#Man and Van Surrey

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The Valley of Fear: Sherlock Holmes Discourses

Camberwell is an area 2 3/4 miles SE of Charing Cross, being in Surrey until the 1889 creation of the London County Council. As a rapidly expanding area, it would have been hard to find trace 'Porlock'.

The French franc throughout its history from 1795 (when it replaced the livre) to 2002 (France completing its move to the euro) had several periods of rapid inflation and government devaluation, resulting in some exchange rates with other currencies that were at joke level. In 1960, the currency was revalued with the "new franc" being equivalent to 100 of the old ones, but the franc was one of the weaker currencies in Europe in the 1990s, although not quite as bad as the Italian or Turkish lira.

Jonathan Wild was a man who ran a major criminal empire who posing as a thief-taker:

The wage for the Prime Minister was £5,000 a year from 1830 to 1930. Sir Keir Starmer is entitled to £172,153, but doesn't take all of it:

Regular MPs were not paid at all until 1911; which basically limited the Commons to those were already wealthy or had support from a trade union.

Trespass is not in itself a criminal offence in England, merely a civil wrong, but picking a lock to get into a place would make it a criminal matter.

Deutsche Bank, the largest bank in Germany, was formed in 1870 - it today has two of Frankfurt-am-Main's 20 skyscrapers (Germany has 21 in total).

London Victoria is connected to Sussex by the Oxted line, then part of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. It is today in the Southern network. I will cover more on this later.

"Milk train" was a term for a very early train, these would carry churns of milk in the guard's van and/or (I guess) in dedicated freight wagons, as well as passenger loads. Milk would move from the 1930s onwards to being carried in dedicated tanks, until road transport replaced them, with the last milk trains running in 1981.

While the Pinkerton Detective Agency had adopted an eye as its logo by this time - after an operation to escort Abraham Lincoln to his inauguration where the world's first female detective, Kate Warne, likely pulled an all-nighter - the use of the term "private eye" to refer to someone like Holmes originates in the 1930s. Here it is referring to the fact the message is for Inspector MacDonald's personal reading.

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Valuable works of art steeped in history are often hung in pride of place above a mantlepiece or on the walls of a grand entrance hall. But not so this 400-year-old hidden treasure, which spent decades out of sight, behind the door of a Surrey cottage, before being stumbled upon by an antiques expert during a house clearance of a late collector. 

...

Chris Kirkham, associate director at Hansons London spotted the painting while visiting the property, which was owned by a man, who has not been named, who collected paintings as a hobby. Kirkham commented that he ‘was surprised to find such a compelling portrait hidden away.’ 

He explained that the painting was likely to have been influenced by the Baroque artists Van Dyck and Reubens. Bearing the name Adriaen Verkins, possibly Dutch, the painting is dated 1626, when Charles I (1600-1649) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland. He lavished money on the arts and invited artists such as Van Dyck and Rubens to work in England.

(Note on the article: The subject of the painting is said to be a girl, and the name in the corner the artist's. However, the title reads "Adrian Verkins at age 1"; the sitter is presumably a little boy named Adrian. A quick internet search shows the grave of an Adrian Verkins in the Netherlands from 1704.)

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I am not making light of this guys ordeal because it's a man. I'm just saying that this was an example of male violence therefore it should say "Man who was tortured by trans activist brands HIM 'dangerous'

EXCLUSIVE Hospital worker, 52, who was kidnapped and tortured by trans activist who told a cheering crowd to 'punch TERFs in the face' brands her a 'dangerous, violent individual'

Darren Sheridan spoke publicly for the first time of how he feared he would die

He has hit out at zealot over inflammatory comments against feminists

By DAVID PILDITCH

PUBLISHED: 04:26 EDT, 16 July 2023��| UPDATED: 05:10 EDT, 16 July 2023

A hospital worker kidnapped and tortured by a transgender activist who told a cheering crowd at a rally to 'punch TERFs in the face' today branded her a 'dangerous, violent individual'.

Darren Sheridan, 52, spoke publicly for the first time of how he feared he would die after being savagely beaten and tormented during 24 hours held captive by Sarah Jane Baker and her brother.

Now he has hit out at the zealot over her inflammatory comments against feminists critical of trans ideology.

I think if people disagree with other people about issues it's much better to have a debate about it then threaten people. By telling the crowd to punch a TERF, she clearly still has anger issues and is a dangerous, violent person.'

Darren knows only too well the level of violence Baker is capable of.

After he was kidnapped Darren was subjected to appalling beatings and forced to carry out humiliating sex acts before being trussed up in a cupboard and left to die.

Recalling harrowing details for the first time he told MailOnline how Baker and her brother showed no remorse after admitting their appalling crimes.

He said: 'I thought I was going to die but in the court case they said that the only thing they regretted about it was that they couldn't break me.'

The brothers were jailed for seven years by a judge who described the ordeal as 'an exercise in sadism and cruelty which may well have led to his death'.

Baker, now 53, ended up spending 30 years in jail after she was convicted of attempted murder for breaking into a prisoner's cell and trying to strangle him to death.

Darren was just 19 when he was unwittingly caught up in a family feud after his sister Donna married Baker's father.

Baker, who was born Alan, and his brother George were sent out to bring her back and Darren's life changed forever when there was a knock on the door at the family home in Thornton Heath, Surrey.

He was punched in the face after being confronted by the brothers and another man.

Darren said: 'I had three knives pointed at me - two either side of my body and one at my neck.

'They told me 'You're coming with us'. I had no choice.

'I was forcibly taken at knifepoint to a van and bundled into the back.

'I couldn't see what was going on as I was face down and there were no windows. I was beaten in the van. I think there were two of them doing it.'

Darren was taken to a squat in London. When the brothers appeared at Maidstone Crown Court in 1989 it emerged he had 39 identifiable injuries including some inflicted with a knife.

Darren told MailOnline: 'I had no idea where I was going. They took me to a flat and led me inside where I was beaten and tortured for 12 hours.

'They were punching me and burning me with cigarettes. They were stubbing them out on my neck and I still have the scars from that to this day.

