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Sir John Betjeman
Betjeman in 1961
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
20 October 1972 – 19 May 1984
Cecil Day-Lewis
John Betjemann
(1906-08-28)28 August 1906
Parliament Hill Mansions, Lissenden Gardens, Gospel Oak, London, England
19 May 1984(1984-05-19) (aged 77)
Trebetherick, Cornwall, England
Hon. Penelope Chetwode
(m. 1933–1984)
Lady Elizabeth Cavendish
Paul Betjeman
Candida Lycett Green
Magdalen College, Oxford
Poet, writer, broadcaster
Sir John Betjeman CBE (/ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack". He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death.
He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television.
1.1 Early life and education
1.2 Magdalen College, Oxford
1.3 After university
1.4 After the Second World War
2.1 Betjeman and Slough
3 Betjeman and architecture
4.1 Prizes
4.2 Other memorials
5 Awards and honours
7.2 Sources
Life[edit]
Betjeman was born John Betjemann. He was the son of a prosperous silverware maker of Dutch descent. His parents, Mabel (née Dawson) and Ernest Betjemann, had a family firm at 34–42 Pentonville Road which manufactured the kind of ornamental household furniture and gadgets distinctive to Victorians.[1]
During the First World War the family name was changed to the less German-looking Betjeman. His father's forebears had actually come from the present day Netherlands more than a century earlier, setting up their home and business in Islington, London, and during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War had, ironically, added the extra "-n" to avoid the anti-Dutch sentiment existing at the time.[2]
Betjeman was baptised at St Anne's Church, Highgate Rise, a 19th-century church at the foot of Highgate West Hill. The family lived at Parliament Hill Mansions in the Lissenden Gardens private estate in Gospel Oak in north London.
In 1909, the Betjemanns moved half a mile north to more opulent Highgate. From West Hill they lived in the reflected glory of the Burdett-Coutts estate:
Here from my eyrie, as the sun went down,
I heard the old North London puff and shunt,
Glad that I did not live in Gospel Oak.[3]
Betjeman's early schooling was at the local Byron House and Highgate School, where he was taught by poet T. S. Eliot. After this, he boarded at the Dragon School preparatory school in North Oxford and Marlborough College, a public school in Wiltshire. In his penultimate year, he joined the secret Society of Amici[4] in which he was a contemporary of both Louis MacNeice and Graham Shepard. He founded The Heretick, a satirical magazine that lampooned Marlborough's obsession with sport. While at school, his exposure to the works of Arthur Machen won him over to High Church Anglicanism, a conversion of importance to his later writing and conception of the arts.[5] Betjeman left Marlborough in July 1925.[6]
Magdalen College, Oxford[edit]
Betjeman entered the University of Oxford with difficulty, having failed the mathematics portion of the university's matriculation exam, Responsions. He was, however, admitted as a commoner (i.e. a non-scholarship student) at Magdalen College and entered the newly created School of English Language and Literature. At Oxford, Betjeman made little use of the academic opportunities. His tutor, a young C. S. Lewis, regarded him as an "idle prig" and Betjeman in turn considered Lewis unfriendly, demanding, and uninspiring as a teacher.[7] Betjeman particularly disliked the coursework's emphasis on linguistics, and dedicated most of his time to cultivating his social life and his interest in English ecclesiastical architecture, and to private literary pursuits.
At Oxford he was a friend of Maurice Bowra, later (1938 to 1970) to be Warden of Wadham. Betjeman had a poem published in Isis, the university magazine, and served as editor of the Cherwell student newspaper during 1927. His first book of poems was privately printed with the help of fellow student Edward James. He famously brought his teddy bear Archibald Ormsby-Gore up to Magdalen with him, the memory of which inspired his Oxford contemporary Evelyn Waugh to include Sebastian Flyte's teddy Aloysius in Brideshead Revisited. Much of this period of his life is recorded in his blank verse autobiography Summoned by Bells published in 1960 and made into a television film in 1976.[8]
It is a common misapprehension, cultivated by Betjeman himself, that he did not complete his degree because he failed to pass the compulsory holy scripture examination, known colloquially as "Divvers", short for "Divinity". In Hilary term 1928, Betjeman failed Divinity for the second time. He had to leave the university for the Trinity term to prepare for a retake of the exam; he was then allowed to return in October. Betjeman then wrote to the Secretary of the Tutorial Board at Magdalen, G. C. Lee, asking to be entered for the Pass School, a set of examinations taken on rare occasions by undergraduates who are deemed unlikely to achieve an honours degree. In Summoned by Bells Betjeman claims that his tutor, C. S. Lewis, said "You'd have only got a third" – but he had informed the tutorial board that he thought Betjeman would not achieve an honours degree of any class.[7]
Permission to sit the Pass School was granted. Betjeman famously decided to offer a paper in Welsh. Osbert Lancaster tells the story that a tutor came by train twice a week (first class) from Aberystwyth to teach Betjeman. However, Jesus College had a number of Welsh tutors who more probably would have taught him. Betjeman finally had to leave at the end of the Michaelmas term, 1928.[9] Betjeman did pass his Divinity examination on his third try but was 'sent down' after failing the Pass School. He had achieved a satisfactory result in only one of the three required papers (on Shakespeare and other English authors).[7] Betjeman's academic failure at Oxford rankled with him for the rest of his life and he was never reconciled with C.S. Lewis, towards whom he nursed a bitter detestation. This situation was perhaps complicated by his enduring love of Oxford, from which he accepted an honorary doctorate of letters in 1974.[7]
After university[edit]
The John Betjeman Centre Memorabilia Room showing the office from his home in Trebetherick
Betjeman left Oxford without a degree. Whilst there, however, he had made the acquaintance of people who would later influence his work, including Louis MacNeice and W. H. Auden.[10] He worked briefly as a private secretary, school teacher and film critic for the Evening Standard, where he also wrote for their high-society gossip column, the Londoner's Diary. He was employed by the Architectural Review between 1930 and 1935, as a full-time assistant editor, following their publishing of some of his freelance work. Timothy Mowl (2000) says, "His years at the Architectural Review were to be his true university".[2] At this time, while his prose style matured, he joined the MARS Group, an organisation of young modernist architects and architectural critics in Britain.
Betjeman's sexuality can best be described as bisexual, and his longest and best documented relationships were with women, and a fairer analysis of his sexuality may be that he was "the hatcher of a lifetime of schoolboy crushes – both gay and straight", most of which progressed no further.[11] Nevertheless, he has been considered "temperamentally gay", and even became a penpal of Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas of Oscar Wilde fame.[12] On 29 July 1933 Betjeman married the Hon. Penelope Chetwode, the daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode. The couple lived in Berkshire and had a son, Paul, in 1937, and a daughter, Candida, in 1942.
In 1937, Betjeman was a churchwarden at Uffington, the Berkshire village (in Oxfordshire since boundary changes of 1974) where he lived. That year, he paid for the cleaning of the church's royal arms and later presided over the conversion of the church's oil lamps to electricity.[13]
The Shell Guides were developed by Betjeman and Jack Beddington, a friend who was publicity manager with Shell-Mex Ltd, to guide Britain's growing number of motorists around the counties of Britain and their historical sites. They were published by the Architectural Press and financed by Shell. By the start of World War II 13 had been published, of which Cornwall (1934) and Devon (1936) were written by Betjeman. A third, Shropshire, was written with and designed by his good friend John Piper in 1951.
In 1939, Betjeman was rejected for military service in World War II but found war work with the films division of the Ministry of Information. In 1941 he became British press attaché in neutral Dublin, Ireland, working with Sir John Maffey. His secretary in Dublin was the journalist and writer Shevawn Lynam, the author of the novel The Spirit and the Clay, about the resistance to Francoism in the Basque Country. Betjeman may have been involved with the gathering of intelligence. He is reported to have been selected for murder by the IRA. The order was rescinded after a meeting with an unnamed Old IRA man who was impressed by his works.
Betjeman wrote a number of poems based on his experiences in "Emergency" World War II Ireland including "The Irish Unionist's Farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922" (written during the war) which contained the refrain "Dungarvan in the rain". The object of his affections, "Greta", has remained a mystery until recently revealed to have been a member of a well-known Anglo-Irish family of Western county Waterford. His official brief included establishing friendly contacts with leading figures in the Dublin literary scene: he befriended Patrick Kavanagh, then at the very start of his career. Kavanagh celebrated the birth of Betjeman's daughter with a poem "Candida"; another well-known poem contains the line Let John Betjeman call for me in a car.
From March to November 1944 Betjeman was assigned to another wartime job working on publicity for the Admiralty in Bath.
After the Second World War[edit]
Betjeman's house on Cloth Fair in the City of London
Betjeman's wife Penelope became a Roman Catholic in 1948. The couple drifted apart and in 1951 he met Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, with whom he developed an immediate and lifelong friendship.
