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- What were you in life?- In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend to the patients, a documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward. Meanwhile, the old people's choir, in readiness for next week's concert, is in full swing, augmented by the arrival of Mrs Maudsley, aka Pudsey Nightingale. Alan Bennett's Allelujah! opened at the Bridge Theatre, London, in July 2018. With an introduction by Alan Bennett.
Family history, ancestors and descendants of Cary Arthur Prescott (1883-1965), son of Cary Washington Prescott of Pennsylvania and Permelia Eliza Keith of West Virginia. He was born in Derby, Kansas. He married 1911, Delia Jane McCaffree (1893-1965), daughter of James Edward McCaffree of Kentucky and Nancy Jane Hushaw of Illinois. She was born in Randolph, Fremont Co., Iowa. The early members of Prescott family came from England as early as 1665. They lived in New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Members of the McCaffree family came to Colonial Virginia in the 1700's, and later moved to Kentucky and elsewhere. Descendants live in Kansas, California, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere.
The true story of Keith Bennett D.F.C, his crew and a Dutch girl’s letter that would change their war This is the true story of the Lancaster G2 bomber crews in World War II and their humanitarian drops over Holland hrough the eyes of one,19 year-old Australian pilot, Keith Bennett D.F.C. Dubbed the "Flying Grocer" by the Dutch recipients of their supplies that were dropped over Holland in what was called Operation Manna, Keith Bennett passed away in late 2003. However, Flight Officer Bennett's amazing story remains alive through revealing flight logs, personal photographs and correspondence - itself rich in military history. There is also the correspondence Bennett had with Dutch survivor...
84 files, principally of correspondence, manuscripts, lectures and newspaper clippings.
Photographs taken by anthropologist John W. Bennett in occupied Japan, 1948-1951, (a few were made in the 1960's during his term at Waseda University), with comments on the photos by Bennett. Also included are extensive selections from Bennett's professional journal of the period, and other documents. Consisting of a personal and professional memoir, this site is also a record of a unique experiment in social analysis and research that focuses on a period of particular significance in the development of Japanese and international history, politics, economics, and culture. This collection was prepared by John W. Bennett and assistants at Washington University (St. Louis) in 2001-2002. The pho...
A biography of Bill Bennett, a legendary bush pilot in Newfoundland and Labrador
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