'I was forced to perform oral sex on them at knifepoint.

'One of them said their dad wanted me dead and they were thinking of ways that they were going to kill me.

'They said they were going to get a gun and shoot me.

'They said they were going to give me a smiley face - where they slit the sides of your mouth. They said they were going to get a razor to scar my face.

'I was made to eat cigarette butts and curry powder.

'Towards the end I was tied up. They tied me to the back of one chair then put another chair opposite.

'My legs were stretched out and were tied to the back of it.

'One of them got up and stepped on my legs - he was trying to get my kneecaps to break.

'It was such a sustained attack I became numb to the pain.

'The last thing I remember was being tied up with electricity wire and dumped in an airing cupboard.

'They carried me in and just left me there. It was dark and silent. I couldn't hear anything.

'The wire was tied around my feet, my hands and my neck in such a way that if I moved it tightened around my neck.

'At first I tried to free myself but that's when I realised the wire around my neck was getting tighter and I feared I would strangle myself so I stopped.

'I was helpless and I blacked out.'

Darren was saved after somebody else living in the squat raised the alarm and police and paramedics raced to the scene.

Darren said: 'The first thing I remember after that was being in a hospital bed.

'I was told that it took six hours before I was able to come out with my name and address because I was drifting in and out of consciousness.

'I was told that if I had been left an hour longer I would have been dead.'

Describing the aftermath of his ordeal Darren said: 'It messed up my mental health. I didn't leave the house for a year after that.

'I was too afraid to go out. The first year was awful.

'For a few good years it was really hard to talk about it without getting emotional, without crying.

'It had a massive impact on my life. It took away a lot of confidence.

'I have a distrust of people, especially people who are so called family after they did that to me.

'I had therapy. It took me a couple of years to come to terms with it. Most of it I buried away.'

Darren, who now works as a healthcare assistant in a hospital's A&E department, said he never had any further dealings with Baker.

But he heard from family members that Baker had attempted to murder another prisoner and had gone on to change gender.

After hearing of Baker's latest incident: 'I'm surprised that he is doing so much for the trans community. I'm surprised that he would put other people before him.'

Asked of his views on the transgender issue he said: 'I don't get much involved in politics and stuff like that. I try to keep away from it.'

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Cleveland Heights, OH 44106

Unlike other National Register Districts in Cleveland Heights, which are exclusively residential and exclusively single-family, the Euclid Heights Historic District's building types and architectural styles create a rich portrait of American upper and middle-class lifestyles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  This 365-acre suburb bounded by Mayfield Rd., Coventry Rd., Cedar Rd., and Overlook Lane, was one of the first platted in the desirable higher ground located along an escarpment above Cleveland's University Circle and Euclid Avenue. Early on, Euclid Heights’ developers sought to attract wealthy Millionaires’ Row residents who, in the late 19th century, had begun migrating eastward away from the city's pollution and commercial bustle. The development benefited from the advent of electrified streetcars, which could conquer the steep grades leading up to the Heights. Tucked in the corner of a green space framed by Doan Brook and Lake View Cemetery, Euclid Heights offered a stylish retreat where those able to handle longer commutes could enjoy spacious lots, curving streets, handsome architecture, spectacular views, fresh air, privacy and a chance to put distance between themselves and the increasingly dirty, problem-plagued city below.

     The story goes that Atlanta and New York railroad lawyer Patrick Calhoun, grandson of U.S. Vice President and Senator John C. Calhoun, traveled to Cleveland on business in 1890. Having time to spare, Calhoun rode out to Lake View Cemetery to see the recently dedicated memorial to the slain President James A. Garfield, a structure Calhoun’s family had supported. On the way he noticed the building boom going on in the East End (Hough area), and wondered where that was heading. Calhoun had been involved earlier in the Richmond Terminal railroad project in Virginia and was familiar with the groundbreaking work that Frank Sprague, the "Father of Electric Traction," had done there in using electric railroads to promote urban development. Knowing that the East Cleveland Railway Company had recently done some innovative work electrifying streetcars locally, Calhoun saw an opportunity to develop an important streetcar suburb at the top of Cedar Glen.

     Working with local partners, including John D. Rockefeller's real estate man, J.G.W. Cowles, attorney William Lowe Rice and merchant John Hartness Brown, Calhoun had development plans drawn up by 1892. The Panic of 1893 put their plans on hold but by 1896 an amended site plan was recorded—more or less identical to today's layout of the area with Euclid Heights Boulevard bisecting the site from the southwest corner at the crest of Cedar Hill. In the northeast corner of the development would be the commercial district, what we now know as Coventry Village. Other prominent features included The Overlook—Overlook Road southwest of Edgehill Road and featuring large mansions featuring splendid north- and west-facing views—and the Euclid Club, a country club that sported a golf course spanning both sides of Cedar Road and a grand quarter-mile entry path beginning at what is now the corner of Derbyshire and Surrey Roads.

     The development gradually attracted fine homes and also spurred other beautiful subdivisions, such as Barton Deming’s Euclid Golf Allotment on the south portion of the former golf course (which closed in 1912). Moreover, the Van Sweringen brothers, are believed to have been paperboys in the Euclid Heights area and later went on to adopt themes from the Euclid Heights Allotment in their famous Shaker Heights and Shaker Farm communities (the latter comprises streets such as Stratford, Marlboro, Fairfax and Guilford, west of Lee Road and immediately north of Fairmount Boulevard) . Calhoun, however, was distracted by legal problems running the San Francisco streetcar franchise after the Great Earthquake and saw his Euclid Heights development company forced into bankruptcy in 1914. By then William Rice had been murdered while walking home to the Overlook from the Euclid Club, a sensational case that featured John Hartness Brown as a suspect. Although it still maintains its picturesque “Garden City” look, Euclid Heights soon evolved from a private hilltop retreat to a busy gateway to the rapidly developing Heights. A large portion of Calhoun-owned land in the area’s eastern sector was sold off and subdivided, thus explaining why Cleveland Heights homes east of Coventry Road tend to be somewhat more modest than those near the top of the hill.  Euclid Heights was listed with the National Register of Historic Places on October 31, 2012. It remains full of architecturally significant homes (including Calhoun's at 2460 Edgehill), but its main significance is the role it played in opening the Heights as a streetcar suburb for wealthy Clevelanders.

