Trout Hotel, Cockermouth, Cumbria, UK
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I stayed at the Trout Hotel in Cockermouth, Cumbria in September 2013. It is a traditional hotel set in the attractive surroundings of the historic town of Cockermouth.
Cockermouth is named as it is at the confluence of the River Cocker as it flows into the River Derwent on the edge of the Lake District. The town is prone to flooding, being flooded in 2005 and again much more severely on 19 November 2009.
The Romans created a fort at Derventio, now the adjoining village of Papcastle, to protect the river crossing, which had become located on a major route for troops heading towards Hadrian's Wall.
The main town developed under the Normans, who after occupying the former Roman fort built Cockermouth Castle closer to the river crossing: little remains today of the castle thanks to the efforts of Robert the Bruce. The resultant servicing and market town resultantly developed its distinctive medieval layout, of a broad main street of burgesses' houses, each with a burgage plot stretching to a back lane: the Derwent bank on the north and Back Lane (now South Street), on the south.The layout is still largely preserved to this day, resulting in the British Council for Archaeology in 1965 noting it being worthy of special care in preservation and development.
The town market pre-dates 1221, when the market day was changed from Saturday to Monday. Market charters were granted in 1221 and 1227 by King Henry III, although this does not preclude the much earlier existence of a market in the town. In recent times, the trading farmers market now only occurs seasonally, replaced by weekend continental and craft markets.
In the days when opening hours of public houses were restricted, the fact that the pubs in Cockermouth could open all day on Market days made the town a popular destination for drinkers, especially on Bank Holiday Mondays. The Market Bell remains as a reminder of this period (inset into a wall opposite the Allerdale Hotel), while the 1761 and Castle pub (which spans three floors) have been renovated to reveal medieval stonework and 16th and 18th century features.
Much of the centre of the town is of medieval origin substantially rebuilt in Georgian style with Victorian infill. The tree lined Kirkgate offers examples of unspoilt classical late 17th and 18th century terraced housing, cobbled paving and twisty curving lanes which run steeply down to the River Cocker. Most of the buildings are of traditional slate and stone construction with thick walls and green Skiddaw slate roofs.
Many of the facades lining the streets are frontages for historic housing in alleyways and lanes (often maintaining medieval street patterns) to the rear. An example of this may be observed through the alleyway adjacent to the almost time-frozen Market Place hardware merchant (J.B.Banks and Son) where 18th-century dye workers' cottages line one side of the lane and the former works faces them across the narrow cobbled lane. Examples of Georgian residences may be found near the Market Place, St. Helens Street, at the bottom of Castlegate Drive and Kirkgate.
Cockermouth lays claim to be the first town in Britain to have piloted electric lighting. In 1881 six powerful electric lamps were set up to light the town, together with gas oil lamps in the back streets. Service proved intermittent, and there was afterwards a return to gas lighting.
The tree-lined main street boasts a statue of Lord Mayo, formerly an MP for Cockermouth, who became British Viceroy of India and whose subsequent claim to fame was that he was assassinated.
Cockermouth Castle is a sizeable but partly ruined Norman castle, the home of Pamela, The Dowager Lady Egremont. Built at the confluence of the Rivers Cocker and Derwent, the castle has a tilting tower which hangs Pisa-like over Jennings Brewery. The castle, with its preserved dungeons, is only opened to the public once a year during the annual town festival.
Wordsworth House has been restored following extensive damage during the November 2009 floods, and features a working eighteenth century kitchen and children's bedroom with toys and clothes of the times. Harris Park offers riverside walks and views down over the historic town.
Jenning's Brewery offers regular public tours and occasional carriage rides pulled by a shire horse. Other attractions include William Wordsworth's birthplace, and the Lakeland Sheep & Wool Centre which offers daily shows in its theatre.
The coming of the railway and the Victorian holiday, together with the power of Wordsworth's publications, meant that Cockermouth became an early inland tourist centre. The local economy is still reliant today on farming and tourism, with light industrial facilities servicing local needs. Industrialisation and hence work has moved to the west coast around Carlisle and Workington, and servicing the nuclear facilities at Sellafield.