By 1948 Betjeman had published more than a dozen books. Five of these were verse collections, including one in the USA. Sales of his Collected Poems in 1958 reached 100,000.[14] The popularity of the book prompted Ken Russell to make a film about him, John Betjeman: A Poet in London (1959). Filmed in 35mm and running 11 minutes and 35 seconds, it was first shown on BBC's Monitor programme.[15] In 1953 his address was the Old Rectory, Farnborough, Wantage, Berkshire.[6]
He continued writing guidebooks and works on architecture during the 1960s and 1970s and started broadcasting. He was a founder member of the Victorian Society (1958). Betjeman was closely associated with the culture and spirit of Metro-land, as outer reaches of the Metropolitan Railway were known before the war.
In 1973 he made a widely acclaimed television documentary for the BBC called Metro-Land, directed by Edward Mirzoeff. On the centenary of Betjeman's birth in 2006, his daughter led two celebratory railway trips: from London to Bristol, and through Metro-land, to Quainton Road. In 1974, Betjeman and Mirzoeff followed up Metro-Land with A Passion for Churches, a celebration of Betjeman's beloved Church of England, filmed entirely in the Diocese of Norwich. In 1975, he proposed that the Fine Rooms of Somerset House should house the Turner Bequest, so helping to scupper the plan of the Minister for the Arts for a Theatre Museum to be housed there. In 1977 the BBC broadcast "The Queen's Realm: A Prospect of England", an aerial anthology of English landscape, music and poetry, selected by Betjeman and produced by Edward Mirzoeff, in celebration of the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
Betjeman was fond of the ghost stories of M.R. James and supplied an introduction to Peter Haining's book M.R. James – Book of the Supernatural. He was susceptible to the supernatural. Diana Mitford tells the story of Betjeman staying at her country home, Biddesden House, in the 1920s. She says, "he had a terrifying dream, that he was handed a card with wide black edges, and on it his name was engraved, and a date. He knew this was the date of his death".[16]
John Betjeman's grave
For the last decade of his life Betjeman suffered increasingly from Parkinson's disease. He died at his home in Trebetherick, Cornwall, on 19 May 1984, aged 77, and is buried nearby at St Enodoc's Church.[17]
Poetry[edit]
Betjeman's poems are often humorous, and in broadcasting he exploited his bumbling and fogeyish image. His wryly comic verse is accessible and has attracted a great following for its satirical and observant grace. Auden said in his introduction to Slick But Not Streamlined, "so at home with the provincial gaslit towns, the seaside lodgings, the bicycle, the harmonium." His poetry is similarly redolent of time and place, continually seeking out intimations of the eternal in the manifestly ordinary. There are constant evocations of the physical chaff and clutter that accumulates in everyday life, the miscellanea of an England now gone but not beyond the reach of living memory.
He talks of Ovaltine and Sturmey-Archer bicycle gears. "Oh! Fuller's angel cake, Robertson's marmalade," he writes, "Liberty lampshades, come shine on us all."[18]
In a 1962 radio interview he told teenage questioners that he could not write about 'abstract things', preferring places, and faces.[19] Philip Larkin wrote of his work, "how much more interesting & worth writing about Betjeman's subjects are than most other modern poets, I mean, whether so-and-so achieves some metaphysical inner unity is not really so interesting to us as the overbuilding of rural Middlesex".[20]
Betjeman was an Anglican and his religious beliefs come through in some of his poems. In a letter written on Christmas Day 1947, he said: "Also my view of the world is that man is born to fulfil the purposes of his Creator i.e. to Praise his Creator, to stand in awe of Him and to dread Him. In this way I differ from most modern poets, who are agnostics and have an idea that Man is the centre of the Universe or is a helpless bubble blown about by uncontrolled forces."[21] He combined piety with a nagging uncertainty about the truth of Christianity. Unlike Thomas Hardy, who disbelieved in the truth of the Christmas story while hoping it might be so, Betjeman affirms his belief even while fearing it might be false.[5] In the poem "Christmas", one of his most openly religious pieces, the last three stanzas that proclaim the wonder of Christ's birth do so in the form of a question "And is it true...?" His views on Christianity were expressed in his poem "The Conversion of St. Paul", a response to a radio broadcast by humanist Margaret Knight:
But most of us turn slow to see
The figure hanging on a tree
And stumble on and blindly grope
Upheld by intermittent hope,
God grant before we die we all
May see the light as did St. Paul.
Betjeman became Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1972, the first Knight Bachelor to be appointed (the only other, Sir William Davenant, was knighted after his appointment). This role, combined with his popularity as a television performer, ensured that his poetry reached an audience enormous by the standards of the time. Similarly to Tennyson, he appealed to a wide public and managed to voice the thoughts and aspirations of many ordinary people while retaining the respect of many of his fellow poets. This is partly because of the apparently simple traditional metrical structures and rhymes he uses.[22] In the early 1970s, he began a recording career of four albums on Charisma Records which included Betjeman's Banana Blush (1974) and Late Flowering Love (1974), where his poetry reading is set to music with overdubbing by leading musicians of the time.[23] His recording catalogue extends to nine albums, four singles and two compilations.
Betjeman and Slough[edit]
Main article: Slough (poem)
Prompted by the rapid development of the Buckinghamshire town before World War II, Betjeman wrote the ten-stanza poem Slough to express his dismay at the industrialisation of Britain. He later came to regret having written it. The poem was first included in his 1937 collection Continual Dew.
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
Betjeman and architecture[edit]
See also: Architecture of London, Architecture of Leeds, and Buildings and architecture of Bath
Betjeman Statue at St Pancras
John Betjeman reads William Horton's Petition to Save Lewisham Town Hall, 1961
Betjeman had a fondness for Victorian architecture at a time when it was unfashionable,[24] and was a founding member of the Victorian Society. He wrote on this subject in First and Last Loves (1952) and more extensively in London's Historic Railway Stations in 1972, defending the beauty of 12 stations. He led the campaign to save Holy Trinity, Sloane Street in London when it was threatened with demolition in the early 1970s.[25]
He fought a spirited but unsuccessful campaign to save the Propylaeum, known commonly as the Euston Arch, London. He is considered instrumental in helping to save St Pancras railway station, London, and was commemorated when it became an international terminus for Eurostar in November 2007. He called the plan to demolish St Pancras a "criminal folly".[26] About it he wrote, "What [the Londoner] sees in his mind's eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset, and the great arc of Barlow's train shed gaping to devour incoming engines, and the sudden burst of exuberant Gothic of the hotel seen from gloomy Judd Street."[27]
On the reopening of St Pancras station in 2007, a statue of Betjeman was commissioned from curators Futurecity. A proposal by artist Martin Jennings was selected from a shortlist. The finished work was erected in the station at platform level, including a series of slate roundels depicting selections of Betjeman's writings.[26]
Betjeman was given the remaining two-year lease on Victorian Gothic architect William Burges's Tower House in Holland Park upon leaseholder Mrs E.R.B. Graham's death in 1962.[28] Betjeman felt he could not afford the financial implications of taking over the house permanently, with his potential liability for £10,000 of renovations upon the expiration of the lease.[28] After damage from vandals, restoration began in 1966. Betjeman's lease included furniture from the house by Burges, and Betjeman gave three pieces, the Zodiac settle, the Narcissus washstand, and the Philosophy cabinet, to Evelyn Waugh.[29]
Betjeman responded to architecture as the visible manifestation of society's spiritual life as well as its political and economic structure. He attacked speculators and bureaucrats for what he saw as their rapacity and lack of imagination. In the preface of his collection of architectural essays First and Last Loves he says, "We accept the collapse of the fabrics of our old churches, the thieving of lead and objects from them, the commandeering and butchery of our scenery by the services, the despoiling of landscaped parks and the abandonment to a fate worse than the workhouse of our country houses, because we are convinced we must save money."
In a BBC film made in 1968 but not broadcast at that time, Betjeman described the sound of Leeds to be of "Victorian buildings crashing to the ground". He went on to lambast John Poulson's British Railways House (now City House), saying how it blocked all the light out to City Square and was only a testament to money with no architectural merit. He also praised the architecture of Leeds Town Hall.[30][31] In 1969 Betjeman contributed the foreword to Derek Linstrum's Historic Architecture of Leeds.[32]
Betjeman was for over 20 years a trustee of the Bath Preservation Trust and was Vice-President from 1965 to 1971, at a time when Bath—a city rich in Georgian architecture—was coming under increasing pressure from modern developers, and a major road was proposed to cut across it.[8]:440 He also created a short television documentary called Architecture of Bath, in which he voiced his concerns about the way the city's architectural heritage was being mistreated. From 1946 to 1948 he had served as Secretary to the Oxford Preservation Trust.
Betjeman was also instrumental in saving the Duke of Cornwall Hotel in Plymouth.
Prizes[edit]
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings annually presents a John Betjeman award to recognise the repair and conservation of places of worship in England and Wales.[33]</ref>
The John Betjeman Poetry Competition for Young People (2006–) is open to 10- to 13-year-olds living anywhere in the British Isles (including the Republic of Ireland), with a first prize of £1,000. In addition to prizes for individual finalists, state schools who enter pupils may win one of six one-day poetry workshops.[34]
Other memorials[edit]
A memorial window, Symbols of the Resurrection designed by John Piper, in All Saints' Church, Farnborough, Berkshire, where Betjeman lived in the nearby Rectory.
