Lennon's paper legacy to go on show in Melbourne

While Sir Paul McCartney's tour is on hold, Beatles fans will have a chance to survey manuscripts and artwork of his old songwriting partner, John Lennon, at an exhibition in Melbourne.

Imagine: the art of John Lennon will comprise more than 100 of Lennon's whimsical sketches and handwritten song manuscripts, including a new print that makes its world premiere.

Rare, erotic lithographs drawn by Lennon as a wedding gift for his wife Yoko Ono will also be on show. They were seized by police when they were first exhibited in London in 1970 and the gallery owner was charged with obscenity.

The sketches have been selected by Ono, who has an installation of her own work on show at the History of Happiness exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, from her collection of Lennon's original drawings. They include lithography, silkscreens,bracelet imitation van cleef and arpels, copper etching and serigraphy.

The exhibition, which opens almost 22 years to the day after Lennon was shot dead in New York City,van cleef bracelet imitation alhambra, will be exclusive to Melbourne.

Ono says the art reveals an intense relationship with Lennon's family, and a sense of harmony with the world around him.

"Lennon's messages in the drawings about love and human communication echo those in his famous songs, and are as relevant today as they were when drawn over 20 years ago," Ono says in a statement.

Along with Churchill Shakespeare, and Darwin, Lennon was one of the 10 candidates for the greatest Briton ever in a competition convened by Britain's BBC

The collection has toured the United States, Japan, Europe and South East Asia in the past 15 years.

Limited edition prints of the handwritten song manuscripts of 21 Lennon songs, including Imagine, In My Life, Nowhere Man,van cleef arpels copy bracelet, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Woman, will be on sale.

Imagine: The art of John Lennon is at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne from December 11 to 15. Music fans can also check out local artist Tracy Ellerton's A Collection of Impromptu Album Cover Paintings at Fad Gallery, 14 Corrs Lane, until December 10. Harvey, Elvis Presley, Sid Vicious,van cleef gold imitation bracelet, Johnny Cash and Stevie Wonder, and displays them like album covers in 12 inch (30.5 centimetre) plastic album protectors.

Ireland Out Of World T20 To Netherlands

The Dutch smashed 193 off 13.5 overs to qualify in front of the Irish for the Super 10s.

The Netherlands needed 190 off 14.2 overs to qualify on run rate after Ireland hit 189 4 off their 20 overs, with Andrew Poynter top scoring with 57.

In reply,van cleef and arpels alhambra imitation bracelet, Stephen Myburgh smashed 63 runs off 23 balls and Tom Cooper 45 off 15 balls including four successive 6s off George Dockrell in the tenth over.

But when Cooper was out caught Kevin O'Brien off Tim Murtagh, his younger brother Ben (9no) came in to see his side home with Wesley Barresi (40no) with three balls to spare.

Netherlands, who hit 19 sixes in the victory, progressed into Group One of the Super 10s ahead of Zimbabwe who beat UAE earlier in day and Ireland after all three teams finished on four points.

After losing the toss, Ireland captain William Porterfield had started in convincing fashion, with a four six off Ahsan Malik.

The left hander then found the boundary rope twice more in the same over opening partner Paul Stirling thick edged to point off Timm van der Gugten.

Porterfield then slapped Swart over long on for six,van cleef gold imitation bracelet, but fell for 47 in the 10th over after being bowled advancing down the track to Ahsan.

Ed Joyce contributed 28 off 25 balls before he was run out, but that only brought together Poynter and O'Brien, who put on 101 for the fourth wicket in 7.3 overs.

The two found the boundary rope with alarming regularity, with Poynter plundering four fours and as many sixes in his 57 off 38 balls, while O'Brien smashed 42 off 16 balls.

However, it proved to be all in vain as, with nothing to lose, Dutch courage prevailed and Myburgh was particularly explosive, thumping Andy McBrine for three successive sixes in the second over in reply.

The left hander repeated the trick off Alex Cusack,van cleef & arpels imitation bracelet, whose first three balls sailed over the rope as he conceded 22 in his only over, before Myburgh brought up his half century off just 17 balls with a four down the ground.

