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Nov 8, 2018 · Today's young members of a historic Burnley youth club have been learning about the sacrifices made by their forebears who fought and died in the First World War. The Burnley Lads Club, as it was then called, saw 124 of its brave young sons go to war and never come back, including the club's founder Henry Riley, who perished on the Somme like ...
Feb 18, 2021 · With over 120 years of history, a war hero founder and the huge difference they make in the community, Burnley Boys and Girls Club is something to be celebrated. Founded in 1899, originally titled the Burnley Lads’ Club by Henry Davison Riley, the club was a haven for boys who had fallen into the wrong crowd in the early 20th century.
Aug 28, 2014 · Burnley was linked to the towns of the West Riding of Yorkshire by the Long Causeway which ran from Towneley towards Heptonstall. There was another road, which led from Gannow to Rochdale and on to Manchester and a route led through Ightenhill to Higham, Whalley and Clitheroe.
Churchill’s speech has entered the canon of great speeches for one reason above all others: his use of the phrase ‘iron curtain’ to describe the divide between the capitalist West (dominated by Britain and America) and the Communist East (controlled and influenced by the Soviet Union).
Feb 11, 2009 · Churchill's ‘iron curtain’ speech at Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946, was a major effort to promote both a strengthened Anglo-American combination and a firmer western front against the Soviet Union.
Sep 14, 2024 · Winston Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946. In it he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” across Europe.
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Why was the 'Iron Curtain' speech important? It helped bolster American and western European opposition to communism and the Soviet Union . It worsened relations between the USSR and the West.