Betjeman Millennium Park
The Betjeman Millennium Park at Wantage in Oxfordshire, where he lived from 1951 to 1972 and where he set his book Archie and the Strict Baptists
One of the roads in Pinner, a town covered in Betjeman's film Metro-Land is called Betjeman Close, while another in Chorleywood, also covered in Metro-Land, is called Betjeman Gardens.
A road in the Sheffield suburb of Broomhill is called Betjeman Gardens. This suburb was described by Betjeman as 'the prettiest suburb in England'[35] and was the subject of his poem 'An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield'.
One of the engines on the pier railway at Southend-on-Sea is named Sir John Betjeman (the other Sir William Heygate).
A British Rail Class 86 AC electric locomotive, 86229, was named Sir John Betjeman by the man in person at St Pancras station on 24 June 1983,[36] just before his death; it was renamed Lions Group International in 1998 and is now in storage. The nameplate is now carried by Class 90 locomotive 90007, in service on the London – Norwich route.
In 2003, to mark their centenary, the residents of Lissenden Gardens in north London put up a blue plaque to mark Betjeman's birthplace.
In 2006, a blue plaque was installed on Betjeman's childhood home, 31 West Hill, Highgate, London N6.[37]
In 2006 a blue plaque was erected at Garrard's Farm, Uffington, Oxfordshire which had been his first married home.
A blue plaque has been erected at 43 Cloth Fair, opposite St Bartholomew-the-Great church and near St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he lived and worked. He let the ground floor to Leonard Beddall-Smith, the conservation architect and Georgian specialist, who was the founder architect of the Landmark Trust, who now own the building to celebrate Betjeman's time there.
The statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras station in London by sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled in 2007.
In 2012 Betjeman featured on BBC Radio 4 as author of the week on The Write Stuff.[38]
In 2014, a new street in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, was named 'Betjeman Way', in honour of the poet, and in recognition of the fact that the restoration of Cleobury Mortimer's church steeple won SPAB's John Betjeman award in 1994.
On 1 September 2014 Betjeman was the subject of the hour-long BBC Four documentary Return to Betjemanland, presented by his biographer A. N. Wilson.[39] At the start of the broadcast, there was a spoken tribute to Betjeman's daughter Candida Lycett Green, who had died just twelve days earlier on 19 August, aged 71.[40]
A bust of Betjeman in Wantage
On 28 August 2016 a bust of Betjeman based on the St Pancras statue was unveiled outside the Vale and Downland Museum in Wantage, Oxfordshire.
On 10 June 2017 a plaque was unveiled at the Dragon School, Oxford to mark the centenary of his arrival there on 2 May 1917.[41]
Awards and honours[edit]
1960 Queen's Medal for Poetry[42]
1960 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)[43]
1968 Companion of Literature, the Royal Society of Literature[citation needed]
1969 Knight Bachelor[citation needed]
1972 Poet Laureate[citation needed]
1973 Honorary Member, the American Academy of Arts and Letters[citation needed]
2011 Honoured by the University of Oxford, his alma mater, as one of its 100 most distinguished members from ten centuries.[44]
For a bibliography of his works, see Works of John Betjeman
Some works include:
Mount Zion. 1932.
Continual Dew. 1937.
An Oxford University Chest. 1938.
Old Lights for New Chancels: Verses Topographical and Amatory. John Murray. 1940.
New Bats in Old Belfries. 1945.
Shropshire: A Shell Guide. Faber & Faber. 1951.
A Few Late Chrysanthemums. 1954.
Poems in the Porch. 1954.
Summoned by Bells. John Murray. 1960.
High and Low. 1966.
London's Historic Railway Stations. John Murray. 1972. ISBN 978-0-7195-3426-3.
A Nip in the Air. 1974.
John Betjeman: coming home : an anthology of his prose 1920–1977. Methuen. 1997. edited by Candida Lycett Green
Betjeman's Best British Churches. HarperCollins Publishers. 2011. ISBN 978-0-00-741688-2.
^ "Survey of London: volume 47: Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville". English Heritage. 2008. pp. 339–372. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
^ a b Mowl, Timothy (2011). Stylistic Cold Wars: Betjeman Versus Pevsner. Faber & Faber. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-571-27535-9.
^ Betjeman 1960.
^ Hinde, Thomas (1992). Paths of Progress: A History of Marlborough College. James & James. ISBN 978-0-907383-33-8.
^ a b Gardner, Kevin J. (30 August 2006). Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of his Religious Verse. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4411-5354-8.
^ a b "Betjeman, John". Marlborough College Register 1843–1952. Marlborough: The Bursar. 1953. p. 653.
^ a b c d Priestman, Judith (Trinity term, 2006). "The dilettante and the dons". Oxford Today. Archived from the original on 17 April 2009. Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ a b Peterson, William S. (2006). John Betjeman: A Bibliography. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-818403-4.
^ Hillier, Bevis (2003). Young Betjeman. John Murray. pp. 181–194. ISBN 978-0-7195-6488-8.
^ Taylor-Martin, Patrick (1983). John Betjeman, his life and work. Allen Lane. p. 35.
^ Thompson, Johnathan (13 August 2006). "Betjeman Poet, hero of Middle England & a very bad boy". The Independent. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
^ Gowers, Justin (17 December 2008). "Why John Betjeman is a true gay icon". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ Delaney, Frank (1983). Betjeman Country. Paladin (Granada). p. 158. ISBN 0-586-08499-1.
^ "John Betjeman". Faber & Faber. n.d. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ "John Betjeman: A Poet in London (1959)". BFI Screenonline. 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ Mosley, Diana (2008). A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography. Gibson Square. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-906142-14-8.
^ Amis, Kingsley. "Betjeman, Sir John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30815. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Betjeman 1940, p. 50, Myfanwy at Oxford.
^ "John Betjeman: Recollections from the BBC Archives". British Universities Film & Video Council. 1998. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ Larkin, Philip (2010). Letters to Monica. Faber & Faber. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-571-23909-2.
^ Comerford, Patrick (5 December 2015). "Anglican spirituality and poetry: John Betjeman (1906–1984)". patrickcomerford.com. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
^ "John Betjeman". The Poetry Archive. 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ Mojo No 187 pp122
^ Clark, Kenneth (1983). The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-3102-6. OCLC 1072302955.
^ Pearce, David (1989). Conservation Today. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-00778-8.
^ a b Shukor, Steven (6 November 2007). "St Pancras faced demolition ball". BBC News. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ Betjeman 1972, p. 11.
^ a b Wilson, A. N. (2011). Betjeman. Random House. pp. 208–. ISBN 978-1-4464-9305-2.
^ "Zodiac Settle by William Burges". Art Fund. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
^ "Leeds International Film Festival". Leeds International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008.
^ Wainwright, Martin (16 February 2009). "BBC revives unaired Betjeman film forgotten for 40 years". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 February 2009.
^ Linstrum, Derek; foreword by John Betjeman (1969). Historic Architecture of Leeds. Oriel Press. ISBN 0-85362-056-3.
^ Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. "SPAB John Betjeman Award". spab.org.uk. SPAB. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
^ "The John Betjeman Young People's Poetry Competition". Johnbetjeman.com. Retrieved 16 July 2013. [non-primary source needed]
^ Betjeman 1997, p. 399.
^ "Sir John names 'his' loco". Rail Enthusiast. EMAP National Publications. August 1983. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0262-561X. OCLC 49957965.
^ Kennedy, Maev (16 September 2006). "Betjeman's childhood home gets blue plaque". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
^ Walton, James (17 June 2012). "Sir John Betjeman". BBC Radio. The Write Stuff. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
^ Wilson, A. N. (28 December 2014). "Return to Betjemanland". BBC. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
^ Dowlen, Jerry (November 2014). "Jerry Dowlen on... John Betjeman & Candida Lycett Green". Books Monthly. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ Lisle, Nicola (7 August 2006). "Betjeman's blue plaque". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^ "Sir John Betjeman (1906–84) – A Nip in the Air". rct.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
^ Betjeman, John (2012). Lovely Bits of Old England: John Betjeman at The Telegraph. Aurum Press. p. 170. ISBN 9781781311004.
^ "University of Oxford Undergraduate Prospectus 2011". University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
Brooke, Jocelyn (1962). Ronald Firbank: John Betjeman. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
Games, Stephen; et al. (2006). Trains and buttered toast: selected radio talks. London: John Murray.
Games, Stephen, ed. (2007a). Tennis Whites and Teacakes. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-6903-6.
Games, Stephen, ed. (2007b). Sweet Songs of Zion: Selected Radio Talks. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-94376-2.
Games, Stephen, ed. (2010). Betjeman's England. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1-84854-380-5.
Gardner, Kevin J. (2006a). "John Betjeman". In Kastan, David Scott (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516921-8.
Gardner, Kevin J, ed. (2006b). Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of His Religious Verse. A&C Black. ISBN 978-0-8264-8272-3.
Gardner, Kevin J. (2010) Betjeman and the Anglican Tradition, London, SPCK.
Gardner, Kevin J, ed. (2011). Betjeman on Faith: An anthology of his religious prose. SPCK. ISBN 978-0-281-06663-6.
