Biggleswade Campus Uplifts Milton Ernest Care Home
A choir of some current and former Focus Students from Biggleswade School Campus revisited Milton Ernest Hall Care Home to encourage and uplift the elderly residents. The care home staff and residents enjoyed the music and asked the choir to come back, maybe in the summer.
The students practise together and some of these sessions are held at the school campus, with the doors open for all to attend and enjoy the music.
Most visitors find Milton Ernest Hall fascinating. It is the only country house designed and built by the noted Gothic architect Sir William Butterfield whose “structural polychromy” with variegated brick banding became the fashion of the late Victorian period. The Gothic Revival was in its heyday between 1855 and 1885 and this Grade 1 listed building built in 1865 is a good example of the era.
The students also learnt that Milton Ernest Hall was used as a HQ by the Allied Forces in WW2. They found the small plaque that remembers those who served at this grand yet covert building close to Thurleigh Airfield. RAF Thurleigh hosted American B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft of the 8th Air Force during the war. 171 aircraft failed to return and there is a small museum on the airfield containing a Remembrance Book to all the young men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Some of the student’s ancestors were in the Allied Forces and the conductor’s elderly great grandfather is a former WW2 medic who spent most of the war in uniform. He was on the last boat out of Dunkirk, landed in Normandy D Day+3, survived Arnhem and carried on into Germany, finally caring for the emaciated survivors from Bergen Belsen. The British were the first to enter a death camp and first-hand accounts of mass graves, piles of corpses, and ‘living skeletons’ spread quickly around the world.
WOW…!!!!!
that is SO cool…
well done Georgie for always looking happy
Well done to evreyone else too!!!!!
Awesome music and singing – Keep it up ! God will bless you for all what you have done for these people – Good to see your face Amanda
Excellent singing guys. Good to hear some traditional stuff.
Real quality.
Keep it up…!
Robert
That is awesome………
Plz could we have recordings???
WOW!
Great singing. It brings tears to my eyes every time I hear you all singing or playing together. Great people, great company, great kids, great Christian Fellowship. Keep it up.
Very nice – well done!
Love the choice of songs….
Thats excellent music n vocals all of you – loved it!
Congrats!! Lets hear it again!
Amazing!!!!!
Keep it up!
Very inspiring songs and hymns.
lovely looking girls and boys. A true witness to
real Christianity.
awesome soloists and soprano go for it those high notes sound amazing…..!!!!
Keep up the good work and give older souls some good live music in their latter years!!
vvvvv good
Well done, excellent!!
Good to see a familiar face Amanda, sorry we don’t know you all!
Wow!
that is so good!
Amazing harmonies- you have impressed me!
Great work Biggleswade…….great singing!!!!
keep up the gud work!!
Brilliant! Well done everyone! Really enjoyable music – you must have really cheered up the elderly residents day! 🙂 🙂 Look forward to hearing you all again!!
Way to go!!
Well done Tom, Chloe, Narelle and Nikki. We appreciate all the hard work and time spent.
WOW!!! you are all so amazing.. the singing is just beautiful! and the soloist are amazing! it is perfection! well done to all of the choir and the conductor! so lovely and skilled!
ausome to hear music in the middle of a cyclone
great work england