Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

The bit built in 17xx (cannot remember whether 28 or 40 right now) is an alteration to an extention of the original bit.

The current working theory is that there was something here earlier than any ine could have guessed. We think anglo saxon, but not a house then, just that it was 'a place'. I don't like the name of our house, so when the extention is finished we might alter the name a bit to reflect the emerging picture of the history but keep the house name too, as it has been around a couple of hundred years or so.

So it started as a straw hut?

You must be in the big 'ole D Book!!!! And old when that was written. Blimey ....

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

*conjecture worthy of timeteam

Get them in ... I could pop along and chain smoke alongside them muttering "brush your hair" and "don't talk like a tw4t, you say that in every programme and it's dull now".

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

So it started as a straw hut?

You must be in the big 'ole D Book!!!! And old when that was written. Blimey ....

So far as i know, no, but might be worth seeing what we can id to see if the nothing that might have been here in anglo saxon times is mentioned or something id able.

I think what would have been here first might have been a drovers inn or something. There was a rich market just up the road, and this would have been half way between there and the religious thing ( and college i read recently, which i want to learn more about) so would have had a decent clientele in vicinity where people might want to be close to both/either but not too close.

Again, conjecture worthy of a romantic historical novel.

vivatifosi

1994. Is mine the newest?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Get them in ... I could pop along and chain smoke alongside them muttering "brush your hair" and "don't talk like a tw4t, you say that in every programme and it's dull now".

No, no, no, not before w have it standing and better. Dh read archealogy at uni, so had thought about having some students from the college over ( any finds gifted to college)

PasturesNew

Time travel would be brilliant for this sort of stuff.... to be able to go back and observe.... and to have conversations with people that were simply fact-finding, not earth-altering.

Imagine being able to go back, to a date your time machine said it was exactly .... and see people building, altering, living there.... and being able to stand at the gate and engage them in conversation.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

1994. Is mine the newest?

So far... but michaels will probably pop up shortly and say he's posting from his new part of his mansion, which trumps your 1994

lostinrates

Just had a look the village is in d book. The violage was a Big village apparently.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I think what would have been here first might have been a drovers inn or something. There was a rich market just up the road, and this would have been half way between there and the religious thing ( and college i read recently, which i want to learn more about) so would have had a decent clientele in vicinity where people might want to be close to both/either but not too close.

Again, conjecture worthy of a romantic historical novel.

It's worth checking with the county archives whether they have any documentation relating to the house or village. County archives have a mind boggling amount of historical paperwork dating back centuries. It's quite funny that we brits are so known for our bureaucracy when the French who invaded us way back when have a lot to answer for.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's worth checking with the county archives whether they have any documentation relating to the house or village. County archives have a mind boggling amount of historical paperwork dating back centuries. It's quite funny that we brits are so known for our bureaucracy when the French who invaded us way back when have a lot to answer for.

Done that! It was amazing. There are two tubes of stuff relating to our house, but 18th century onwards. When looking at the maps of the villages that were older there was something here though.

Truely amazing resource to have.