B17 ACCIDENTS FROM ABOVE

[Bob Womack]

From good stock then Bob, either Templar or Viking

Two brothers came back to East Anglia from the Crusades and were appointed to be sheriffs. Between that and an ancestor being hoodwinked into signing into the Doomsday Book, those are the first mentions we can find.

Bob

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[Gil Boyd]

Yes in a town close to me Huntingdon founded in 1086 by Danes we understand. An interesting local thing involving a "bank" of the Templars is under the town of Royston again not far from here and on a main old Roman Road. It is a very well carved bunker deep under ground with a tunnelled passageway to it where they kept their gold and riches on return to England. A bank in the very early days guarded by Templars: Royston Cave - Wikipedia

I am half German and half Irish, pick the bones out of that one, and East Anglian. I would have probably been a Templar as it was effectively a band of Mercenaries from many nations

[Surpmil]

Yes in a town close to me Huntingdon founded in 1086 by Danes we understand. An interesting local thing involving a "bank" of the Templars is under the town of Royston again not far from here and on a main old Roman Road. It is a very well carved bunker deep under ground with a tunnelled passageway to it where they kept their gold and riches on return to England. A bank in the very early days guarded by Templars: Royston Cave - Wikipedia

I am half German and half Irish, pick the bones out of that one, and East Anglian. I would have probably been a Templar as it was effectively a band of Mercenaries from many nations

The Templars had to go: they combined a military monastic order answerable only to the Pope, an international banking and credit system, and a private army, with a proscription against usury!

Rather a hard combination to beat if you're a more "traditional" banker, so unorthodox methods were required such as putting ideas in the head of one of France's more degenerate monarchs.

All the tripe and trash that has been talked about the Templars since is nothing but historical cuckooism, idle chatter of the Dan Brown variety, or attempts to disguise the facts.

Ian Wilson first assembled the evidence that pointed to the Shroud of Turin being the "disembodied head" the Templars were accused of worshipping - it was said to have been wrapped around a frame and covered with a mantle and it so happens that the neck area is so represented on the cloth that the neck is more or less unseen in that scenario. The Templecomb painting being an interesting clue in that puzzle.

It is recorded that the Shroud was displayed periodically on sort of elevating frame in a church in Constantinople, before "disappearing" during the sack of the city in the Fourth Crusade by the Franks and the Venetians. And that was by no means its first appearance in the historical record.

And of course when the Shroud turned up again in mid 1300s it was in the hands of the descendant of a leading Templar.

As the Shroud carbon dating has now been shown to be a tissue of at best errors, notwithstanding the million pound plum given by 45 "businessmen" for the finding of the "right answer", the game is on again.



The Templars and the Shroud of Christ: A Priceless Relic in the Dawn of the Christian Era and the Men Who Swore to Protect It: Frale, Barbara: 9781634502702: Amazon.com: Books

[Low & Slow]

My Old Man flew out of Glatton as a waist gunner with the 457th bomb Group. Brought back bits of flak pulled from the aircraft. He kept them with his DFC and "Caterpillar Club" pin. Most of his flight gear came back in his duffel bag along with his 1911A1. It seems they were a bit lax at that time about checking the contents of the bags.

[Gil Boyd]

Glatton now a very small flying club, but all the runway lights are still in place alongside the original runway. Its now called Connington Airfield alongside the main A1 road from south to north in England