#Southampton UK

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DOOM OR BE DOOMED!! -- OBEY THE RIFF!!

PIC INFO: Spotlight on guitarist/co-founder Tony Iommi of English heavy rock band BLACK SABBATH, performing live at the Gaumont in Southampton, England on June 25, 1980, during the band's "Heaven and Hell" era. 📸: Fin Costello.

"SPIN" MAGAZINE: "So, for "Heaven and Hell," the first SABBATH record for Ronnie in the band… I know Sharon Osbourne introduced you two. Did you already know him from RAINBOW or ELF?"

TONY IOMMI: "I’ve never met him before. I’d obviously heard him with Rainbow. I thought, ‘wow, God, he’s a  great singer.’ Never thought for one minute I’d end up being in a band with him. She introduced me to him at a party. Remember those?"

SPIN: "Ha, barely! Had she introduced you with the intention of you guys playing together?"

TONY: "Well, it was sort of mentioned because it came to a point within Sabbath where it was getting a bit sort of… I just wanted to do something. And we were coming to a bit of a halt at the time because of the situation [Ozzy’s partying]. I did mention the idea of doing something solo, as a different project. Ronnie was interested in that. And then when it came to when Ozzy was no longer with the band, I called Ronnie and said, ‘do you fancy coming over and having a play with us?’ He came over and the idea was just to have a jam, really. We did, and we were all impressed with what he did. And he liked what we did. It sort of went from there, really."

SPIN: "I know you worked at Criteria in Miami, home of the Bee Gees… how did you end up there to record "Heaven and Hell"? And, part two, there’s the story you lit drummer Bill Ward on fire… was it there?"

TONY: "Stop making me laugh! No, it wasn’t, actually, it was in London where I set him on fire. We had recorded at Criteria with Technical Ecstasy [in 1976]. We were in Los Angeles when it all blew up with Ozzy, and Don Arden [Sharon’s father] managed us at the time, and he was very difficult, and we were breaking away from him. So we didn’t want to stay in Los Angeles any longer. The idea was, ‘well, let’s go to Miami,’ so we went and stayed at Barry Gibb’s house. And wrote the album, really."

Source: www.spin.com/2021/03/tony-iommi-black-sabbath-dio-eddie-van-halen-interview.

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January 25, Southampton - Make UKIP Afraid Again!

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Alex Turner - Ageas Bowl, Southampton

June 2023

📸: markbutler_photography

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Tudor House

Southampton, UK

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This is where the racists are planning on "protesting" rioting this evening. If you live in or around these areas, please stay safe indoors.

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Francis Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928), "Romeo And Juliet", 1884, oil on canvas. Southampton City Art Gallery. (1853 - 1928), English Victorian painter and illustrator known for his paintings of dramatic and historical literature, legends, and women portraits.

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26/01/2025-Black Swans, Black-headed Gull, Mute Swan, Ring-necked Parakeet and Feral Pigeons on a nice walk down the River Itchen at Riverside Park today and sky at home in a clear period of a rainy and blustery day.

I also enjoyed appreciating seeing Little Grebes as Iolo Williams asked us to do on BBC Winterwatch on Friday, seeing my first Grey Wagtails of the year a bright and lovely bird with two Pied Wagtails seen beside a grey which was an interesting and unique sight and seeing Jay, Common Gull, alder catkins and mahonia. A great wild and relaxing weekend.

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To the Memory of Valentine Gray

In the corner of a small recreation ground, known locally as Church Litten in Central Newport on the Isle of Wight, stands a small stone memorial for a 10 year old boy. Valentine Gray, was a young chimney sweep who is said to have suffocated in a chimney in February 1822. This is a story that has captivated and melted the hearts of visitors to the Island over the years and many can be seen shaking their heads in disbelief at the horrors of 19th century England. That story however is inaccurate and somewhat anodine. The truth is horrific beyond belief.

