Soooooo, how's this weather?

[Footy Chick]

Bloody hell, thought armageddon had arrived this morning with some of the loudest thunder i had heard in a very long time!!

Nothing in the north-eastern corner of town - a few drops, then some heavier drops, then back a few drops.

[The Dark Knight]

Bloody hell, thought armageddon had arrived this morning with some of the loudest thunder i had heard in a very long time!!

Storms just in time for ANZAC day. Standard.

[Wedgie]

Bloody hell, thought armageddon had arrived this morning with some of the loudest thunder i had heard in a very long time!!

Storms just in time for ANZAC day. Standard.

The Anzac Day parades I marched in were the opposite with old diggers fainting left, right and centre because it was so warm. Was quite disturbing. The cooler the better I aay.

[johntheclaret]

Bloody awful again

Torrential rain, been pissing down for 3 days solid now and no let up
Poor sheep have grown webbed feet

[mighty_tiger_79]

Garden is getting a good water

Wasnt fun driving in it this morning though....low visibility

[Lightning McQueen]

Bloody awful again

Torrential rain, been pissing down for 3 days solid now and no let up
Poor sheep have grown webbed feet

Where are you situated?

[johntheclaret]

Bloody awful again

Torrential rain, been pissing down for 3 days solid now and no let up
Poor sheep have grown webbed feet

Where are you situated?

Lancashire on the side of Pendle Hill

[Lightning McQueen]

Lancashire on the side of Pendle Hill

Witch territory?

[johntheclaret]

Lancashire on the side of Pendle Hill

Witch territory?

Yup. One of the witches that was hanged lived in our house. It was two houses then and she was accused of ‘bewitching’ the two brothers who lived next door. One died in 1609 and the other in 1610. She was hung at Lancaster Castle in 1612. There are two graves in Newchurch cemetery with the names Robinson and dated 1609 and 1610.

The Robinsons were called before the magistrate in 1549 for having an ‘unkept’ farm. It isn’t clear if it is the Robinson brothers or their parents, but it refers to our house by name. We thought the place was built in 1578 but this dates it to at least 1549 and we assume it was a working farm before this date.

[Booney]

Lancashire on the side of Pendle Hill

Witch territory?

Yup. One of the witches that was hanged lived in our house. It was two houses then and she was accused of ‘bewitching’ the two brothers who lived next door. One died in 1609 and the other in 1610. She was hung at Lancaster Castle in 1612. There are two graves in Newchurch cemetery with the names Robinson and dated 1609 and 1610.

The Robinsons were called before the magistrate in 1549 for having an ‘unkept’ farm. It isn’t clear if it is the Robinson brothers or their parents, but it refers to our house by name. We thought the place was built in 1578 but this dates it to at least 1549 and we assume it was a working farm before this date.

Brilliant, love history like that.

Our house, by no means as historical as that, was built 1896 which for us South'strayans is quite old. I've got a good deal of information from the previous owner, the owner prior to them and our former neighbour next door who lived in her house from 1954 until just a few years ago.

On a side note, my boss is from Royal Lemington Spa.

[Lightning McQueen]

Lancashire on the side of Pendle Hill

Witch territory?

Yup. One of the witches that was hanged lived in our house. It was two houses then and she was accused of ‘bewitching’ the two brothers who lived next door. One died in 1609 and the other in 1610. She was hung at Lancaster Castle in 1612. There are two graves in Newchurch cemetery with the names Robinson and dated 1609 and 1610.

The Robinsons were called before the magistrate in 1549 for having an ‘unkept’ farm. It isn’t clear if it is the Robinson brothers or their parents, but it refers to our house by name. We thought the place was built in 1578 but this dates it to at least 1549 and we assume it was a working farm before this date.

Brilliant, love history like that.

Our house, by no means as historical as that, was built 1896 which for us South'strayans is quite old. I've got a good deal of information from the previous owner, the owner prior to them and our former neighbour next door who lived in her house from 1954 until just a few years ago.

On a side note, my boss is from Royal Lemington Spa.

Absolutely, puts into perspective the saying "if only these walls could talk"

[Footy Chick]

Lancashire on the side of Pendle Hill

Witch territory?

Yup. One of the witches that was hanged lived in our house. It was two houses then and she was accused of ‘bewitching’ the two brothers who lived next door. One died in 1609 and the other in 1610. She was hung at Lancaster Castle in 1612. There are two graves in Newchurch cemetery with the names Robinson and dated 1609 and 1610.