Gardner, Kevin J. (2016). "Anglicanism and the Poetry of John Betjeman". Christianity & Literature. 53 (3): 361–383. doi:10.1177/014833310405300306. ISSN 0148-3331. JSTOR 44313326.
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The International Association of Foundation Drilling (ADSC), Geo-Institute of the ASCE (G-I), Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), and Pile Driving Contractors Association (PDCA) will again join together to host the International Foundations Congress and Equipment Exposition (IFCEE 2018) at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida from March 5-10, 2018. The program will include technical paper sessions, panel discussions, indoor exhibits, an outdoor equipment exposition, educational short courses, technical committee meetings, and networking events.
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ERC orders refund due to overbilling in power payments
Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Commissioner Josefina Patricia Magpale-Asirit, for and by the authority of the commission ordered the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC) and its Market Operator (MO), Independent Electric Market Operators of the Philippines (IEMOP), to speed-up an adjustment refund to the distribution utilities (DUs) and to their respective consumers. The six-page order of the ERC promulgated on August 1, 2019 will put in place the refund after authorities traced to overbilling as the cause of the recent high power bills which shocked consumers during the past months. An estimated P2.90 per kilowatt-hour (kwh) slide in the monthly electricITY bills for the month of July is expected by more than 18,500 Bohol Light Company Inc. (BLCI) residential consumers following the ERC order for the PEMC to correct the mathematical formula that caused the overbilling. The adjustment will be implemented either through collection or refund for a period of not more that one year starting from the July 2019 billing period, according to the ERC order. The two other Distribution Utilities (DU's) – Bohol Electric Cooperative (Boheco) 1 & II is still in the process of recomputing their respective July monthly bills. For the month of July, the BLCI per kilowatt-hour rate is estimated at P9.03 compared to the June billing of P11.95. The Provincial Government of Bohol (PGB) led by Governor Art Yap and 1st District Congressman Edgar Chatto together with the General Managers of the three DU's wangled from the PEMC a temporary rate reduction of June electricity bills between P0.97 centavos/kwh and P1.29/kwh on July 11, 2019. Overbilling ERC Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Atty. Agnes VST Devanadera texted Governor Art Yap and 1st District Congressman Edgar Chatto on Friday, August 2, 2019 that "we are coming out with the order on the overbilling and your and Gov. Art Yap names are prominently mentioned. It was a can of worms that we were able to uncover . . . Our people and our Commissioners stayed till 10 PM last night.' The order covered only the formula used for the computation of the Net Settlement Surplus (NSS) and does not include the Line Loss and Congestion Charge (LLCC) which was blamed by the DU's for the sudden spike of electricity rates in the province. An NSS exists if the total payment of customers exceeds the total payment to generation companies. The excess payments should immediately and equitably flow back to the DU's and its customers who paid for the excess amount. Slimy formula The can of worms referred to by Devanadera was pried open after the Provincial Government of Bohol (PGB) practically put a stop to the ERC daily routine for two days – July 10 – 11, 2019, relentlessly badgering the Commissioners sitting en banc to resolve the mysterious manner electricity rates are implemented. The culprit was "overbilling" due to an "erroneous application of the Line Loss and Congestion Charge (LLCC) formula which is part of the computation for the Net Settlement Surplus (NSS) allocation by the PEMC to all its trading participants. PEMC is the governing body of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), the centralized venue for trading electricity as a commodity. Software glitch As early as June 26, 2019, then-Governor Chatto raised the alarm before the ERC to urgently attend to the monthly escalation of electricity rates in Bohol after a series of emergency meetings with the Bohol Energy Development Advisory Group (BEDAG). Responding to the urgent appeal of the PGB, the ERC initiated a review of the trading settlement of the Bohol DU's that led to the admission of a discovery of an error on the application of the line loss and congestion charge formula by the PEMC/IEMOP in its internally developed software. Earlier, Yap, just ten days into his three-year administration as Bohol Governor grappled with the puzzling computation of the PEMC during the two-day ERC en banc session on July 10 – 11, 2019 at the ERC conference hall that eventually was discovered as a billion-peso miscalculation. Yap vowed that "although I practically understand only 2% of the whole power industry workings I will not allow that the Boholanos will take the hit because of the failure of some sectors of the industry." Line loss is the loss of electricity while in transit from source to the recipient while line congestion occurs when power could not be transmitted due to a breach in the line capacity. According to the ERC, "simply put, the misapplication of "+" instead of "-" in the software resulted in the inaccurate computation of the NSS allocation reckoned from June 2018 to May 2019." The ERC called the attention of PEMC after they found that Bohol's NSS allocation was "inexplicably low" considering that the total amount of settlements to WESM reached P155 million for the month of May. Yap, during the meeting wryly pointed out that "in effect, we are subsidizing the whole grid." Excess payment Upon review, Bohol consumers paid more to the generation companies (Genco's) which should have been plowed back to the customers but the PEMC calculation allowed a higher allocation of the NSS to the Genco's instead of the load customers who actually paid for the line losses and congestion charges, according to the ERC order. Generation Companies received a higher share of the Net Settlement Surplus (NSS) instead of the load customers who paid for the line losses and congestion. ERC Resolution No. 06, series of 2009 established a process for the immediate and equitable flow back of the NSS by the PEMC to the parties who paid for the same. Inaccurate computation The PEMC admitted that in the case of the three Bohol Distribution Utilities (DU's) it applied an erroneous formula resulting in the "incorrect computation" of the low NSS allocation for Bohol including DU's similarly situated. Using the corrected NSS allocation from the IEMOP, the ERC computed the NSS allocation adjustment amounting to P1.774 billion nationwide. The erroneous formula resulted in the "incorrect computation of the Net Settlement Surplus {NSS) allocation not only for Bohol but for the entire country from June 2018 to May 2019," the MO admitted. As early as February 2018, the ERC promulgated Resolution No. 01, series of 2018 adopting the amendments to the rules for the distribution of NSS which the WESM market operator apparently missed out. According to the ERC the NSS allocation formula "ran contrary to the Commission's rationale in promulgating the NSS rules which are to establish a suitable process for the immediate and equitable flow back of the NSS to the party who paid for the same." The ERC resolution categorically states that only trading participants who have actually paid for the line losses and congestion payments shall be eligible to receive NSS allocation. Yap also did not agree with the payments imposed by WESM on line losses and congestion arguing that "why are we made to pay for line losses when we did not receive the right amount of electricity that we need even as we are also penalized for not using the lines because of congestion." The ERC also directed PEMC and IEMOP to execute an attestation as to the truthfulness and accuracy of its NSS review containing the breakdown of the NSS adjustments of DU's and non-DU's for the period June 2018 to May 2019. The battle for cheaper electricity rates is far from over but the resolve showed that LGU's despite their limitations can play a major role in protecting the interests of their constituents. (Chito M. Visarra)
Bohol power rates to go down in July
MANILA – A power rate reduction of P0.97 centavos to P1.29 per kilowatt hour (kwh) will reflect in electricity billings in the forthcoming months starting July after Governor Arthur Yap successfully wangled an agreement warranting a "downward adjustment" of the monthly electricity bills of more than half a million Bohol-based electricity consumers as a result of two days of intense and complex negotiations with the major pillars of the Philippine power industry. This will be implemented by the three power distributors, namely Bohol Light Co., Inc.(BLCI), Bohol Electric Cooperative (Boheco) I and Boheco II whose power consumers protested on the recent hike in power rates. Yap vowed that "although I practically understand only two percent of the whole power industry workings I will not allow that the Boholanos will take the hit because of the failure of some sectors of the industry." The marathon hearing was held on July 10 to 11, 2019 at the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) conference room in Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Metro Manila and was exclusively covered by the Chronicle.
Power costs
The immediate effect of the negotiations will be felt by the BOHECO 1 consumers after its Board of Directors approved yesterday the effective rates inclusive of VAT for residential consumers for July at P10.5404/kwh (kilowatt hour) from a June billing of P11.5066/kwh.
BLCI consumers will pay P11.93/kwh for July from P13.22/kwh in June.
As of press time, Boheco II is still in the process of recomputing the July billing for its consumers.
Net surplus, a term used by the Wholesale Electric Spot Market (WESM) to define reimbursements for excess charges will be plowed back to consumers in the succeeding months after the WESM completes its review of their formula.
Chatto played quarterback to Yap using his nine-year stint as governor of Bohol when the Bohol Energy Development Advisory Group (BEDAG) was created to oversee the power development of Bohol.
The former governor's presence guided Yap to bulldoze his way against a wall of structural obstacles that eventually blew holes and elicited an admission from the WESM on the need to "humanize" equations and methods that disregarded the "equitable protection and promotion of the interests of the consumer."
WESM is a venue for trading electricity and was created by virtue of Republic Act (RA) 9136 otherwise known as the "Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA)."
In an exclusive interview with the Chronicle, ERC Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Atty. Agnes VST Devanadera expressed her consternation over what she called as an "iniquitous" imposition of charges by WESM on the distribution utilities which passes on the extra charges to the consumers as mandated by the EPIRA.