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Well, he found he was at least comforted by one thing: even someone of van Zieks’s nobility wasn’t entirely positive of the reason behind an ownership of lavish but nevertheless abandoned estates. (So, then . . . the inquiry on Ryunosuke’s part wasn’t completely uncalled for; though, he silently mused he’d likely get a few upturned noses and scoffs from most anyone else, had he presented the same thing.) While van Zieks made an attempt to “justify” it, Ryunosuke listened, rapt despite everything, and he felt his head slowly cant sideways with the occasional lilt of the carriage. It wasn’t until the man confessed his own negligence to sell them—clearly pained by the thought—that Ryunosuke straightened again.

If he could glean one thing from this, it was that those aforementioned places held memories. And, far more importantly, Ryunosuke could therefore understand. He didn’t need to press further. No, he didn’t want to—at the very least not when van Zieks seemed content setting it aside. By the end of it, all he could do was hum a wordless acceptance. (If he just so happened to make a silent promise to both himself and van Zieks about creating new memories for the both of them . . . ? That was neither here nor there.)

What caught his attention next might not have been fully intentional on his company’s side, but as van Zieks spoke of Surrey, Ryunosuke tracked the real sentiment threaded beneath his words: You would enjoy . . . He expressed this all no less casually than anything else—as if he hadn’t just made it wholly obvious how attuned he’d become to Ryunosuke’s tastes, how he could so easily infer what would bring him joy. And while it could be argued that perhaps such an understanding came from Ryunosuke being an open book in that regard, some part of himself was much happier seeing it under a more intimate light. By the time an invitation was extended—first to him personally, and then to his friends, as well—Ryunosuke finally realized he’d been smiling the entire time.

“I would love that.” But you’re already aware. He was tempted to say more, even poke a little fun by mentioning he’d have to bring along their favorite detective, but already—and surprising himself—Ryunosuke was passively scheming. After all, everyone was exceptionally busy these days (except Sholmes, of course, who specifically chose when to be busy and when not to be for the sake of his own agenda). “Good company” might not always be available at a time when Ryunosuke would want to visit, and so . . . 

Tucked away for the future—

He let out a soft laugh, then, van Zieks’s playful remark (delivered as matter-of-fact as ever) plucking at just the right strings. With a shake of his head, Ryunosuke momentarily pondered the man’s curiosities. He supposed, until now, he hadn’t fully realized just how secretive he had been about his own past—inadvertently, of course. Really, he ought to be ashamed after the amount of digging he’d done to unravel even a portion of van Zieks’s. . . . Fair enough.

“Could be that mine doesn’t present much to talk about,” Ryunosuke admitted, flippant at that fact: after all, he’d had enough drama simply being involved with this good company van Zieks mentioned. “Believe it or not, I never had any intention of becoming a lawyer; that all happened because of Kazuma. He’s always been particularly skilled at sweeping me up with him, no matter what or where.” His lips twitched somewhat, the makings of a smile again. “Before all of this, I was just an English student, and . . . not even really a good one, at that. I don’t really . . . Well, I didn’t have any family to speak of, at least until coming to London. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons I’ve chosen to stay.”

... the use of them? barok's brow knit deeply as he pondered the enquiry. ❛ I'm — not sure. As I said, I inherited them. As did Klint, from our father... he had always said that financial wealth was of little use to a man unless invested and diversified. Property was among one of his areas of expertise... and the expertise of any other man with the means of affording it, too. ❜

But the attempt at logic did not answer Naruhodo's question in the least.

❛ They were of use to us in the past, when on occasion we went holidaying. ❜ ... and sat empty the rest of the decade. Though he spoke truthfully, he nearly regretted saying it aloud; he could not have crafted a lamer excuse had he tried.

❛ ... I suppose there is little value in a home unoccupied. ❜ What else should a home be built for, after all?  ( To house a history already lived and left behind? To keep tender and close the memories of men long gone, just to mend the emptiness of a gaping heart? Memories woven from threads of a ghost who had, as Barok knows now, been so terribly misremembered...? Did such false memories warrant keeping? )  ❛ I did consider selling them, several times throughout the years. I never could get to doing it. Too much else to do then, and — perhaps letting go is more difficult than one can admit. ❜

And what a painful admittance it is: that a man could cling so desperately to memories of his youthful naïvete. But he must. Cherished memories of being carried atop Klint's shoulders through the pebble beaches at Osborne, swinging his legs as he commandeered his loyal brother down the shore and into shallow waters until they had waded so deep that Klint swayed and nearly pitched Barok straight off of his shoulders; and of picking his way through their vineyards in Dorset with Klint at his side, turning the fruit in his palm and explaining with measured excitement to Barok the ripeness and sweetness that he might expect from a grape, or how he might gauge the health of a vineyard by the evenness of shoot growth and the number of leaves in a cluster... those had been among few things that had only just managed to keep Barok adrift throughout the years of tidal sorrow.

But there was no time for sorrow when he had company. He could not allow himself to tip back into misery, no matter how forgiving Naruhodo had been thus far.

❛ At the very least, you might give thought to exploring the countryside beyond the city. I can speak to the beauty of Surrey — from which my title ❜  Marquess of Surrey  ❛ was created — our home is not far from the village of Cranleigh. You would enjoy some of the shops. It won't be a simple task for you to come and go on your own, as there is no way from London by rail. But you would be welcome as a guest at my estate... along with good company, if you wish. ❜

It was only proper to extend the invitation to Naruhodo's friends and to trust the judgement of the defence... as he had in the darkest of times. Surely Sholmes' potential company could not be worse than those nights spent in a cramped cell. ( But he would welcome Miss Mikotoba and Sholmes' daughter, of course, with open arms. And if Sholmes must accompany his ward, then so be it. )

❛ I take it you have never pondered selling off your excess of homes, then. ❜ Humour executed drily as ever. But Naruhodo understood him well enough — exceptionally in fact — thus far. ❛ ... information about you is not forthcoming, Mr Naruhodo. You have done your share of investigating my past, with the considerable advantage of the wealth of information that my homeland has kept of me. Perhaps you would now consider evening the odds — ? ❜

[mrhyde-mrseek]

SCIENCE MOST SINISTER - PART NINE

It was a week after he returned from Transylvania when Jonathan Harker received the telephone call.

