[Hornchurch]

Took my Son last night, to see the (well known in the U.K.) Blues/Rock group.... "The Hamsters", at the King's Lynn 'Art Centre' in Norfolk.

As it was my 1st time at the venue - was looking around whilst waiting for the band to come on stage....... & was deeply shocked, to see what was EVIDENTLY once-upon-a-time, (100+) strong & bulky timber beams, supporting the roof, that had obviously seen better days !!!!!!!!

As most of them looked fit to crumble , I had to ask an usherette........ "er, like just how OLD is this building anyway????? "

She replied " It was built in the year 1410, that's how old these original timbers are "

600 year old roof beams SOUNDS old - BUT 1410.... yikes, that's Armoured Knights, with Lances ain't it ????????

By a long chalk, the OLDEST building (other than a Church) that I've ever been inside.

(Our village church - built in 'Norman' times - has a list/board of it's Reverend's, painted inside the main entrance - consecutively dating back to the year 1255 a.d. - 200+ years after it was built).

[Migmauler]

I bet the grafitti in the can is something to behold!

[mikeb1958]

Originally Posted by Migmauler

I bet the grafitti in the can is something to behold!

Yes, I heard that there was a limeric found written in the basement that went something like this...

There once was a knight with a lance,
that asked a young damsil to dance.
She started to laugh when he pulled down his pants,
because his thing was as big as a ants.

Yes, I just made this up!

[Migmauler]

I was thinking along the lines of "....Thou mother adorns thineself with the boots of a knight!"

[Hornchurch]

Originally Posted by Migmauler

I was thinking along the lines of "....Thou mother adorns thineself with the boots of a knight!"

Blimey Mig - You speak better English than I do !!!!!!!

Ain't into Shakespeare by any chance, are we ????????

(Apparently, he played there, in 1593).



Click 'History' - then click photo......Guildhall of St.George.

http://www.kingslynnarts.co.uk/

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[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by Hornchurch

Ain't into Shakespeare by any chance, are we ????????
(Apparently, he played there, in 1593).

In central West Virginia???....

[Migmauler]

Easy rodent skunk- I graduated college with honors. All of us hillbillies (or good ol' boys) ain't necessarily dumb hicks, thank you very much. Shakespeare? What team was he on again? Isn't he the one who coined the term "Shake-n-Bake"?

[Mark 1]

In an interesting aside and another for the 'there is nothing new under the sun', old graffiti has been found by Romans and Vikings and is pretty much
"Ulric was here" or "Maximus was here" and the usual assortment of phalluses etc.

Some things just don't change!

[Folgore]

Graffiti goes back much further than that, even... A lot of Paleolithic cave paintings (the ones that don't make it into the pretty art history books) are drawings of female genitalia and the like. A convincing case has been made recently (based largely on accompanying handprints) that this graffiti was made mostly by teenage boys. Some things never change! We're a lot more like those Old Stone Age folk than we are different. Witness the graffiti on today's bog walls...

[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by Folgore

.. A lot of Paleolithic cave paintings (the ones that don't make it into the pretty art history books) are drawings of female genitalia and the like.

No no no!...Those were very early Rand-McNally maps of Australia.