"The Sieges of Lichfield" Topic
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| KeepYourPowderDry | 22 Jul 2020 4:28 a.m. PST |
Latest instalment of the ECW Travelogue visits Lichfield which saw three sieges, possibly the first recorded sniper fire 'kill', and the first known successful use of an explosive mine taking out fortified walls in England. link
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| Stoppage | 22 Jul 2020 6:52 a.m. PST |
@kentucky: Thanks for this – learned something new about drip moulds and label stops: Hood Mould – Wiki Where I live all the Tudor Yeoman's houses have them (South Pennines). |
| KeepYourPowderDry | 22 Jul 2020 8:11 a.m. PST |
Who's Kentucky? Certainly not me. As for obscure architectural water management features, they are much in use here in the Peak District |
martin goddard  | 22 Jul 2020 8:27 a.m. PST |
Is that not where Simon lives? |
| KeepYourPowderDry | 22 Jul 2020 8:44 a.m. PST |
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| Stoppage | 22 Jul 2020 9:52 a.m. PST |
Weren't you kypd? If not then I am mistaken and apologise. |
| KeepYourPowderDry | 22 Jul 2020 10:19 a.m. PST |
I was kypd38 for a while but it stood for Keep Your Powder Dry, nothing to do with Kentucky. |
| Stoppage | 22 Jul 2020 11:13 a.m. PST |
Well hopefully your armoury entrance has a dripstone which'll help keep your powder… |
| listlurker | 23 Jul 2020 4:23 a.m. PST |
"Is that not where Simon lives?" those last two pictures, my house is in-between … you could have popped in for a cup of tea :-) |
| KeepYourPowderDry | 23 Jul 2020 5:31 a.m. PST |
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proves himself a fan of splintered oars, crashing beakheads, and drummers yelling "come'mon, you scurves! The Captain wants to go water skiing, so pull harder!"