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1851: The Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was Britain’s glittering shop window and showcase for the world’s attention and admiration. The first and greatest industrial power, the greatest imperial power, and the greatest naval power was, in effect, showing off its extraordinary achievements and at the same time advertising its manufacturing and industrial wares.
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Although William Morris and others were to react negatively to the mass production of everyday utensils, furniture and textiles as depressingly lacking in beauty and originality, the tide could not be turned.
Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. Over half the display came from Britain and its empire, but other nations were invited to participate. In fact, the event was tactfully entitled “The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations”.
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David Bowie and his gigs with the Manish Boys and Level Three in Maidstone and other parts of Kent
Published: 06:00, 10 January 2021
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the death of David Bowie - the singer/songwriter, glam rock star and actor who died on January 10, 2016, from liver cancer.
But although his name is known across the Western world as an icon of pop fashion, few know of the famous musician s links to Kent.
David Bowie turns radio DJ for a Star Special broadcast in May 1979. Image BBC
David Robert Jones was born illegitimately in Brixton. His father, a former Royal Fusilier soldier named John Jones, was still married to his first wife Hilda at the time that Bowie s mother Peggy gave birth to him in 1947. Jones senior later divorced Hilda and married Peggy (Margaret), who had herself been born in Folkestone.