PPUK Party

[skier-hughes]

I wonder whether it has a companion exclamation: "Rented!"

Rents - Parents coming from the fact they pay the rent, more than a shortened version of the full name.

What a day we missed, it sounds fantastic and the sight of Nigel walking up the fields was no doubt one not too have missed. Joce and I will do diaries next year in order to ensure we don't clash.

 

[JoceAndChris]

And Gareth's right about the Betjeman, though he also seems to have rolled a few wine bottles under the sofa.

I don't know Joce, these quiet ones are the ones to watch you know :wink:

No lady has anything to fear from our Sir Gawain. Just as well I'm no lady! :wink:

I tripped over the ice bucket, which someone had put just where I'd trip over it...

Hmm.

The breakfast room, before (well, not quite, but who knows?):

That will do very nicely. We will just have to make some holes in the gun for plates, teapots etc.

Inspired by the company on Sunday I set aside my tailoring yesterday to show my 15 year old how to mix and apply haired lime plaster to old lath for mending a large patch in his bedroom. He showed his usual teenage indifference throughout, especially when it came to cleaning up afterwards, but I later overhead him talking to a friend "Lime plaster is cool stuff. The more you beat it up the nicer it gets, then you just slap it on."

A result I think, or as he would say "Owned!"

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I love this teenage gangster vernacular. Specially in a posh voice.

 

[Moo]

We mustn't let Nigel forget his kind offer of a Christmas do!

Um. I'm not sure it was an offer per se. More a question of his back against the wall as the massed ranks told him where the next gathering will be.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Inspired by the company on Sunday I set aside my tailoring yesterday to show my 15 year old how to mix and apply haired lime plaster to old lath for mending a large patch in his bedroom. He showed his usual teenage indifference throughout, especially when it came to cleaning up afterwards, but I later overhead him talking to a friend "Lime plaster is cool stuff. The more you beat it up the nicer it gets, then you just slap it on."

A result I think, or as he would say "Owned!"

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I love this teenage gangster vernacular. Specially in a posh voice.

Me too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DR3vGUOVUA

 

[Schoolmarm]

How on earth have I missed all that sh#t n st#ff ? Brilliant.


Edited.
Sorry! :lol:

 

[Gareth Hughes]

How on earth have I missed all that sh!t and stuff? Brilliant.

'marm, you might like to tone that down with a '!' instead of a 'i' before the "this is a family forum" police get at it :shock: . But I think those sketches are really quite a clever satire about how The Few might be today, given the average age of RAF pilots in 1940.
Now look on youtube for "Armstrong and Miller Flanders and Swann". I roll about on the floor laughing.

(Sorry, Fred Drift couldn't be at the party but I think he's arrived now)

 

[Schoolmarm]

I missed Fred.

 

[Schoolmarm]

Mrs Palmer, would get down on all fours and latch..................... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[JoceAndChris]

Grr, pesky iPhone isn't allowing me to watch any clips and just gives me instructions I can't follow. Will get chris to remedy it tonight.

 

[LadyArowana]

Grr, pesky iPhone isn't allowing me to watch any clips and just gives me instructions I can't follow. Will get chris to remedy it tonight.

I know the feeling. Now I am not in UK I can't get anything on the BBC i.player. Someone told me I ought to use a proxy server but I have never bothered to try.

 

[Schoolmarm]

It was too rude for nice gentle ladies such as yourselves. 8)

 

[Gareth Hughes]

I've been having a look at the few old maps of Lincolnshire I can find on the net. BC isn't on Armstrong's map of 1778 (unless the only extract I could find was cut off fractionally too far west), but is marked on the first edition of the OS 1" map in 1824, where it appears to be at the end of a formal avenue of trees. Narrows the date down a little bit.

A possible designer is one of the three generations of the Langwith family (John c.1723-1795, John c.1753-1825 and Joseph Silvester 1787-1854) who were active in and around Grantham as carpenters / builders / surveyors according to Colvin. The younger John may be the one, but I'd need to see if his two definite executed works, Grantham Vicarage and Barkston Rectory, have any stylistic similarities. He was also Provincial Grand Architect of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire formed by the Freemasons in 1792.

