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Range of hills in somerset?
Mendips, Poldens, Quantocks, Blackdown.
When did John Lennon leave Mimi Smith?
John Lennon left Mendips in 1963.
Where do the pennines start and finish?
The Mendips start in the sea at Brean Down, and finish at Frome to the east.
Where do the Mendip Hills start and finish?
The Mendips start in the sea at Brean Down, and finish at Frome to the east.
How much limestone is quarried in the UK?
In the UK, approximately 50 million tonnes of limestone are quarried annually. This figure can vary slightly from year to year based on demand and economic conditions. The limestone is primarily used in construction, agriculture, and various industrial processes. Major quarrying regions include the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales, and the Mendips.
What was john lennons favorite food?
In early interviews, he said that curry was his favorite, but many people have heard that corn flakes were his favorite food.
When did George Harrison get his first guitar?
He was fifteen years old, and had been pleading for a guitar since Elvis Presley's music and image had reached England. His mother Julia bought him one by mail order, with a GUARANTEED NOT TO SPLIT label. Lennon kept it at her house at first (he lived with her sister Mimi), and learned tenor banjo chords from Julia, leaving the bass strings slack.Lennon later brought the guitar home to Mimi's house (Mendips, on Menlove Avenue in Woolton), and learned proper guitar chords from Paul McCartney, and later George Harrison. Mimi banished him from the house when he wanted to play it, and he would lean against the patio's brickwork. Mimi later took credit for buying her nephew his first guitar.When he was fifteen, and not long after Elvis Presley's music reached England, in 1956. His mother bought him his first guitar, through a mail-order company.
What was John Lennons Childhood like?
John Lennon was born Oct. 9th 1940 to Julia Lennon (1914-1958) and Alfred Lennon (1912-1976) at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital and attended Mosspits as a young child. Alfred did not see his child until November, when he returned from work as a merchant seamen and offered to look after Julia and their son but Julia declined. John lived with Julia at 9 Newcastle Rd. until 1946, when Julia's sister Mimi reported Julia to Child Services for a third time. Mimi and her husband George Smith were subsequently given custody. It was around this time when Alfred kidnapped John with intentions to emigrate to New Zealand but his plot was foiled by Julia. Alfred would not see his son again until after John became famous. Regardless, Mimi and George gave Lennon a good home and George taught young John how to read, write and how to do crossword puzzles. Mimi was strict and discouraged John from pursuing music. Julia on the other hand encouraged her son, taught him the banjo and ukulele and bought John his first guitar. George died of a liver hemorrhage when Lennon was about thirteen. John Lennon lived at 251 Menlove Ave until 1963. Although Lennon was a bright child, by the time John attended Quarrybank Grammar School Lennon frequently got into trouble in school, and was considered a "class clown". He later said this was because he felt more clever than his teachers (John's I.Q. was 165: gifted and advanced). Also contributing was his very poor eyesight (without glasses, Lennon was legally blind). When John was kicked out of Quarrybank his teacher recommended he attend the Liverpool College of Art. Although John lived with Mimi, he began spending weekends with Julia and her boyfriend (and their two daughters), until she was killed by a drunk off duty police officer when John was seventeen. When John decided to take up music, Mimi told him repeatedly "The guitar's all right, John, but you'll never make a living at it." (When the Beatles became famous, he presented her with a silver plaque, engraved with those same words). Mimi would later admit that she "never wanted children, but always wanted John".
What are the benefits of quarrying limestone?
Fewer quarries operate now compared with the past, but their scale is much bigger than ever before. The Peak District limestone is particularly pure (high in calcium carbonate), especially near to Buxton. There are many uses for limestone:Aggregate or crushed rockBuildingCement productionChemical production - fertilizer, filler etcIron and SteelLimeand our demand for these products led to a rapid increase in limestone extraction across the Peak District since the 1950s, reaching a peak in 1991 but more recently significantly falling.
Where did john Lennon live for his childhood?
Lennon was born in war-time England, on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, to Julia and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman who was away at the time of his son's birth.[1] He was named John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John "Jack" Lennon, and then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.[2] His father was often away from home but sent regular pay cheques to 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool, where Lennon lived with his mother,[3] but the cheques stopped when he went absent without leave in February 1944.[4][5] When he eventually came home six months later, he offered to look after the family, but Julia-by then pregnant with another man's child-rejected the idea.[6] After her sister, Mimi Smith, twice complained to Liverpool's Social Services, Julia handed the care of Lennon over to her. In July 1946, Lennon's father visited Smith and took his son to Blackpool, secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him.[7] Julia followed them-with her partner at the time, 'Bobby' Dykins-and after a heated argument his father forced the five-year-old to choose between them. Lennon twice chose his father, but as his mother walked away, he began to cry and followed her.[8] It would be 20 years before he had contact with his father again.[9]251 Menlove Avenue, the home of George and Mimi Smith, where Lennon lived for most of his childhood and adolescenceThroughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence, he lived with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, who had no children of their own, at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton.[10] His aunt bought him volumes of short stories, and his uncle, a dairyman at his family's farm, bought him a mouth organ and engaged him in solving crossword puzzles.[11] Julia visited Mendips on a regular basis, and when he was 11 years old he often visited her at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool, where she played him Elvis Presley records, and taught him the banjo, learning how to play "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino.[12]In September 1980 he talked about his family and his rebellious nature:Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be this loudmouthed lunatic musician. But I cannot be what I am not. Because of my attitude, all the other boys' parents ... instinctively recognised what I was, which was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their kids, which I did. ... I did my best to disrupt every friend's home ... Partly, maybe, it was out of envy that I didn't have this so-called home, but I really did ... There were five women who were my family. Five strong, intelligent women. Five sisters. Those women were fantastic ... that was my first feminist education ... One happened to be my mother ... she just couldn't deal with life. She had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on and she couldn't cope with me, and when I was four-and-a-half, I ended up living with her elder sister ... the fact that I wasn't with my parents made me see that parents are not gods.[13]He regularly visited his cousin, Stanley Parkes, who lived in Fleetwood. Seven years Lennon's senior, Parkes took him on trips, and to local cinemas.[14] During the school holidays, Parkes often visited Lennon with Leila Harvey, another cousin, often travelling to Blackpool two or three times a week to watch shows. They would visit the Blackpool Tower Circus and see artists such as Dickie Valentine, Arthur Askey, Max Bygraves and Joe Loss, with Parkes recalling that Lennon particularly liked George Formby.[15] After Parkes's family moved to Scotland, the three cousins often spent their school holidays together there. Parkes recalled, "John, cousin Leila and I were very close. From Edinburgh we would drive up to the family croft at Durness, which was from about the time John was nine years old until he was about 16."[16] He was 14 years old when his uncle George died of a liver haemorrhage on 5 June 1955 (aged 52).[17]Lennon was raised as an Anglican and attended Dovedale Primary School.[18] From September 1952 to 1957, after passing his Eleven-Plus exam, he attended Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, and was described by Harvey at the time as, "A happy-go-lucky, good-humoured, easy going, lively lad."[19] He often drew comical cartoons which appeared in his own self-made school magazine called The Daily Howl,[20] but despite his artistic talent, his school reports were damning: "Certainly on the road to failure ... hopeless ... rather a clown in class ... wasting other pupils' time."[21]His mother bought him his first guitar in 1956, an inexpensive Gallotone Champion acoustic for which she "lent" her son five pounds and ten shillings on the condition that the guitar be delivered to her own house, and not Mimi's, knowing well that her sister was not supportive of her son's musical aspirations.[22] As Mimi was sceptical of his claim that he would be famous one day, she hoped he would grow bored with music, often telling him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it".[23] On 15 July 1958, when Lennon was 17 years old, his mother, walking home after visiting the Smiths' house, was struck by a car and killed.[24]Lennon failed all his GCE O-level examinations, and was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art only after his aunt and headmaster intervened.[25] Once at the college, he started wearing Teddy Boy clothes and acquired a reputation for disrupting classes and ridiculing teachers. As a result, he was excluded from the painting class, then the graphic arts course, and was threatened with expulsion for his behaviour, which included sitting on a nude model's lap during a life drawing class.[26] He failed an annual exam, despite help from fellow student and future wife Cynthia Powell, and was "thrown out of the college before his final year
What was John Lennon's adult life like?
John Lennon's father Alfred Lennon (1912-1976) abandoned Julia and john when he was an infant. Alfred was known to be very witty and musically inclined but not very dependable. John didn't see his father again until after he became famous. Alfred Lennon died of stomach cancer April 1, 1976. John Lennon's mother Julia Lennon (1914-1958) was known to be very outgoing, high-spirited and as having a strong sense of humor. She taught John to play the ukulele and banjo, She also encouraged John to pursue music as a career. Although John lived with his aunt Mimi from the age of five, John stayed in contact with Julia and sometimes stayed overnight in her home until Julia was killed by a drunk off duty police officer July 15, 1958.
What is the Holly Grail and where is it?
The Holy Grail is in Christian mythology. It is the chalice that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. It is said to have miraculous and mysterious powers. At the Last Supper, the Bible accounts tell us that Jesus broke bread with his disciples and shared it saying that the bread represented his body that would be broken for all at his crucifixion. Similarly, they shared a goblet of wine which he informed them symbolised his blood shed for all, and that we were to remember Jesus and what he did by doing the same whenever Christians met for worship. This act marked the beginning of a new covenant between God and humanity, and as such was a turning point in the life and teaching of Jesus. Christians therefore remember Jesus Christ's death, passion and resurrection by reenacting this scene in the service of Holy Communion, The Lord's Supper, the Eucharist or the Mass, depending upon the denomination of the church where bread and wine are blessed and shared. The actual cup used at the original last supper is known as the Holy Grailand has had a great deal of legends surrounding it. One such legend was that at Jesus' crucifixion the cup was used to collect a few drops of his blood by Joseph of Arimathea, who owned the tomb where Jesus was buried before the resurrection. Legend says that Joseph, who was supposed to be a rich trader of spices, came to Glastonbury, England to trade spices for lead that was mined in the nearby Mendip Hills, and brought the Grail for safekeeping, burying it in a nearby hill. There is still a 'Chalice Gardens' there which is supposed to mark the spot where the Grail is buried. Other legends surrounding the lost chalice involved the Knights Templar, and King Arthur all of whom were supposed to seek the Grail over the years but to no avail. If Joseph did bring the cup to England then it is now lost, although many facts do tie in (eg there are Roman lead mines on the Mendips, a type of hawthorn tree supposedly brought to Glastonbury by Joseph, when he thrust his walking stick into the ground where it took root, still flourishes in the area and is closely related to other hawthorns found in the Holy Land etc). However, legend, fantasy and fact are all intertwined with regard to the Grail and so it is very likely that none of it is true, but the cup used by Christ was lost in Israel, or simply forgotten about after the Last Supper. What is certain, however, is that the Holy Grail does not represent the bloodline of Jesus Christ as suggested by Dan Brown in the Da Vinci Code. Even Brown himself admits that this is pure fiction, based on another fantasy book 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' where the idea was first postulated on a 'what if?' basis, and where even the authors of that book themselves did not mean to be taken seriously.
