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ScribeAndSaint Quaestor
Posts : 8 Join date : 2020-12-20
| Subject: New User! Sun 20 Dec 2020, 18:13 | |
| Hi everyone, I am glad to be a new member of the forum. I enjoy all periods of history and look forward to sharing and learning with you all! |
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brenogler Praetor
Posts : 116 Join date : 2011-12-29 Location : newcastle - northumberland
| Subject: Re: New User! Sun 20 Dec 2020, 19:28 | |
| Welcome, ScribeAndSaint, I think you will learn more from the others but it seems they are all out Christmas shopping. |
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ScribeAndSaint Quaestor
Posts : 8 Join date : 2020-12-20
| Subject: Re: New User! Sun 20 Dec 2020, 19:32 | |
| - brenogler wrote:
- Welcome, ScribeAndSaint,
I think you will learn more from the others but it seems they are all out Christmas shopping. I hope to learn as much as I can! |
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LadyinRetirement Censura
Posts : 3293 Join date : 2013-09-16 Location : North-West Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: New User! Mon 21 Dec 2020, 17:02 | |
| Hi Scribe,
Welcome to the board and I will look forward to reading your contributions.
If I don't exchange messages with you before Xmas I hope you have an enjoyable festive season. |
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Triceratops Censura
Posts : 4377 Join date : 2012-01-05
| Subject: Re: New User! Tue 22 Dec 2020, 13:25 | |
| Welcome to the boards, ScribeAndSaint |
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Edward seymour Quaestor
Posts : 2 Join date : 2021-05-10 Age : 56 Location : Salisbury
| Subject: Hello Mon 10 May 2021, 21:37 | |
| Hi everybody , I am a cathedral guide and want to find out more about the guys who hang out in the tombs lol .I see you have a wide range of information on here ,so may be able to share what I know and find out something new at the same time Of course my guy has the most extravagant tomb I have ever come across |
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Dirk Marinus Consulatus
Posts : 298 Join date : 2016-02-03
| Subject: Re: New User! Mon 10 May 2021, 21:42 | |
| Edward,
WELCOME ABOARD
Dirk |
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Vizzer Censura
Posts : 1783 Join date : 2012-05-12
| Subject: Re: New User! Mon 10 May 2021, 21:47 | |
| Hi Edward - good to have you here and salutations to New Sarum! |
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LadyinRetirement Censura
Posts : 3293 Join date : 2013-09-16 Location : North-West Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: New User! Tue 11 May 2021, 11:30 | |
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Edward seymour Quaestor
Posts : 2 Join date : 2021-05-10 Age : 56 Location : Salisbury
| Subject: Re: New User! Thu 13 May 2021, 14:26 | |
| Thank you all , well spotted Vizzer |
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Mathews Quaestor
Posts : 2 Join date : 2021-08-09 Location : USA
| Subject: Re: New User! Mon 09 Aug 2021, 13:19 | |
| Hi! I am also new here, I love history and I am glad to be part of this community! |
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LadyinRetirement Censura
Posts : 3293 Join date : 2013-09-16 Location : North-West Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: New User! Tue 10 Aug 2021, 09:02 | |
| Welcome Mathews and hope you enjoy visiting the site. |
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Priscilla Censura
Posts : 2753 Join date : 2012-01-16
| Subject: Re: New User! Tue 10 Aug 2021, 11:15 | |
| Indeed yes. ... and do contribute too. We do need new blood. Oh Gawd that makes me sound like the resident vampire. |
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MarkUK Praetor
Posts : 142 Join date : 2022-03-13 Location : Staffordshire
| Subject: Re: New User! Sun 13 Mar 2022, 19:26 | |
| Hello. I've just joined! I've come over from a site on Aimoo that is suffering from a declining membership through illness and to be honest, the death of several members over the years, I'm 60 and the youngest on there! There are also access problems, so the few of us remaining are looking for a new home. I'm acting as advance guard/recce party to see what's out there and I've ended up here. It might take a bit of getting used to as it's all so different and a dizzying number of members (143 is truly dizzying!) I live in the English Midlands and have an interest in Royalty, the nobility, politics, colonial history and European matters in general, mostly pre-1939. |
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Johnny Stefan Quaestor
Posts : 19 Join date : 2022-02-26
| Subject: Re: New User! Sun 13 Mar 2022, 19:31 | |
| Hi I welcome you as well here.
kind regards John Stefan |
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LadyinRetirement Censura
Posts : 3293 Join date : 2013-09-16 Location : North-West Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: New User! Tue 15 Mar 2022, 16:22 | |
| Hello to new users. Mark, we've had some members leave on this site - or at least not comment for a long time - without explanation. A number of us are senior citizens so the reason could be declining health in some cases. Not everybody is a senior citizen though. From what you have said on other threads I think I must live (roughly if not exactly) in the same neck of the woods as I do.
