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Post by Northy on Aug 7, 2018 20:31:52 GMT
Interesting stuff, currently watching the documentary on the knights Templars and if they survived beyond 1308. Didn't realise keele was founded by them.
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Post by potterinleeds on Aug 8, 2018 8:19:52 GMT
Interesting stuff, currently watching the documentary on the knights Templars and if they survived beyond 1308. Didn't realise keele was founded by them. They have attracted a lot of conspiracy stuff over the years, and there were quite a few revivals of bogus 'Templar' societies in the 19th and early 20th centuries, much of it linked to Freemasonry / Catholicism. However, I do believe that there is good evidence that the order's dissolution / excommunication in the early 14th century was a put-up job between the papacy and the King of France. They were never as harshly persecuted in England as in France, and I think many joined other orders, such as the Hospitallers or the Cistercians. There is a small potted history of the Keele estate below: www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol3/pp267-268Outside of London, their main power base was in Yorkshire. Indeed, their name is perpetuated in one of best remaining 'proper' boozers in Leeds city centre, The Templar Hotel on Vicar Lane.
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Post by potterinleeds on Aug 15, 2018 16:48:22 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45170581. A few more archaeological sites revealed by recent hot weather, including (towards bottom) a nice aerial photo of Tixall Gatehouse showing the buried foundations of the adjacent Tixall Hall. The gatehouse is one of my favourite buildings in Staffordshire.
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Post by Northy on Aug 15, 2018 17:19:18 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45170581. A few more archaeological sites revealed by recent hot weather, including (towards bottom) a nice aerial photo of Tixall Gatehouse showing the buried foundations of the adjacent Tixall Hall. The gatehouse is one of my favourite buildings in Staffordshire. Amazing stuff, saw a lot of it on the news last night. One of my lads is a geophysicist and volunteers on archaelogical digs sometime, there's a lot to keep them going for years.
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Post by Northy on Aug 16, 2018 7:17:34 GMT
thats a cold wind blowing this morning, brrr, hurry up and come back please summer.
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Post by murphthesurf on Sept 14, 2018 22:19:27 GMT
Thought about you about two hours ago, Chuff. Saw a pic of an octopus. Love the sound of Bordeaux. I'd like to say 'got the T-shirt' but I didn't get one and in any case when I went there it was probably before T-shirts were invented. Lovely cathedral. If you go in, light us a candle for next season. Actually, it wasn't a whole octopus, come to think of it, as it was on a plate in a recipe and I thought "I know who'd like that.". There was another for squid. Zapped them off quickly. And this weather is still too bluddy hot for me. Here's the other D-I-Y recipe for ockies I found a couple of weeks ago, Chuff, which I thought you might like. (Not for me, though! ) I thought I perhaps shouldn't put it on the EEFC thread or somebody'll start complaining! www.brindisa.com/spanish-food-recipes/spanish-tapas-party-recipes/charred-octopus-borough-market/
BUMP..............
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Post by chuffedstokie on Sept 15, 2018 22:04:35 GMT
BUMP.............. My kind of nosh. 👍
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2018 3:58:55 GMT
BUMP.............. My kind of nosh. 👍 Oh no, no, no thank you
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Post by murphthesurf on Sept 16, 2018 10:17:58 GMT
BUMP.............. My kind of nosh. 👍 Well, I actually bumped it because on the new 'Cookery' thread Mr. alsager was asking about cooking okkies, so I said you were an expert and we'd recently been discussing them on the 'Bloody Weather' thread so I'd bring it back up --- (excuse the phrase - apt for discussing eating this particular ingredient) --- for him - so I did.
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