The caller’s identity had been just as surprising as his reason for calling. Of course, Harker remember assisting Sherlock Holmes once (who would have forgotten?), but he had been younger, barely half a year into his career as a solicitor. He had no reason to wonder if the detective even remembered him.

While Mr. Holmes’ request itself had not been completely out of the ordinary for Harker—he had been required to search through library archives for histories of specific properties a handful of times before—this specific house struck him as familiar.

Only while walking away from the telephone to find Mina did he remember: this was the house his firm had helped Van Helsing and Seward to save from demolition. Positioned on the edge of a forest, the house was at least two hundred years old, and—the last time he had laid eyes on it, though he assumed it had been cleaned up since then—on the verge of collapse. Why anyone would wish to save it had been beyond him.

Why anyone would wish to learn the history of it, however, was much less perplexing. An old manor miles from any other property, built right on the edge of a thick wood, was bound to have an intriguing history.

He found Mina sitting by the fireplace. Because it was only early spring, although the time for snow seemed to have passed, it was still a bit cold, so a small fire had been lit. Mina glanced up from her journal at his arrival. “Who was it calling?” she asked.

Harker ran his fingers through his grey-streaked hair—a habit he had picked up quite recently. “Sherlock Holmes. He wishes for my help in uncovering the history of an aged manor,” he explained.

Mina raised a brow. “And you are certain you feel well enough to offer your assistance?”

“I . . . I am not.” He sank onto the sofa next to her, rubbing his eyes with the heels of his palms. “Oh, Mina, I have not even been able to return to my job since we arrived back in England,” he moaned.

She took his hand and entwined their fingers, forcing him to meet her eyes. “I know,” she murmured. “I understand how you feel. I, too, have found it difficult to leave the house at times. But you are becoming stronger than you believe, my darling, and it sounds as though it is important to Mr. Holmes that you do as he asks.” When he made no answer but a twitch of the corner of his mouth, she added, “Would you prefer for me to accompany you?”

After a minute, he nodded. “I daresay that might help,” he agreed.

~•~

As it turned out, the manor was so infamous in that part of London that he need only describe it to the man at the library archives’ front desk, and he and Mina were instructed where to look.

“Though I must warn you,” they were told, “I doubt you’ll find very much.”

It took several minutes of careful searching before they discovered a collection of death certificates for houses in that general area.

Harker and Mina found a table, dragged two chairs close together, and bent over the book, scanning every address listed for that of the manor.

Then Mina pointed, whispering, “There it is!” The date was listed as 1676. Just over two hundred years ago.

As Harker read, his brow furrowed, and he became more and more confused by what was written on the certificate.

Name: Anthony Wardwell - Sex: Male - Age: Thirty-four - Occupation: Bailiff - Birthplace: Surrey, England - Date of death: 1676 (exact date unknown) - Cause of death: Unknown - Date and place of burial: None (body found missing soon after death)

“This makes no sense,” he muttered, half to himself. “Why did his body go missing after he passed? Did someone steal it, for whatever reason?”

The next record they found was the same; the cause of death and the date and place of burial were not listed. It was the same with the third, then the fourth, and very soon it no longer could be called a coincidence.

He closed the book and turned to Mina. “There must be something more than this, somewh—“ Mina was no longer by his side. He had become so engrossed in his reading that he had not noticed her get up.

She had gone behind one of the bookshelves. In her hands was a thin, dust-caked book and a yellowed piece of paper, the latter of which she showed to Harker. “This fell out of here. It seems to be a page from old journal hidden in this book.”

The writing on the paper had been faded by time and eaten away by insects, but what was legible sent chills down Harker’s spine.

In the cellar . . . entered through a hidden passage . . . uilt a well . . . e ritual . . . must have worked . . . dark presence . . . help . . . a mistake . . . ants me.

They had to bring all of this to Mr. Holmes as soon as possible.

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How prog were Queen?

By Dave Everley

On 9 January, 1971, Kevin Ayers and Genesis played a show together at the Ewell Technical College near Epsom in Surrey. Ayers was 18 months out of Soft Machine, and making a name for himself as a psychedelically-inclined art-folk rake. Genesis had released their second album, Trespass, a few months earlier, and were carving out a place in the vanguard of the burgeoning progressive rock movement.

There was a third band propping up the bill that night, a bunch of transplanted Londoners calling themselves Queen. In contrast to the wilfully artful approach of the headliners, their music was more straightforward: a heavy, if ornate blend of Led Zeppelin’s earthiness and the flights of fancy of Yes.

Not everyone in the small crowd watching them was impressed, but they caught the attention of one person. After the show, Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel pulled Queen’s blond-bombshell drummer Roger Taylor to one side. Gabriel’s band were about to dismiss their own drummer, John Mayhew, and were looking for a replacement. Was Taylor interested in joining Genesis? The reply was instant: thanks but no thanks. Taylor was utterly dedicated to Queen – there were gigs to play, places to go, and many musical adventures to embark on.

Had Taylor accepted the offer, the course of music – and specifically prog – would have been very different. Genesis would have flourished with Gabriel upfront, though whether they would have survived and prospered as they did without a Phil Collins to step into the breach after their talismanic singer’s departure was another matter.

The knock-on effect on Queen would have been greater. Taylor was an essential part of their carefully balanced four-way chemistry; a chemistry that would go on to throw up some of the most ambitious and game-changing music ever recorded. While Queen weren’t a capital ‘P’ prog band, they were infused with the spirit of the movement, combining its forward-looking values with its absolute disregard for the existing rules. Taking their cues from the likes of Yes, Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator and even Pink Floyd, their flamboyantly cavalier approach would go on to inspire such modern masters as Dream Theater, Queensrÿche and Muse. And, in Bohemian Rhapsody, they ensured that one of the biggest-selling singles in history was, at heart, a prog song. Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the prog ethos meant avoiding the expected, then Queen were definitely a prog band.

