Audio by Ian Partridge,Tenor and taken from Ivor Gurney - Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-sort

Andrew Motion is reading this WW1 poem by Ivor Gurney.

Image animation is by the guy who made the video.

The world premiere of the Slow Movement for Violin and Piano of 1924, performed by Chamber Domaine at Gresham College, 26th September 2007.

Ivor Gurney's song "Sleep" performed by Linda Grace in concert on 16th October 2008. With Duncan Reid on keyboard.

Composer, mainly religious music.

Composer

Date should be date of composition, but not sure if accurate.

Date should be date of composition, but not sure if accurate.

Early Socialist

This a Museum in Gloucester, but more than that, it's a fantastic historical resource and database for anyone interested in military history, or following up family links with the forces (they have 50,000 names in their 19th Century and WW1 databases).

Gloucester City and Art Gallery

Well worth a visit, lots of history, and dinosaurs (from around here!) My six year old even liked some of the art.

It is an absolute scandal that the birthplace of the Jet Engine doesn't have anything more than a small sculpture and a pub to mark one of the most historic inventions of the 20th Century.

Local history of real lives.

A group of dealers of all sorts, under one roof, Browse for hours.

In Bath, something a little different to do next time you go there.

Horrible History

Holst was born here.

B4 ipods...

Some archive footage of the London Gloucester Reliability trials - which just happened in the Cotswolds and date back to when it was damned impressive of a car to get up an ordinary hill without stopping.

Gloucester played an important part in the history of aviation.

The very first jet was built here.

The first ever Jet plane. Frank Whittle's invention. Silent footage dubbed with decent sound effects from an F16....

English people talking about when they saw the first Jet powered plane test flight.

The Brockworth built Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' first operational jet.

Gloucester has an important place in the history of flight, second only to Kitty Hawk.

Made in Brockworth

Made in Brockworth

Made in Brockworth

They call them the Purton Hulks, a mile-and-a-half-long stretch of ghostly boat wrecks that once formed the oddest of makeshift tidal erosion barriers on the River Severn.

December: "…record floods occurred in the middle of December, round Gloucester,

Flooding in Gloucester requiring the council to help those affected.

Listed in flood records, but we have no further information.

Listed in flood records, but we have no further information.