Battle of Blore Heath with a stone cross in 1765. The battle was commemorated by a re-enactment each year in September at Blore Heath until 2009. Battle of Blore Heath The Battle of Blore Heath was one of the first major battles in the English Wars of the Roses. It was fought on 23 September 1459, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. Blore Heath itself is a sparsely populated area of farmland, two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, and close to the towns of Market Drayton and Loggerheads, Staffordshire. After the First Battle of St Albans in 1455, an uneasy
Roses in the Hospital edit of the song, being replaced by a reiteration of the title. The song's closing refrain of "Forever, ever delayed" would eventually provide the title for the band's greatest hits compilation ("Forever Delayed"), an album on which "Roses in the Hospital" itself would not make an appearance. Roses in the Hospital "Roses in the Hospital" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released in 1993 by record label Epic as the third single from their second album, "Gold Against the Soul". At the end of the song James Dean Bradfield can be heard singing