“Diversity was probably their greatest asset,” says former Dream Theater drummer and confirmed Queen devotee Mike Portnoy. “From song to song, they could be so different. You could have something that was folk followed by something that was rockabilly followed by something that was metal. And that’s one of the biggest things about prog, having that open-mindedness.”

Queen’s schooling in prog came early on. Brian May’s very first band, 1984, played a 4am slot supporting Pink Floyd at the Christmas On Earth Continued all-nighter in 1967. A year later, his next outfit, Smile – also featuring Roger Taylor – played with Floyd again, this time at London’s Imperial College. By the time of their gig opening for Kevin Ayers, Smile had changed their name to Queen and recruited Freddie Mercury. Collectively, they admired Yes, Van der Graaf Generator and especially Genesis. “Foxtrot is a prog rock classic,” Roger Taylor later wrote in the sleevenotes to Genesis box set 1970-1975. “Arrangements were highly complex in these early days, setting a benchmark for the style of the times.”

When it came to finding someone to produce their debut album, Queen’s first choice was John Anthony, who had worked with both Genesis and Van der Graaf. With Anthony and co-producer Roy Thomas Baker behind the desk, the eponymous album trod heavily in Led Zeppelin’s footsteps. But there was another, altogether more visionary band straining to spread their wings: My Fairy King was a filigreed slice of flamboyant rock’n’roll, while Liar metamorphosised through several different time changes and timings.

Those wings were fully unfurled on the follow-up, 1974’s Queen II. The title was the most prosaic thing about the record: the music inside was as fevered and baroque as rock gets, informed equally by Zeppelin, Yes and crazed Victorian artist Richard Dadd, whose 1864 painting The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke inspired one of the album’s most prog-leaning tracks. It may have been rooted in the heavy rock of the times, but its cavalier approach and sheer sense of scale pegged Queen as a defiantly progressive proposition.

“Queen weren’t like Yes, who had a dualistic role of guitar and keyboards, where both shared the terrain,” says Yes guitarist Steve Howe, supported by Queen at Kingston Poly in early 1971. “Brian had the terrain to himself. The remarkable thing was that he was the front and the back man. It required him to come up with more than guitar solos… He had to come up with a semi-thematic approach to play the guitar. And what he did was keep colouring.”

Queen’s prog inclinations would be deeply woven into the fabric of their early albums, from the audacious multi-part theatrics of Queen II’s March Of The Black Queen to the schizophrenic attack of the two-part Lap Of The Gods from 1974’s Sheer Heart Attack. Even in their more commercial moments, they marched to the beat of their own drum. What other band would have dared serve up something so unusual as Killer Queen?

“It was their diversity,” says Mike Portnoy, who first heard Queen as an eight-year-old in the mid-70s and covered many Queen songs while in Dream Theater. “Their albums took the prototype that The Beatles laid down with the White Album, where you had four different artists bringing in very different styles. Every song was so diverse. You get to A Night At The Opera, and you had this giant multi-layered epic like Bohemian Rhapsody next to something like Seaside Rendezvous or Love Of My Life.”

A Night At The Opera was Queen’s grand artistic statement and their most unashamedly prog album. Pitched around the epic twin tentpoles of The Prophet’s Song and Bohemian Rhapsody, it married their far-reaching vision to a distinctly British barminess. Taken on its own, the eight-minute The Prophets Song, with its incredible ornate a cappella middle section, would be enough to grant Queen access to the Prog Hall Of Fame. But even that sits in the inescapable shadow of Bohemian Rhapsody. Time and success might have lessened its impact, but that song remains the most dazzlingly unique piece of music ever to sell five million copies.

“There are epic things that come along every so often,” says Steve Howe. “There’s Sgt Pepper, there’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. And there’s Bohemian Rhapsody. I don’t know when I first heard it, but once it was there, it was such a formidable thing. You’re thinking: ‘How many tracks did they need to do those vocals? How did they write it? Who invented it? It really was astounding.”

Bohemian Rhapsody encapsulated one of the key things that gave Queen such a distinct identity. Like The Beatles and Beach Boys before them, they used the studio as an instrument – not least when it came to their vocals. And Bohemian Rhapsody raised the bar about as high as it could go.

“They sang each of those parts and triple-stacked them,” says Mike Portnoy. “You heard all three of their voices singing in all three vocal ranges. That’s what made the depth of their music so complex. It wasn’t the instrumentation, it was the vocals. That’s unusual for prog music. When I think of my favourite prog music, it’s always the musicianship that draws me. But with Queen, it was the vocals. It was so deep.”

For all its success, A Night At The Opera would be Queen’s grand kiss-off to their prog roots. Later albums streamlined their sound into a more conventional format. Much like Genesis, the 80s found them swapping experimentalism for chart rock.

It wasn’t until the end of their career as an active band that Queen would again sound so adventurous. During 1989 and 1990, the band began work on their penultimate album, Innuendo, in London and Montreux. In the summer of 1990, Yes guitarist Steve Howe paid a flying visit to the Swiss city, where a chance encounter with a former guitar tech found him being invited to Queen’s studio to hear the album as a work-in-progress.

“Inside, there’s Freddie, Brian and Roger all sitting together. They go: ‘Let’s play you the album,’” says Howe. “Of course, I’m hearing it for the first time: I Can’t Live Without You, I’m Going Slightly Mad. And they saved Innuendo itself until last. They played it and I was fucking blown away.”

If that was surprising, then what happened next was utterly out-of-the-blue. The members of Queen asked if Howe wanted to play on the title track. The Yes man politely suggested they’d lost their minds. It took the combined weight of Mercury, May and Taylor to persuade him.