Borren was no slouch, but after whacking back to back fours off O'Brien, he fell for 31 after carving the bowler to George Dockrell, who took the catch from over his head while running back from point.

Myburgh then thumped Dockrell for six over midwicket,van cleef arpels copy bracelet, but when attempting to repeat the trick, could only find Ed Joyce on the boundary rope to depart for a sensational 63 off 23 balls, which included four fours and seven maximums.

The Netherlands' challenge looked to be faltering slightly when Logan van Beek gave O'Brien his second wicket, but Tom Cooper amazingly hammered four successive sixes in Dockrell's 11th over.

Cooper's charge was halted five runs shy of a half century when he plugged the 15th ball he faced, off Tim Murtagh, to deep square leg, but by then the result was not in doubt.

Wesley Barresi's powerful six left the Dutch needing seven off six to qualify before the wicketkeeper batsman (40 not out) completed the job with three balls to spare with another crushing maximum.

It was a stunning finish to squash previously unbeaten Ireland's hopes after they had entered the clash knowing they only needed to win to join South Africa, Sri Lanka, England and New Zealand in Group One.

How to Select Men's Cologne Appropriately

Oh, the vagaries of male mind! The moment you realize you know them totally, they turn into a different, different species. And you thought it's we, women who're mystifying and baffling? Hah, didn't you just contradict the very statement that men are an open book just by dropping down on this page, only to figure out how to select men's cologne? Well, happens. Whether it is a cologne or a car, you really cannot tell what strikes the psyche of males, and what is it that could actually make them go weak on their knees. So, to ease up your situation a bit, as well as for the purpose of this article, a few pointers that I've pitched in here might help you select the best fragrance for the man in your life. Now, personally, I dread gifting perfumes, deodorants, fragrances, and all things on earth that produce an individual odor, since, I'm aware of the very fact that every person has their own set of nostrils, that is to say, their own individual taste (I, eventually, dropped the idea of gifting a cologne!). But if your mind doesn't allow you to switch to anything else, you might as well give a read to the following words.

What's His Personality Like?

If he has hots for Vin Diesel, there's a different set of colognes for men with extreme personality. However, if he admires Edward Cullen (arr!) instead, you need to look for colognes on a different shelf. For example, if the guy is one of those rugged kinds with a macho personality, you could go for Tom Ford Azure Lime that smells woody and musky. On the other hand,van cleef necklace imitation wholesale, a Van Cleef Arpels Midnight In Paris does the tricks for those with subtle,replica van cleef and arpels necklace alhambra, softer personalities. Moreover, you could pick up the latest treatises of any of the chosen cologne brands, if he is trendy and loves to own the newest items on the block. In a nutshell, whichever cologne you choose, pick it up with his personality in mind.

What's His Age?

A cologne for your Dad may not be the best choice for your boyfriend too! Most men who are aged prefer traditional colognes,van cleef and arpels butterfly imitation necklace, and refrain from trying new fragrances. If you find something unusually different, better not gift it to your Dad for chances are, he might never use it at all! Instead,van cleef copy necklace wholesale, if you know your boyfriend has always relished experimenting, and is all for something exotic and new, pick up the newest of colognes from the fragrance shelf. However, if he doesn't love experimenting, you could yourself choose a cologne that is decent enough for him to like, since decent is the safest!

Where Should You Buy From?

We've talked enough about his personality and age now that you have enlisted all the important points of reference about the man you're about to gift a cologne to, select a shopping store that is big, and has all the new fragrances. The bigger the store is, the easier it will be for you to choose the best smelling cologne for your man. Before that, you could do some good research on search engines, make a list of all colognes that suit the personality of your man, and try them out at the shopping store you visit. When you find the ones you're looking for, smell them one by one, and choose the one you think will suit him the best. A cologne is something men don't usually refuse to accept (they're classy and luxurious), and even though your selection fails to match his choice, he will still wear it. It's just upon him to decide when to wear it though.

