Oh I so agree memory lost lead to new memories.....

Oh an we are aging well,not getting older!!!!!

My husband had dementia. It made it possible for him to sit down every night with an episode of a Britcom and laugh at it again every time.

Yes

It gets strange when it happens after the 5 or 6th view 🤔

Amazing

I was there and pcs'd right before it closed. Charlie Flight 6950th ESG Marburg

@@allanargamer5812 I left that July myself. I was base IM and worked in the Post Office and the NCO club too.

yes I was there in in 1966

You meant “cavalry”, not Calvary. I was not aware the King had cavalrymen. He certainly had soldiers, and some were mounted, but nothing resembling what you probably think of as cavalry. I think your tale needs closer research and more critical examination.

@@judeirwin2222 Thank you, so very much for taking the time to point out my spelling mistake. Unfortunately for me, my research involving this presentation is limited to the dates inclusive of my tour of duty there. Please feel free to critically examine any information of the site on your own. Looking forward to reading your updates. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.

Hmm. Post in haste, repent at leisure.

Yes. I was there 79-81. Love the memories

I actually LIVED in the Priory for about three months -- the first week ALONE (mid 60's). My fellow officers would, at the downstairs bar, cheerfully fill me in on all of the ghost tales and go home to their nice warm hearths leaving me to climb up to my room accompanied only by my imagination.

Kate Stewart is the unsung hero of this story.

His area focus is so interesting. It would be great fun to trail behind Stewart for a number of his outings, observing and learning from his knowledge. In certain a series of Archaeology subjects would be successful, based on his identifying "History reasons to dig"! I would love to have him, for at least a few months, here in the USA to help me clarify several sites in Tennessee that I feel are Ancient Mounds with Archaeology untouched in place. These would most possibly be Peoples that predate the Native Americans and are ignored by Mainstream Archaeologists because they don't fit their 19th Century Theory based Paradigm and its Timeline. Most unscientific and totally not in keeping with the "Standards of Science and Research". *This practice will be changing as Genetic/DNA Studies are resulting in Peer Record facts that continue to bring forth the finds/fact data that place the "Paradigm" in its appropriate file of "Old Theories Proven Inaccurate". ...and this is the "tile marker" that will bring the "House of Cards" tumbling down. This is so exciting and we will see a rush of true History Facts come through and the momentum will be exciting, a fabuous feeling of Fog Lifted for the greater Collective, including an understanding of "Who Modern Humans are, where we came from , how the Story was routed off-track, and what our Powerful Potentials truly are, how much more exists to us and our story, and a most Positive expansion of our individual Life Journey options, desires, and dreams, all most attainable. It is a Researchers Dream, "to know facts, have a vision of their potentials, and have the "constraints removed", a freeing of the whole of humanity to be so much more , with such greater security, and confidently happy. I truly do not over color the greater reality. Imagine living with the freedom to have the imagination of a child in each individual's interest, Passion, and relative Creative potentials. Only "Thoughts" prevent desires from manifesting. Best Thoughts and Wellbeing ... 😘 Beth Tennessee, USA

By any chance, do you have pictures of the walled garden? I know that sounds so odd, but I currently live on the base and am one of the gardeners trying to do a research peice. or even if you might know someone who has any info! very little from that time in our records.

@@katherinegreenwood9166 Hello! I am so sorry. I do not have any pictures of the walled garden. We were instructed that picture-taking was not allowed at that time. I did take some pictures, but unfortunately, they were lost when I moved. However, there is a Memories of RAF Chicksands Facebook Page where you can pose your question to those there. They maybe able to help you. Take good care of yourself and stay safe!

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@@grannyweatherwax9666 , Wonderful to meet, even at a distance, two more Pratchett fans!

Or have one very confused trout …

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That is probably due to the hyper-ventilated modern re-readings of a rather commonplace seduction .. and its punishment. In fact, the real scandal at the time was not the imprisonment and diet (these were exceptionally mild responses), rather the castration with a decidedly pagan Greek chorus. The Gilbertine lay brothers and sisters were notorious for their hot tempers .. and their demands for better pay and work conditions (too much salmon and not enough holidays). The saddest part is, of course, that the girl must indeed have miscarried .. though bread and water are unlikely to have induced either that or hallucinations. Shock and dismay, lack of medical attention and cell-fever conditions are more likely uppermost among the causes. What would have troubled their peers most would have been the swift and easy rehabilitation of both the seducer and the seduced - dreams, and blessings, and reconciliations being the context - sexual abuse dressed up as love, for such it is, was treated a great deal more severely back then. But then that ruins a good story.

I saw the ghost of her she didn’t just walk away she just stared at me riding my bike

@@TheLeonhamm OUCH!