Valentine’s mother died six months after his birth and he was taken into the care of the workhouse. At the age of ten he was handed to the care of chimney sweep Benjamin Davies, to serve as his apprentice.

One has only to think about what is required to induce a small child, to climb naked up into the suffocating darkness of a soot-filled chimney. The flue, often no wider than 12 inches, had to be swept by hand until the soot was clear. The truth is those poor, defenceless creatures were driven to the task by harsh and merciless use of sticks and belts. Cuts and grazes from the rough stonework quickly filled with the caustic soot. Wounds would constantly burn and refuse to heal. A child might get stuck and panic, or they might fall. Coughing fits could not be relieved in such conditions. A heavy fall of soot could easily end in suffocation, or they might get stuck and with no way to get them out. That was the grim reality for the little sweeps: a life of constant terror, agony, infection and exhausting work. Grinding dirty work with little or no reward, except perhaps a meal and a dry place in which to fall into an exhausted sleep.

At his inquest, Valentine Gray’s body was said to be a mass of cuts and lacerations, with barely any visible healthy flesh. He was, according to witnesses, frequently stripped naked doused with cold water, bound and beaten, probably in the presence of other apprentices, so they could learn what happens to naughty little boys and girls who do not do as they are told. Finally after three months of such ill treatment, a severe blow to the head finished Valentine and his poor broken and abused body was unceremoniously dumped in the outhouse of a nearby pub.

The villain of the piece, Davies was arraigned, tried and convicted of manslaughter. He was sentenced to one year in jail and fined a shilling (worth about £8 today). He did not serve the jail time however, as all the jails were over crowded. Davies’ daughter Elizabeth, assaulted one of the witnesses whose testimony helped convict her father and she served a month in jail. The comparison is staggering, one month for assault yet a one shilling fine for killing an apprentice. Well after all, it was it was only the equivalent of ill-treating an animal today. That was how Georgian society viewed young urchins like Valentine: little more than animals who should be grateful their existence was even tolerated.

Valentine’s death caused public outrage and eventually forced a change in the law: The Climbing Boys Act, which forbade sending boys into chimneys. Anyone who believes it prevented children being sent into chimneys thereafter is a dangerous and sickening naivete.

The use and abuse of children, was exported by imperialism and remains rife in the developing world today. There, children are daily forced to work naked in mines to extract minerals for computers and mobile phones. Or in sweatshops, stitching clothing and trainers for the advanced world. Many are driven to their tasks and exhaustion by threats and beatings, just to produce profit for multi national companies based in the imperialist nations, where children there may be protected by law. The companies which exploit children are largely owned or controlled by greedy and selfish billionaires. There is no play for these children.

Under capitalism the super exploitation of children will continue. It may get moved abroad, adjusted and masked by legal verbiage, but the lives of millions of children world wide continue to be sacrificed to the interests of greed and profit for the billionaires. Why children? Because they have little or no ability to fight back. That is the naked truth!

Valentine Gray’s tragic story is matched world wide, in mine and mill daily. He is one of millions of young children fed into the vast profit machine over the past 200 years. His story has been told, yet millions have suffered the same and even worse fates, dying undocumented, appearing only as statistics. Statistics which the billionaires continue to ignore.

World Revolution is the only answer to this continuing horror and the greedy, parasitic capitalist class has been asking for it for a very long time. Workers of the world owe it to the children of the world, to unite in unremitting struggle to end for good capitalism and the greed it encourages and promotes.

This article was written by Vic Dale for the Southampton Branch of the RCP, British Section of the RCI.

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A Royal Recycling (part 308)    

Alessandra Rich

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I would like UK writing/artist friends on Tumblr please 😢

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With all the hate out there. I type…….

F**k the media the GC lot and the government.

I love me and how I feel now

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Fandom: [Happy that Doctor-Donna platonic soulsmates is now canon]

Me: Donna’s a Southampton girl let’s GOOOOO-

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Travel 2023 – Cunard Queen Mary 2 – Day 4 (At Sea)