If it's a present, wrap it up beautifully, make use of some of your gray cells, and gift it to him. If you're stony broke, but still want to gift him a good cologne, you could search for online deals and check out lower prices. However, online purchasing isn't necessarily safe since the products are often low quality. So, when you've figured out everything with regards to selecting a cologne for your man, and have finally bought one, pick up a bottle of wine on the way, and make his day!

Life under apartheid

A young black man, just trying to get home, was thrown into the back of a police van and taken to jail despite the indignity of presenting a white police officer valid identity papers. The officer crumpled the pass at the man's feet and took him to jail anyway.Thaabo Moorsi, "severely tortured and detained." Soyisile Douse, "shot dead by policemen."Families separated. Races relocated.This was apartheid.For many too young or too distant to remember, apartheid is little more than a distant historical fact, a system of forced segregation to learn about in history class,replica van cleef style necklace, to condemn and to move on.A history of apartheidThough white Europeans had long ruled in South Africa, the formal system of apartheid came into existence after World War II.The country's National Party led by the descendants of European settlers known as Afrikaners ushered it into existence after sweeping into power on a campaign calling for stricter racial controls amid the heavy inflow of blacks into South African cities.Between 1949 and 1953, South African lawmakers passed a series of increasingly oppressive laws,replica van cleef and arpels necklace sale, beginning with prohibitions on blacks and whites marrying in 1949 and culminating with laws dividing the population by race, reserving the best public facilities for whites and creating a separate, and inferior, education system for blacks.One of the laws, the Group Areas Act, forced blacks, Indians,replica vintage alhambra necklace, Asians and people of mixed heritage to live in separate areas, sometimes dividing families.Blacks had to live in often barren tribal homelands or townships near cities,replica alhambra necklace, often in polluted industrial areas. Whites got the best agricultural areas, the choicest city addresses.

'Losing our mother was such a big thing for Tamara and me'

On my way to interview Clare van Dam (ne Beckwith), I feel so nervous that I find myself searching for an excuse to cancel. What forces me to carry on is the thought of how she must be feeling as she waits for me to arrive (in fact I had expected her to cancel). Because in the three weeks since I first met 41 year old Clare, we have chatted about everything but the deeply private,replica van cleef necklaces, and deeply felt, subject we will talk about today.

During that time over cups of green tea in the spa of London's Bulgari Hotel Clare has told me of the moment when, aged 17, she fell for her husband Sebastian (then an amateur DJ, now a music producer) and about her closeness to her adored elder sister Tamara, 43 (the 90s It girl who remains a high profile socialite).

But this is the first time that we will touch on the family loss that has had such a dramatic effect on Clare's life,replica van cleef butterfly necklace, because until now she has been conflicted by her need to pass on to other people an important message and her fear of talking publicly about such a dark time in her life.

Clare has decided that her London home is the place in which she will feel most able to talk about what happened between her mother Paula being diagnosed with endometrial cancer in the late summer of 2009 and her death in December 2011, and when I arrive there I understand her decision. Because 'the other Beckwith girl' hasn't chosen to live in the kind of grand property you might expect; her home is a Victorian house in an (admittedly expensive) suburban London street.

'I always wanted a normal house where we could have a proper family life, where the children are part of every room. It's funny, but I have noticed observing some of my friends that the bigger the house, the more distant a family becomes,' she says.

Everywhere you look there is evidence that this is a proper family home. The walls of the kitchen where Clare prepares us a pot of fresh mint tea are dominated by artworks created by Tatum and Amber. And on the central island, close to the girls' pink child sized table, is the multistoried home of Fluffy the 'wonder' hamster.

In the corner of the living room where we sit to talk there is a play area filled with the girls' toys. I wrongly assume that Clare's desire for a 'proper family life' might be a reaction against her own childhood. Because so often the privileges of growing up with huge wealth are countered by an upbringing in which the intimacy of a more ordinary home life is missing.

'Losing our mother was such a big thing for Tamara and me'

'No my father's success started in the 1980s as we grew up, and we had a very normal, lovely Victorian family house in Kew. Tamara and I had a wonderful childhood, and we went to Queen's, the local state primary school. It was very cosy; my mother was a real homemaker and a great cook. She loved people; she was at the school gates every day, and took us to ballet and Brownies. She was one of those mothers who was always there,' she says, as she glances at a framed photograph of her mother taken in the 80s.