@@TheLeonhamm It doesn't seem to me that you can claim sexual abuse rather than love-- or realistically desire. The girl was forced into this religious prison, as Robin stated she did not seem to have strong religious convictions. She and the canon had a relationship of some kind which is normal, and acted on it which is normal. The abuse was the bizarre system they lived under. A much more recent example would be a gay couple acting on their affection and being punished by the law. Neither of them is an abuser. The system is the abuser.

@@ian_b Not so; making a vow, which legitimately comes somewhere between a promise and a pledge, is not a matter of conviction, liking, or even of taste, mood or humour. A spoken contract - a vow, indeed - has attached to it some responsibilities - and these, like them or loath them, entail consequences. Note all that, it is a matter of law (or in this case of discipline) .. if it had been an unjust law i.e. imposed by dictate, composed by tyranny, or even a mere capricious exercise of power .. then you'd have a case; however, as with the Abelard and Heloise case, the requirements of the contracted relationship (with her family by a teacher) clearly did not in any way specifically include on the side sex, indeed ordinary common sense would tell us that is generally precluded .. especially secretive seduction and coy but fruitful coquetry. The notion that sexual taste must, more or less, be allowed full reign to govern lives and thus societies (without let, hindrance, punishment or censure) is a very modern idea .. and an extremely dangerous one .. if very popular with the romantic free-love merchants. The ancients and primitives may not have shared Victorian erotic values (hypocrisy, basically) but they had taboos .. and enforceable reactions if broken or challenged; this is not a favoured in modernity (unless the term 'abuse' is accepted). The harridans or family of the community understood a taboo line to have been crossed, knowingly, and repeatedly, and they reacted .. emotionally; should they have been allowed to do this with impunity? .. No, for even at the time their Wild-West lynching style of law enforcement was condemned; but not because they went against the spirit of 'the law' such as it was, only because they acted irrationally (knowing, no doubt, that left to the official authorities, secular and religious alike, the matter would have been hushed up so far as possible = plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.) Yet should such 'taboos' and their punishments exist, legally, in the first place .. Over to you. ;o)

In many cases monestaries/nuneries were a prevention from completely starving on the street. The meals were sparse, but atleast you got one. You had a roof over your head, clothes, medical care. The life was hard, but it was above the life of the poor.

Many woman (certainly of high birth) preferred it over married life to a bully.

Understanding of the negative effects of sleep deprivation didn't evolve until modern history, so it's highly unlikely the Church was making a concerted effort to make their clergy more malleable. Back then (and throughout today), waking up early was a devotional practice used by clergy as a means of showing they are willing to make sacrifices for God. Similar to giving up things for lent, sacrifice has been used since Biblical times as a symbol for the lengths to which one was willing to go in order to honor and worship God. Basically, putting ones money where ones mouth is and being willing to do anything to serve God. I think it shows a level of commitment and perseverance we have largely lost these days.

And you do not think Christianity is a cult. All religions are cults

Religions were invented to keep the uneducated people as slaves to the ruling class . just like democrats and welfare.

@@davidkettell5726 sorry, been avoiding KZfaq notifications for my mental health. I think that any time you get a group of humans together, and when a hierarchy inevitably evolves, there will be people who act out of malice for their own benefit, and against the benefit of the larger group. Especially when you throw in the immense power and money that comes from being Gods mouthpiece on earth. I think religion is the modern incarnation of mythology and humans have been telling stories about gods since the birth of sentience, it would seem. So the organization that is religion is perhaps always doomed to walk the fine line between benefit and nuisance, but I think reaching for the divine is very intrinsically human.

​@@h.r.c.2829 I suspect you only think that because you were conditioned to and by the very same people that manipulated the masses with religion 100's of years ago too. You think people of the past were stupid and had little understanding of the world around them because you have been told to think that. Please do explain renaissance art, music, and philosophy then please do explain the ancient and highly sophisticated architecture of India, Egypt, South America, and Europe. While you're at it you could also take a stab at explaining how archaic tribal cultures have existed for 1000's of years with no problems even to this day? The powers that be knew full well what was going on and used it against the "plebeins" to their great advantage. Just as they have done again to us with the reset nonsense we're being forced through right now. Do you think the next few generations of university leavers will be pushing the boundaries of science, engineering, the arts, philosophy, or exploration? They can't even decide what toilet to use when they're not virtue signaling themselves into a sludge or having a mental breakdown on twitter or tiktok on someone else's behalf... and you think we live in enlightened forward thinking times? This is literally the dark ages!... LMFAO :-)

Do pubs have swinging doors like the saloons in the old West? If so I believe Tony's explanation!

LOL

@@KYIRISH1 not necessary... my sister had a habit of opening the door and still walking straight into the edge of the door... multiple times following each other actually...

Buy that man a beer.

Never get into Phil's trench without his permission...that's all I am gonna say!!

