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4th November 2023, 01:34 PM | #1 |
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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 a date of 1591 and fortunately you have that in your book. Was this an important date? or is it a Psalm. i.e. the 91st Psalm? 15.91
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4th November 2023, 01:44 PM | #2 |
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Other building now vanished near The Crown and Crossed Swords.
Yesterday we spoke about other buildings near The Crown and Crossed Swords.
As you know this was two buildings notably The Crown and Crossed Swords originally called The Swords and the next door Commercial Hotel. There were a few other some quite substantial dwellings between the car park and the narrower road (in those earlier days) which were overlooking the Bridge Inn ..These were quite substantial houses and would have given the feeling of a centre village format more like a village square. I have a couple of pictures to illustrate that but the system isnt playing... so I will try a web reference... . |
4th November 2023, 01:47 PM | #3 |
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Lintel date
Hi Peter. The only foto we have of the lintel is very poor and the 6 looks like a 5.
It was 1691 when the building was dedicated. There was another lintel recorded prior to it being lost and that includes a quote from Psalms: DEUTSCHLAND IST UNEVER VATTERLANDS SOLINGEN IST DIE STADT VERLASSEN HERR BEHUT DEINEN AUSGANG UND EINGANG GERMANY IS OUR FATHERLAND SOLINGEN IS THE TOWN FORSAKEN LORD PROTECT YOUR ENTRY AND EXIT "The last line is taken from Psalm 121, verse 8:" "The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even for evermore." |
4th November 2023, 02:35 PM | #4 |
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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 relating to the variety of names applied to The Crown and Crossed Swords and the next door Commercial Inn at page 78 of your book. At some point it became Commercial Hotel....Those buildings near the carpark are all disappeared now and the shops in the village centre have changed hands several times... I agree that the Wilsons shop was a hardware shop..and you know my views on the real reason that I reckon the Germans chose the Shotley Bridge location and unrelated to any of the previous theories. If they could have fitted a moat and searchlights around it Im sure they would have done so.. |
4th November 2023, 03:19 PM | #5 |
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Commercial Hotel.
Please see https://shotleybridgevillagetrust.co...-carousel-4439 Other detail on this site are in my view incorrect as the new sign above the door was fitted at about 8am as I was standing outside waiting for the works bus to go to the new reservoir...in 1964 ..summer holiday job. That sign comprised a fairly lumpy and horrible crossed sword arrangement which is still there! Next door was the Crossed Swords... given the name The Crown and Crossed Swords.... at some stage. Opposite was The Kings Head on the Durham side of the Derwent which used to be called The Bridge End... Peter Hudson |
6th November 2023, 08:34 PM | #6 |
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New Museum opening soon....
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 Reivers...and a member of this Forum. Illustrated here are Swords of Shotley Bridge thus indicating probable strong links as Jacobite swords entering the Culloden sphere pre 1746. Regards, Peter Hudson. Last edited by Peter Hudson; 6th November 2023 at 08:47 PM. |
6th November 2023, 09:33 PM | #7 |
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Holles et al.
The above sword was forged in Shotley Bridge by Adam Oligh for John Holles.
Although a staunch royalist, Holles was a devoted Protestant and supported Danby when he held York for Prince William during the Glorious Revolution in 1688. His father-in-law had left all the Newcastle estates to Holles but not the title until 1694 when he became Duke of Newcastle. Whether the swords were made for his militia in 1688 or after 1694 is not known, but regardless they were Shotley Bridge blades; I personally think the latter. Lord Gort of Hamsterly Hall (adjacent to Shotley Bridge) collected several swords made in the village: the smuggled blades with the Passau Wolf remain in storage at the Laing Art Gallery (see image) but that back-sword (along with another) with only the script ,stayed with the descendants of Lord Gort who was, incidentally, younger brother of WW1 Victoria Cross hero Viscount Gort (John Vereker). Last edited by urbanspaceman; 6th November 2023 at 10:00 PM. |
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Holles Back-sword
Here is a Holles back-sword from the Laing.
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4th November 2023, 01:51 PM | #9 |
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That is a very welcome issue.
I look forward to seeing those fotos. |
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