| Main Performers | Sir John Sinclair,
Nora Blackwood,
Albert Denton,
Laurence Easterbrook - speakers
Edric Connor - vocal,
Sandy Macpherson - organ,
Iris Loveridge,
Harold Pook,
Betty Lawrence - pianos |
| Set List | 'Praise My Soul The King of Heaven', Henry Francis Lyte,
'Lost in The Stars' from Lost In The Stars, Kurt Weill (Edric Connor),
'The Lord's Prayer' (Edric Connor),
'Moments of Harmony' (Sandy Macpherson, Harold Pook),
'I'll Walk Beside You' (Edric Connor),
'Hark, Hark, My Soul!', attr. John Page Hopps,
'The Story of Creation' (Edric Connor),
'Ballade No.3 in A Flat', Chopin (Iris Loveridge),
'Scherzo No.3 in C Sharp Minor', Chopin (Iris Loveridge),
'De Glory Road' (Edric Connor, Betty Lawrence),
'Father! Again To Thy Dear Name We Raise', John Ellerton,
'Jerusalem', Parry-Blake |
| Performance Notes | Nora Blackwood demonstration:
"'I've seen a boy come down the centre aisle in a wheelchair; does anyone recognise him?' she began. No reply came from the hushed audience. 'Just a minute, I get also the he was Richard. The silence was unbroken. 'His initials were R G' Still no response, but undeterred, she pressed on. 'Gillian, the name is Richard Gillian.' From the back of the vast hall came a woman's voice in acknowledgement. 'Would this be your son?' 'Yes.' 'Wouldn't he have been in the wheelcahr for some time?' 'Yes, but it was a pram. He couldn't walk.' Now the proof flowed, no fumbling or searching for double-meaning phrases to make things fit. Instead, just as you expect from a medium of Nora's calibre come irrefutable proof, direct and to the point. 'Dad's here.' 'Oh yes.' 'And who is Stan?' 'That's right, that's my husband's name.' 'There are six of us here,' he's telling me.' That's right.' n'They have now got grandfather. He's been over some weeks only.' 'Yes.' 'Grandma also.' 'yes.' 'Is she Maggie?' 'No, but I know her.' 'There's a link with Newcastle.' 'Yes.' So the evidence accumulated. ... 'Madam,' said Nora who invaribly asks questions through her evidence is accurate enough for her to made direct statements, 'did you have five children?' 'Yes.' 'I know, because he's telling me they are all with him.' 'Quite right.' Then Nora endd with a phrase that was repeated in all her messages. 'I don't know yu, do I?' And of course, she did not.
... Nora described a young boy, who, like the first communicator, had trouble with his legs. She indicated a section of the audience near the platform and gave the name of Peter. Immediately two hands shot up, as a husband and wife recognised their son's description. ...He was 14. She said he ahd his mother's eyes, and this too was acknowledged. 'I'm told he had a virus germ.' 'He died from polio,' was the mother's reply. The audience learned that the youth was an Eton boy. First Nora told the parents that although young, she felt he was well educated. Then she felt she wanted to go to Windsor. 'yes,' replayed the mother.... The message continued with evidence regarding a new house, a photograph of himself and other relatives. He was brought his dog back with him. She gave his initials as PJM and was only wrong on the middle one, which should have been S. As with other recipients, the parents did not know Nora. ..."
Easterbrook address:
"'I have lived through two world wars. I was fighting in the first one two months after it broke out. I lost practically all my friends in my battalion on the first night that we went into action, which was Hallowe'en. I go back to my old school, and there, at the entrance to the close, is a memorial gateway. Inside it are inscribed the names of those who lost their lives in that war. It reads like a roll call of all the friends of my youth, for it was a school that had a military tradition and many from it became professional soliders... there always seems to come a moment on Armistice morning when the whole world appears to be hushed into silence, when a gentle breeze stirs the November air like the shadow of passing wings, when the veil between this world and the next suddenly seems to become very very thing. 'Then I become aware of my friends who lost their earthly lives in the cause of freedom, and of a great company with them. I am aware of them not so much as individuals, but as a band of brothers who have not turned their backs on this world and its toubles, but are continuing the task on which they began, the task of serving our country and all mankind. ..."
(Psychic News, 17 November 1962) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1962/158) |