Workington's 23,000
Hi here is a video of the historic main cemetery for the town of
Workington,
Harrington Road was opened in 1879 to cater for the ever expanding industrial town of Workington.
Due to the large industrial expansion the region was seeing, particularly in the steel industry,
many outsiders were travelling to Workington for work, thus somewhere had to be found to bury the expanding workforce. Although not the largest in terms of land area, Harrington Road
holds the most burials of any cemetery in the region at over 23,000. This is due to many of the graves holding 3 or 4 people to maximise space!
[I'm greatly saddened to see the number of pushed over gravestones, come on Workington were better than this.
No way to treat ones kin folk, we need to make this socially unacceptable, maybe the council will re-erect them, whom I kidding!!!- sorry rant over]
The Foot and Hand Disease
The people buried in Harrington Road cemetery in
the winter of 1900 could have been the victims of a
very strange disease. Workington has had its share
of plagues but this epidemic was both strange and
unique. Only Workington and Manchester were
affected by this strangely selective disease.
The symptoms were swollen feet, aching legs, with
the skin peeling off both hands and feet. Doctors
were baffled but people were still dying from this mysterious ailment. The disease rose to epidemic proportions as Dr. McKerrow went to Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester to see other sufferers and get to the root of the problem.
The reason for the epidemic was worse than anyone could possibly have imagined. It was the beer!
A particular batch of sugar in a Liverpool port had been contaminated with arsenic!
Two breweries were unfortunate enough to get this batch to use in
the production of its beer; one in Manchester and one in Workington. It was a long time before confidence in the brewery recovered and the regular drinkers of Workington turned to spirits instead with predictable results.
Workingtonians were even more drunk than usual! The courts were kept busy with increased cases of drunkenness, whilst the police were very active in wheeling drunks to the Lock Up on Ritson Street in a handcart.
Jennings Brewery in Cockermouth stepped in to fill the beer drought.
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The Coors Dynasty: A Weird and Wealthy Family - History of Brewing (2000)
In 1873, German immigrants Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler established a brewery in Golden, Colorado, after buying a recipe for a Pilsner-style beer from a Czech immigrant William Silhan.
Coors invested $2,000 in the operation, and Schueler invested $18,000.
In 1880, Coors bought out his partner and became sole owner of the brewery.
The Coors Brewing Company managed to survive Prohibition relatively intact. Years before the Volstead Act went into effect nationwide, Adolph Coors with sons Adolph Jr., Grover, and Herman established the Adolph Coors Brewing and Manufacturing Company, which included Herold Porcelain and other ventures. The brewery itself was converted into a malted milk and near beer production facility. Coors sold much of the malted milk to the Mars candy company for the production of sweets. Manna, the company's non-alcoholic beer replacement, was a near beer similar to current non-alcoholic beverages. However, Coors and his sons relied heavily on the porcelain company as well as a cement and real estate company to keep the Coors Brewing Company afloat. By 1933, after the end of Prohibition, the Coors brewery was one of only a handful of breweries that had survived.
All of the non-brewery assets of the Adolph Coors Company were spun off between 1989 and 1992. The descendant of the original Herold Porcelain ceramics business continues to operate as CoorsTek.
Coors sponsored Premiership side Chelsea from 1994 to 1997. The last competitive game that the club wore shirts bearing Coors as sponsors was the 1997 FA Cup Final in which they beat Middlesbrough 2-0 to end their 26-year wait for a major trophy.
Current affiliate Carling was title sponsor of the Premier League from 1993 to 2001 and since 2003 has sponsored the Football League Cup. The two brands are also former sponsors of Rangers and Celtic. The clubs have worn strips with Coors Light logos for exhibitions in North America, while elsewhere the strips promoted Carling, which is not offered in the United States.
Coors is also the official beer sponsor of NASCAR and formerly the NFL until Bud Light replaced it in 2011.[43] In addition to its official NASCAR sponsorship, Coors Light has regularly sponsored cars in the series. They sponsored Melling Racing, Team SABCO, and most recently Chip Ganassi Racing. Drivers to have Coors backing have included Bill Elliott, who won the Winston Million in 1985 and the 1988 Winston Cup Championship, Robby Gordon, Sterling Marlin, Kyle Petty, David Stremme and Regan Smith. Coors is the title sponsor of the pole award in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series.[44] Coors stopped sponsoring a stock car in 2008.
