Forum: European Armoury
28th May 2024, 06:07 PM
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The association of this individual with the...
The association of this individual with the fortunes and subsequent downfall of Catholics and thus the eventual outcome of The Jacobites are mysterious indeed.
Popular feeling ran very high...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th April 2024, 02:31 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 10:56 PM
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The Crown and Crossed Swords.
Hello Jim and Keith...
Last week I met Keith for lunch at the famous pub in Shotley Bridge albeit in the section that used to be called Commercial Hotel. The sign outside was changed in the summer...
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Forum: European Armoury
17th April 2024, 12:41 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
15th April 2024, 03:34 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
8th November 2023, 07:55 PM
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Dear Brian, Indeed the Beilby/ Bewick stable...
Dear Brian, Indeed the Beilby/ Bewick stable created a great number of works on wildlife including portfolios on Birds and other animals . The subject that I looked at was the book on Quadrupeds...
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Forum: European Armoury
6th November 2023, 11:02 PM
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Laing Art Gallery...
I see that Thomas Bewick has much work at the Laing. He was apprenticed to shotley sword makers and much involved in illustrations and engraving/ decorationon blades etc.
I have no proof at all...
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Forum: European Armoury
6th November 2023, 08:34 PM
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New Museum opening soon....
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From a museum in Hawick in the Scottish Borders which will be an absolute must to visit when it opens in the new year. The Curator is Mr Brian Moffat an expert in all things Border...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th November 2023, 03:19 PM
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Commercial Hotel.
Please see...
Commercial Hotel.
Please see https://shotleybridgevillagetrust.com/plaques/crown-and-crossed-swords/#jp-carousel-4439
Other detail on this site are in my view incorrect as the new sign above...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th November 2023, 02:35 PM
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Ah yes I see it on page77 of your book... Got that... The date of first Cutlers Hall dedicated by Adam Oley in Wood Street.. Thanks...
I cannot upload the pictures but you have it also outlined ...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th November 2023, 01:44 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
4th November 2023, 01:34 PM
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The stone lintel above number 44 Wood Street.
Keith, As you know the lintel above 44 WOOD STREET vanished in the late 50s with the demolition of all the industrial /swordmakers houses. My question is that the inscription above the door mentioned...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd October 2023, 05:45 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd October 2023, 11:43 PM
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This is such an important thread....
Hi Kieth ... Before you started to unpack the details of this work Forum had nothing in its archives about this subject. The Swordmakers of Shotley Bridge turns out to be a cornerstone and key to the...
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