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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #30 on: Friday, March 28, 2014, 20:46:23 »

Fuck me. It's a fucking gate.

But isn't the cast iron so ornate?
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #31 on: Friday, March 28, 2014, 20:46:41 »

Fuck me. It's a fucking gate.

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Ardiles

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« Reply #32 on: Friday, March 28, 2014, 20:52:25 »

South Brook was indeed a farm.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/community/neighbourhood/ferndale/guide/

I didn't even know that the Southbrook Inn existed, is it still open? Has anybody frequented it?

That's brilliant.  Never in a million years would I have imagined that there was a building like that in Ferndale.  Lovely looking place.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #33 on: Friday, March 28, 2014, 22:11:27 »

Fuck me. It's a fucking gate.

Nevertheless, it throws up a fascinating insight into how we interpret the past and evidence for making those decisions...the epistemology of history...
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« Reply #34 on: Friday, March 28, 2014, 22:20:43 »

As a relatively newcomer to Swindon I find this type of thread most fascinating, keep it coming  Smiley
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« Reply #35 on: Friday, March 28, 2014, 22:36:15 »

Oooh, are you going to the lecture Reg? I can't as I am away for the weekend from tomorrow lunch time.

Yeah went to the lecture....certainly has thrown up more questions for me than provided answers.  It's a very difficult subject for study as the available evidence is so evanescent...essentially some aerial photos from 1966, and a further corroborated photo seen in the 70's but now mislaid possibly in the Swindon Museum Archive.

Geophysics has not seen anything, but computer enhancement can do stuff....so a bit of a leap of faith required, but I'm quite happy to do that, as I like the idea of standing on the long barrow near Liddington on the end of Shuger Waie...looking over the valley and seeing 2 monumental chalk figure there.

I've always regarded Liddington Hill as a special place, possibly the site of the Arthurian, Battle of Badon...and so possibly at least one of the figures might be connected to that event.
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« Reply #36 on: Friday, March 28, 2014, 23:39:56 »

Was there a free bar Reg
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« Reply #37 on: Saturday, March 29, 2014, 04:03:50 »

Was there a free bar Reg

Glass or two of wine available at the end.
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