“They all chimed in: ‘We want some crazy Spanish guitar flying around over the top. Improvise!’” recalls Howe. “I started noodling around on the guitar, and it was pretty tough. After a couple of hours, I thought: ‘I’ve bitten off more than I can chew here.’ I had to learn a bit of the structure, work out the chordal roots were, where you had to fall if you did a mad run in the distance; you have to know where you’re going. But it got towards evening, and we’d doodled and I’d noodled, and it turned out to be really good fun. We have this beautiful dinner, we go back to the studio and have a listen. And they go: ‘That’s great. That’s what we wanted.”

Released as a single in January 1991, Innuendo gave Queen their third Number One single. Like Bohemian Rhapsody 25 years before it, it was as unlikely as hit singles get: a six-and-a-half minute musical jigsaw, complete with flamenco runs, classically-inclined orchestral overloads and maverick 5/4 timing. Queensrÿche covered the song on 2007’s Take Cover album, while you can hear its echo in Radiohead’s Paranoid Android and Muse’s more elaborate sci-fi epics.

“In the world of rock, Queen stands out as a good example of the clash between guitar and piano in songwriting,” Muse’s Matt Bellamy has said. “I think that’s where you stumble across those more unusual arrangements and chord structures.”

Today, Queen have left a bi-polar legacy. They’re arguably best known for their pop hits – Radio Gaga, I Want To Break Free and of course, Bohemian Rhapsody, that ultimate prog Trojan Horse. But their spirit of adventure remains unmatched by all but the boldest of their peers.

“There was no rulebook for Queen,” says Mike Portnoy. “They broke most of the rules that existed, and then they wrote a new set.”

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The Man with the Watches

Originally written in 1898 as part of a series of short stories called Round the Fire. Doyle needed money to complete a house he was building in Surrey. Insert your own jokes about actors, bad movies and extensions here.

Rugby is a town in Warwickshire, 83 miles north of London. Yes, it is where the sport of rugby is named after - more specifically Rugby School, a famous private school.

Smoking areas in British trains were gradually abolished from the 1980s, the final ones going in 2005 (GNER and Caledonian Sleeper). I have a 2000 GB-wide timetable showing where smoking was still permitted. In some cases, the trigger for the ban was the move to air-conditioned stock that would result in the smoke circulating in the rest of the train.

A Gladstone bag was a rigid-framed small suitcase that could be opened into two equal halves, named as such due to its used by William Gladstone, four-time British Prime Minister, who would start his final ministry later in 1892.

The guard's van on passenger trains was generally a specific section of a carriage that also had a caged area for carrying luggage, parcels and caged small animals.

Willesden Junction is located in Harlesden, NW London. It no longer has any platforms on the West Coast Main Line, with Avanti and London Northwestern Railway trains going straight past it. Its passenger service today is made up of London Overground Lioness line services from Euston to Watford Junction, Overground Mildmay line services from Stratford to Richmond or Clapham Junction and the Underground's Bakerloo Line from Harrow and Wealdstone to Elephant & Castle. The first and third share the same tracks, while the second operates, on lines shared with freight trains, on separate "High Level" platforms. There is a depot for Overground trains nearby.

Non-gangwayed stock i.e. carriages with no connection between them even for emergency use, continued to be built into the British Railways, with quite a few of the "first generation" of diesel and electric multiple units being built this way. Most got gangways in later refurbishments, but the Class 205 DEMU, bar one example (205205) altered in a refurbishment trial, would carry on without them until final withdrawal in 2004. Most of the survivors then promptly ended up in the hands of heritage railways.

The Bible Society of London was founded in 1804 with the aim of providing affordable Bibles in people's own languages, after the 1800 case of a woman called Mary Jones, who saved up for six years then walked 26 miles to buy a Bible in Welsh. It is still active today.

The London to Rugby line had been widened to four tracks in the 1870s. From west to east, the tracks go: Down (Northbound) Fast - Up (Southbound) Fast - Down Slow - Up Slow. Ergo, you cannot move between two Down trains without a big leap. (https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/lec2#LINK_1)

A bunco-steerer is a swindler.

Green goodsmen operated a scam in which people were offered purportedly counterfeit notes printed using stolen plates (so appearing genuine) at a cheap price, being shown actually genuine notes in a bag. During negotiation, the bag was switched for one containing worthless goods, like sawdust or green paper. Having been duped out of real money, the victims were reluctant to report this to police as attempting to purchase fake money was illegal.

Card-sharping is cheating at cards using various means, including cutting bits of cards to mark the ones you would want. Vegas casinos frequently deliberately cut corners off used cards being sold to tourists to prevent them being snuck into their games.

Tammany refers to Tammany Hall, the corrupt political machine that had ran New York City, for much of the 19th century, leveraging support from Irish immigrants by providing them with jobs for example. It had been temporarily ousted from power after the Lexow Commission of 1894-95 into police corruption; to wit, promotions were being sold for large sums of money and officers got that through extracting protection money from brothels etc. However, it would come back in the 1898 elections and retain control with occasional breaks until 1961, when Carmine DeSapio was ousted as its leader. It then lost power and had gone by 1967.

Travelling salespeople would carry samples or models of their products on their trips, sometimes in branded containers. This has largely become a thing of the past, but is still around.

Northumberland Avenue used to have a lot of high-class hotels, but these have mostly gone. Some were taken over for government use for a while, including by the War Office.

"Mary Jane" appears to have been a slang term for a male prostitute; Mary Jane Kelly was the final victim of Jack the Ripper.

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Selected documented sources concerning Henry VII, King of England (1485-1509), part II: the battle of Bosworth(²).

(a) Continuation of the Crowland Chronicle.

“With Henry Tudor and his men advancing towards him, King Richard felt it necessary “to move the army, though its numbers were not yet fully made up, from Nottingham, and to come to Leicester.

Here was found ready to fight for the king a greater number of soldiers than had ever been seen before in England assembled on one side. On the Sunday before the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle, the king proceeded on his way, amid the greatest pomp, and wearing the crown on his head; being attended by John Howard, duke of Norfolk, and Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, and other mighty lords, knights and esquires, together with a countless multitude of the common people. 

On leaving Leicester, he was informed by scouts where the enemy most probably intended to spend the next night; upon which, he encamped near the abbey of Merevale, at a distance of about eight miles from town.

