Bimble: Eastham: Ye Olde Pleasure Gardens

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Good morning, Bimlers. And you join me at Eastern Rake on the fabulous Whirl. We’re coming back to the world next week for Bimbleism Live at the Oakland Gallery Thursday the 17th. That’s over in Wally. Tickets down there in the description. So, I thought it would be a good idea if we came to Easter to see what we see. So, let’s stop messing about and let’s bimble. [Music] Minimal forces that grew magnetically brought me to you. Visions that cut through the cold to my heart. Feelings of want you. Feeling that coming from you. burst into blow at the seams. My heart as if this was love that I felt. Falling for somebody else. Taking my eyes from the ground. Turning my heart upside down. As if this could change all the past. fixing the bruise from the last time that I felt anything. East is said to be one of the oldest villages on the whirl and it gets its name from its geographic location in regards to Williston which would have been the old Anglo-Saxon settlement, the main one. So Easton is east of Williston and the hambit comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for town, village or settlement. So it’s basically East Village. Eastern Village was all built around the Church of St. Mary, which would have been one of those old Wland Door buildings. But that Watt Door building was built next to an old utree. Apparently, it was the law back then not to have a UT tree in your churchyard so you could make bows and arrows and things. The people of East called that old utree ye old you. But they need to get the fact straight. There’s never been a word ye. It just looks like it should be E because of the way that we write it down. You see, we used to have extra letters in our alphabet and one of those letters was called thorn. It was like a mix between a lowercase B and a lowerase P. And that used to take care of the th sound, you know, as in the and they and there. I think where the confusion came in with the old loopy joined up handwriting. The letter thorn looked like a Y. When they started using printing presses, the nearest character to Thor was thought to be a wine. And that’s why you get ye old pub and ye old sweet shop and ye old you. But it’s never been ye old you. It was the old you. The old you here in St. Mary’s Churchyard is thought to be over 1700 years old. When this land was given to the monks of Werberg in 1152, the villagers asked those monks to look after the old U tree. So if it was old back in 1152, must be ancient now. Some parts of St. Mary’s Church here in Eastern date back to that time. According to my big book of Bimble, the official one available at Bimbleism live happening next week. The north wall is from the 12th century and the nave is from the 13th century and the tower was originally built in the 14th century. It was all renovated several times. In fact, they completely rebuilt the tower in 1752. In the Victorian era, a Liverpoolian chap called David Walker did up the whole thing. But before he got in, my favorite John Douglas tarted up the chancel. Speaking of John Douglas, let’s [Music] brought out some colorful sparks. Brought back to light from the dark. broke out in shimmering waves to my heart. CP but the same familiar in simplified ways broke down the lily white scars to my heart as if this was love that I felt falling for somebody else. Taking my eyes from the ground. Turning my heart upside down. As if this could change all the past. Fixing the bruise from the last time that I felt anything. As if this was love that I felt as if this was somebody else. This cute little church is called the Chapel of the Good Shepherd and it was designed by my favorite John Douglas in 1884. John Douglas has to be my favorite church architect or at least one of them. He was born in Sandy Way in Cheshire and he studied under Edward Graham Paley, another one of my favorites. He built some of my favorite things. That big gold clock in Chester and St. John’s Church in Bmouth and the Poundland in Warrington. This little chapel was built at the behest of the Reverend William Edward to he was the vicor of Easter as well as being the cannon of Chester Cathedral and he used to live around here in a big mansion called Carlet Park. His father was John to the conservative MP for Liverpool in 1873. He was also a rich merchant. So I think that’s where the mansion came from. The big mansion’s gone. It’s a housing estate now. But the little chapel remains in contrast to those two chaps. The reverend’s daughter was called Donna and she was a Marxist writer and historian. She split away from the family and went to study in H Highleberg in Germany before coming back to the UK and studying English at the University College London. because she’d studied in Germany and come back to the UK that made her bilingual and she actually translated lot of KL Marx’s articles as well as some of the later books by Frederick Engles. She married a chap called Walter Holmes who was a journalist for the Daily Worker and they were both members of the Communist Party. In fact, Donna was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. She died in 1957. Not sure what she’d say about this posh housing estate. I think she’d like it to be council flats. Let’s bimbo. Turning upside down as if this could change all the past. Fixing the bruise from the last time that I felt anything. As if this was love that I felt. As if this was somebody else. [Music] Just outside of Eastern Country Park, we find a couple of peers jutting out into the River Murzy. Perfect for boat spotting. It’s just by the entrance to the Manchester Ship Canal. It’s one of my favorite pastimes, boat spotting. But back in the 1800s, this would have been where all the fairies from Liverpool came filled to the brim with day trippers or looking to prominard around Eastern Country Park or Eastern Pleasure Gardens as they would have been back then. Eastern Pleasure Gardens were all to the rear of the Eastern Ferry Hotel. They would have had brass bands on the lawn from 3:00 in the afternoon until 8:00 at night. And they had a managerie with lions and monkeys and bears. In fact, in Eastern Country Park, they’ve still got one of the bear pits. It would have been set out like a cave, so you could see how Yogi Bear lived. Wonder if they stole any picnic baskets. Back then, the park was known as the Richmond of the Murzy. And it was described by an American novelist called Nathaniel Hawthorne as the finest old English village he had ever seen. Nothing like it in America. And it was as if he dreamt about it. A French chap called Charles Blondin performed on his tightroppe here in 1883 and he drew a crowd of 100,000 people. He was very famous in Victorian times because he tightroppe walked across Niagara Falls on a tightroppe that was a quarter of a mile long. While he performed here at the Eastern Pleasure Gardens, he actually took a small boy across the tightroppe in a wheelbarrow. I hope he had public liability insurance. Charles performed well into his 60s and he died age 72 at his home in London which was called Niagara House. Wish we were taking the ferry out. It’s a bit dear in it. It’s about 15 quid. We’ll have to make do with something else that’s been born. [Music] Maybe it didn’t work at the time. Maybe it never did. [Music] A mistake that made the distance or a trying way to live. [Music] Maybe it’s the time that you grabbed at my arms and electricity flowed from my shoulders to palms in a white hot glow. Leave them white cold scars left bare and un show just to prove they were ours. Maybe it worked. Maybe it never did. Maybe it never was [Music] quite like how it is. [Music] Maybe it didn’t work at the time. Maybe it never did. A novelty improvement left lonely as a gaz. [Music] Or maybe it’s the time that you closed both your eyes and you pouted your lips as you waited for mine. In the soft red glow of your soft cold arms, serotonin burns holes through my veins through my heart. Maybe it worked. Maybe it never did. [Music] And so Bimlas, this is as close as we’re getting to a Mury Ferry today. It’s the funnel off one. It’s the funnel off the old Wood Church Murzy Ferry. It was first launched in 1959 and it was one of three Mury Fairies that was overurch. If you go on YouTube and search for an old TV program called Liverpool Agogo from 1965, you get to see this in the background. It’s a program all about the old Mury beat combos and they’re sailing up and down the Mury on the old Liverpool pilot ship. There’s a racy bit where they dock up at New Brighton and a woman called Tiffany sings you a song in a bikini. She look very cold. But there’s no ferry across the Mury for us today. Bimilas, we’ll have to make do with Mury Rail. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Good evening. By Live is coming to a town near you this month. the Oakland Gallery in Wallace on Thursday the 17th of July. Tickets are £10 plus a small booking fee and they’re only available from Mr. Bimble following the QR codes on the screen or from the links in the description. You’ll get to see Kieran perform his live show International Bimble. It’s the story of how he got from his old back gate in Warrington over international borders. It’s not to be missed. Let’s bimble.