As usual we covered a wide range of topics.
It being the 5th November the
strange tradition of the Tar Barrels was mentioned.
More details here:
Also Hatherleigh has a similar event:
Alan remembers traveling to Ottery Carnival
on his NSU Scooter.
Another fire event is the Ashen Faggott,
On their return from the Devon History
Society lecture by Mark Stoyle on 'The South Western Rebellion of 1549
Revisited'. George and Jenny were chuffed to tell us about some metal detecting
finds including Bodkins.
The Rev. Blackstone says
the Devon rebellion 1549 was caused the Cornish came to Fenny Bridges.
I
recalled the local agent, the late Geoffrey Whitton, and his son’s called
Wakefield a surname from the female line.
Geoffrey and his father looked after the
Feniton Court Estate and many local farmers affairs. They would ride out from
Exeter on horseback in the early days.
There are nonconformist graves in the Exeter Catacombs, less persecution followed the act of Settlement in 1701.
The work of the Landmark Trust building
restoration relating to recent TV series
We are organising a talk by the author Jim
Rider on the airliner crash near Tipton St John.
I hope I have remembered everything
correctly.
