britten. At least I can't find anything.
So I'll have to make do with Cecil Beaton for both.
thebenoliver: Watched John Betjeman's Metroland again last night too, on its 50th anniversary. Why don't we make telly like this any more?
mod_in_metro: Next, Betjeman wanders around St John’s Wood, focusing on the former house of John Hugh Smyth-Pigott, a Agapemonites clergyman, who, as the poet puts it, his “congregation declared him to be Christ,/a compliment he accepted”
chrishawtree: Quite a moment, when it turns out that John Betjeman is standing in the middle of the pitch at the Stadium at Wembley during Metroland.
ITVRobShelley: according to today's Times - it's 50 years since John Betjeman's really very wonderful Metroland documentary/poem/defies most classifications was broadcast
If you haven't seen it, that's the way to write for telly. You can take a city if you're armed with charm
JoMirzoeff: What lovely positive responses! My father-in-law will be delighted to hear that his film is still much loved! He often talks about the experience of filming it and of working with John Betjeman.
tenbus_uk: Sir John Betjeman's classic film about the London Undergrounds Metropolitan Line "Metroland" is available from the BBC iPlayer for th next 29 days >>
Laloulabelle: Just started watching John Betjeman Metro-Land never seen it before, like it was made for me.
DurhamWASP: Sir John Betjeman, Metroland.
An exploration of the English rural idyll with John Betjeman's 1973 meditation on the residential suburbs which grew up alongside the Metropolitan Line.
oxfordeightt: Sir John Betjeman’s 1973 documentary,’Metroland’ is on tonight on BBC Four at 9.55pm.
PicaliliShinpad: Watching Metro-land on its 50th anniversary. John Betjeman made me laugh. The proposed British version of the Eiffel Tower attracted "civil engineers from Sweden and Thornton Heath".
wordsnfixtures: Some fab stained glass reminiscent of Victoria Baths in "Metroland", with John Betjeman, on BBC Four.
mod_in_metro: Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first airing of John Betjeman & Edward Mirzoeff’s “Metro-Land” documentary, a look back at the London suburbs created in the previous 50 years. So what better way to celebrate than with a virtual tour? Off we go!
keepingitpeel: BBC Radio 4 - Laura Barton's Notes on Music, Episode 2: Bells
aliterarybot: Nature is out of date and God is too;
Think what atomic energy can do!
—John Betjeman, 'The Dear Old Village'
RuthArnold: And a poem by a great poet and lover of churches, John Betjeman.
Hear his plaque in Westminster Abbey, but anyone who thinks he’s a comfortable poet should read this. A damning critique of religion at the service of narrow nationalism or prejudice.
Feels painfully timely.
atShoalstone: “Early Electric! With what radiant hope
Men formed this many-branched electrolier,
Twisted the flex around the iron rope
And let the dazzling vacuum globes hang clear,
And then with hearts the rich contrivance fill’d
Of copper, beaten by the Bromsgrove Guild.”
John Betjeman
RailwayHeritage: John Betjeman’s Metroland was first screened on Sunday 26 February 1973. To celebrate its 50th anniversary it is being re-broadcast on BBC4 this Sunday at 2200. Do try and watch it if you’ve never seen it - “Roses are blooming in Metro-land just as they do in the brochures”.
CIoJournalist: Chartered Institute of Journalists' Journal for Winter 2022-3 is out- great article on John Betjeman by Andy Smith, features on BBC's first journalist Arthur Burrows (Institute Fellow & member), media suppression in Myanmar, & James Bayes- legendary regionl press feature writer.
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1st Patient Dream 7/4F
2nd Light In The Sky 12/1
3rd John Betjeman 10/3
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HorneBig: John Betjeman, UK poet laureate from 1972 until his death in 1984, his writing evoked a sense of nostalgia. He utilized traditional poetic forms, wrote with a light touch about public issues and satirized much of contemporary society for his perception of its superficiality.
ProPunter: 15:10 Ludlow:
John Betjeman
He's in good form and on a winning mark. I think he takes the beating here.
Odds: 9/2
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BobBorsley: John Betjeman on chapels, which are plentiful in my part of the world (in Anthony Jones, Welsh Chapels, 1996):
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M_Law8: Where is John Betjeman when you need him?
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freekslyde57: So I've just come back from a week's Twitter ban for quoting John Betjeman...Elon the free speech absolutist?
friendschurches: Designed by Betjeman's life-long friend, John Piper and created by artist Joseph Nuttgens, this scene of flora, fauna and fish fills the west window at All Saints', Farnborough, Berkshire - Betjeman's local church.
5/6
mongsley: Sir John Betjeman at Liverpool Street station in 1974. He was the Chairman of the Liverpool Street Station Campaign which was formed that year and campaigned for conservationist redevelopment at Liverpool Street Station, in opposition to British Rail's proposals to
Gda1238: Today marks the birth in 1876 of G. M. Treveylan, Cambridge academic and famous historian, friend of A.L. Rowse and John Betjeman.
"Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future."
RupertReports: “Blessed be St Enodoc, blessed be the wave, blessed be the springy turf, we pray, pray to thee” John Betjeman 1906-1984.
thevicsoc: The original LISSCA Campaign president was Sir John Betjeman, the poet Laureate and former Secretary of the Victorian Society. Then as now, the Victorian Society and other heritage and conservation organisations successfully fought alongside the public to save the Station.
MusketSkin: Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn’t fit for humans now,
There isn’t grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Godgift64107811: Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
-John Betjeman
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