'She was so glamorous, right to the end, and such fun. She loved her family, the dogs, her home she just loved life. And she was so generous and warm and welcoming to our friends. For all children, your mother is the most important person; she is your rock. [You think,] "Mummy will always be there for me." The idea that one day she won't is a child's biggest worry; maybe the greatest worry in all our lives,' she says, temporarily breaking off to get more tea from the kitchen.

Clare (far right) with (from left) her sister Tamara, her mother Paula, Tamara's daughter Anouska, and her father Peter, at a private viewing at The Little Black Gallery a photographic gallery co owned by Tamara in 2010

Clare is as stunning as her more famous sister, but they are undeniably different although totally united in their love for their mother. As children, Clare tells me, they were happy opposites Tamara fearless, fun loving and rebellious; Clare sensitive and home loving. 'It's such a big thing for Tamara and me, losing our mother,' she says. 'One of the things about her was that she was so grounded; she was never moody. I could call her any day about anything and she would always have time, always listen. So not only was she always there when Tamara and I were growing up, she was always there when we were grown up, too.'

Clare doesn't say it, but she is absolutely her mother's daughter. Everything she says about her upbringing echoes the way she is bringing up her own children. Family unity was so important to Paula that when Tamara, then aged 16, became pregnant, she didn't hesitate along with her husband to take on the main parental responsibility for her granddaughter Anouska (Clare is very close to her niece, who is now 26 and working in photography in Paris).

Paula, Clare says with a smile, was her father's rock; they were never apart, 'like Tweedledee and Tweedledum'. Her parents' wealth brought privileges a glamorous social life and the freedom to travel that came in their 50s and early 60s. But by the summer of 2009, when Paula was a still 'young and fun' 65, Clare had misgivings about her mother's health.

'I was on holiday in France when my mother rang me we had that relationship where we spoke to each other every day. It was a wonderful sunny day, and then "boom!": she told me she had been to the doctor's for some tests. Two weeks later she was diagnosed with endometrial cancer,' Clare says.

Early diagnosis of endometrial cancer gives a higher chance of recovery, but Paula's cancer had progressed through her lymphatic tissues and the prognosis was not good. Her parents, she says, became a 'team on a journey together' a journey that they wanted to keep private.

'I had no idea about why people became sick with diseases such as cancer until my own mother was diagnosed. I am very private like her and the reason I am talking to you now is that I want to share what I have learnt so that other people can understand how health and wellbeing can help prevent cancer, and how alongside surgery and vital treatments they can aid recovery.

I began to research ways in which I might be able to support my mother [that went] beyond a healthier diet and exercise. I found out that drinking the right kind of water can help the body get rid of the excess acid that can adversely affect our natural pH balance and lessen our resistance to infection and disease. I discovered Kangen water and I believe that drinking two litres a day helped my mother during treatment. I just wish I had come across it ten years earlier,' she says ruefully.

Clare's mother underwent a course of radiotherapy to reduce her tumour in late autumn 2009. But three months later, in early 2010, doctors discovered that the cancer had spread and Paula who had never smoked was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.

'What I learned about how to stay healthy is my mother's legacy to me'

Paula was given prolonged chemotherapy that reduced the tumour. Six months later, in February 2011, Paula, who had lost and by then regained the thick hair that was her 'crowning glory', went on holiday to South America with Peter but she was taken ill and doctors discovered that the cancer had reached her brain. Back in Britain, in March 2011, Paula underwent major brain surgery.

'My mother had lost a lot of weight and was very fragile after the operation. It is obvious now that she was giving up; we just didn't want to believe it. You keep hoping, you keep waiting for a miracle, and there was never any talk of it being "terminal". I remember being with her once and saying, "Let's go outside for a little walk." She was using her walking stick, and said to me, "When will I be free of all this?" At the time I thought she meant "free of" the cancer, but I realise now she meant, "I am done, I don't want to go on,"' Clare says, through tears that she has been fighting to hold back.

