CR5 Issue 169 June 2019
A local community magazine delivered free to 11,800 homes every month in the CR5 postcode. Contains local business advertising,interesting reads, Competitions, What's on in the Community and puzzles.
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As well as the summer<br />
solstice, other festivals that<br />
take place in <strong>June</strong> include<br />
well-dressing, where natural<br />
springs are honoured with<br />
elaborate decorations that<br />
include intricate mosaic-like<br />
pictures made using flowers,<br />
grasses, moss, seeds, bark<br />
and berries. Well-dressing is<br />
particularly popular across<br />
Derbyshire.<br />
The many significant historical<br />
events that have happened<br />
in the month of <strong>June</strong> include<br />
the signing of the Magna<br />
Carta on 15th <strong>June</strong> 1215, and<br />
the original Globe Theatre<br />
being destroyed by fire on<br />
29th <strong>June</strong> 1613 after a cannon<br />
was let off to announce the<br />
arrival of the king’s entrance in<br />
Shakespeare’s Henry VIII.<br />
The infamous Battle of<br />
Waterloo took place on 18th<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1815 and just over a<br />
decade later, 10th <strong>June</strong> 1829<br />
saw the inaugural Oxford<br />
versus Cambridge boat race<br />
(Oxford won).<br />
In <strong>June</strong> 1946, the first BBC<br />
television licenses were<br />
issued, costing £2. The<br />
Queen’s coronation took place<br />
on 2nd <strong>June</strong> 1953. It is also the<br />
month of her official birthday<br />
and the well-known Trooping<br />
of the Colour ceremony.<br />
Coincidentally, Queen Victoria,<br />
up until recently Britain’s<br />
longest reigning monarch, was<br />
also crowned in <strong>June</strong>, on 28th<br />
in 1838.<br />
D-Day, codenamed Operation<br />
Overlord, happened on 6th<br />
<strong>June</strong> 1944.<br />
The month of <strong>June</strong> has long<br />
fascinated poets, artists and<br />
lyricists from Shakespeare<br />
to Rogers and Hammerstein.<br />
‘Flaming <strong>June</strong>’ is a famous<br />
painting by Lord Frederick<br />
Leighton completed in 1895.<br />
Scottish poet Robert Burns<br />
also paid homage to the<br />
month in the first lines of his<br />
well-known poem ‘A Red Red<br />
Rose’. And there is no end of<br />
romantic ballads out there<br />
rhyming ‘<strong>June</strong>’ with ‘moon’.<br />
Believe it or not, <strong>June</strong> was a<br />
popular name for both boys<br />
and girls in the first part of<br />
the 20th century but over the<br />
last 40-50 years has declined<br />
in favour in the UK. However,<br />
<strong>June</strong> has enjoyed a resurgence<br />
as a favourite girls’ name<br />
in the USA during the past<br />
decade.<br />
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