The Robinsons were called before the magistrate in 1549 for having an ‘unkept’ farm. It isn’t clear if it is the Robinson brothers or their parents, but it refers to our house by name. We thought the place was built in 1578 but this dates it to at least 1549 and we assume it was a working farm before this date.

How could they tell they were witches?

Did they everyone into Newts?

[johntheclaret]

Lancashire on the side of Pendle Hill

Witch territory?

Yup. One of the witches that was hanged lived in our house. It was two houses then and she was accused of ‘bewitching’ the two brothers who lived next door. One died in 1609 and the other in 1610. She was hung at Lancaster Castle in 1612. There are two graves in Newchurch cemetery with the names Robinson and dated 1609 and 1610.

The Robinsons were called before the magistrate in 1549 for having an ‘unkept’ farm. It isn’t clear if it is the Robinson brothers or their parents, but it refers to our house by name. We thought the place was built in 1578 but this dates it to at least 1549 and we assume it was a working farm before this date.

Brilliant, love history like that.

Our house, by no means as historical as that, was built 1896 which for us South'strayans is quite old. I've got a good deal of information from the previous owner, the owner prior to them and our former neighbour next door who lived in her house from 1954 until just a few years ago.

On a side note, my boss is from Royal Lemington Spa.

When we were having the lounge renovated we decided to get rid of the old wood burner. We got the builders to take off the dry lining on the wall and dig out the filled in fire place. When they’d finish they’d got back to the original fire place complete with ash stained stone. We’ve had an open fire built in there and have to say it looks terrific.

The stone lintel above the door is carved with the initials HMR 1616. We’d assumed the 1616 meant the date the 2nd house was built but having learned of the Robinsons we can only guess that the R in HMR stands for Robinson. Above someone else has carved some initials and 1716. The 1616 carving is very neat, almost like it’s been done by a stone carver. The 1716 looks like it’s been scratched on and is very untidy, like a ‘Fitzroy woz ere ‘

The house still has the original wood beams which is incredible to think they have been there for over 450 years.

[Pseudo]

Lancashire on the side of Pendle Hill

Witch territory?

Yup. One of the witches that was hanged lived in our house. It was two houses then and she was accused of ‘bewitching’ the two brothers who lived next door. One died in 1609 and the other in 1610. She was hung at Lancaster Castle in 1612. There are two graves in Newchurch cemetery with the names Robinson and dated 1609 and 1610.

The Robinsons were called before the magistrate in 1549 for having an ‘unkept’ farm. It isn’t clear if it is the Robinson brothers or their parents, but it refers to our house by name. We thought the place was built in 1578 but this dates it to at least 1549 and we assume it was a working farm before this date.

How could they tell they were witches?

Did they everyone into Newts?

[Booney]

When we were having the lounge renovated we decided to get rid of the old wood burner. We got the builders to take off the dry lining on the wall and dig out the filled in fire place. When they’d finish they’d got back to the original fire place complete with ash stained stone. We’ve had an open fire built in there and have to say it looks terrific.

The stone lintel above the door is carved with the initials HMR 1616. We’d assumed the 1616 meant the date the 2nd house was built but having learned of the Robinsons we can only guess that the R in HMR stands for Robinson. Above someone else has carved some initials and 1716. The 1616 carving is very neat, almost like it’s been done by a stone carver. The 1716 looks like it’s been scratched on and is very untidy, like a ‘Fitzroy woz ere ‘

The house still has the original wood beams which is incredible to think they have been there for over 450 years.

Fantastic.

We ripped our bathroom out around 3 years ago. Under the tiled floor was screed, under that screed was another layer of tiles and another screed. Under that level was two large pieces of blue slate, mintaro probably.

The slate is about 1800mm long, 400mm wide, around 40mm thick. It's scalloped out in the middle suggesting it was probably the original step down into / up out of the old semi-detatched bathroom.

[Lightning McQueen]

How could they tell they were witches?

Did they everyone into Newts?

They hat pointy hats obviously.

[johntheclaret]

Lancashire on the side of Pendle Hill

Witch territory?

Yup. One of the witches that was hanged lived in our house. It was two houses then and she was accused of ‘bewitching’ the two brothers who lived next door. One died in 1609 and the other in 1610. She was hung at Lancaster Castle in 1612. There are two graves in Newchurch cemetery with the names Robinson and dated 1609 and 1610.

The Robinsons were called before the magistrate in 1549 for having an ‘unkept’ farm. It isn’t clear if it is the Robinson brothers or their parents, but it refers to our house by name. We thought the place was built in 1578 but this dates it to at least 1549 and we assume it was a working farm before this date.

How could they tell they were witches?

Did they everyone into Newts?

