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  • Nice one Jemb
    We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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    • Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
      Nice one Jemb
      when \I was young I frequently had one in bed. lol

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      • Originally posted by Ed O'Gorman View Post
        when \I was young I frequently had one in bed. lol
        Wha ? an obelisk in yer y fronts ?. durty fecker ya.
        We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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        • Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
          Wha ? an obelisk in yer y fronts ?. durty fecker ya.
          It was a roundy 1

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          • Originally posted by Ed O'Gorman View Post
            It was a roundy 1
            Holymudderajayziz....gob less the mark....
            We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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            • Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
              Holymudderajayziz....gob less the mark....
              that now lies nearly dormant

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              • Originally posted by Ed O'Gorman View Post
                that now lies nearly dormant
                So she told me.....
                We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                • That is not far from me, must make the effort to go and see it. Anyone throw some light on why it is erected in Berkshire?

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                  • Very interesting read jembo, thank you.

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                    • Nice one there JBo.....who want te be married te a King like dat.

                      Here's one for the floor; Where in Europe would ye find this pile ?.
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                      • Originally posted by jembo
                        That's up in the park, they didn't have the doss to put your man on the horse. .
                        Spot on .......ran oura muney...not as popular as they thought.
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                        • Originally posted by jembo
                          Queen Victoria Obelisk, Fowey Cornwall UK
                          The plaque says:
                          This obelisk was formerly erected on Albert Quay to mark the landing of the Queen Victoria and Prince Albert there on September 8th 1846.
                          As a silver jubilee tribute, and to commemorate the visit of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip to Fowey in 1962, it was recovered from the harbour bed where it had lain for many years erected on this Caffa Mill site. 1977
                          Never knew that....how it get on the sea bed?.....some vandals push it in ?....
                          We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                          • Originally posted by jembo
                            Apparently it was thrown in to the sea when they redeveloped the harbour years ago.
                            seems they kept the old plaque
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                            • Nelson Obelisk and Mt Etna In Nebrodi Park, Sicily
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                              • SOUTHAMPTON MAYFIELD PARK
                                The park was previously part of*William Chamberlayne's*Weston Grove Estate.[2]*In 1810, Chamberlayne erected a memorial to*Whigpolitician*Charles James Fox.[2][3]*This takes the form of a*Portland Stone*Obelisk, situated on the highest point of the estate where a windmill once stood.[4]*Chamberlayne was later to become*MP*for the*Southampton*constituency, from 1818–1830.In 1854, Thomas Chamberlayne sold part of the estate to Col. Robert Wright (after whom nearby Wrights Hill was named), who built Mayfield House there, establishing the Mayfield Estate.[2]*Col Wright subsequently dedicated the Obelisk to two of his favourite horses,[5]who are buried in the park.From 1889 to 1913, Mayfield House and the estate was owned by*Granville Augustus William Waldegrave, 3rd*Lord Radstock.[6]*He had previously worked as a missionary in Russia in the 1870s.[5]*During his tenure of the Mayfield Estate Lord Radstock added the inscription to the Obelisk, which reads "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof – Psalms 24.1
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