By October Paula was so weak that she could no longer go upstairs and needed 24 hour care in the living room, where she slept. Clare becomes even more emotional as she talks about the point, a few weeks later, at which it was discovered that the cancer in her mother's brain had accelerated.

'The doctors and these people are brilliant were talking about other possible treatments that might give her a little more time, but Mummy had been through so much, and she was such a private, beautiful, dignified person, and these procedures were so invasive,' Clare says, brushing away her tears. 'I'm sorry, it's just that I haven't talked about this before.'

Rather than submit Paula, who by then was unconscious, to yet more pain, the family chose to admit her to St Raphael's Hospice in Merton.

'The ending was beautiful, in a way. She looked so elegant and serene, and she smelt of her favourite perfume, 24 Faubourg when I smell it now on other people I think, "It's Mummy". It's difficult to remember the exact timing, but I was with her one day, holding her hand and crying, and then I found myself saying to her, "Don't worry about us. Tamara and I will look after Daddy. We are all together and we love you, and we thank you for everything you have done for us thank you. Mummy, you should go now,replica van cleef arpel necklace, be away from all this." And as I said this, she took these three amazing deep breaths [they sounded] like relief as if she had understood,' Clare says softly.

The family was told that Paula might have another week left possibly two but the following evening the hospice called to say that her heart rate had changed,replica van cleef gold necklace, and that they should come as soon as they could. But by the time they got to her bedside less than an hour later, she had passed away.

'Private and dignified to the last. The thing I remember most is those three deep breaths in the hospice. For me they symbolise my connection with my mother in a very deep way, as if I was cutting the umbilical cord. No one in our culture talks about death it's a taboo subject. I have tried to embrace my loss by seeing that what I learned about how to stay healthy and help protect ourselves from developing illness is actually my mother's legacy to me, for me to pass on to others,' Clare says.

Paula's death aged 68 devastated the family. Clare's father was lonely and bereft for a long time but 18 months ago he met Vivien McLean and earlier this month the couple announced their engagement. They will marry in June with the wholehearted support of Clare and Tamara.

Honor and Dishonor

Produced by Marcelena Spencer

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Sergeant Brent Burke earned his stripes at Fort Campbell, Kentucky home base for his division, the legendary 101st Airborne. Army.

It is also where Sgt. Burke will learn if he will continue to serve in the Army, or if he will serve out his life in prison, because military prosecutors in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps,van cleef clover copy necklace, known as JAG, will court martial Sgt. Brent Burke for double homicide.

"I would say that the tough part of any case like this is the fact that it was four years old . and it was mostly circumstantial evidence and when you put all that together it certainly makes for a difficult case," JAG prosecutor Lt. Col Matthew Calarco told "48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger.

Tracy Burke and Karen Comer

Lieutenant Colonel Matt Calarco's mission, after four civilian trials failed to get a verdict, is to finally prove Sgt. Burke shot and killed his wife, Tracy, and her ex husband's mother,van cleef butterfly knock off necklace, Karen Comer, on Sept. 11, 2007.

"We knew that somebody had gone to Karen and Kurt Comer's home . and gone to their back door, shot Karen Comer, gone into the house, shot Tracy Burke left three children there . and left the house," said Lt. Col. Calarco.

Matthew Pete, Tracy's son from a previous marriage, witnessed a horror when he was only 9 that no child and no adult should ever have to see. He was there when his mother and grandmother were shot dead.

" . I hear a couple of gunshots going through and some glass breaking and my grandma screaming that she's dying . I hear a couple more shots. And then I'm down on the couch . shocked, never really thought this would be happening," Matthew told Schlesinger.

His younger brother, Eion, who was 4, and his sister, Raegan, who was 2, were all in the house when the murders were committed:

911 Dispatcher: Where are they at right now? Matthew Pete: They're dead in my house. There's blood spattered everywhere.

911 Dispatcher: Do you know who done this?

Matthew Pete: No.

When Matthew called 911, he said he didn't know who the gunman was, but was certain he was wearing a camouflage jacket similar to one Sgt. Burke might wear. Kentucky State Police investigator Mark Gillingham interviewed Matthew days after the murders.

