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Rustom Pomeroy at Eurovision 2009
19/05/2009 by admin.
Violinist Rustom Pomeroy was heavily featured in the British entry in the 2009 Eurovision song contest in May.
You can see the performance at www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBykhFyy-ZE
His brother Feroze writes: “Rustom started his studies age 2 1/2 with the Suzuki violin teacher Mary Trewin in Taunton, Somerset. He went to the Wells Cathedral school and later had some inspirational teachers including Prof. Yfrah Neaman and Krzysztof Smietana at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Rustom was recently back in Somerset at Queen’s College,Taunton playing with OrchestraWest (the Barber violin concerto ) and also the Beethoven violin concerto with the Somerset County Orchestra. CDs are available at http://www.leneve-recordings.com/htdocs/about/past_recordings.asp
Rustom can be found on myspace under ‘Rustom Pomeroy’ and ‘Eclipse Strings’, his electric string quartet.”
Rustom & Feroze belong to the Symondsbury 1773 tree.
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Repairing the bells of Berry Pomeroy
01/12/2008 by admin.
A major appeal is underway to fund the strengthening of the church tower and the refurbishment of the eight bells of St Mary’s. Details of the work, the appeal, and how to support it, are in the PDF.
PDF: The bells of St Mary’s, Berry Pomeroy
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Cornish emigration to NE England
30/11/2008 by admin.
Pomeroys were part of a major movement of miners from Cornwall to north-east England in the mid-1860s. Brought in to break a strike in the region, their families stayed put and are still there generations late.
PDF: Cornish emigration to the NE
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Thomas Hardy
29/11/2008 by admin.
US-based member James Austin found a reference in an online edition of a poem by Thomas Hardy poem called A Curate’s Kindness that intrigued him:
“I thought they’d be strangers aroun’ me,
But she’s to be there!
Let me jump out o’ waggon and go back and drown me
At Pummery or Ten-Hatches Weir.”
James notes that “Pummery was another name for Poundbury Camp Hill Fort,
Poem at: http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext01/tmsls10.htm
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