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Originally Posted by MistyMoppens
It doesn't get much colder, draftier or damp than that! You are a man after my own heart, Sir John.... *sigh*.... How could you you ever leave Heaven the way you did? Unless it was for love! (Susan)
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Yes it was Love
Sherborne as a quiet off the beaten track town WAS pretty near to Heaven but as Gord was unlikely to ever sing nearer than 2500 miles away after a 30 year residence I left. and I have to say that it was possibly the best decision I ever made in my life because the UK National Health system completely failed to find the imminent danger of a heart attack from dangerously narrowed heart arteries a fact easily diagnosed once I got here resulting in my quintuple heart by pass in October 2000
To continue my piece on the two Sherborne Castles I have now found the photograph of them that I wanted to display again. It was in an earlier thread but was then linked to a copy on a now defunct free website I had set up
This shows a Hughes later McDonnell Douglas and now Boeing Apache helicopter, actually built under licence in Yeovil (just 6 miles to the west of Sherborne) by Agusta-Westland. I love this photo as it shows a great aerial view of the Old Castle ruins and also Raleigh's New Castle with the famous English Landscaper Capability Brown's artificial lake in between them.
Please note the shape of the New Castle I cannot prove this story but I once heard or read that Raleigh originally built it in the shape of an E in honour of his Queen (Elizabeth I) but after he sullied his standing with her by playing around (he married one of her ladies-in-waiting) he retaliated by adding an extension to make it into an H to honour Elizabeth's predecessor Henry the 7th
Of course Sherborne as befits my birthplace is a most beautiful old town,I could provide countless examples and have a webpage planned for an album of photographs but I will for now limit my enthusiasm to just one picture taken back in August
This old (16th century building) is at the top of Sherborne's main shopping street called "Cheap street" not because of the prices being charged but from an old English word meaning "market".For most of my time in Sherborne the ground floor was Stacey's the greengrocer . Now it is the office of one of the hordes of Estate Agents (realtors) who infest the town.
In my schooldays,however it was the convenience store run by Eddie Ansty, who use to sell the cheapest cigaretes (Woodbines) in tiny packs of just 2 I remember
Handy for impoverished schoolboys!!
Amongst Eddie's goods were durable products from The London Rubber Company. and he could often be heard asking a customer if he wanted "anything for the weekend sir?"
My best friend Russ got his ears cuffed once when he said "How's the rubber trade Eddie?"