Krystyna Stevenson at The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
Krystyna Stevenson reading from her book Wierszyki dla mojej Wnusi/Poems for my Granddaughter at the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London.
This beautifully illustrated book which written in Polish and English is available in good bookshops such as Foyles and Waterstones in London - as well as on Amazon on-line:
Life of General Sikorski (4) Krzysztof Deberg from the Polish Institute & Sikorski Museum
Speaker Krzysztof Deberg from the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London, part (4). A reception and conference in Newark Town Hall that featured and focused on the life of General Sikorski, his role in organising and shaping a new Polish army abroad and post invasion and the history of the relationship between Britain and Poland.
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Life of General Sikorski (2) Krzysztof Deberg from the Polish Institute & Sikorski Museum
Speaker Krzysztof Deberg from the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London, part (2). A reception and conference in Newark Town Hall that featured and focused on the life of General Sikorski, his role in organising and shaping a new Poli sh army abroad and post invasion and the history of the relationship between Britain and Poland.
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White City Stadium – 22nd May 1966
White City Stadium – Celebration of the Millennium Anniversary of the Baptism of Poland, 22nd May 1966
Millennium is a part of The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum Film Archive
Life of General Sikorski (1) Krzysztof Deberg from the Polish Institute & Sikorski Museum
Speaker Krzysztof Deberg from the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London, part (1). A reception and conference in Newark Town Hall that featured and focused on the life of General Sikorski, his role in organising and shaping a new Polish army abroad and post invasion and the history of the relationship between Britain and Poland.
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Friends Of Newark Cemetery Chairman Laurence Goff
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Life of General Sikorski (3) Krzysztof Deberg from the Polish Institute & Sikorski Museum
Speaker Krzysztof Deberg from the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London, part (3). A reception and conference in Newark Town Hall that featured and focused on the life of General Sikorski, his role in organising and shaping a new Polish army abroad and post invasion and the history of the relationship between Britain and Poland.
Contact
Friends Of Newark Cemetery Chairman Laurence Goff
friendsofnewarkcemetery@yahoo.co.uk
Laurence Goff 01636-681878 (Home) Mobile 07794613879
friendsofnewarkcemetery@yahoo.co.uk
laurencegoff4newark@yahoo.co.uk
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Laurence Goff
Newark Town Hall, Market Place, Newark, Notts, NG24 1DU
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SIK 215 - Gen Sikorski's visit to the Middle East
SIK 215 is a part of The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum Film Archive
Gen Sikorski's visit to the Middle East 1943
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Audley End House / Essex UK
The impressive house that can be seen today is only about a third the size of the vast mansion created in about 1605–14 by Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk. It retains much of its original character, and contains fine Robert Adam and Jacobean revival interiors. The gardens and landscape, shaped by various owners to complement the house, reflect many changes in English garden fashion.
Audley End – XVII-wieczna rezydencja na peryferiach miejscowości Saffron Walden (hrabstwo Essex), na południe od Cambridge. Obecny budynek to mniej więcej jedna trzecia oryginalnego założenia pałacowego, niegdyś spektakularnego przykładu architektury okresu jakobickiego w Anglii.
Pierwotnie siedziba opactwa benedyktyńskiego, po kasacie zakonów przez Henryka VIII w 1538 przekazany jednemu z dworzan, Sir Tomaszowi Audley, który zamieszkał w byłych budynkach klasztornych. Wnuk obdarowanego, Tomasz Howard (pierwszy Earl Suffolk, Lord Skarbnik) przebudował rezydencję kosztem ówczesnych 200 tysięcy funtów aby nadawała się do podejmowania dworu króla Jakuba I. Tomasz Howard wraz z żoną w 1619 pod zarzutem defraudacji środków z królewskiej kiesy trafił do więzienia w Tower. Wkrótce, po wpłaceniu dużej kaucji został zwolniony, lecz nigdy nie powrócił do łask królewskich i umarł w Audley End w 1626.
Spadkobiercy Tomasza Howarda, nie dysponując środkami na utrzymanie pałacu, w 1668 za kwotę 50 tysięcy ówczesnych funtów sprzedali Audley End Karolowi II, który korzystał z rezydencji podczas częstych wizyt na torach wyścigów konnych w Newmarket. Pałac przeszedł z powrotem w ręce Earlów Suffolk w 1701 i stopniowo, w przeciągu następnego stulecia, został częściowo rozebrany, do rozmiarów, jakie posiada obecnie.
