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.
awwwwsom
could do with a few more boys but flippin good anyways
🙂 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
insane singing rozzy – brings tears to our eyes….nice tonsils 🙂
Well impressed with the orderly, disciplined way of presenting your choir. All standing respectfully (no hopping around) and as someone mentioned before, all
singing with clear voices due to opening their mouths properly .
This is certainly a proof of disciplined, long and persevering
practice and many hours of rehearsals.
Well done Everyone!
Real Christians with their heart & soul enthused which brought such wonderful results to light.
Keep up the good work! We are looking out for the next edition.
You will never know how much comfort your choir brings.The singing, parts and harmony are beautiful!
Please could we have some lyrics posted on here??
Beautiful! Lot of hard work put into this. Well done, it’s lovely to hear a choir again! I guess the residents really did enjoy this.
Your singing was outstanding. It must have been very uplifting & inspiring for the elderly people. Keep it up!
Lovley. And i see some of u did the Red X Ebola Appeal Bikerthon as well. Well done 4 all the money u raised 4 the vulnerable in Africa.
https://theplymouthbrethren.org.uk/plymouth-brethren-biggleswade-campus-help-fight-ebola/
Love ‘Colours Of The Wind’ – such complex parts you sang! And so many hours of practice! Any more music in the pipeline?!!
Excellent – well done, keep up the good work!!!!!
10/10 Anton, thoroughly impressed!
Very good singing!! Well Done 😉 Come & listen to you one day!
This is brilliant, well done Bedford!
Keep it up tho…
Good organisation.
I have listened to these videos everyday since they came on the web site…………..
They are amazing and I never tire from seeing and hearing them.
A big thank you for the recordings!!!!! They are phenomenal!!!!!!!!!!
Keep up the good work in inspiring the elderly and many, many more……………….
Wow………That is incredible…..
Well done All……Specially Jordan and Anton……
Can’t wait for you to start your next one……one v. high standard.
Thanx allot for the recordings……
Me
This is awesome!!
Thanks for the full songs!!!!
Makes you realise how much time would have gone into practising to get them all to such a high level.
Incredible parts and harmonies!
Well done everyone!!!!
You bunch have a real talent!
Keep up the good work!
Awesome singing, must have been hours off practise.
That’s what you call proper singing.
No wonder the care home had an uplift.
that is amazing do more!!!:)
Well done everyone!
There are some amazing soprano singers in your group. Well done Georgie & Roslyn, and the male solos too. It is good see a choir where every member opens their mouth properly and sings with all their effort. You have such strong voices, especially the males. Lovely harmonies too. Excellent selection of songs.
Thank you for cheering the elderly, and keep up your wonderful work!
Good work everyone, esp the soloists!
And where would we be today without the likes of Major Glenn Millar and the conductor’s elderly great grandfather?
We should remember these old chaps sacrifice that stopped a dictator trying to destroy the Judeo-Christian heritage in Europe.
“WE DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIEW THAT ONE SHOULD FEED THE HUNGRY, GIVE DRINK TO THE THIRSTY, OR CLOTHE THE NAKED.”
Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, 1938
When Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt met in August 1941 on the battleship HMS Prince of Wales, Prime Minister Churchill chose some hymns to sing. He chose “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and afterwards said;
“We sang “Onward, Christian Soldiers” indeed, and I felt that this was no vain presumption, but that we had the right to feel that we serving a cause for the sake of which a trumpet has sounded from on high. When I looked upon that densely packed congregation of fighting men of the same language, of the same faith, of the same fundamental laws, of the same ideals … it swept across me that here was the only hope, but also the sure hope, of saving the world from measureless degradation.”
So thanks for singing to the sick and elderly. Lovely voices and from the heart. I presume it is free of charge as well?
wow yeah i agree with all the above comments….also would like to see some more of this?!!