"This is the first time that the ERC suspended its daily work schedule because of a concern brought by a Local Government Unit over steep electricity rates. But this is an eye-opener because as I have always stressed that we must not lose sight of the most basic principle of public service: we must put people first," she said.
Faulty structure
In a face-off with the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC), WESM, and the Independent Electric Market Operators of the Philippines (IEMOP) Yap refused to be cowed by the mathematical and technical maze that was arrayed before him but remained firm in his position that Bohol consumers should not be penalized because of an "inequitable formula."
PEMC is the governing body of WESM with recommendatory powers over market rules modifications and improvements while the IEMOP is the independent market operator of the WESM.
At one point, Yap chided the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) for its reluctance to upgrade the submarine cable from Leyte to Bohol for economic reasons even if as early as 2014 the Bohol distribution utilities (DU's) made known that the power demand for Bohol will reach more than 90% in 2019.
But the NGCP explained that they were caught flatfooted by the sudden rise of power demand in Bohol in the month of May that reached 93 megawatts (MW) which breached tha 85MW load limit of the Leyte-Bohol submarine cable.
On the line rental issue which was blamed by the DU's on the high electric rates, Yap refused to accept the mathematical exposition of WESM relying on a more simplistic and common sense approach.
"If there was line congestion and our power was drawn from the Power Barge 104 stationed in Ubay why are we made to pay for line rentals when our main source from Leyte and Cebu could not enter the submarine cable because of congestion?"
Poor regulation
Yap also raised the issue of including the bilateral contracts of DU's in the computation of charges when only 8MW was needed to cover the shortfall. The governor stuck to his position that only the 8MW should be charged and exclude the existing bilateral contracts of the DU's in the calculation of line rentals.
The formula for line losses which is defined as power lost during transmission should also be reviewed since it is a pass-on charge to the consumers.
"If I order 15 hamburgers and I only received five, why would I pay for the undelivered 10?" reasoned Yap
Less spot market
The discussion also brought to the attention of the ERC the 45% reliance of the DU's of their power supply from the WESM prompting Devanadera to label it as an "aberration."
Relying heavily on the WESM for shortfalls in supply from their bilateral contracts are not advantageous to the consumers since "spot" prices are dictated by the demand-supply situation on an hourly basis.
WESM is a market that allows generation companies to sell excess capacities not covered by bilateral contracts while those experiencing shortfalls source outside their contracts relies on the electricity spot market.
Speed up Cebu-Bohol connect
Chatto also requested the ERC to approve the application to use the uncontracted 7 MW of the 24 MW Power Barge 104 owned by Salcon in case of supply gaps to lessen dependence on the WESM.
Chatto pushed for the fast-tracking of the Cebu-Bohol interconnection to relieve pressure on the Leyte-Ubay cable which is now past its time table.
The need for more reforms in the electric power industry should be sustained with the "unprecedented" Bohol meeting with the ERC as Bohol successfully cut through the labyrinthine world of the electric power industry.
The Bohol Chronicle
Arthur Yap proclaimed as governor-elect of Bohol
The Provincial Board of Canvassers (PBOC) proclaimed Thursday morning Arthur Yap as governor-elect of Bohol province in a hairline victory against former Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr. Lawyer Eddie Aba, chair of Bohol's PBOC, said Yap won with a narrow lead of 2,161 after garnering 326,895 votes against Evasco's 324,734 in the final official count. The proclamation of the duly-elected governor was stalled by delays in canvassing of votes in the towns of Sagbayan, Panglao, and Tubigon because of damaged Secure Digital (SD) cards. Aba said the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Bohol had to ship the SD cards to Cebu to be repaired. "I thank the Boholanos for giving me the opportunity to serve them," Yap was quoted in a radio interview as saying after the canvassing of election results. Earlier, Evasco vowed to file a petition to declare a failure of election in Bohol allegedly due to "massive vote buying" and fraud in the polls, which Yap quickly dismissed. "All that changed later in the day, however, as I was starting to be appraised of the magnitude of election irregularities particularly vote-buying. I realized that I will not be the only victim," said Evasco in the official statement released a day after the mid-term polls. He said that he "cannot abandon the thousands who packed our rallies, those who declined the proverbial thirty pieces of silver because they placed their hope in a band of men and women they believed would lead Bohol into a new dawn". "It is for all of them that I finally arrived at this difficult decision to instruct the Nationalist People's Coalition-Bohol and Hugpong ng Pagbabago-Bohol to make preparations for the filing of a petition to declare a failure of elections," Evasco's statement added. Yap, for his part, said "there is no failure of elections". His running mate, Rene Relampagos, was declared the vice governor-elect of Bohol due to a wide margin over his rival candidate, Tommy Abapo. Relampagos got 317,318 votes as against Abapo's 263,910. Yap was one of the youngest officials to be appointed to the Cabinet by then President Gloria Arroyo in August 2004. He ran for Bohol governor under the Partido Demokratiko-Pilipino (PDP-Laban) while Evasco was under the National People's Coalition (NPC). (PNA)
NEW BOHOL AIRPORT
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NO NEED FOR NEW PIER FOR EQUIPMENTS; AIRPORT TO START NEXT MONTH It is now final and official. There is no more need for a temporary seaport in bringing in heavy equipments needed in the construction of the New Bohol Airport in Panglao. This development surfaced after the main contractor, Chiyoda Mitsubishi Joint Venture ( CMJV), a Japanese consortium and sub-contractor EEI Corp. agreed to the "night shift" policy suggested by Gov, Edgar Chatto amid the controversy arising from the rumored plan to construct a temporary pier in barangay Tangan, Panglao town. The suggestion of the governor which seems adopted by the contractors was part of last Sunday's editorial of The Chronicle. Meanwhile, the new Bohol Airport will officially commence its construction next month. Only recently, the controversial plan for a temporary pier generated strong public opposition citing the environmental destruction it brings in the area. Hauling and transport by heavy equipment of the materials for the 30-month construction of the new Bohol airport will be done nightly until early morning to avoid likely heavy traffic never seen here before. Last Wednesday, Gov. Chatto witnessed the Manila signing between the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the consortium of the deal for the construction of the airport on Panglao island. DOTC Sec. Joseph Emilio Abaya led the signing together with Associate Director and Deputy Division Director Tadayoshi Kimura of Business Development Division of the Chiyoda Corp. and Deputy General Manager and Division Head Masahito Nonaka of the Global Environment & Infrastructure Business Division of the Mitsubishi Corp. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Chief Representative to the Philippines Noriaki Niwa and Project Formulation Advisor Shimizu Toshihiro of JICA Economic Growth Section also witnessed the sealing, which paves the start of the construction. "Construction will start in June. We appreciate if the airport can be done in one-and-a-half year," Chatto quoted Abaya as saying during the signing, although the construction from start to finish takes 30 months per contract. In the coordination conference here, the local Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) assured of berthing spaces at the Tagbilaran City port for vessels that carry the equipment and construction materials. Not just the traffic on city roads identified for routes of the equipment and materials to Panglao prosite, port congestion itself is expected to heighten considering the unusual frequent volume loading, hauling and transport. The contractor agreed to haul and transport—at 75 trips daily—during night time, preferably from midnight to six in the morning (6am) when roads are usually not or less used. City traffic is back to busy with the opening of classes in June. The local Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said the bridges along the identified hauling routes from the city to construction site can contain the weight of the loaded equipment with strict regulation observed. As the city port is still undergoing rehabilitation after the earthquake, the port in Alburquerque has been eyed for alternate docking of barges loaded with heavy equipment and construction materials. But according to the PPA, the town port has also been damaged by the earthquake and its repair could cost some P20 million. While the airport contractor is willing to help rehabilitate the port, the entire work is estimated to consume eight months. Rep. Rene Relampagos, who also attended the coordination meeting, agreed with the governor that securing the funding for repair and the process through which project procurement undergoes before the actual concrete works are a different story that also takes time. The First District solon could not attend the Manila signing last Wednesday because of a meeting of the congressional tourism committee which he chairs. The peak period of airport construction is expected to start from the third week of September this year until the middle of February in 2017. Every week within this period, an average of three vessels arrive at the port, loaded with an average volume of almost 6,000 metric tons of materials and requiring 425 truck loads en route to construction site. FREQUENT COORDINATION Chatto and Relampagos would want as shorter interval of regular coordination meetings as possible so that the expected concerns which may hinder fast implementation could get addressed. It is likewise a proactive system to ready measures or policy guidelines for other possible yet unforeseen problems as construction progresses, they said. The Local Project Management Team (LPMT) handled by Provincial Administrator Alfonso Damalerio has been focused on all concerns within its mandate and capacity surrounding the gigantic undertaking. The team presented updates on varied concerns during the coordination meeting, which was also attended by Panglao Mayor Leonila Montero. These concerns include the rerouting of existing Panglao barangay roads that traverse the airport site and have to be closed and cut once construction starts or possible opening of new access roads. Yesterday, Chatto and Relampagos led the signing of the deed of transfer of the resettlement for the project-affected families (PAFs) right at their finished relocation site, which negotiation, preparation, construction, supervision, monitoring and completion had the LMPT at the painstaking front. 11th BUSIEST Once done by the middle or final quarter of 2017, although some say early 2018 is the safest projection, the Panglao airport will replace the Tagbilaran City flight terminal as the 11th busiest airport in the country. Ten times bigger than the city airport, it is foreseen to accommodate 1.7 million air passengers annually, although Chatto and Relampagos is already moving this early to secure support for its expansion in the future. Officially, the project is billed the New Bohol Airport Construction and Sustainable Environment Protection Project (NBACSEPP), said to be the first ever package deal assisted by JICA in the country. The airport has been designed to be the Philippines ' "first world-class eco-friendly, green airport." (Ven rebo Arigo) The Bohol Chronicle May 31, 2015

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From Lewis Hamilton to Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna to Sebastian Vettel, read the stories of Formula 1's ten greatest drivers of all-time
As of 2021, there have been 770 Formula 1 racing drivers. Touring the world racing for glory in front of millions, week-in, week-out, it's every driver's dream to win a race. A small minority achieve that feat, while fewer drivers will reach the exclusive World Champion club.