‘The chief men of the opposing army were: in the first place, Henry, earl of Richmond, whom they called their King Henry VII; John Vere, earl of Oxford; John, Lord Welles, of Welles, uncle to Henry VII; Thomas, Lord Stanley and William his brother; Edward Woodville, brother of Queen Elizabeth, a most valiant knight; John Cheney, John Savage, Robert Willoughby, William Berkeley, James Blount, Thomas Arundel, Richard Edgecombe, Edward Poynings, Richard Guilford, and many others who had been raised to knighthood, both before the present troubles and at the beginning of this campaign. Of churchmen present as counsellors, who likewise had suffered exile, there were the venerable father, Peter, bishop of Exeter, the flower of the knighthood of his country, Master Robert Morton, clerk of the roll of the chancery, Christopher Urswick, and Richard Fox, who were subsequently appointed almoner and secretary, respectively, together with many others.

‘At day-break on Monday morning there were no chaplains on King Richard’s side ready to celebrate mass, nor any breakfast prepared to restore his flagging spirits. For he had seen dreadful visions in the night, in which he was surrounded by a multitude of demons, as he himself testified in the morning. 

He consequently presented a countenance which, always drawn, was on this occasion more livid and ghastly than ususal, and asserted that the issue of this day’s battle, to whichever side the victory was granted, would be the utter destruction of the kingdom of England. 

He declared that it was his intention, if he proved the victor, to crush all the traitors on the opposing side; and at the same time he predicted that his adversary would do the same to the supporters of his party, if victory should fall to him. 

At length with the enemy commander and his soldiers approaching at a fair pace, the king ordered that Lord Strange should be instantly beheaded. The persons to whom this duty was entrusted, however, seeing that the issue was doubtful in the extreme, and that a matter of more weight than the destruction of one man was in hand, deferred performance of the king’s cruel order, left the man to his own disposal and returned to the thickest of the fight.

‘A most fierce battle thus began between the two sides. The earl of Richmond with his men proceeded directly against King Richard. For his part, the earl of Oxford, the next in rank in the army and a most valiant soldier, drew up his forces, consisting of a large body of French and English troops, opposite the wing in which the duke of Norfolk had taken up his position. 

In the place where the earl of Northumberland was posted, with a large company of reasonably good men, no engagement could be discerned, and no battle blows given or received. In the end a glorious victory was given by heaven to the earl of Richmond, now sole king, along with a most precious crown, which King Richard had previously worn on his head. 

For in the thick of the fight, and not in the act of flight, King Richard fell in the field, struck by many mortal wounds, as a bold and most valiant p rince. Then the duke of Norfolk, Sir Richard Radcliffe, Sir Robert Brackenbury, keeper of the Tower of London, John Kendal, secretary, Sir Robert Percy, controller of the king’s household, Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers, and many others were slain in this fierce battle, and many, especially northerners, in whom the king so greatly trusted, took flight without engaging; and there was left no part of the opposing army of sufficient significance or substance for the glorious victor Henry VII to engage, and so add to his experience in battle.

‘Thus through this battle peace was obtained for the whole of the realm. King Richard’s body was found among the other slain. * * * Many other insults were heaped on it, and not very humanely, a halter was thrown around the neck, and it was carried to Leicester. 

The new king, graced with the crown he won with such distinction, proceeded to the same place. Meanwhile, many nobles and others were taken into captivity, most notably, Henry, earl of Northumberland, and Thomas Howard, earl of Surrey, first-born of the deceased duke of Norfolk. 

There was also taken prisoner William Catesby, who was pre-eminent among all the counsellors of the late king, and whose head was cut off at Leicester, as a last reward for his excellent service. Also, two yeomen from the West Country, named Bracher, who fell into the hands of the victors, were hanged. 

Moreover, there has been no word, nor has it been written or remembered, that any other persons, after the end of the fighting, were dealt with in this fashion, but that, on the contrary, the new prince showed mercy to all. 

He began to receive the praises of all, as if he were an angel sent from heaven, through whom God had deigned to visit His people, and to deliver them from the evils with which it had been previously and immoderately afflicted.

‘And thus concluding this history … (we) have brought the narrative down to this battle, which was fought near Merevale, and which took place on 22 August, 1485″

(b)  A Castilian Report.

“Entering England by way of Wales, and conquering all before him, Henry Tudor ‘crossed as far as a town called Coventry, near which King Richard stood in the field with as many as 70,000 combatants. But … previous to his entry into England, he had the assurance that my Lord “Tamerlant”, one of the principal nobles of England, and sundry other leading men, who had given him their oath and seals, would give him assistance when they came to battle and would fight against King Richard, and so they did. 

Though his people came with faint heart, as not knowing the secret but fully aware of the multitude of King Richard’s army, he greatly heartened them to come to the battlefield.

‘When King Richard was certified of the near approach of Earl Henry in battle array, he ordered his lines and entrusted the van to his grand chamberlain with 7,000 fighting men. My Lord “Tamerlant” with King Richard’s left wing left his position and passed in front of the king’s vanguard with 10,000 men, then, turning his back on Earl Henry, he began to fight fiercely against the king’s van, and so did all the others who had plighted their faith to Earl Henry. 

Now when Salazar, your little vassal, who was there in King Richard’s service, saw the treason of the king’s people, he went up to him and said: “Sire, take steps to put your pers on in safety, without expecting to have the victory in today’s battle, owing to the manifest treason in your following”. 

But the king replied: “Salazar, God forbid I yield one step. This day I will die as king or win”. Then he placed over his head-armour the crown royal, which they declare be worth 120,000 crowns, and having donned his coat-of-arms began to fight with much vigour, putting heart into those that remained loyal, so that by his sole effort he upheld the battle for a long time. 

But in the end the king’s army was beaten and he himself was killed, and in this battle above 10,000 are said to have perished, on both sides. Salazar fought bravely, but for all this was able to escape. There died most of those who loyally served the king, and there was lost all the king’s treasure, which he brought with him into the field. 

