My name is Melvyn Haigh. I was born in Birmingham and have lived in the midlands most
of my life.We live in a remarkable country that has given so much to the rest of the world.
Our language, music, literature, sports, theatre, film, science, medicine, the list is endless.
My passion is to help spread the word of our English culture,built up over a thousand years
.
English Cotswold village and a Mini
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People are begining to search for their roots and to re-discover who we are.
Part of the problem with some of our youth has been,I believe a lack of a real identity
but it is encouraging to see a rekindling of pride in England all over the country and
none more so than here in Birmingham and the West Midlands.
On behalf of the Birmingham St George's Day Association I organise the outside
Festival with the co-operation of Birmingham City council events team each year
on the nearest Saturday to St George's Day, 2010 being Saturday April 24th.
The Birmingham St George's Day Association has a splendid committee who also
organise a sell out concert each year under the chairmanship of Historian and Broadcaster
Professor Carl Chinn MBE. The Birmingham St George's Day Association website is
Chamberlain Square,Birmingham.
The Crowd gathers to watch the battle of the Knights of Middle England at St George's day celebrations 2009.
"Where there is no vision , people perish."
Sovereign Brass Band play at the Birmingham St George's Day celebration's
The smoke breathing dragon slide
A popular children's attraction for the Birmingham St George's day celebrations.
For lovers of Classical music by the great English composers there is an
excellent website promoting their music to find out more visit
Essential reading for Young Englishmen (and some older ones) by one of our great writers.
Rudyard Kipling
If
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,but make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,or being lied about,dont deal in lies.
Or being hated,dont give way to hating and yet dont look too good,nor talk to wise.
If you can dream, and not make dreams your master.
If you can think, and not make thoughts your aim.
If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, and stoop and build them up with worn
out tools.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breath a word about your loss.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone
and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them,hold on.
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue or walk with Kings nor lose the common
touch.
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,if all men count with you, but none too much.
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run, yours
is the Earth and everything that's in it and which is more-you'll be a Man, my Son.
To see some great photos of the Birmingham St George's day 2008 and 2009 events click on the BBC link below.
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