W 1762 jeden z kolejnych właścicieli, Sir John Griffin, późniejszy czwarty baron Howard de Walden i pierwszy Baron Baybrooke wynajął Capability Browna do przeprowadzenia gruntownej rearanżacji założenia parkowego i szkockiego architekta Roberta Adama do przebudowy pałacu.
Gen. Władysław Sikorski w ośrodku szkoleniowym cichociemnych w Audley End dekoruje ppor. Michała Fijałkę Orderem Virtuti Militari. W pierwszym szeregu stoją od lewej po cywilnemu: ppor. Jan Woźniak, por. Bolesław Kontrym, por. Tadeusz Gaworski, por. Hieronim Łagoda, za nim ppor. Władysław Kochański, por. Leonard Zub-Zdanowicz, por. Stanisław Winter (28 sierpnia 1942)
Po wybuchu drugiej wojny światowej, w marcu 1941, zarekwirowany przez rząd brytyjski na cele wywiadu (Special Operations Executive), później przeznaczony na ośrodek szkoleniowy (STS 43) dla polskich cichociemnych.
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SIKORSKI BACK - SOUND
At Hendon, a plane lands and General Sikorski emerges., He has returned from Russia after the signing of the Soviet-Polish pact. Another arrival is Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands.
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Polish Armed Forces Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, U.K.
This memorial was unveiled in September 2009 in a ceremony attended by HRH The Duke of Kent and Her Excellency Barbara Krystyna Tuge-Erecińska, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland. The Polish Armed Forces Memorial comprises four sculptures of typical members of the different branches of the Polish Armed Forces: the Air Force, the Army, the Navy and the Polish Underground Home Army and four surrounding walls comemorating the Polish contribution in WW2. The narrator in this video is Dr. Marek Sawicki, Chairman of the memorial committee. The Chopin piano music was played by Alexander Ardakov.
Memorial sponsors : Polish Association of the Sovereign & Military Order of Malta UK, Association of Polish Ex-Combatants, Polish Air Force Association, Polish Underground Study Trust, Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, Royal British Legion, National Lottery, Public Subscription
Sikorsky S58 / Wessex landing Leavesden Studios
Sikorsky S58, painted as a Royal Navy Wessex, landing at Leavesden Studios as part of the making of Man From UNCLE.
SIK 1099 - The White Eagle
SIK 1099 is a part of The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum Film Archive
August 1940 - March 1941
Information and Documentation Film Section with co-operation of Concanen Films
Script and director: E.Cękalski
Commentary: Z. Grabowski
Music: B. Leitgeber
Technical Director: W.A.Phelps
Sound recording: A.W.Watkins
Film produced at D & P Studios
Film content:
- Views of pre-war Warsaw, pigeons in the Old Town Square, boyscout
(Andrzej) feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square, selling
newspapers (Polish Daily)
- Shots of Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park Corner, Wellington Arch,
- Shots of London streets after the bombing.
- Brief shot of planes in the air.
- Polish Ambassador's office (Chancery of the Polish Embassy),
Ambassador Raczyński at his desk...
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Flight of the first helicopter, the VS-300 (Colorized)(September 14th, 1939)
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Hidden Tramway 2008
Our familiar habitats are so-often taken for granted, that we miss what is actually there, hidden from our viewing habits. Sites are filled with images, smells, atmospheres, abandoned objects, fragments of rubbish (or treasure), memories, histories, traces of past events and forgotten people
Tramway is a found site celebrated by artists and audiences who recognise it as a space of possibility. An unresolved space awaiting creative interpretation. Treating the found site as a creative partner, seven of Scotlands leading poets have created a suite of poems inspired by a location deep in the heart of Tramway that is usually passed by and unnoticed. This collection characterises a diverse range of cultural experience and heritage which is reflective of Glasgow and particularly of Tramways local community. Each poet has explored a particular space leading to a unique and personal insight into spaces inscribed with the memories of people, work and activity.
Poets: Colin Storrie, Rahat Zahid, Jack Sims & Yvonne Caddell, Daljeet Dilber, Basia Palka, Mahmood Farzan, Christie Williamson
SIK 091 - Children (Dzieci)
SIK 091 is a part of The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum Film Archive
Children and cadets - The Polish Army in the Middle East, directed by MIchał Waszyński.