Coors and/or Molson are beer sponsors of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings, Arizona Coyotes, San Jose Sharks and all six Canadian teams. The company owns 20% of the Montreal Canadiens with the Molson family owning the other 80%, having purchased the shares from Colorado's George Gillett in 2009.[45]
Coors is also the official beer of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA).[46]
Coors currently holds the naming rights to Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team.
The Coors Events Center on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder in Boulder, Colorado is named after the company.
The Coors Life Direction Center of Regis University is also named after the company.
Coors has sponsored English rugby league side Workington Town from the 2007 season, as well as British Ice Hockey Team, The Belfast Giants.
Coors was the main sponsor for the Coors Cycling Team (late 1980s to mid-1990s) and the sponsor for US cycling event the Coors Classic, which ran from 1980 to 1988.
Coors is a sponsor of English Rugby Union team Gloucester. Coincidentally, both Coors and Gloucester RFC were founded in 1873. Coors, through product line Worthingtons, brews a special beer Kingsholm Ale, which is sold in the stadium. The Worthington logo is featured on the team's jerseys.
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Exit poll predicts big Tory majority
Boris Johnson's gamble on a snap election looks to have paid off, with the Tories on course to win a big majority, according to an exit poll.
The BBC/Sky/ITV poll puts the Tories on 368 seats, with Labour predicted to win just 191 seats, the Scottish National Party 55, Liberal Democrats 13, the Brexit Party none, Plaid Cymru three and Greens one. This would give Mr Johnson a majority of 86.
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Cockermouth part two of two
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Cockermouth is named as it is at the confluence of the River Cocker as it flows into the River Derwent on the edge of the Lake District. Much of the architectural core of the town remains unchanged since the basic medieval layout was filled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The town is prone to flooding, being flooded in 2005 and again much more severely on 19 November 2009.
The Romans created a fort at Derventio, now the adjoining village of Papcastle, to protect the river crossing, which had become located on a major route for troops heading towards Hadrian's Wall.
The main town developed under the Normans, who after occupying the former Roman fort built Cockermouth Castle closer to the river crossing: little remains today of the castle thanks to the efforts of Robert the Bruce. The resultant servicing and market town resultantly developed its distinctive medieval layout, of a broad main street of burgesses' houses, each with a burgage plot stretching to a back lane: the Derwent bank on the north and Back Lane (now South Street), on the south.The layout is still largely preserved to this day, resulting in the British Council for Archaeology in 1965 noting it being worthy of special care in preservation and development.
The town market pre-dates 1221, when the market day was changed from Saturday to Monday. Market charters were granted in 1221 and 1227 by King Henry III, although this does not preclude the much earlier existence of a market in the town. In recent times, the trading farmers market now only occurs seasonally, replaced by weekend continental and craft markets.
In the days when opening hours of public houses were restricted, the fact that the pubs in Cockermouth could open all day on market days made the town a popular destination for drinkers, especially on Bank Holiday Mondays. The Market Bell remains as a reminder of this period (inset into a wall opposite the Allerdale Hotel), while the 1761 and Castle pub (which spans three floors) have been renovated to reveal medieval stonework and 16th and 18th century features.
Much of the centre of the town is of medieval origin substantially rebuilt in Georgian style with Victorian infill. The tree lined Kirkgate offers examples of unspoilt classical late 17th and 18th century terraced housing, cobbled paving and twisty curving lanes which run steeply down to the River Cocker. Most of the buildings are of traditional slate and stone construction with thick walls and green Skiddaw slate roofs.
Many of the facades lining the streets are frontages for historic housing in alleyways and lanes (often maintaining medieval street patterns) to the rear. An example of this may be observed through the alleyway adjacent to the almost time-frozen Market Place hardware merchant (J.B.Banks and Son) where 18th-century dye workers' cottages line one side of the lane and the former works faces them across the narrow cobbled lane. Examples of Georgian residences may be found near the Market Place, St. Helens Street, at the bottom of Castlegate Drive and Kirkgate.