But a tiny minority become legends. Whether it's their character off-track, talent in the car, or epic rivalries, a select number of drivers cement their place in the history books.
Here, you'll learn about the 10 drivers with the most wins in Formula 1 history. From Niki Lauda's 25 victories to Lewis Hamilton's 99 (and counting), learn about the greatest drivers to grace the Formula 1 grid.
Ten greatest Formula 1 drivers in order of number of race wins
Niki Lauda climbs into a Mercedes W196 Grand Prix car as driven by Juan Manuel Fangio.
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First race: 1971 Austrian Grand Prix
Championships: 3 (1975, 1977, 1984)
Number of wins: 25
Number of pole positions: 24
Niki Lauda may be at the latter end of this scale, but he without a doubt one of the most inspirational drivers to grace the grid. While he came from a wealthy background – as many who could afford to race cars are – his family didn't approve of his hobby. He took out a £30,000 loan to buy his way into a Formula 2 team, and it was a gamble that soon paid off. The following year, he was promoted to F1 and raced for March.
His talent was quickly recognised by a fledgling Ferrari which was looking to bounce back from a podium-less 1973 season. They put their faith in Lauda's talent, and he returned the favour. Taking 2nd place in the opening race, and scoring his maiden win three races later, Lauda went about establishing himself as one of the best.
And that's exactly what he did in 1975, with his first world championship. With an incredible Ferrari 312, he took the title with an impressive five wins. In '76, his rivalry with James Hunt came to the forefront. Lauda had another incredible start to the season with six wins and nine podiums in 10 races. But during the German Grand Prix, Lauda suffered life-threatening injuries that looked almost certain to end his life, let alone his racing career.
But Lauda bounced back. He missed only two races and returned to the grid in Italy, where he took 4th. Come the season's end, he finished a single point behind title winner Hunt. Lauda went on to win the championship the following year for good measure.
Lauda's third championship came a decade after his Formula 1 debut, as he pipped McLaren teammate Alain Prost to first by half a point – the finest margin in history. He would stay involved in Formula 1, and was a key figure in the modern Mercedes Formula 1 team.
Jim Clark celebrates after winning in Belgium.
First race: 1960 Dutch Grand Prix
Championships: 2 (1963, 1965)
Scot Jim Clark was the greatest driver of his time. He began racing in 1960, having cut his teeth in local rallies and hill climbs around Scotland. Later, he made his F1 debut for Lotus mid-way through the 1960 season in Zandvoort at the Dutch Grand Prix. Later that year, he returned for the Belgian Grand Prix in a race where Chris Bristow and Alan Stacey lost their lives. Despite finishing fifth, Clark admitted he was driving "scared stiff" the entire race.
His first drivers' championship came in a sensational 1963 season. He won seven of the ten races that year, a win record that wouldn't be matched until Alain Prost took seven wins in 1984. His next championship came in an almost equally dominant 1965 season, in which he won six of the opening seven races. The only race he didn't win was the Monaco Grand Prix, because he decided to win the Indianapolis 500 instead.
Clark's achieved 33 pole positions and 25 race wins from 72 starts in a quite incredible career. He won the Indy 500, took 3rd place at Le Mans and even raced in NASCAR in the US. But his career was tragically cut short when he crashed during a Formula 2 race in Germany in 1968.
Jackie Stewart celebrates winning the 1973 German Grand Prix.
Jackie Stewart
First race: 1965 South African Grand Prix
Another Scottish legend to take to the Formula 1 grid, Sir Jackie Stewart remains a key figure in the grid. And one that's hard to miss, usually kitted out in striking Stewart tartan.
A born racer, Stewart spent his teenage years watching his father race motorbikes while his older brother Jimmy competed in the 1953 British Grand Prix. Jackie would go on to make his Formula 1 debut in 1965, and his performances were outstanding. As a rookie, he scored five podiums including a maiden win in Italy, finishing 3rd in the championship.
When he moved to Matra in 1968, he took a step up, finishing second in the standings before becoming drivers' champion the following year. His move to Tyrell in 1970 also proved fruitful, as he took the title in his second season with the team scoring six victories.
In his final Formula 1 season, Stewart would bow out in style. A hard-fought first half of the season in which Stewart and Emerson Fittipaldi shared the wins in the first six races, Stewart maintained the form and took the championship.
Upon retiring from the sport, his legacy in motorsport grew exponentially. Having seen friends in the paddock – including the aforementioned Clark – lose their lives, he focussed on making racing safer. He pressed for mandatory seat belts, full-face helmets and led boycotts of unsafe races. Regardless of his success, motorsport is a better place thanks to his efforts.
Nigel Mansell celebrates victory in Hungary in 1992.
Championships: 1 (1992)
If there's one word to sum up Nigel Mansell's racing career, it's 'determination'. He grew up in Birmingham, UK, the son of an engineer. While he had success in karting, like many of those to make this list, his family disapproved of the step into open-wheel Formula racing. While he enjoyed huge success in the junior ranks, it almost all came to an end when he broke his neck in an incident at Brands Hatch. Doctors told him he was dangerously close to losing the use of his limbs, and would never drive again.
Yeah, right. In 1980, Mansell began racing for Lotus and scored a smattering of podiums. He did produce one of Formula 1's most iconic moments. At a sweltering Dallas Grand Prix in 1984, he suffered gearbox problems and broke down with just a few corners of the final lap remaining. But in typical unwavering spirit, Mansell jumped out of the cockpit and pushed his car, eventually collapsing under the Texan sun. But it wasn't all in vain, as he caught the eye of Frank Williams.
He enjoyed success with the Oxfordshire-based team, winning races regularly and dramatically losing the title at the final race in 1986. With another runner-up season in 1987, he'd turned heads at Maranello and joined Ferrari.
Mansell wasn't able to keep up with his former rival turned teammate Alain Prost with a couple of disappointing seasons. He announced his retirement from the sport in the 1990 season, but Frank Williams wasn't having any of it.
He made Mansell an offer he couldn't refuse, and boy was he glad he didn't. The 1992 seasons saw Mansell make the most scintillating starts to a campaign, with five straight victories in a row. He won three of the next five races, and dominated winning the championship by a huge margin over teammate Ricardo Patrese. He set his sights on America the following year, joining the IndyCar series, and won the championship. He was truly a vintage driver who got better with time.
Fernando Alonso after winning the San Marino Grand Prix.
First race: 2001 Australian Grand Prix
What can you say about Fernando Alonso? A talented, charismatic driver from the off, Alonso has gone on to be one of the sport's elder statesmen.
He started his interest in karting when his father, an amateur go-karter and mineshaft mechanic, build Fernando and sister Lorena a go-kart so he had a hobby to share with his children. While Lorena wasn't interested, Fernando shined under all circumstances – including racing in the rain on slick tyres as the family couldn't afford wet weather alternatives.
These experiences shaped his early career and eventually led him to take a seat with Minardi in 2001. After a year bringing up the rear of the pack, Alonso went on to join Renault and in 2005, he made history. Breaking Michael Schumacher's streak of five world championships in a row, Alonso became the youngest driver to ever win the championship. The next year, he became the youngest to score back-to-back championships.
While his career had its highs, it also had its lows. A stint at McLaren saw him struggle to battle rookie Lewis Hamilton and on three occasions he came within a whisker of winning a third championship with Ferrari. When he raced for a McLaren team on the downturn in 2015 – 18, it looked as if his Formula 1 career was going to end unceremoniously.
He left the sport in 2018 and went on to win Le Mans on two occasions. Then in 2021, Alonso made a shock return to the sport, at the team he had his greatest successes: Alpine, the team formerly known as Renault. The greatest moment of his comeback so far came at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, when holding off a much faster Lewis Hamilton on fresher tyres allowed teammate Esteban Ocon to record the re-branded team's very first win. It's not over for Alonso just yet.
Ayrton Senna celebrates winning the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix.
First race: 1984 Brazilian Grand Prix
Championships: (1988, 1990, 1991)
Senna was one of the greatest inspirations to race cars, and the only driver in this list not to hail from a European country. He was born in Sao Paolo to a wealthy factory owner and excelled when he began racing go-karts aged 13, usually beating competitors years older than him. To push for success in motorsport, Senna relocated to England to race in single-seaters.
