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- Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:42 pm
- Forum: 1485-1603
- Topic: The Farm goes back to Tudor Times
- Replies: 83
- Views: 61613
Re: The Farm goes back to Tudor Times
While I shall still watch......I think they're all more designed for a mass audience than the original "Green Valley"........
- Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:33 pm
- Forum: Societies
- Topic: Ragged Victorians - 1840/50s
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7471
Re: Ragged Victorians - 1840/50s
Mark Griffin wrote:and not a bl**dy cog, tarted up nerf gun or pair of goggles in sight!

- Tue Oct 08, 2013 2:40 pm
- Forum: Societies
- Topic: Ragged Victorians - 1840/50s
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7471
Re: Ragged Victorians - 1840/50s
Looking good!..My Victorian interest is 1880's grunge,but the dirt is the same........... 

- Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:44 pm
- Forum: Societies
- Topic: French and Indian/War of Independence Groups
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4566
Re: French and Indian/War of Independence Groups
Lexington Minute Company are all over the country(even the South-West!) and VERY friendly.......... 

- Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:30 pm
- Forum: 1900 onwards
- Topic: Webbing pattern dates
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5684
Re: Webbing pattern dates
It's one of the few "out of my period" sites I keep on my favourites to answer the odd "Hmm,I wonder...".....Don't think the '44 was ever universally issued...designed for Far East use and given to Airbourne and Commandos post-war...BTW,a Helmet is NOT part of a webbing set...Just happened to come o...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:18 pm
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: Trying to learn fast
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7529
Re: Trying to learn fast
Have a quick look at the Peggy's Neccessities website...Nice "How to get dressed" section.
- Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:07 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Grenadier Guards - Early History
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7091
Re: Grenadier Guards - Early History
Not off-hand...It's one showing Charlie leaving Holland for England...Shows Musketeers in Buff Coats and rather strange Helmets..I Think it's in the Houses of Parliament.
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:58 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Grenadier Guards - Early History
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7091
Re: Grenadier Guards - Early History
AFAIK,There's no evidence for coats/colours before the Restoration...Whether they were uniformed at all in the 1650's is an interesting point..........The painting long thought to show them in 1660 is now generally thought to show Dutch Militia.........
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:46 pm
- Forum: Music and Instruments
- Topic: British Fifers in the AWI
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6095
Re: British Fifers in the AWI
A google for "Revwar music" or such,will bring up quite a few US links..Or ask Cat in the Lexington company...I know She was looking at that side of things.
- Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:15 am
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Later pilgrimages
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3297
Re: Later pilgrimages
I guess........breaking shrines up could put a downer on it........

- Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:01 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Where can I get natural cotton?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 20744
Re: Where can I get natural cotton?
Townsend do bags of tow
- Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:05 pm
- Forum: Traders Discussion
- Topic: Re-Enactors Markets
- Replies: 30
- Views: 18922
Re: Re-Enactors Markets
Different view here...I'd sooner the existing ones were further apart in date!
A) too much cost in a short period of time
B) Not all periods have traders at events..something in the season would be useful
ATM looks like we have 6 fairs within 4-5 months then Zilch.............
A) too much cost in a short period of time
B) Not all periods have traders at events..something in the season would be useful
ATM looks like we have 6 fairs within 4-5 months then Zilch.............
- Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:00 pm
- Forum: Creative Works
- Topic: a-hunting we will go!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 25658
Re: a-hunting we will go!
But what happened to the Trade knives?.....I was all excited and waitin' and everythin'..........
Steve
Steve
- Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:27 am
- Forum: Book, Film, TV & Music Reviews
- Topic: Recommended. WW2-Hitlers soft underbelly BBC iPlayer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3276
Re: Recommended. WW2-Hitlers soft underbelly BBC iPlayer
Caught it by accident....very good programme.
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:15 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Pikes at Bosworth.....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8839
Re: Pikes at Bosworth.....
I've got one,but it's bugger-all to do with the the technicalities of period combat.......... 

- Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:29 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Pikes at Bosworth.....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8839
Re: Pikes at Bosworth.....
TBH,I'm not really concerned over Richard in this topic....Just the likelihood of their being a considerable number of pikemen present..I was unaware of the change from Franc-Archiers to Bandes,so I guess their is provenance for the idea..........
- Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:13 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Pikes at Bosworth.....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8839
Re: Pikes at Bosworth.....
I thought the Barnet thing was due to the lines overlapping,rather than to skill or lack of it.....
- Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:47 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Pikes at Bosworth.....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8839
Re: Pikes at Bosworth.....
If I remember rightly...There's a reference to Edward IV entering London with Foreign Pikes in 1471 (as well as the better-known handgunners).......
- Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:14 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Pikes at Bosworth.....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8839
Pikes at Bosworth.....
Anyone know where the Idea Tudor's French troops were pikemen comes from?..Seen it in two recent books as an assumption...I was under the impression the French mainly relied on Swiss pikes,while the native foot were Franc-Archers or Crossbowmen..........Also the idea the they were a shock to Richard...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:35 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: What does the public see?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11926
Re: What does the public see?
Horses for courses...I'm doing this for my standards,not the public's.....So whenever possible I go glasses-less,but use my authenti ones for when I really need them...I saved my old modern ones,£15 to have lenses cut down to fit frames from a junk shop.....BUT I wouldn't consider a period where I d...
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:23 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Penny Knife (Conversion)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3598
Re: Penny Knife (Conversion)
All nice work!...Mine has "Made in Pakistan"...... 

- Tue May 22, 2012 3:26 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18737
Re: 18th century street life
[quote="cannontickler" the minutemen are a brilliant idea i recon, fills a gap in the market. I didn't catch up with how far the minutemen company had actually got last year beforeend of play. what plans are there for minutemen outings this season so far....?? myself and Captain Reech could quite se...
- Wed May 16, 2012 12:46 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18737
Re: 18th century street life
Both.............
- Wed May 16, 2012 10:17 am
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18737
Re: 18th century street life
Nice ideas for the Minutemen..............cannontickler wrote:Hey, each to their own fetish Mr. Stanley of the woods.steve stanley wrote:Still drooling over the fowling images...........
- Mon May 14, 2012 11:26 pm
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: good source books on the 30yrs war
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8456
Re: good source books on the 30yrs war
For a general history,C V Wedgewood is still readable.........
- Mon May 14, 2012 11:24 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18737
Re: 18th century street life
Still drooling over the fowling images........... 

- Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:35 am
- Forum: 1603-1715
- Topic: ECW Infantry Buff Coat
- Replies: 137
- Views: 66331
Re: ECW Infantry Buff Coat
I think there were Dutch/Swedish links pre-dating the TYW.....Dutch were the arsenal of Protestant powers....
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:36 pm
- Forum: Societies
- Topic: Armet, The early 16th century re-enactment group
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7850
- Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:20 am
- Forum: Traders Discussion
- Topic: Leeds armouries question
- Replies: 53
- Views: 21999
Re: Leeds armouries question
We went last year,and there was a sci-fci-LARP thing opposite...great fun!...Very highly recommend the North Bar in New Briggate about 20 minutes walk away.........
- Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:58 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Belt axes.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2908
Re: Belt axes.
Yes!.....speaking for Revwar & F and I types......