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#RepublicInExile: The Polish Millennium 1966
Jak Londyn obchodził Millenium Chrztu Polski w 1966? Unikatowy materiał wideo z archiwum Instytutu Polskiego i Muzeum Sikorskiego.
How London celebrated the Millenium of Poland's Baptism in 1966? Watch unique footage from the archives of The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum.
40,000 Polaków zgromadzonych na stadionie White City uczestniczyło we mszy pod przewodnictwem kapelana emigracji bp. Władysława Rubina z udziałem abp. Westminsteru Johna kard. Heenana. Kazanie wygłosił kapelan Powstania Warszawskiego ks. Józef Warszawski. Podczas uroczystości gen. Władysław Anders przyjął defiladę oddziałów Polskich Sił Zbrojnych. Obchody zamknęło specjalnie na tę okazję przygotowane widowisko: Pochód Dziejów.
Warto zwrócić uwagę na obecność na trybunach Rady Trzech w składzie gen. Władysław Anders, gen. Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, amb. Edward Raczyński (01:05) oraz przedstawienie mapy Polski zawierające zarówno Wilno i Lwów jak również Wrocław i Szczecin (01:23).
Więcej o Rządzie RP na Uchodźstwie na stronie internetowej: rzeczpospolitalondynska.pl
40,000 Poles gathered at White City to take part in a Catholic mass celebrated in the presence of John Cardinal Heenan, the then Archbishop of Westminster. Gen Władysław Anders - the victor of the Italian campaign - received the salute of Polish WWII veterans. The celebrations also included a dramatised portrayal of selected milestones from Polish history.
Learn more about the Polish Government-in-Exile from our website: republicinexile.pl
Polish Armed Forces Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum Staffordshire U K
Memorial unveiled in September 2009 in a ceremony attended by HRH The Duke of Kent and Her Excellency Barbara Krystyna Tuge-Erecińska, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland. The Polish Armed Forces Memorial comprises four sculptures of typical members of the different branches of the Polish Armed Forces: the Air Force, the Army, the Navy and the Polish Underground Home Army and four surrounding walls commemorating the Polish contribution in WW2. Memorial sponsors : Polish Association of the Sovereign & Military Order of Malta UK, Association of Polish Ex-Combatants, Polish Air Force Association, Polish Underground Study Trust, Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, Royal British Legion, National Lottery, and Public Subscription.
The narrator in this video is Dr. Marek Sawicki, Chairman of the memorial committee. The Chopin piano music was played by Alexander Ardakov. Film produced by John de Bono for the Kresy-Siberia Foundation Kresy-Siberia.org
SIK 1082 - Protest meeting at Caxton Hall - 27/02/1945
SIK 1082 is a part of The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum Film Archive
Protest meeting against the Yalta Conference decisions at Caxton Hall, 27/02/1945
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303 SQUADRON Official Trailer (2018) Polish RAF Squadron
303 SQUADRON, the powerful and true story behind the Battle of Britain and the Polish pilots of 303 Squadron, the forgotten legends and their incalculable contribution towards Britain’s World War II’ victory. Its UK premiere arrives in London’s IMAX theatre at The Science Museum on Thursday 8th November and in cinemas nationwide from Friday 9th November across the UK and Ireland.
Three years in the making and hot on the heels of its smash hit Box Office success in Poland, which has seen over 1.5 million cinema admissions since its September release, 303 Squadron is the authentic and historically accurate portrayal of how the Polish pilots of 303 Squadron turned the tide in the most seminal battle of World War II and paved the way to victory. Now, some 78-years on from the Battle of Britain, the long-awaited release of 303 Squadron coincides poignantly with the centenary of the RAF, Polish Air Force, Polish Civil Aviation and the reclaiming of Poland’s Independence (11th November) which also marks Remembrance Sunday. With guidance and advice during a private meeting with HRH Michael of Kent, who was also a consultant on Dunkirk, 303 SQUADRON is considered to be an important film. The aerial dogfight scenes are incredible – said to be on a par with Dunkirk.
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SIK 028 - The Land of my mother – extract of the film
SIK 028 is a part of The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum Film Archive
1941
Extract from the film “The Land of my mother” with Eve Curie’s commentary
Kraków - Short shots including:
Jagiellonian University courtyard,
Plaque commemorating Tadeusz Kościuszko,
The Kościuszko Mound,
The spa village of Żegiestów
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