". He described the camouflage jacket as being what we call the woodland pattern," Gillingham explained. "And he said he remembered one being in his stepdad's closet ."

Investigators never found a jacket like that in Burke's barracks or his van. But Gillingham also interviewed Matthew's brother, Eion, who said his father, Sgt. Burke, was the killer.

"And how able was Eion to communicate with you?" Schlesinger asked.

". he was very easy to communicate," Gillingham replied.

"And what did he say?"

"'You wanna talk to me about my daddy shooting my mommy,'" said Gillingham.

Tracy and her husband, Sgt. Burke, who was a military policeman, were divorcing. Tracy and her three children were staying with Karen Comer in Rineyville, Ky. Sergeant Burke was living at Fort Campbell,van cleef & arpels knock off necklace, 140 miles away.

". he got off of work at approximately 10:30 in the evening," JAG prosecutor Major Sondra Smith explained. "And from testimony that his roommate gave us, he returned to the barracks at approximately 11:30."

Sergeant Burke then leaves and he is not seen until about 6:30 the following morning when his roommate returns from PT . physical training. So, that whole period of time is unaccounted for."

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A gathering at a clubhouse in Petersburg, Va., is pictured in "Vagos, (St. Martin's Press )

Long before they sat down to write books, Charles Falco and George Rowe sold drugs and used them, raising hell as poor white guys in the desert small towns and exurban fringes of Southern California. They roamed with "tweakers" (meth addicts) and exploited them for cash.

But both Falco and Rowe saw the light. Eventually they joined the "good guys" in a crusade against the meanest, cruelest purveyors of darkness in their communities the biker gangs that collectively share the name Vagos.

As it happens, Falco and Rowe each infiltrated the Vagos at about the same time, working on behalf of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They're also both in the federal witness protection program. Funny thing: They both end up being characters in each others' books, both of which are being released this month.

In their separate books, Falco and Rowe start as "hang around" biker gang wannabes, win promotion to "prospect" and finally become "fully patched" members of the Vagos with the right to wear Vago patches on their jackets and to attend the biker meetings called "church." And their two books, both of which recount many assorted acts of biker depravity, make for equally page turning, blood curdling and nausea inducing reading.

Having been caught and convicted of drug smuggling, Falco agrees to work for the ATF in exchange for a lighter sentence. He enters the subculture of the Vagos, acting first as a servant for "patched" members and pummeling rivals who threaten those members. His outlook shifts after witnessing the Vagos abusing women, intimidating civilians and killing rivals and innocent bystanders.

"I swelled with a sense of duty," Falco writes. "My role was no longer about self preservation. It was about justice."

As an infiltrator, Falco's job is to gather the evidence (mostly recorded with a wire he hides in his underwear) that will get the most dangerous Vagos convicted in court.

Spending day after numbing day with the bikers, Falco witnesses not only the cruelty they inflict on rivals but also the ease with which they betray one another: "Code, club,van cleef arpels copy alhambra necklace, colors was all illusion and delusion."

Falco writes of living with the constant fear that his identity as an informer will be uncovered. As he survives one close call after another, "Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws" becomes an increasingly taut and tense book.

After getting arrested for an assault committed by his Vago "brothers," Falco enters a baroque jail subculture in which he's forced to punish other inmates. Then,vca knock off necklace, to protect his identity, he volunteers for the mental torture of solitary confinement. In these passages, his book reaches a kind of Dantesque apogee.

"Prison code dictated that wolves devoured rabbits,van cleef knock off clover necklace," he writes, describing the punishment meted out to a suspected child molester mistakenly mixed with the general jail population. "Survival required adaptation. Child molesters excluded; no one protected them."

Near the middle of Falco's book, a biker informer named "George" enters. Similarly, a biker informer named "Charles" enters about halfway into George Rowe's book, "Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang."

Rowe's book reads more like a true crime confessional than Falco's. "Gods of Mischief" begins with Rowe agreeing to join the Vagos not as part of a plea deal but to exact revenge for the Vagos' coldblooded, senseless killing of Rowe's friend in a Hemet bar. Becoming a "snitch" is, for Rowe, a way of giving something back to the neighborhoods he'd poisoned with the methamphetamines he sold.

