Canon John Twisleton’s talk at TT 100 launch party
Canon John Twisleton’s talk at Tom Twisleton 100 launch party Thursday 16 th February 2017 in Settle I’m delighted to be really back in Settle on such a day as this. I’m ‘Back in Settle’ on Facebook - but here for Uncle Tom’s Centenary launch – that’s a life event! I’m proud to have helped bring today about with Anne Reade, and to be helping bring the next nine months about - with all of you . Uncle Tom – my grand dad’s cousin – was known as such by my father, Greg, born 1900, who first walked me up to Winskill and introduced me to Tom’s poems. Dad thought I inherited the same gene as ‘Lang Tom’ – the name Tom uses of himself. I got nick-named ‘Fourth Peak’ at Giggleswick School! Dad showed me the precious family relic from an early 19 th century newspaper of Tom’s towering dad Frank nicknamed ‘The Craven Giant’ 7 foot 6 inches! That press cutting got me going as a youth on local history, going up to today. I’m delighted to be here and that my work on the Twisleton...
My mother Elsie Twisleton (95)’s 1min greeting for Tom Twisleton Centenary played in the Royal Oak Settle and at Parish Eucharist in Holy Ascension, Settle respectively on 24 and 25 November 2017. It was recorded in November 2017 at St Anne’s Convent Residential Home, Burgess Hill, West Sussex.
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