General Chat

Everybody on here has a deep and abiding interest in mediaeval shipping now don't they?

No, thought not.

Well, we have never ,ever, driven on the wrong side of the road legally and we have been toying with the idea of taking my Smart abroad at some point, for the experience.

There are a couple of places I think I might like to go, and if I want to go there he has no choice!

One of them is Guedelon in Burgundy where there is a mediaeval manor house being authentically built. The bricks are made on site and run up in baskets which are also made on site.

The other place I had been thinking about was Bremerhaven where the Bremen Cog is preserved. That is a 14century ship that sunk as soon as it set sail and was preserved in mud.

This morning I discover there is a reconstructed cog in a place called Kampen, not a very long way out of Amsterdam. A whole ship you can get on and explore.

The pictures on line are marvellous and I want to go there. IN A MINUTE.

tell us all about it when you get back :-D

Would you go via the Tunnel or ferry from Dover?
Both fairly easy.... I'll wave to you~~~~

Either way there's a Bronze Age boat in Dover you could view for good measure. Not the right era, but interesting nevertheless.

Gwyn

All the details and how I will get there, tell you about it when I get back ?

It is only kind of formulating in an unused part of my murky little mind at the moment.

Still not sure about the tunnel, not with my claustrophobia!

You can legally drive on the right hand side in Uk,,,,,,

the road up to the entrance of the Savoy is right side road drive only,go up and down there a few times it will be a legal experience..... ;-) :-D :-D :-D

Sharron, I suggest that you visit the Historic Dockyard at Chatham. Go early though, as there is a lot to see. You can re-visit on the same ticket for 12 months if you don't get round it in one go. Bob

I have been there Bob. We took Fred there and I am glad we did. They have a destroyer(?) there that is the same as the one he was stoker on in the Russian convoys.

My interest is particularly in mediaeval shipping and I am very excited by the idea of being able to see a reconstructed cog. If somebody has reconstructed a hulk as well, then my life would be complete!

Do I sense the thought 'Get a life woman!' forming in your mind?

Sharron its called a,

Wish List of things I want to do.

go do it. ;-)

Sharron - get a life :-D Go and see what YOU want to see - that's a life :-D :-D :-D


Personally, I like the tops of downpipes, you know, where the drainpipe meets the gutter. The interesting ones are usually quite old, created by plumbers in the original sense of the word, but for some strange reason, very little information about them. Nowhere can I find information on a town/village with a plethora of interesting downpipe tops.

There's a particularly lovely one in Salisbury, decorated with ducks.

Maggie
I will now have to check drainpipes when I'm out and about.!
What a pity I haven't looked in on this site for a few days, I could have had a fine old time yesterday investigating the back streets of Canterbury.

After grandson had an I-Spy book years ago, I always notice foot-scrapers outside old houses.

Gwyn

Strangely enough there is very little written about animal pounds.

I know this because we have what is supposed to be a preserved pound in the village but I think it is something I think more exciting so I tried to get some information about them.

There is also a Victorian post box in our village. They are still about.

Is the post box a hexagonal shape?
There is one in Folkestone like that.

A small postbox on a pillar in the country a few miles from here featured on the Post Office issue stamps in recent years.

It's good to notice these things............................

Gwyn

No, it's just one of those that is strapped to a telegraph pole.

Another totally useless fact for you. There is a point, or there was, on the Pagham Banks around the harbour where you can see seven churches within about ten yards.

Church Norton,Sidlesham, Donnington, Hunston, North Mundham, Pagham and Chichester Cathedral (the only cathedral visible from the sea).

Now you are wondering how you ever managed without that knowledge aren't you?

Sharron... put petrol In the car.. pack a case and book a hotel and go.... you never know what tomorrow may or may not bring.....

If I put petrol in the car it will cost me ever so much, it's diesel.

I wouldn't get far either, no passport.

Have only just been paid something after five weeks. Wouldn't be able to spend much.

When the time is right I will do it.

sharron... that cracks me up about the diesel....

but u go for it girl..

One day Sharron :-D

But in the meantime, you can peruse boot scrapers, post boxes, downpipe tops oh - and coal holes wherever you are :-D

I am usually in here.

The Holy Family Cathedral in Kuwait can easily be seen from the sea.

Ely Cathedral was built at a time when the Fens were a vast area of marsh and brackish water merging softly with the sea. Even now early on a hot summer's morning it can be seen from a distance floating in the morning mist.

The Fens and the wetlands of eastern England from Spurn Head to Sheerness have some of the most beautiful landscapes and evocative places in Britain. It is sad that so few people have ever heard the booming call of a bittern.

The only British cathedral visible from the sea then.