"This was about paying back a community that I'd dumped on for years," Rowe writes. The Vagos "were behaving like animals and had to be stopped."

But stopping the Vagos requires that Rowe immerse himself in their ways. He makes it his goal to earn a member's patch; it bears the Norse god of mischief in the middle.

Along the way he also picks up a young girlfriend, Jenna, who is a heroin addict and who becomes pregnant with his child without knowing Rowe is a federal informant.

The writing in "Gods of Mischief" is at once livelier and cruder than in Falco's book but it's credible in its crudeness. Reading Rowe is a bit like sitting on a bar stool next to a biker for several hours as he tells his story: You endure the misogyny and the profanity because the man has an amazing story to tell.

Freddie of the five towns

STOKE ON TRENT never misses opportunities to pay tribute to the favourite sons of the Potteries. Arnold Bennett has a wall mounted memorial, Stanley Matthews has a footballing statue, Reginald Mitchell is remembered with one of his Spitfires. It seemed only fair, when the centenary of film was being celebrated in 1996, that Freddie Jones should be accorded a plaque in his native Longton.

Jones has been acclaimed internationally as a character actor. His credits range from epic films such as Antony and Cleopatra and Far From the Madding Crowd to television series such as Pennies From Heaven and Inspector Morse.

When the honour was first suggested, however, he was embarrassed. "I thought I'd made only about 30 films and considered myself unworthy," he says. "I received a fan letter asking me to check a list of my films. I counted 63 altogether twice as many as I'd thought. Some were rubbish, but some were great, including my leading role for Fellini [in And the Ship Sails On]. So I thought, 'Yes, I've thoroughly justified my plaque.' "

And there it hangs, in the newly refurbished Longton Town Hall, beneath the magnificent green tiled staircase, by the covered market where freshly griddled Staffordshire oatcakes teeter in warm stacks. In nearby Burslem, as Jones diced with the pelican crossings, a van driver thrust his head out of his vehicle to shout "Hi, Freddie". Lately of Stratford, Hollywood and Europe, the burly, silver bearded gent with the fedora and raffishly knotted bow tie was delighted to be home again.

"On my return visits, I just walk around on my own and remember places and characters that have gone," he says. "It's what I call my 'ghost hunting'."

As the home of Royal Doulton, Wedgwood and Spode,van cleef fake necklace alhambra, Jones's city was shaped, glazed and fired into greatness. The great legacy of Arnold Bennett, whose first novel was published 100 years ago this year, has been to remind the world of its undying debt to "The Five Towns" of England's Potteries. Stoke on Trent is, in fact, a federation of six towns. Ribbon like, they run a mere six miles from north to south, from Tunstall, to Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton, where Jones was born in 1927.

Thanks to Bennett,van cleef necklace knock off alhambra, there are even more literary references here than in Hardy's Wessex. In Edwardian Burslem, reinvented as "Bursley", the Old Town Hall was where Denry Machin, of The Card, had the temerity to dance with the Countess of Chell. Come the Millennium, it will house Ceramica, a 3.3 million celebration of Burslem as "The Mother Town of the Potteries".

The building itself is the true glory, however, with its columns, carriage arch and sumptuous four faced clock tower. Above it all, a gleaming gilded angel radiates the same purity that pierced the poisonous pall of the towering bottle shaped kilns of pre war Stoke.

"The air was so thick you could chew it at times," says Jones. "When it was moist it contained sulphuric acid from the coal burning kilns. Your eyes stung merely from being out of doors."

Burslem's venerable old pub, The Tiger, features in at least a dozen of Bennett's stories. Historically, it was where Josiah Wedgwood met James Brindley to discuss the logistics of the new Trent and Mersey Canal. Now, at lunchtimes,van cleef arpels alhambra replica necklace, flat capped old gentlemen puff pipes, nursing halves of Bass, while office girls swig from bottles. "You'd get a long row of women,van cleef arpel knock off necklace, sitting there with a sort of smug self satisfaction . . ." Hands clasped across his belly and smiling beatifically, Jones bravely depicted the maturing flower of local womanhood.