Cockermouth lays claim to be the first town in Britain to have piloted electric lighting. In 1881 six powerful electric lamps were set up to light the town, together with gas oil lamps in the back streets. Service proved intermittent, and there was afterwards a return to gas lighting.
The tree-lined main street boasts a statue of Lord Mayo, formerly an MP for Cockermouth, who became British Viceroy of India and whose subsequent claim to fame was that he was assassinated.
Cockermouth Castle is a sizeable but partly ruined Norman castle, the home of Pamela, The Dowager Lady Egremont. Built at the confluence of the Rivers Cocker and Derwent, the castle has a tilting tower which hangs Pisa-like over Jennings Brewery. The castle, with its preserved dungeons, is only opened to the public once a year during the annual town festival.
Wordsworth House has been restored following extensive damage during the November 2009 floods, and features a working eighteenth century kitchen and children's bedroom with toys and clothes of the times. Harris Park offers riverside walks and views down over the historic town.
Jenning's Brewery offers regular public tours and occasional carriage rides pulled by a shire horse. Other attractions include William Wordsworth's birthplace, and the Lakeland Sheep & Wool Centre which offers daily shows in its theatre.
The coming of the railway and the Victorian holiday, together with the power of Wordsworth's publications, meant that Cockermouth became an early inland tourist centre. The local economy is still reliant today on farming and tourism, with light industrial facilities servicing local needs. Industrialisation and hence work has moved to the west coast around Carlisle and Workington, and servicing the nuclear facilities at Sellafield.
Jeremy Corbyn given 20-minute 'hairdryer' dressing down by MP who lost seat - Today News
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For any copyright, please send me a message. Jeremy Corbyn was given the “hairdryer” treatment in a 20-minute, public dressing-down from an MP who lost her seat. Mary Creagh, the former MP for Wakefield, had been clearing out her Commons office when she saw the Labour leader posing for selfies with young people. She told the Times she approached Mr Corbyn and gave him a stern talking-to. “I told him he shouldn’t be having his photo taken with young people because he had betrayed their future,” she said. “I asked him to apologise for what he’d done.” She says she unloaded on Mr Corbyn, branding Labour’s manifesto a “joke” and accusing him of alienating Labour voters. Ms Creagh said she also took issue with Mr Corbyn’s decision to call the election without consulting the Shadow Cabinet and challenged him to go too Wakefield to apologise. “He needs to know what he has done,” she added. “He needs to own his failure. He must apologise for what he has done. I told him ‘why are you still sat in your office when all my staff have just lost their jobs?’” Ms Creagh was one of several prominent Labour MPs to lose their seat - including Don Valley’s Caroline Flint, Bolsover stalwart Dennis Skinner, Delyn’s David Hanson, Keighley’s John Grogan and Gedling’s Vernon Coaker. But MPs have not been able to demand Mr Corbyn goes quickly as there is no deputy leader to stand in after Tom Watson quit politics.
Broughton Moor - Ammunition Dump (Part 1)
Lived next door to this for years.
Always been curious, suspect you have to?
The Site is surreal, vast and slightly un-nerving!
In this video, well haven't really scratched the surface, so if I get some demand I may produce a Part 2 as there is so much more to see.
The site is a decommissioned Royal Naval Armaments Depot located between Great Broughton and Broughton Moor.
The site was connected to the main line via a 5 miles (8.0 km) branch line to Siddick Junction, north of Workington railway station and utilised a headshunt at Northside to change direction northbound on to the Cumbrian Coast Line.
The branch closed on 4 June 1992, being the last part of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway in operation.
The site was decommissioned in 1992 at the end of the Cold War. The United States Navy used the site for storage of its armaments for its North Atlantic Squadron.
The site had a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway. Locomotives from this railway are preserved on the Almond Valley and Whipsnade railways.
The weapons were taken by rail out of the site to Workington.
The large majority of the buildings and bunkers remain along with underground storage and an extensive network of storage sheds and other military buildings.
