A pub whose namesake is derived from royalty has had a lick of paint in blue, white and red, just in time for re-opening on May 17. A wall in the beer garden of the British Queen on Duckworth Street in Darwen, has been adorned in Union Jack colours courtesy of the town s resident graffiti artist, Keiron Curly Whitehead. Keiron Curly Whitehead, Darwen s resident grafitti artist has painted a huge Union Jack on the side of the British Queen s beer garden ready for the pub s re-opening on May 17 Mr Whitehead became famous in the town after he painted a huge mural in tribute to the NHS on the side of the Crown Paint building last year, thanking them for their work during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Tommy Walsh working at his forge at Bluebell, Bartlemy with his mother lending a hand.
John Arnold
BACK in the 1970s, Dublin-born singer Peggy Dell launched an album called Among My Souvenirs the title being taken from a song of the same name that was a hit for Connie Francis in 1959.
Over the last nine months, I’ve spent an awful lot of time among my own souvenirs. The opening lines of the melancholy song are;
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D.B.S.Jeyaraj
Sixty-one years ago on September 25th 1959 Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (SWRDB) the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka known as Ceylon then was shot and seriously wounded by a Buddhist monk. Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike succumbed to his injuries and passed away the following day. Therefore September 26th 1959 got etched as an important date in the post-independence history annals of Sri Lanka.
The impact of that single assassination was tremendous at that time. The murder of a prime minister was sensationally shocking news. It was the first major political assassination experienced by the Island nation in the post-Independence era. In later years, political assassinations became a regular feature in Sri Lanka.. The death was an event of great historical importance too as it was the first ever assassination of a major political personality in the Island nation at that time. Thereafter September 26, 1959 got etched as an important date in the post-independence