[News] Dame Vera Lynn

[GREASED WEASEL]

Marvellous Lady

 

[AlastairWatts]

There's a tribute show on BBC1 tonight to her @ 7.30. I'm not sure that I dare watch it though - to me she was everything that's good about England. No scandals about her, happily married and was what I'd call an honest performer - when I heard her sing I always felt that she was projecting her own honest decent personality. No scandals either, England has lost an icon today

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Superb example of "doing your bit in times of need"
Huge respect for the part she played

RIP a fine woman - Vera Lynn

 

[zefarelly]

This photo wins the internet today. She had a great voice. Must have been quite a gig with Hawkwind on the same stage!

 

[Blue3]

Legend is so often far to freely given but in Dame Viras case its possibly underplaying her contribution to not only the war effort but for the rest of her life she dedicated her time to the cause of ex service personnel and their families while always being the very essence of an English lady living for many years in Ditchling Sussex and the rest of Britain has lost an icon

 

[METALMICKY]

Post removed by moderator. Please stick to the subject.

Please PM detailing why this was not sticking to subject? It quite specifically referenced that the quite fitting outpouring of grief and associated tributes to Dame Vera could easily be forgotten by many in an instant if it suited. To reference that assertion I made reference to captain Tom and briefly mentioned events that I believed showed him a lack of respect.

The brief mention of those events invited no further specific comment on them. And how I phrased my observations I don't feel would have dragged anyone off topic to any great degree.

Hawkeye style moderating

 

[jakarta]

This photo wins the internet today. She had a great voice. Must have been quite a gig with Hawkwind on the same stage!

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That is a photo to treasure, I can't QUITE see her singing You Shouldn't Do That but who knows?

 

[Glawstergull]

A special lady.
Rest in peace.
Seems like the passing of a generation.

 

[Lower West Stander]

That is a photo to treasure, I can't QUITE see her singing You Shouldn't Do That but who knows?

Or dancing to the instrumental on Silver Machine....


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[Super Steve Earle]

This photo wins the internet today. She had a great voice. Must have been quite a gig with Hawkwind on the same stage!

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Must have been when Stacia retired!

 

[zefarelly]

Must have been when Stacia retired!

I pinched the photo from a friends FB post ( retired band manager and BHA fan) he would have been there I'm sure.

One of those causes good people support, but the kind of people who blasphemed my earlier post wouldn't. She wasn't Daily Mail.

https://www.nme.com/blogs/dame-vera-lynn-tribute-hawkwind-lemmy-2690867

 

[daveinplzen]

In the mid-80s the 10th combined with the 4th Brighton to make a single football team. The 4th were an 'interesting' group of lads who were known as the 'Millwall' of the league. There were 6 Vinnie Jones in the team plus whoever turned up from the 10th.

We were so small it was ridiculous haha We dreaded any sports competitions

 

[melias shoes]

Sad as she was an admirable lady (and a local). But now await the media gush-fest, feeding our collective national obsession with the 2nd World War.

Let's just forget about it then shall we?

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Greatest female of the generation. Love her.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Legend is so often far to freely given but in Dame Viras case its possibly underplaying her contribution to not only the war effort but for the rest of her life she dedicated her time to the cause of ex service personnel and their families while always being the very essence of an English lady living for many years in Ditchling Sussex and the rest of Britain has lost an icon

Very true - and don't forget her huge Charity efforts locally in Sussex (Ingfield Manor at Billingshurst and The Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity, based in Haywards Heath)

 

[Mo Gosfield]

OK. I'll try again. We are obsessed and perhaps rightly so. I too share this: my dad fought in the war; my uncle returned from the war with mental health problems; my mum was evacuated from London during the Blitz; for goodness sake, my granny was locked in the toilet following a bomb dropping on St Andrew's Road (Worthing)! I've gone on guided tours of the Normandy beaches and have several shelves full of books on the war.

So I've got my credentials of respect; it's just that Dame Vera's death will become today's big story when there might be more crucial matters to dwell on. That's all.

Wed 17th June....BBC Six O'Clock News.....lead story......the return of the Premier League.
Thurs 18th June..BBC Six O'Clock News.....lead story......the passing of Vera Lynn.

I'll let you decide.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Flypast for Vera Lynn

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-53337459

The flypast by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, consisting of a Spitfire and a Hurricane, will take place during the pause at midday.

 

[LamieRobertson]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-53337459

The flypast by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, consisting of a Spitfire and a Hurricane, will take place during the pause at midday.

Ditching all closed off...was due to see a customer there today...by the crossroads ..think I’ll give that a miss

 

[dazzer6666]

Flypast details

 

[Marshy]

Flypast details

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So when can I see them flying over HHeath ?