Ownership of the site was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to Allerdale Borough Council in 2008 who have yet to decide what to do with the site.
The site was purchased by the Borough Council for £1. In October 2008 Cumbria County Council called for interest in the redevelopment of the site rebranded as Derwent Forest.
As yet there has been little interest due to the huge cost involved with cleaning up the site.
Please take note DANGER :- There are unexploded ordnance and large amounts of asbestos as well as unmarked mine shafts when it was a colliery prior to World War II.
The site is from a forgotten era - A Wartime era,
Funny how Mother nature always prevails,
The grass started to grow on the scorched earth 2 days after Hiroshima!
Just listen to the sounds from the bomb loading bay at the end of the video, Yeah I'd say mother nature wins again!
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Cockermouth part 1 of 2
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Cockermouth is named as it is at the confluence of the River Cocker as it flows into the River Derwent on the edge of the Lake District. Much of the architectural core of the town remains unchanged since the basic medieval layout was filled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The town is prone to flooding, being flooded in 2005 and again much more severely on 19 November 2009.
The Romans created a fort at Derventio, now the adjoining village of Papcastle, to protect the river crossing, which had become located on a major route for troops heading towards Hadrian's Wall.
The main town developed under the Normans, who after occupying the former Roman fort built Cockermouth Castle closer to the river crossing: little remains today of the castle thanks to the efforts of Robert the Bruce. The resultant servicing and market town resultantly developed its distinctive medieval layout, of a broad main street of burgesses' houses, each with a burgage plot stretching to a back lane: the Derwent bank on the north and Back Lane (now South Street), on the south.The layout is still largely preserved to this day, resulting in the British Council for Archaeology in 1965 noting it being worthy of special care in preservation and development.
The town market pre-dates 1221, when the market day was changed from Saturday to Monday. Market charters were granted in 1221 and 1227 by King Henry III, although this does not preclude the much earlier existence of a market in the town. In recent times, the trading farmers market now only occurs seasonally, replaced by weekend continental and craft markets.
In the days when opening hours of public houses were restricted, the fact that the pubs in Cockermouth could open all day on market days made the town a popular destination for drinkers, especially on Bank Holiday Mondays. The Market Bell remains as a reminder of this period (inset into a wall opposite the Allerdale Hotel), while the 1761 and Castle pub (which spans three floors) have been renovated to reveal medieval stonework and 16th and 18th century features.
Much of the centre of the town is of medieval origin substantially rebuilt in Georgian style with Victorian infill. The tree lined Kirkgate offers examples of unspoilt classical late 17th and 18th century terraced housing, cobbled paving and twisty curving lanes which run steeply down to the River Cocker. Most of the buildings are of traditional slate and stone construction with thick walls and green Skiddaw slate roofs.
Many of the facades lining the streets are frontages for historic housing in alleyways and lanes (often maintaining medieval street patterns) to the rear. An example of this may be observed through the alleyway adjacent to the almost time-frozen Market Place hardware merchant (J.B.Banks and Son) where 18th-century dye workers' cottages line one side of the lane and the former works faces them across the narrow cobbled lane. Examples of Georgian residences may be found near the Market Place, St. Helens Street, at the bottom of Castlegate Drive and Kirkgate.
Cockermouth lays claim to be the first town in Britain to have piloted electric lighting. In 1881 six powerful electric lamps were set up to light the town, together with gas oil lamps in the back streets. Service proved intermittent, and there was afterwards a return to gas lighting.
The tree-lined main street boasts a statue of Lord Mayo, formerly an MP for Cockermouth, who became British Viceroy of India and whose subsequent claim to fame was that he was assassinated.
Cockermouth Castle is a sizeable but partly ruined Norman castle, the home of Pamela, The Dowager Lady Egremont. Built at the confluence of the Rivers Cocker and Derwent, the castle has a tilting tower which hangs Pisa-like over Jennings Brewery. The castle, with its preserved dungeons, is only opened to the public once a year during the annual town festival.
Wordsworth House has been restored following extensive damage during the November 2009 floods, and features a working eighteenth century kitchen and children's bedroom with toys and clothes of the times. Harris Park offers riverside walks and views down over the historic town.
