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SimonBDC

@simonbdc.bsky.social

Three Choirs Festival volunteer archivist and historian. 'Three Choirs Festival in 10 Concerts' (Logaston) Gloucester Cathedral Volunteer and Friend. Hampshire Cricket fan.

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Lovely Autumn colours in a Gloucester field

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

A stonking @threechoirs.bsky.social concert from the 1880s

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Three vintage @threechoirs.bsky.social postcards

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Just about as proud of getting this reference into Jeremy Pound's excellent article on castrati in July's BBC Music Magazine as anything I've ever done for @threechoirs.bsky.social

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Just arrived via ILL. Hoping to learn more of the context of what was going on @gloucestercathedral.org.uk just before the Dissolution

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The 1895 @threechoirs.bsky.social line up ...

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The 1961 @threechoirs.bsky.social line up the year the great Janet Baker made her Festival debut

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

From Lee Williams', @gloucestercathedral.org.uk organist, annotated copy of the 1884 @threechoirs.bsky.social programme highlighting the 3 members of the Elgar family in the orchestra

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Love this Edwardian postcard of St Bartholomew's at the top of Chosen Hill. How Gurney and @herberthowells.bsky.social would have seen it ...

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Brewer looking purposeful at the 1910 @threechoirs.bsky.social with @herberthowells.bsky.social and Ivor Gurney in his wake ...

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Spectacular crocuses in the garden this year!

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Why I love volunteering for @threechoirs.bsky.social Seeing stuff like this (from the 1928 Gloucester programme) every day.

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A group of ticket collectors from the 1925 Gloucester @threechoirs.bsky.social including three choristers, the cathedral head gardener (in the bowler hat), a policeman and a car park attendant

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Having spent weeks researching Alice Parsons, Coleridge Taylor's 'The Atonement' librettist I was a bit surprised to see today that she was not credited in the @3choirs.org programme

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The 1890 @3choirs.org line up.

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

@robertflute.bsky.social What a find!

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Just taken delivery of some exciting additions to the @3choirs.org office Festival archive. Thanks to the family of the late Festival stalwart Robin Stayt

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Not a lot has changed in a 100 years here @gloucestercathedral.org.uk apart from the cars!

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

O to be a @3choirs.org time traveller! An extract from the Annals ...

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Looks fab!,I look forward to reading it. And from a Three Choirs autograph book ...

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SimonBDC @simonbdc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Lionel Tertis, just one of the countess musical icons to have appeared at the Three Choirs Festival since the early 18th century.

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