Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
Reuters Climate Monitor
How do today’s temperatures compare to the historic average? How cool is that?
Deceased Online adds records for Fenland District Council
70,000 records, dating back to the mid-19th century up to 2014, from Wisbech Cemetery, Walsoken Cemetery and Whittlesey Cemetery.
The Perley Legacy
A short video featuring Glenn Wright.
London, England, Selected Poor Law Removal and Settlement Records, 1698-1922
Ancestry updated this collection, sourced from The London Archives, now with 1,413,959 records.
At the Drop of Another Hat
I don’t know how I missed this video of a performance by Flanders and Swann in New York. It includes songs you may not have heard previously, as well as their classics.
Thanks to the following individuals for their comments and tips: Ann Burns, Anonymous, Gail, Glenn Wright, Julia, Lesley Anderson, Nadine, Sean, Sunday Thompson, Teresa, and Unknown.
Ooooh! Flanders and Swann *in colour*, yet!
I think, despite the effort to adapt the material, this American audience was just a little nonplussed, don’t you? A number of the “unfamiliar” songs weren’t in the original Drop of Another Hat, but are, thankfully, included in the extras in my much-treasured Complete Flanders and Swann CD.
They also snuck in “Have Some Madeira, M’dear” from their first show At a Drop of a Hat, and I was amused at a couple of subtle bits of censorship – no doubt at the behest of CBS, bless their cotton socks. (“Prowess” swapped out for “finesse”, for example.)
Sorry they omitted “The Gasman Cometh” (too British?), but delighted to be able to see, as well as hear, Flanders’ masterful French horn impression in “Ill Wind”.
Thanks so much for the link!
Thanks for the F&S link, John. We’ve always enjoyed them.