Jenning's Brewery offers regular public tours and occasional carriage rides pulled by a shire horse. Other attractions include William Wordsworth's birthplace, and the Lakeland Sheep & Wool Centre which offers daily shows in its theatre.
The coming of the railway and the Victorian holiday, together with the power of Wordsworth's publications, meant that Cockermouth became an early inland tourist centre. The local economy is still reliant today on farming and tourism, with light industrial facilities servicing local needs. Industrialisation and hence work has moved to the west coast around Carlisle and Workington, and servicing the nuclear facilities at Sellafield.
December 2015 Cockermouth Floods
The river Cocker coming over Brewery Bridge on Saturday afternoon, 5th December 2015, before the flood waters started to enter Cockermouth town centre.
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Virgil & The Accelerators - Voodoo Chile (Part 1), Maryport (UK) 2011.
The Fabulous Virgil & The Accelerators playing the Glasson Rangers Rugby Club Maryport 23/10/11.
Virgil & The Accelerators are Virgil McMahon Guitar/Vocals, Gabrial McMahon Drums & Jack Timmis Bass.
Virgil and the Accelerators - Silver Giver
VIRGIL MCMAHON is without doubt the finest young player to emerge in the UK for a good many years. Emulating his father when just 5 years of age, he picked up a mandolin and began to strum chords. From that day forward a guitar has never left his side and he would often be seen on balmy Friday nights running around helping his Father set up his stage gear at The Radium Beer Hall, South Africa, where he would play his blues to an appreciative audience.
By age 9 Virgil was absorbing his influences with frightening ease; Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and ZZ Top amongst others were soon emanating from his guitar. At 12 years of age he was invited to jam with the great bluesman Otis Grand, an evening that earned himhis first standing ovation.
The following few years saw Virgil playing at local gigs and festivals in and around his new home in Wales. It was widely agreed that something very special was being witnessed. Virgil decided to form a young and vibrant band thus avoiding the mistake a lot of young players make, that of surrounding themselves with a group of more seasoned professionals.Younger brother GABRIEL (at the time an unbeaten amateur boxer) was recruited to playdrums along with a local bass player. VIRGIL & THE ACCELERATORS were unveiled atthe prestigious West Midlands venue, the Robin 2 in Wolverhampton where they immediately established a rapport with the knowledgeable Robin 2 crowd.
In 2009 came a big break when playing at The Anchor in London, one of many venues promoted by club guru Pete Feenstra. This connection led to the band being taken on by The Rhino Agency and subsequently joining Joanne Shaw Taylor and Oli Brown on the sell out“New Generation Blues Tour” and enjoying main stage performances at major festivals around the UK..
At just 18yrs old, lead guitarist of Virgil and the Accelerators, Virgil McMahon, became the youngest person shortlisted in the 2010 British Blues Awards.
During the past year Virgil and his 17yr old brother Gabriel on drums have toured extensively in the UK and Northern Europe, ending the year playing in front of a combinedaudience of over 5,000 fans enjoying two fantastic performances with Joanne Shaw Taylor in support of Black Country Communion at London Shepherds Bush Empire and Wolverhampton Civic Hall.
Virgil & The Accelerators now feature the talents of 21yr old Bassist Jack Timmis the final cog that completes a unit so full of energy and power that audiences are left simply breathless. Virgil has astonishing Fretboard skills, a Vibrato that is a National treasure, and is a true feel player delivering jaw dropping solos. Together with Gabriel’s powerhouse drumming and Jack’s solid bass lines, the result is a band which has been likened to a new “Cream”. Virgil and his exciting band have a clear understanding of dynamics and the rare ability to get inside a song, turn it inside out and then back again – a talent that brings astanding ovation at every show.
In 2010 Virgil & The Accelerators signed to Mystic Records, recording their all-original debut album entitled “THE RADIUM” which is to be released 26th September and backed up with a full UK tour.
Virgil & The Accelerators - Silver Giver, Skegness (UK) 2012.
Virgil & The Accelerators at The 2012 Great British Rock & Blues Festival Butlins Skegness.
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