Mike Puddephatt

History, Antiques, Genealogy and Brewing Beer. (not necessarily in that order). Slowly (very) restoring an old cottage in Lincolnshire.

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This is from a plan drawn up of our cottage (or cottages as they were then) before "modernisation" in 1955.
They had electricity but no mains water at that time, water came from a pump in a yard behind them.
(Would love to see photos of the interiors).

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Walsingham Norfolk.

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Walsingham Norfolk.

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Fountain at Holkam Hall Norfolk last week.

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Just to let all my followers I am now on blue sky, same name.
Will not be posting on here again, it was good while it lasted.
Hope to see all of you over there all the best Mike.

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@simonbamkin I’ve joined already see you there Simon.

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@SteveCaple4 And no way of bettering your life.

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Last week we visited the Gressingham Workhouse museum Norfolk.
Very sad stories about the lives of farm labourers.

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@PaulSuttonKing Certainly were Paul.

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That should be Gressenhall Workhouse not Gressingham.😬

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Wymondham Abbey.

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This week we’ve been staying in Wymondham Norfolk (Windham to the locals).
This is the small garden we have to ourselves at the cottage we’re staying in.😊😂

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The pub we made our local.

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‘Lord Burlington and his brother-in-law, Sir Henry Bedingfeld of Oxbrugh Hall, visited destinations unknown in Paris together in 1726, when James Francis Edward Stuart, son of the deposed Catholic King James II, was trying to raise money to finance an invasion.

Their presence is confirmed in a letter between the poets Alexander Pope and John Gay. It was during this trip that records of Sir Henry’s account with Hoare’s Bank indicate that he made four payments to George Waters, James’s banker in Paris, to the value of £285, or the equivalent of £55,000 today.’

‘The National Trust has identified what it describes as “suspiciously large” deposits to anonymous accounts amounting to £2,000, or about £385,000 in today’s money. These were atypical of Sir Henry’s payments, which normally went to named individuals. Looking at the payments into Sir Henry’s account, two deposits of £500 were made by Andrew Crotty, who was Lord Burlington’s agent and a conspirator known to British spies as “the great Jacobite”.

‘The National Trust’s report on Sir Henry’s activities concludes that he was “actively promoting the Jacobite cause, but was cunning in covering his tracks’.

‘At the same time at the Stuart Court, at Bologna introduced a new cipher for the Jacobite representative in Vienna, in which the name ‘Burlington’ was used for Venice, and ‘Beverly’ (near Burlington’s Yorkshire estate) was used for Vienna. How should we understand the following comment, in a letter from James IIIs Secretary of State: ‘The King has some thoughts of going to Burlington to pass a few days. He has sent one there to pave the way’.

And people still think Lord Burlington was squeakily clean?

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Interesting visit to Oxburgh Estate in Norfolk today.
Very fine needlework cushion cover by Mary Queen of Scot’s ( note the hand and sickle cutting the barren vine of Elizabeth 1st but leaving the fertile vine of Mary, a treasonous message).

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@b8eak From the photo it looks like he’s still looking Bill. 😉😂

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Remember Norman Tebbit’s father?

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OK 2 more, at London prices 1968.

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@PaulSuttonKing I'll send you the details on a postcard.😉😊

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OK, lets play "Guess The Price in 1968."

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@BNArchive I've gone and put one of the wrong photos on now.
Anyway you get the general idea.
(I'll get my coat).

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If you owned these three houses in 1968 sold them and didn't invest the money what, 'property wise' could you expect to buy in lets say, Salisbury 20 years later?

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If you sold these three houses in 1968 twenty years later you would need to add £200 to it to buy a Victorian 2 bedroom terraced house with on street parking in Salisbury. @BNArchive