In my hometown we have a high house and a Bear Inn though in the 1960s some half-timbered buildings were knocked down.
Edit: Omitted 'or' when first posting. Some of the keys on my laptop keyboard are failing so I must plug in an external keyboard but I keep forgetting to do so. |
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MarkUK Praetor
Posts : 142 Join date : 2022-03-13 Location : Staffordshire
| Subject: Re: New User! Tue 15 Mar 2022, 18:58 | |
| It's a small world, I live (keeping up the air of mystery) in the town seven miles north of you, the one with a famous Admiral buried within sight of my house. |
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LadyinRetirement Censura
Posts : 3293 Join date : 2013-09-16 Location : North-West Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: New User! Tue 15 Mar 2022, 20:32 | |
| I don't feel like going back through all my posts since 2013, Mark, but I'm pretty sure I've mentioned the name of my hometown at some time. I know which town you mean.
Now I don't want to cause offence if you are a fan of the novels of Phillipa Gregory but I wound up here around the time of the airing of The White Queen. I had a feeling of thank goodness I'm not the only person who doesn't like PG's work. |
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MarkUK Praetor
Posts : 142 Join date : 2022-03-13 Location : Staffordshire
| Subject: Re: New User! Tue 15 Mar 2022, 21:39 | |
| I don't like to give out other folks information without their consent, but we both know where we're talking about, so I'll take the plunge, I live in Stone, Staffordshire. True, I'm not a great fan of Philippa Gregory, in fact I read very little "modern" historical fiction, I tend to stick to novels written before about 1950. |
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LadyinRetirement Censura
Posts : 3293 Join date : 2013-09-16 Location : North-West Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: New User! Wed 16 Mar 2022, 08:54 | |
| I think I've mentioned my connection to the county town before. I like Stone. I know it's been developed like anywhere in the UK but I never get the feeling it's been terribly built up like Stafford. |
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MarkUK Praetor
Posts : 142 Join date : 2022-03-13 Location : Staffordshire
| Subject: Re: New User! Wed 16 Mar 2022, 19:13 | |
| I work in Stafford and have to negotiate the horrendous roadworks on the A34 twice every day, all due to yet more building work. They're still building houses on one side while putting in a roundabout a little further down for a huge distribution centre on the other. I'm sure I saw a sign saying delays until September 2023; yes, another 18 months of it! |
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Priscilla Censura
Posts : 2753 Join date : 2012-01-16
| Subject: Re: New User! Thu 17 Mar 2022, 11:35 | |
| it is a pleasure to meet you MK on board, a newcomer who participates in the spirit of the forum. My own contribution is somewhat less than erudite. but I do appreciate the stuff I learn from others who seem to go to great pains to search out interesting knowledge - or indeed harbour it and just pass it on. Regards, P. |
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Green George Censura
Posts : 805 Join date : 2018-10-19 Location : Kingdom of Mercia
| Subject: Re: New User! Thu 17 Mar 2022, 18:24 | |
| I live a few miles down the A449 from LiR. Yes, overdevelopment everywhere - places like Penkridge used to be villages, difficult to maintain that idea now! Towns in size, villages in facilities. |
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MarkUK Praetor
Posts : 142 Join date : 2022-03-13 Location : Staffordshire
| Subject: Re: New User! Thu 17 Mar 2022, 18:53 | |
| Just a mile or two from where I live is Bury Bank, an ancient hillfort much overgrown. When I was at school we were taught that it was the site of Wulfherecester the Royal seat of Wulfhere, King of Mercia in the 7th century. He had his two sons Wulfad and Rufin killed after St Chad converted them to Christianity. They were buried under a huge cairn of stones around which a town grew up. I now know I was lied to! It's much older and there's no archaeological evidence to link it to Wulfhere. It was a huge disappointment to discover, in my 20s, that the whole story of my home town's beginnings with the legend of the martyrs Wulfad and Rufin was a complete fallacy! Apparently the tale was created by the monks at the Augustinian Priory founded in the 1140s to attract pilgrims and their money. |
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AndreasOlsen Quaestor
Posts : 2 Join date : 2022-06-10
| Subject: Re: New User! Thu 16 Jun 2022, 14:50 | |
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LadyinRetirement Censura
Posts : 3293 Join date : 2013-09-16 Location : North-West Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: New User! Thu 16 Jun 2022, 15:47 | |
| Are you new here (or newish), Andreas? I sometimes have a head like a leaky bucket so if I've already said welcome and the memory has leaked from my head, forgive me. I'll say welcome anyway. |
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