After he won the British Formula 3 Championship in 1983, he took the step up to Formula 1 in 1984. He raced a comparatively uncompetitive Toleman to ninth place in the championship, before finishing third in '85 and '86, registering his first win in Portugal in 1986.
Following a spell at Honda, his greatest successes came with McLaren where he would form an intense rivalry with teammate Alain Prost. The pair dominated the 1988 season, both winning all but one race with Senna the victor. Prost took victory in 1989, courtesy of a highly controversial crash in the season's penultimate race, which saw the Brazilian disqualified.
Prost moved to Ferrari the next year, but both drivers remained the main protagonists. It once again came down to the penultimate race in Japan where, yet again, the rivals collided. That meant Prost couldn't mathematically win the championship, and Senna was crowned with his second title. He followed it up with a consecutive championship for McLaren, the third of his career.
Senna raced with Williams in 1994, but tragically lost his life in a high-speed crash during the San Marino Grand Prix. Formula 1 had prematurely lost one of its greats, but he had left a legacy that would never be forgotten.
Alain Prost celebrates the 1986 Australian Grand Prix.
First race: 1980 Argentine Grand Prix
Championships: 4 (1985, 1986, 1989, 1993)
Despite registering four World Championships and more than 50 wins, Alain Prost's success could have been even greater. His name has cropped up in the stories of drivers we've already told, because Prost was consistently at the front of the grid.
He began go-karting at aged 14, when he discovered the sport during a family holiday. His F1 career started at McLaren in 1980 with a disappointing campaign, but it kicked into life when he signed for Renault. He took his first few wins in 1981, and finished 4th in the drivers' championship in 1982. But his career took a huge step in 1983, when he pushed Brabham's Nelson Piquet all the way and finished within two points of the title win.
In 1984, he battled with Niki Lauda finishing within half a point of the title. But he got the better of Mansell, Senna and Piquet in the next two years to become a double-world champion. He then became embroiled in the ultimate rivalry with Ayrton Senna, taking the title in 1989.
After a two-year stint at Ferrari, Prost moved to Williams to sign-off from Formula 1 in style. Winning seven of the 16 races in the 1993 season, he took championship glory before retiring.
Sebastian Vettel celebrates victory for Ferrari in Belgium in 2018.
First race: 2007 United States Grand Prix
Sebastian Vettel began his karting career aged eight, and was impressed enough to be promoted to the Red Bull Junior Tea aged 11. He made his debut in 2007 as a stand-in for Robert Kubica after his massive Canadian Grand Prix crash midway through the season. After a fine eight-place finish, he was brought into the Toro Rosso team to replace Scott Speed, and narrowly missed out on a historic podium at the Chinese Grand Prix.
But history beckoned for the young German. At the Italian Grand Prix, aged 21 years and 74 days, Vettel became the youngest driver to take pole position after a wet qualifying session. He backed this up with an unbelievable maiden win, becoming the youngest driver to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix.
He was quickly fast-tracked to the senior Red Bull Racing team, finishing runner-up to Brawn GP's Jenson Button in 2009. But Red Bull dominated come the turn of the decade, and Vettel pushed the team to four consecutive championships. His drivers' titles didn't come without struggle, however. Seb had an infamously difficult relationship with teammate Mark Webber, but Vettel's results spoke for themselves.
After the move to hybrid cars, Vettel moved to Ferrari in 2015 and enjoyed a few title battles with Lewis Hamilton, but the Mercedes proved too powerful throughout the turbo-hybrid era.
Vettel recently moved to the newly-branded Aston Martin F1 team, recording the team's first podium in Azerbaijan in 2021, and narrowly missing out on a second at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Michael Schumacher celebrates his third championship and his first with Ferrari.
First race: 1991 Belgian Grand Prix
Championships: 7 (1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
A racer who some thought would never be surpassed. For many, he will remain the greatest to ever drive a racing car. Michael Schumacher had everything to make him the perfect racer: speed, focus, bravery, judgement, character and arrogance.
His F1 career began when Eddie Jordan handed him an opportunity at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix, after Bertrand Gachot was sentenced to two months in prison for assaulting a taxi driver. He raced the remainder of the season with Benetton, who he began to gain traction with throughout the early 1990s.
Schumacher took his first World Championship with Benetton in 1994, pipping Williams' Damon Hill by one point to his first title. The pair battled it out again the following year, with Schumacher taking his second title. (Hill did manage to win his only title in 1996.)
Schumacher didn't come without his controversies. He was disqualified from the entire 1997 season when he attempted to knock Jacques Villeneuve off the circuit at the final race of the season, leaving him the champion. But the move backfired. Schumacher's car was damaged, and Villeneuve went on to finish in the points.
The German's storming success came at the turn of the millennium. Ferrari produced cars that were head and shoulders ahead of the rest of the field, and Schumacher was the man who knew how to extract every ounce of performance. Perhaps his best-ever season was his final season in 2004, when he won 12 of the first 13 Grands Prix, the exception being a retirement in Monaco.
He retired in 2006, but shook the racing world when he returned to the grid in 2010 with Mercedes. He was rarely at the front of the pack, but enjoyed his racing as much as ever, recording his final podium at the European Grand Prix in 2012. The Schumacher legacy continues in Formula 1, with son Mick making his debut for the Haas F1 team in 2021.
Lewis Hamilton celebrating victory at the 2021 British Grand Prix.
Number of pole positions: 101
There were records some thought would never be broken. But then, Lewis Hamilton hit the scene.
Before he went into karting, Hamilton raced remote controlled cars, beating adults to championships when he was just a kid. He carried that success into karting and – where some successful young drivers are hit with a dose of reality when they reach the highest levels of sport, Hamilton continued to dominate.
In just his first season with McLaren, he lost to eventual champion Kimi Raikkonen by a single point. He made amends in 2008 with his first World Championship, but only just. A tightly contested battle with Felipe Massa culminated at the final race in Interlagos for the Brazilian's home race. When Massa crossed the line and ended his season, he was at the top of the championship standings. But Hamilton was gifted the championship by a point when Timo Glock's car slowed on the final tour of the circuit. Up there with Sergio Aguero's final-minute goal to seal Manchester City's Premiership in 2012, this is up there with the greatest last-gasp title wins ever.
The years that followed were relatively anonymous for Hamilton, but his career stepped up a gear when the regulations changed in 2014. Mercedes mastered the turbo-hybrid regs, and no other team has won a championship throughout this period in history. Hamilton seemingly always had the better of his teammate Nico Rosberg, until their rivalry erupted in 2016. Rosberg took the title at the final race, before retiring from the sport altogether.
That opened the door for Hamilton's dominance to flourish. He's won every title since, has become the only driver to record over 100 pole positions, and is nearing the same triple-figure feat in race wins.
He's showing no sign of slowing down, and with his latest battle with Max Verstappen reaching fever pitch, the legacy continues to be written.


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From ancient woodlands and lowland heaths, to estuaries and rugged coasts, England is rich in wildlife habitats and special birds, from stone-curlews and bitterns, to cirl buntings and marsh harriers.
Eastern England
At the coast, flocks of geese and waders provide impressive bird spectacles.
The region has the majority of the UK's breeding bitterns, black-tailed godwits and stone-curlews. Its many popular nature reserves include Minsmere and Titchwell Marsh.
Counties covered
Click on a county to find out what's going on in Eastern England.
Eastern England Regional Office
Stalham House
65 Thorpe Road
NR1 1UD
Titchwell Marsh
Fen Drayton Lakes
Vange Marsh
The Lodge HQ
London is Europe's largest city with more than 8.5 million people. Yet, despite all this frenetic human activity, London remains one of the world's greenest cities with parks, woodlands and the River Thames.
The RSPB reserve at Rainham Marshes is easily accessible from Central London and is one of the very few ancient landscapes remaining in the South East. These medieval marshes right next to the River Thames is a special place to see wildlife and enjoy the great outdoors. Wildfowl and breeding waders visit the wetlands of Rainham in their thousands.
Our wonderful cycle hire scheme will give you an opportunity to loop the perimeter of the reserve and explore the surrounding landscape, taking in views over the river Thames and down to London from the river wall. Feeling adventurous? Come and explore our nature inspired climbing boulders within the reserve.
London's tall buildings act as artificial cliffs and a plentiful supply of pigeons has seen peregrines colonise the centre of London, including the Tate Modern during the Summer. However, there are mixed fortunes for London's birds. House sparrows have disappeared from many parts of London but there are many ways to help give nature a home.
We're working in partnership with Aldi to connect young people with the natural world. If you're interested in one of our trained educators visiting your school to learn more about the natural world please contact us for a free schools outreach session.
The RSPB runs hundreds of events in London each year suitable for all ages and abilities.
Injured birds and wildlife:
We aren't able to rescue or look after birds or wildlife that are injured or in distress. These charities can help with rescuing or finding care:
RSPCA: 0300 1234 999 (England and Wales)
RSPB London Office
5th Floor, 50 Southwark Street
SE1 1UN
Rainham Marshes
Rye Meads
The RSPB Midlands region spans 14 counties, covering most of the East and West Midlands government regions. More than 9 million people live in the region, the majority in large cities and market towns.
