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Yes, the only decent articles I have ever found were in Dutch, both by the same MD.

That highly evocative and much copied original pic has a lot to answer for....

Blimey, I've not logged in here for nearly 4 years. The curse of facebook... Not aware of any online but not really looked. Apart from looking 'individual' and scaring some folk they are cumbersome, ineffective (obviously) and awkward. You might also get accused of being a bit insensitive, unless yo...

that's fine or email to mark@griffinhistorical.com

still for sale? pics?

if Tod can't do it then i'm just down the road from Shrewsbury, have all that era kit plus kids activities.

hhmmmmmm, .com seems to have a problem. best just email me, mark@griffinhistorical.com. But be quick, we are very busy and heading into the Christmas rush.

I have 'stunt' suits in highly realistic resin materials to hire out....

Good stuff!

Claire will do a top job Matthew!

For Charles Dickens you need to contact Past Pleasures ltd here.

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they can probably help you with al below, they work a lot in this era.

Sadly went the way of all things some time ago, members heading off to pastures new in the late 90's i think. I was Chairman for a few years. The Black Company has no connection as far as I'm aware. Would love to see the pics! There was a large archive held by me for a while but it was passed on. To...

Good page, nice job!

2nd the above. As Templars seem to crop up a lot in my line of work doing tv and film stuff I often face the same question. I simply lay out the designs, point out what might or might not be 'right' or at least likely and see what the director likes. Much as I suspect people did to their commanders ...

plenty of extant leather clothes around late 15th cent onwards. but it has to be the right leather and the right cut and construction. Or just ebay for biker stuff.

Yes, a fair few. Read the articles that have been posted above. But its evidence they were ever in UK. Of which I';d have to say no, the evidence is scant in the extreme.

Yes please!

Anybody know of any PRIMARY sources for the above in the UK, specifcally England but happy to look at Scotland, Wales and ireland. I mean the classic beaked and hooded figure beloved of horror films and dungeon attractions everywhere. I have the names of two 'plague doctors' in Edinburgh and one in ...

don't forget I'm a kit hoover..... 600 ish costumes and still going.... Send me a list! Griff

mark@griffinhistorical.com

any decent insurer will simply ask for a detailed breakdown of what you do, looks at your RAMS and should have no problmes. As long as you can prove your are dloing it sensibly, fine.

Very good quality and servic. I have 3 pavilions and a large burgundian of there, extremely good.

Those pics are from a while back. He's learnt his trade pretty well now and has slimmed down a good bit. He's had to be gelded as his alpha maleness was giving everyone hassles. But he'll be happier for it. Massive thanks as always to all the people who have brought him on (Dom, Dan, Steve) and of c...

Was recently told by John Hughes that the Towergate insurance Partnership are no longer interested in my, or any other historical business and, useful chap that he is, has passed me on to Gary Alexander at http://www.thebeechtree.com who do lots of leisure and entertainment insurance stuff. Policies...

There are a few stone balls on Armada wrecks according to my source, plus on Elizabethan inventories but by the 1590's they would be a very small % and by the 17th cent so rare as to be almost non existent. Of course loose stones were used in swivel guns and similar pieces for a while after and in e...

at a rough guess, once the iron industry had really taken of, so late 16th. Suspect a nautical cove such as Ed Fox will be able to answer with more authority. Certainly stone shot on the Armada wrecks but as you get into the civil war.... That siege mortar ball could have been from a torsion or coun...

Yes, there's a lot of work done on that. Town walls were generally divided up and guarded by small groups although I confess I know more about Rhodes than the UK in this respect. When Gods Tower at Southampton was excavated in the late 80's or 90's there was a significant layer of thick rust in the ...

Southampton Town walls are reckoned to be the first to adapt to gunpowder technology. They bore the brunt of French raids in the 1360's and seemed pretty keen to knock some gun loops in pronto.

depends how many? And for how much, I know what you troublesome Scots are like.....

See you Friday!

If Guthrie hasn't snapped them up I'll have them Rupert!

We do many medieval wedding as Lucy kindly says. Or you could try Fantaysia Ltd, based near Rotherham, an excellent organisers who has tons of props and her own caterers etc.