 

[JoceAndChris]

What amazing work from our lovely Sherlock Holmes ( wouldn't Gareth be brilliant in MI5? ), but now, dear Mr Hughes, everyone willbe inviting you to parties in the hopes you'll solve the mystery of their houses. How lovely of you to find all that out for me!

I'll now be found peering over the walls of Grantham Vicarage and Barkston House, or maybe I should just turn up with Regency Bath buns and demand a tour so I can send you photos. I don't think the Freemasons would let me in with buns though.

Must see what I can find out about the Langwith family.

 

[lordmulberry]

Grr, pesky iPhone isn't allowing me to watch any clips and just gives me instructions I can't follow. Will get chris to remedy it tonight.

I know the feeling. Now I am not in UK I can't get anything on the BBC i.player. Someone told me I ought to use a proxy server but I have never bothered to try.

The BBC is going to release i.player for non UK people soonish. I think a charge will apply. Not sure of timescales

 

[Gareth Hughes]

What amazing work from our lovely Sherlock Holmes ( wouldn't Gareth be brilliant in MI5? ), but now, dear Mr Hughes, everyone willbe inviting you to parties in the hopes you'll solve the mystery of their houses. How lovely of you to find all that out for me!

I'll now be found peering over the walls of Grantham Vicarage and Barkston House, or maybe I should just turn up with Regency Bath buns and demand a tour so I can send you photos. I don't think the Freemasons would let me in with buns though.

Must see what I can find out about the Langwith family.

Grantham Vicarage is earlier and more naive, as is Vine House (attributed rather than documented - and it seems the two John Langwiths are getting mixed up):
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/279828
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/279831

 

[JoceAndChris]

Hmm. Those two, lovely, buildings don't look a bit the same. Thank you for your sleuthing though. Such a long time ago, and things often not documented, or those documents lost.

There is one building that looks very similar to BC, but a smaller version ( though perhaps it too goes surprisingly into the ground). I vaguely recall it being near Ruskington, (which may make it toofar away to be the same architect) I'll take a drive out that way and have a look.

 

[JoceAndChris]

There is one building that looks very similar to BC, but a smaller version ( though perhaps it too goes surprisingly into the ground). I vaguely recall it being near Ruskington, (which may make it toofar away to be the same architect) I'll take a drive out that way and have a look.

I remembered that it's the Forge at Anwick. To me it looks so similar I nearly crash every time I go past. ( but then I don't have your eye Gareth) Anyway, I phoned the owner , as I need some blacksmith work doing, and she said it was built in around 1800 and designed by John Nash, who she said was friends with someone locally. Hmm. It sounds like local legend to me.
But I've made an appointment to go and have a nosey round.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

There is one building that looks very similar to BC, but a smaller version ( though perhaps it too goes surprisingly into the ground). I vaguely recall it being near Ruskington, (which may make it toofar away to be the same architect) I'll take a drive out that way and have a look.

I remembered that it's the Forge at Anwick. To me it looks so similar I nearly crash every time I go past. ( but then I don't have your eye Gareth) Anyway, I phoned the owner , as I need some blacksmith work doing, and she said it was built in around 1800 and designed by John Nash, who she said was friends with someone locally. Hmm. It sounds like local legend to me.
But I've made an appointment to go and have a nosey round.

Oh, well done! you got there just before I did! Possibly also the Round House at Anwick along the same road, presumably both estate buildings to Haverholme Priory. Both are similar, but not similar, to BC, if you see what I mean.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Oh, well done! you got there just before I did! Possibly also the Round House at Anwick along the same road, presumably both estate buildings to Haverholme Priory. Both are similar, but not similar, to BC, if you see what I mean.

To have pipped you to the post is really inexcusable, I'm sorry. :wink: But yes, similar but different, and I can't to wait to see inside. And thanks for the tip-off about The Round House and Haverholme Priory too.

So much bother over my little estate cottage, you are very, very kind.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Haverholme Priory was 1830, by H E Kendall, said to have been a pupil of Nash. The smithy and round house would fit with that.

Another contender, more prolific in Lincolnshire in terms of definitely attributable buildings, is Bryan Browning, although he mostly did public buildings such as the excellent Court House at Bourne of 1821