The area is essentially rural but includes some of England's best-known and well-loved landscapes such as the Cotswolds, Malvern Hills, Welsh Marches, Sherwood Forest and parts of the Peak District. The region is dissected by several rivers, including parts of the Avon, Severn, and Trent where a number of wetland restoration projects are underway.
Conservation priorities for this region include the continuing efforts to reverse the declines in a range of threatened farmland bird species, and we are also looking at ways to benefit our much-loved garden birds.
The region has a small complement of nature reserves including Coombes Valley, Churchwood, Otmoor and Sandwell Valley and we are looking to increase this number with new reserves in development at Middleton Lakes near Birmingham and Langford Lowfields in the Trent Valley.
Click on a county to find out what's going on in the Midlands.
Midlands Regional Office
One Cornwall Street
B3 2JN
Otmoor
Sandwell Valley
Middleton Lakes
Langford Lowfields
The coast and estuaries, such as the Ribble and Humber, are important for birds all year round and support internationally significant numbers of waterfowl in winter.
Elsewhere, the region is home to many special birds including breath-taking seabird colonies, booming bitterns, breeding hen and marsh harriers, red kites, and black grouse. There are still strongholds in the region for upland waders, such as curlew and lapwing, and lowland farmland birds, including corn bunting.
In the city and countryside we run a wide range of exciting events that inspire people about the spectacular birds and wildlife of northern England. Some of the RSPB's most popular nature reserves are in the Northern England region, including Leighton Moss, Fairburn Ings, Blacktoft Sands, Bempton Cliffs and Old Moor.
An experienced team of site managers and reserve wardens run and manage these sites for the benefit of birds and people. These reserves support a tremendous variety of birds and other wildlife; many also have first-class visitor facilities, busy events programmes and flourishing education schemes.
New reserves such as Saltholme on Teesside are currently being created and represent a new generation of RSPB sites.
Click on a county to find out what's going on in Northern England.
Denby Dale Office
Westleigh Mews
Wakefield Road, Denby Dale
HD8 8QD
1 Sirius House
Amethyst Road
Newcastle Business Park
NE4 7YL
Lancaster office
7.3.1 Cameron House
White Cross Estate
LA1 4XF
Bempton Cliffs
Old Moor
Leighton Moss
Fairburn Ings
Blacktoft Sands
Development, climate change and our changing countryside conspire to present the major conservation challenges but noisy colonies of Sandwich terns, mudflats teeming with wading birds, and the 'churr' of nightjars from summer heathlands are just some of the bird riches that can still be enjoyed.
The number of RSPB reserves here is growing fast, giving wonderful opportunities for experiencing the area's wildlife, from the oldest RSPB reserve at Dungeness to the most-visited at Pulborough Brooks to one of our newest and most adventurous at Rainham Marshes.
Click on a county to find out what's going on in South East England.
South East Regional Office
1st Floor, Pavilion View
19 New Road
BN1 1UF
Brading Marshes - Isle of Wight
Pulborough Brooks
Adur Estuary
With hundreds of miles of coast and nearby islands like Lundy and the Isles of Scilly, it is also an important place for seabirds.
Whatever the time of year, there is a bird spectacle to enjoy. Whether it is hundreds of avocets wintering close to our Exe Estuary reserves, flocks of ducks and wading birds at West Sedgemoor, or the summertime heathland delights of Dartford warblers and nocturnal nightjars at reserves like Arne and Aylesbeare, the south-west rarely fails to impress!
Click on a county to find out what's going on in South West England.
South West Regional Office
4th Floor (North Block)
Broadwalk House
Southernhay West
EX1 1TS
West Segemoor
Aylesbeare Common
Exminster and Powderham Marshes
Hayle Estuary


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Adolescent and Young Adult Specialty Clinic
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Body Image in Teens
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Dangers of Vaping
Eating Disorder Facts
Guy's Guide to Safe Sex
Healthy Social Media Use
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Puberty For Boys
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Transition to Adult Care
For more information about our clinic or to schedule an appointment, please call:
727-767-TEEN (8336)
We offer adolescent and young adult specialty care for patients at all stages and support the transition from childhood to adulthood.
The Adolescent and Young Adult Specialty Clinic at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital provides specialized care for the physical, mental and social well-being of adolescents and young adults ages 12 to 21. We also assist our local primary care physicians and specialists in caring for teens and young adults in our community. Our expert team specializes in the unique concerns and emotional needs of adolescents and provides a patient-specific care plan. We also provide support and guidance when it comes time to transition to adult care.
In addition to our comprehensive care, we have access to pediatric specialists and subspecialists throughout our hospital and can provide a seamless transition for patients who need additional specialty care beyond our services.
We evaluate and manage a variety of common teen-related medical concerns including:
Reproductive health care: irregular menstrual cycles, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and contraceptive management
Screen, diagnose and manage mild depression, anxiety, ADHD
Eating disorders: screening, diagnosis and management of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, binge eating disorder
Mild to moderate acne
Sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment
Gender dysphoria, sexual orientation/gender identity concerns
Substance use and high risk behavior concerns
The Adolescent and Young Adult Specialty Clinic does not provide primary care, psychological testing or psychological counseling. For more information on these services, please visit Johns Hopkins All Children's General Pediatrics and Psychology.
Meet Our Specialist
Jasmine Reese, MD MPH Adolescent Medicine
Dr. Reese is the director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Specialty Clinic within the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. She is also the adolescent medicine rotation director for the pediatric residency program. She joined the Johns Hopkins All Children's medical staff in 2016 and serves as a full-time assistant professor of pediatrics in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Reese's clinical interests include reproductive health and mental health, and her research focuses are medical education and curriculum development in adolescent mental health and depression. She is an active member of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, where she also serves as the secretary for the southeast United States region.
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Training and Fellowships
The Johns Hopkins All Children's Adolescent and Young Adult Specialty Clinic participates in educating and training residents on all levels of adolescent and young adult care. Our residents are on a six-week rotation schedule in our clinic and during their time, create patient and family brochures on important teen topics. It is part of our mission to research important topics relevant to children, families and the community and participate in quality improvement initiatives.
For more information about our clinic and services, call 727-767-8336. You can fax us at 727-767-8482. A physician referral is required to schedule an appointment.
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Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Sarah Stromberg, Ph.D., licensed pediatric psychologist at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, talks about the signs and symptoms of eating disorders.
What is a Growth Spurt During Puberty?
Dr. Jasmine Reese talks about how much children typically grow during early adolescence and why nutrition is an important factor in puberty and development.
High Blood Pressure in Teens
Jasmine Reese, M.D., explains hypertension and its impact on adolescents and teens, and what families can do to help prevent it.


Anti-slavery campaigners and other key agencies, including the police and councils, are backing the Safe Car Wash App, launched by The Clewer Initiative, the Church of England's campaign against modern slavery, and the Santa Marta Group, the Catholic Church's anti-slavery project.
Users can download the app onto their Apple or Android phone. They then open the app when they are at the car wash and pinpoint their exact location using GPS.
They will be then taken through a series of indicators of modern slavery. They range from practical details - such as whether workers have suitable protective clothing - to behavioural clues, such as whether they appear withdrawn. If the answers indicate a high likelihood, users will be directed to the Modern Slavery Helpline.


The secret to the best patio sets in Bakersfield CA 93301 is to know just what you need and want, and then put in the time to research which construction is right for your garden.
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Patio sets are big ticket home items. Their price can be anything from several hundred to several thousand dollars. Picking the wrong patio furniture is something that you want to avoid at all costs. Understanding what design specifications to consider when out looking for one, will help you make the right buying decision.
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While style may be a major consideration when purchasing furniture for your wrought iron patio furniture, homeowners will also want to consider the fabric that each piece of furniture is made of. Depending on where you choose to place your furniture and the climate associated with your region, you'll find that some materials will last longer for your home. Some materials hold up better to damp climates and some manage better in sunny locations. Once you recognize which materials will work best for your garden, you can select patio furniture accordingly.
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Wrought iron patio furniture set is a classic and has been popular dating back to the Victorian era. It looks great in formal, classic settings as well as informal cottage spaces. Because wrought iron is especially durable, it holds up extremely well for years. Metal does hold heat, so cushions may be needed for chairs. When maintained properly, wrought iron patio tables can be left outdoors year round. Wrought iron patio sets are also available in a range of colors to suit your taste.
Aluminum furniture is often an appealing option for its lightweight and attractive styles. Many homeowners looking for modern patio furniture will find plenty of aluminum choices. Resistant to corrosion, aluminum is a popular choice as it's easy to move and comes in various styles. Lighter and easier to maintain than wrought iron, aluminum furniture is a good choice for people who want to invest in patio furniture that is likely to withstand long-term use. Aluminum patio set are also available in a wide number of colors to suit your preference.
Buying patio sets in Bakersfield CA 93301 is often as requiring as much thought as buying a new furniture. It is important to think about comfort, economy and safety carefully, before settling on a particular brand and model.


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