COVENTRY MESSAGE BOARD

Let us not forget the Viking pagans are with us today as our weekday's are named after their gods, I have posted this before, THURSDAY was the pagan god Thor etc.

It was said that in ancient times, some terms that were of a delicate nature had been overheard. The Duke of Hereford demanded a single combat to restore his good name. In these barbarous times, 1398 the act of chivalry came foremost, King Richard Lion Heart and so a great stage was set in Gosford Green for the Combat. Knights came from all over England and France to see the combat, both Dukes had been fully trained for these combats. These combats had to have Marshalls and men with sharp pointed staffs to keep order, it was all done under strict rules. The Lord Marshal (Thomas Holland, Duke of Surrey came to the barriers of the lists ( the entrance to the start either end ) inspected the lances to see they were the right length and equal, each embroidered in green and brown and silver, but trumpets blew and the king and all his council arrived, his heralds called 'Silence', the Kings Secretery read out they both were banned from the Country, for ten years, they should never see each other again and a whole list of details forbidding them never to visit his realm on the pain of death.

But the supposed battle came down the years, that in 1830 in the old tithe barn on Gosford Green two actors on stage acted out the battle, in which one died.

The Binley bridge near the river Sowe, the church built by the Craven family from Coombe Abbey, the Craven family at one time Mayor of London in 1610 were one of the richest family's in England. They endowed the church with sculptured crosses, jewels and riches.

Any truth that the Craven family were 'cursed'?

Would this be Barthelomews church?

Coombe Abbey is the key to Coventry History, almost all the Kings and Queens of England stayed there at some time or other. The Craven Family go back long, long ago. In Coombe Abbey almost every room was a gallery of past people of our history. One of the richest families in the Country, they held most of the Key positions in the Country

South of Earl Street/ High street was the Royal Park of Cheylesmore, and in the 18th century there was a horse racing track and club house.

Dutchman, from about 1937-8 the gov't clamped down, the Blitz put a final twist on it, nearly every book in Coventry was destroyed by the heat of burning buildings, what was not destroyed of importance was gathered up and placed in B'Ham's Reference library, it suffered a fire.

Annually Coventry paid the freemen of the city £25 for loss of revenue, loss of Herbage fees by the fairs of Coventry on Greyfriars Green.

Interesting, thanks!

Yes it was Bartholimews, now Dutchman, if you do not want me to tell the story of the Coventry IRA bomb, then so be it,

Blitzkid wrote:Yes it was Bartholimews...

Thank you Blitzkid

Blitzkid wrote:Yes it was Bartholimews, now Dutchman, if you do not want me to tell the story of the Coventry IRA bomb, then so be it,

Feel free Blitzkid

Dutchman, the IRA bomb in Coventry was an-enforced error, a fortnight before they had set up a bomb in Leicester railway station to explode as a train full of school-kids came back from holiday. The train was ten minutes late, the bomb went off on time and the train was informed to wait, so the second target was a hurried setting, under H. Samuel's clock in Broadgate.

In 1919 de Valera and two more of his team, took the salute of about forty Irishmen marchpast, and he declared it was the Irishmen Republican Army of Ireland for which he was jailed in Lincoln Prison.