"My mother's piano would start and a single disembodied voice would spontaneously pick up the tune . . . As if possessed, the voice of the actor soared to a strangulated, smoke laden soprano that was not of this pub. ". . . then, like Siegfried Sassoon's poem, 'Suddenly everyone burst out singing . . .' "

Downhill in bustling Hanley, outside the Theatre Royal, he recalled his own early performances. "My first sense of the total magic of the theatre was here for one glorious week with a Scout Gang Show. Maybe it was something to do with the terrific dramatic contrast between the vividly lit stage and the dark bowels of back stage."

We paid homage at the statue of Sir Stanley, whom Freddie watched as a boy, and found the inscription particularly stirring: "His name is symbolic of the beauty of the game, his fame timeless and international . . . a magical player of the people for the people." Once, a souvenir hunter stole away with the maestro's bronze ball. So fierce was the outcry that three days later the ball turned up in a telephone box with a scrawled message of apology.

Stoke is rightly proud of its heroes, footballing or otherwise, and of a local industry that dates from 2000 BC. Next year's Spode Bicentenary will commemorate 200 years of producing fine bone china. Royal Doulton, Spode, Wedgwood and Portmeirion all have lavish visitor centres, while a new 6 million centre being created at Wedgwood will be Europe's largest industrial visitor attraction.

"You can always tell someone who comes from the Potteries," Jones maintains. "They're the ones who start lifting dishes in restaurants to see the name underneath."

His father worked in electrical ceramics, and two of his aunts were free hand painters. "The climax of their career was painting a magnificent bone china dinner service for the marriage of Queen Elizabeth that had a superb letter 'E' with a tiny crown all in 24 carat gold," he says. But there was a dark side to life among the saggar makers, jolleyers, jiggers, fettlers and blungers and other trades so peculiar to The Potteries. "The colours and glazes had lead in them, so lead poisoning was always a risk. When ware was placed for firing, they used ground silica to form a buffer between the pieces. So they contracted silicosis."

Hundreds died from a debilitating lung disease known as "potter's rot". In 1900, the average age of Longton's adults at death was 46. One in four children died in infancy.

Of the bottle ovens, only 37 survive from the 2,000 that seared the North Staffordshire skies. Four are preserved at the Gladstone Museum in Longton, as monuments to an age when every cloud had a sulphur lining. "I've been lost 200 yards from my home because of a yellow fog that was almost palpable," Jones recalls.

With mallards and Canada geese resenting our interruptions, we toured Longton's handsome Victorian park where the young Freddie fished, sailed his toy boat and watched costumed pageants. The actor made his own performing debut in a local Church of England Primary School. "It was a recitation, 'Under a toadstool fast asleep, lay a wee dormouse all in a heap . . .' My late mother dined out on it."

The school survives, as does the narrow back to back street where he was born. "I learnt to ride a bicycle along this street. My father held it by the saddle, then let go. I turned around and found that he wasn't there . . ."

The house where the Jones family lived for more than 30 years is no longer standing, but enough of Villiers Street remains for ghosts to be roused successfully: the old lady who brewed herb beer; another who washed and laid out corpses.

"A lady came out when I walked along here once, saying, 'It's Freddie Jones, isn't it?' And then I said, 'Listen, you've not got to be offended . . . but you were one of the very earliest sexual fantasies of me and all my friends . . . We used to wonder at your loveliness and femininity.' She said: 'Are you pulling my leg?' I said: 'No, I promise you, it's the truth.' And she said: 'Well, thank you very much.' "

The actor told how his grandfather once interrupted lunch to go out and help a small boy who had come to the door complaining that his kite wouldn't fly. "He put more tail on the kite and flew it down that little street," he said.

"And that's what I call beauty, love and 'community'. I'm sorry to go on, but that's what it all means to me. It's what I can relate to. I will continue coming back. People always accuse me of being over dependent upon it emotionally, and think that I should forget it. But that's not me. I'll keep hunting my ghosts."The Bennett connection Events to mark the 100th anniversary of Bennett's first novel, A Man from the North, culminate in an Arnold Bennett Celebration Weekend on September 18 20.

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