The three main families, Device, Demdykes and Chattox, had a get together in one of their houses (not ours) Malkin Tower, on the sabbath when they should have been in church. They were a bit like gypsies and offered herbal remedies and poultices to earn money. One of the family was accused of paralysing a man who refused to Sell her some pins. The local notary from Clitheroe who had designs on the land owned by the Demdykes and Chattocks saw his chance and got the granddaughter of old Demdykes, Alice Device who was only about 12 years old, to confess and point the finger at her grandma and others who were at the meeting. Alice Nutter was one of them, and her direct descendents still live in the village.

Anyway as karma would have it, Alice Devices herself was hanged as a witch some years later when she was around 21.

Mrs Claret, who knows far more about this than I do, says the witch that lived in our house wasn’t hanged, and was probably Margaret Pearson who was tried for witchcraft, bewitching her neighbours and bewitching a horse and was pilloried for her crimes.

[johntheclaret]

When we were having the lounge renovated we decided to get rid of the old wood burner. We got the builders to take off the dry lining on the wall and dig out the filled in fire place. When they’d finish they’d got back to the original fire place complete with ash stained stone. We’ve had an open fire built in there and have to say it looks terrific.

The stone lintel above the door is carved with the initials HMR 1616. We’d assumed the 1616 meant the date the 2nd house was built but having learned of the Robinsons we can only guess that the R in HMR stands for Robinson. Above someone else has carved some initials and 1716. The 1616 carving is very neat, almost like it’s been done by a stone carver. The 1716 looks like it’s been scratched on and is very untidy, like a ‘Fitzroy woz ere ‘

The house still has the original wood beams which is incredible to think they have been there for over 450 years.

Fantastic.

We ripped our bathroom out around 3 years ago. Under the tiled floor was screed, under that screed was another layer of tiles and another screed. Under that level was two large pieces of blue slate, mintaro probably.

The slate is about 1800mm long, 400mm wide, around 40mm thick. It's scalloped out in the middle suggesting it was probably the original step down into / up out of the old semi-detatched bathroom.

I hope you’ve managed to keep it.

[Booney]

When we were having the lounge renovated we decided to get rid of the old wood burner. We got the builders to take off the dry lining on the wall and dig out the filled in fire place. When they’d finish they’d got back to the original fire place complete with ash stained stone. We’ve had an open fire built in there and have to say it looks terrific.

The stone lintel above the door is carved with the initials HMR 1616. We’d assumed the 1616 meant the date the 2nd house was built but having learned of the Robinsons we can only guess that the R in HMR stands for Robinson. Above someone else has carved some initials and 1716. The 1616 carving is very neat, almost like it’s been done by a stone carver. The 1716 looks like it’s been scratched on and is very untidy, like a ‘Fitzroy woz ere ‘

The house still has the original wood beams which is incredible to think they have been there for over 450 years.

Fantastic.

We ripped our bathroom out around 3 years ago. Under the tiled floor was screed, under that screed was another layer of tiles and another screed. Under that level was two large pieces of blue slate, mintaro probably.

The slate is about 1800mm long, 400mm wide, around 40mm thick. It's scalloped out in the middle suggesting it was probably the original step down into / up out of the old semi-detatched bathroom.

I hope you’ve managed to keep it.

Sure did, plan on making it a bar top in my under cover area.

[johntheclaret]

When we were having the lounge renovated we decided to get rid of the old wood burner. We got the builders to take off the dry lining on the wall and dig out the filled in fire place. When they’d finish they’d got back to the original fire place complete with ash stained stone. We’ve had an open fire built in there and have to say it looks terrific.

The stone lintel above the door is carved with the initials HMR 1616. We’d assumed the 1616 meant the date the 2nd house was built but having learned of the Robinsons we can only guess that the R in HMR stands for Robinson. Above someone else has carved some initials and 1716. The 1616 carving is very neat, almost like it’s been done by a stone carver. The 1716 looks like it’s been scratched on and is very untidy, like a ‘Fitzroy woz ere ‘

The house still has the original wood beams which is incredible to think they have been there for over 450 years.

Fantastic.

We ripped our bathroom out around 3 years ago. Under the tiled floor was screed, under that screed was another layer of tiles and another screed. Under that level was two large pieces of blue slate, mintaro probably.

The slate is about 1800mm long, 400mm wide, around 40mm thick. It's scalloped out in the middle suggesting it was probably the original step down into / up out of the old semi-detatched bathroom.

I hope you’ve managed to keep it.

Sure did, plan on making it a bar top in my under cover area.

A nice Guinness Extra Cold would sit nicely on that.