After winning this victory Earl Henry was at once acclaimed king by all parties. He ordered the dead king to be placed in a little hermitage near the place of battle, and had him covered from the waist downward with a black rag of poor quality, ordering him to be exposed there for three days to the universal gaze.’

(c) Bernard André Court Historian.

“After gaining military assistance from the king of France, Henry Tudor lands in Wales, with the earl of Oxford and Lord Chandée as his commanders. King Richard reacts furiously, ordering his retainers to destroy the rebels with fire and sword. He summons the armed might of the kingdom, but Lord Stanley and his kinsmen go over to the pretender. On the battle itself, André simply notes:

‘I have learned somewhat of this battle from oral sources, but in this matter the eye is a more reliable witness than the ear. Rather than affirm anything rashly, therefore, I pass over the date, place and order of battle, for as I have said I lack the illumination of eye-witnesses. Until I am more fully instructed, for this field of battle, I shall leave blank a space as broad * * * * *’

He then records the celebrations and speech of thanksgiving, noting the presence among the victorious troops of his clerical colleagues the bishop of Winchester, the bishop of St. Asaph and the dean of Windsor, namely Richard Fox, Michael Deacon and Christopher Urswick. More gaps are left for details of the burial of Richard III and the names of the captives. Saturday is given as the day of the battle.”

Link: http://www.r3.org/richard-iii/the-battle-of-bosworth/bosworth-contemporary-tudor-accounts/

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Peter Cushing is Dr Terror in Dr Terrors House of Horrors (1965).  Pete was born in Surrey, England, and had 130 acting credits, from The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) to 1986.  His other notable credits include A Chump at Oxford (with Laurel and Hardy), Hamlet (with Laurence Olivier), Moulin Rouge, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957, as Victor), Horror of Dracula (as Van Helsing), The Hound of the Baskervilles (as Sherlock Holmes), The Mummy, Dr Who and the Daleks  (as Dr Who), an episode of The Avengers, and the original Star Wars (1977).

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Peter Cushing: Vampire Slayer, Master Sleuth and Monster Creator

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From his portrayal as the mad Baron Frankenstein to relentless vampire hunter Van Helsing, Peter Cushing delivered captivating and iconic performances throughout his film career. He was usually cast opposite fellow horror icon Christopher Lee. The two would share the screen one final time as co-narrators in a documentary about Hammer Films, "Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror," shortly before Cushing's death in 1994.

Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, in Surrey, England. The son of George and Nellie Cushing, he was the youngest of three boys. His father worked as a quantity surveyor. Cushing worked in the same field as his father, as a surveyor's assistant before he became an actor.

Cushing caught the acting bug after watching his aunt perform in live theater. Cushing applied for and won a scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His career began in 1935 with four years performing with the Worthington Repertory Company before heading out to Hollywood to try his luck in film.

Cushing was cast in bit roles, his first in James Whale's "The Man in the Iron Mask" in 1939. Other small roles included the 1940 film "A Chump at Oxford," starring the comedy team, Laurel and Hardy. In 1941, Cushing made his way to Broadway in "The Seventh Trumpet."

Cushing returned to England and joined the Entertainment National Service Association which provided entertainment to British troops during World War II. He married actress Helen Beck, who co-starred with him in Noel Coward's "Private Lives," in 1943. The two were married up until her death in 1971.

Peter Cushing with wife Helen; Source: Peter Cushing.com

In 1948, Cushing toured with Lawrence Olivier's Old Vic theater company and landed a role in Olivier's 1948 film version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Cushing first met Christopher Lee on the set of "Hamlet." Lee had a bit part and Cushing was cast in a minor role.

In 1952, Cushing got the part of Mr. Darcy in a 1954 BBC production of"Pride and Prejudice." He won a BAFTA award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Winston Smith in a BBC adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian classic "Nineteen Eighty-Four."

Cushing's debut with Hammer Films as well as his first co-starring role opposite Christopher Lee was not in "Dracula" but in 1956's "Frankenstein," playing Victor Frankenstein with Lee as the monster. The two would team up to thrill and chill audiences again in Hammer's 1958 production of "Dracula." Cushing's tough, tenacious Van Helsing and Lee's larger than life Count Dracula were a dynamic on screen duo. The two were also close friends in real life. Both Cushing and Lee had an appreciation for ... Warner Bros. cartoons.

Cushing went on to star in many more feature films. He reprised his role as Baron Frankenstein four times and as Van Helsing only once in 1960's "Brides of Dracula." He also portrayed master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in many films - Hammer's 1959 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and in many BBC adaptations during the 60's.

Cushing's roles outside of horror included playing a priest in a thriller "Violent Playground" in 1958 and a bank manager in 1961's "Cash on Demand." He also played Dr. Who on British TV in 1965's "Dr. Who and the Daleks" and "Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150" in 1966. Cushing's other horror features include: "The Gorgon" (1964), "The Skull" (1965) and "Blood Beast Terror" (1967).

Cushing and Christopher Lee; Source: Warped Perspective

Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price; Source: Halloween Love

Cushing continued working in the horror genre throughout the 1970's. He played opposite his friend Christopher Lee in "Dracula A.D. 1972" (1972), "The Satanic Rites of Dracula"(1973) and "Horror Express" (1973). He would go on to appear in a series of unremarkable movies such as the kung fu/horror movie "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" (1974) and "Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell" (1974). In 1977, Cushing landed a role in the surprise blockbuster, "Star Wars," as Grand Moff Tarkin. Cushing was originally considered for the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

During the 1980's Cushing took less roles after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1982. He broadened his acting horizons with appearances in two slapstick comedies, "Top Secret!" and "Airplane" in 1980. He once again played Sherlock Holmes in 1984's "The Masks of Death."

Cushing retired from acting during the late 1980's and published "Past Forgetting: Memoirs of the Hammer Years" in 1988. In 1989, Cushing was honored by being made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. A week after filming his final project and his last appearance on-screen with Christopher Lee, Cushing passed away on August 11, 1994. He was 81.

- Missy Dawn

Source: Biography by Paul Grata on TCM.com and Wikipedia