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Far Cough 8:00 Tue Jan 20
One for the old farts: Winston Churchill

50 years to the day that the great man was laid to rest.

I distinctly remember it was a cold grey day and the old dockers cranes in the pool of London, lowering their jibs as his barge sailed past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Xkr8z3lEo

Beautiful rendition of I Vow to Thee....

BBC:

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. His father was the prominent Tory politician, Lord Randolph Churchill. Churchill attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before embarking on an army career. He saw action on the North West Frontier of India and in the Sudan. While working as a journalist during the Boer War he was captured and made a prisoner-of-war before escaping.

In 1900, Churchill became Conservative member of parliament for Oldham. But he became disaffected with his party and in 1904 joined the Liberal Party. When the Liberals won the 1905 election, Churchill was appointed undersecretary at the Colonial Office. In 1908 he entered the Cabinet as president of the Board of Trade, becoming home secretary in 1910. The following year he became first lord of the Admiralty. He held this post in the first months of World War One but after the disastrous Dardanelles expedition, for which he was blamed, he resigned. He joined the army, serving for a time on the Western Front. In 1917, he was back in government as minister of munitions. From 1919 to 1921 he was secretary of state for war and air, and from 1924-1929 was chancellor of the exchequer.

The next decade were his 'wilderness years', in which his opposition to Indian self-rule and his support for Edward VIII during the 'Abdication Crisis' made him unpopular, while his warnings about the rise of Nazi Germany and the need for British rearmament were ignored. When war broke out in 1939, Churchill became first lord of the Admiralty. In May 1940, Neville Chamberlain resigned as prime minister and Churchill took his place. His refusal to surrender to Nazi Germany inspired the country. He worked tirelessly throughout the war, building strong relations with US President Roosevelt while maintaining a sometimes difficult alliance with the Soviet Union.

Churchill lost power in the 1945 post-war election but remained leader of the opposition, voicing apprehensions about the Cold War (he popularised the term 'Iron Curtain') and encouraging European and trans-Atlantic unity. In 1951, he became prime minister again. He resigned in 1955, but remained an MP until shortly before his death. As well as his many political achievements, he left a legacy of an impressive number of publications and in 1953 won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Churchill died on 24 January 1965 and was given a state funeral.

ted fenton 8:01 Tue Jan 20
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I remember watching it !

:-(

Hammer and Pickle 8:01 Tue Jan 20
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Truly a great man RIP.

HairyHammer 8:07 Tue Jan 20
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Apart from going into Turkey (Galipoli) Sir Winston Churchill was a very brilliant leader.
The second world war though terrible brought some very great and brave people to the fore Churchill was definitely one of them.

May he R.I P.

The Stoat 8:09 Tue Jan 20
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Yep remember watching it and went to Bladon & Blenheim with my folks a few weeks later

lab 8:12 Tue Jan 20
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Stoat , excuse my ignorance , explain your post .

WHOicidal Maniac 8:14 Tue Jan 20
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Some days I feel old and completely out of touch with modern society...

...then I read threads like this. It like a care home for WHO in here...

Far Cough 8:14 Tue Jan 20
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Blenheim Palace is Churchill's ancestral home

Eddie B 8:17 Tue Jan 20
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The dockers lowering their cranes as the boat carrying Sir Winston went past, I don't know why but it's one of those moments that makes you so proud to be British.

Sir Winston Churchill is, deservedly, the greatest englishman who had ever lived.

RIP.

Dagenhammer 8:18 Tue Jan 20
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His funeral was the first public event I can remember.

Seeing the boat on the Thames with his coffin on it really stuck in my mind.

That was a tremendous clip, and sent a shiver up my spine.

The Stoat 8:28 Tue Jan 20
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lab 8:12 Tue Jan 20

Bladon was where he was buried and Bleheim was the Churchill's home

lab 8:30 Tue Jan 20
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Ta Stoat.

, 8:35 Tue Jan 20
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A great war leader who galvanised the country in 1940 when we stood alone on the Western front and in North Africa.

, 8:35 Tue Jan 20
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A great war leader who galvanised the country in 1940 when we stood alone on the Western front and in North Africa.

Hani 8:42 Tue Jan 20
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He's good in Peaky Blinders.

Hammer and Pickle 8:42 Tue Jan 20
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If people had listened to him there would never have been a war on that scale. He is still one of the few who properly understood the vital need for Continental engagement and was one of the founding fathers of the EU.

Far Cough 8:44 Tue Jan 20
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Yeah but that utter twat De Gaulle fought against our membership

, 8:46 Tue Jan 20
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That was Pier Mendes France and Konrad Adenaur. They locked their respective countries together in the European Coal and Steel Community in the early fifties [ the forerunner of the Common Market ].

HairySpotter 8:47 Tue Jan 20
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one of the most famous tattoo bearing men in UK history

Hammer and Pickle 8:47 Tue Jan 20
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Yeah, I noticed him and his conk at the funeral.

Sxboy_66 8:48 Tue Jan 20
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The word 'legend' is overused.

Winston Churchill was a LEGEND in every sense of the word.

The right man at the right time. When his country needed him he stepped up and epitomised everything that was great about Great Britain.

I fear we will never see his like again.

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