Do you have any pictures of the gardens? I live here now and doing record keeping trying to get more information on the place from 1960 onwards!

@@katherinegreenwood9166 unfortunately not.

You wouldnt happen to have any photos from your time there specifically of the walled garden? we are trying to peice together a photographic reference book. I am one of the gardeners there and we are trying to do some record keeping since we have very little!

Hey Kyle :) D'you remember me?

+Bill Holland YES! I've only been trying to find you over the last 25 years!!

:) Awesome... Where can we chat, Facebook?

+Bill Holland hkchandler3@gmail or Kyle.chandler.10 for favebook

@@hkchandler3 the fact that you found each other here is amazing! Glad you got the chance to reconnect!

Amy Neilson

He missed a word, ''step!''

That is in fact very well known that many had just 1 or 2 outfits and they didn't really understand the need for bathing

I thought the same thing. Those habits were not air conditioned. They must have gotten rather "ripe". Looney Tunes cartoon character Pepe Le Pew comes to my mind.

They washed at least twice a day, morning and evening. A bowl and jug was - believe it or not - the most common way to wash until the late 19th century; modestly was preserved by a bathing shirt or dress. Moreover, they had laundries (though bathing at these wash-houses was hit by the Black Plague, professional advice was against it) .. what they did not have was walk-in cupboards for clothes and hats and shoes and accessories; not all convents were as severe on the new clothing regime, for the professed nuns were by and large from very posh families, so they expected servants, trips to town, fripperies, entertainments etc, if on a more modest scale than their worldly sisters with their powdered-up hair, poke-hats, high heels, rouge, ball gowns, tea-chemises and low cut decolletage et al.

@@FoxPurtill Bathing vs washing. Bathing requires a body of water.

More than that comes to mind....

Private Citizen apparently Jenny is gone lovechild with Phil.

Id do vespers with her!

Prisons are a lot less corrupt too

@@rorysparshott4223 Christianity, the longest running Ponzi scheme with the Pope at the very top.

According to that stupid expert, it led to anorexia...of course she FAILED to mention the men who basically did the same thig in cellsin Egypt and the Levant

Me too.

Tony was pulling knob allright!

Not for me, give me Alice Roberts any day.

Jenni would experience something that would be deeply spiritual I would think to even a non-believer

@@orwellboy1958 here here !!!

It's a top security base not many allowed to come visit I bet 😊

tut tut! :)

LOL, good one...Nun points of say anunmor.....:p

What kind of meat do monks eat? NUN 😆

Archaeology is a destructive act. It's being saved for when we can do the Archaeology better. 100 years ago they just threw pottery away. Now we can analyse the soil. What will be capable of in 10, 20, 50 years? But if we dig it now we will lose all that information we could have got. That's why so much modern Archaeology is Rescue Archaeology. Archaeology on cliffs, beaches, and in big cities.

Gotta leave the apes something 😊

canon noun (2) Definition of canon (Entry 2 of 3) 1: a clergyman belonging to the chapter or the staff of a cathedral or collegiate church

@@judywanda yeah, it was a joke... ;)

@@PerryTribeMetalBaker , Clever wordplay!

Funny name tho, make all of us laugh occationally :p

. @neal thailand, I always thought that the "ha ha" part was the reaction of others to one who landed sprawling on the pasture side after stumbling over the wall.

They were digging on the base's grounds. The opening was all scripted and prearranged so the military wouldn't have batted an eyelid.

The best bit is, where he was sitting you can't actually see the entrance to the Priory. What you would see is a dirty great processing factory that deals with onions. I will never forget Friday morning squadded runs, getting hit with the smell of processed onions. Those who had been on the lash the night before and were still feeling fragile, usually stopped to throw up at this point, and then continue.

@@chipanderson2135 that’s hilarious. The juxtaposition of that smell and the location, the situation is universal to life I suppose!

The nun in question didnt choose it, she was forced into it. Even more Horrible!

Yes, fanatical anything, including political and economic philosophies are horrible

They would have had to excavate deep down to hard ground before laying foundations for a large and heavy building. Thats why churches have crypts. Later the walls would have been ''Quarried'' for stone for other buildings, and the remaining hole would eventually be filled in.

niklar55 thanks for the explanation!

@@TheNyah5 😊

All of the team have regular jobs, I believe this is a. Fri-Sun type of operation.

@@aurktman1106 , Thank you! That explains that.

What Eldon said, plus it's not just a case of turn up and start, there's a lot of preparation going into these digs before hand behind the scenes.

@@markorollo. , Thank you too, Sir! I'm a newcomer to this series, weird as that may sound to others.

Would geo-phys be geological-physical or am I still being the typical newcomer? Please help.

granskare 6950st Security Squadron

Steve Hayleck I wrote a book about it called "Under the Cover of Darkness" on Amazon kindle.

Watch out oysters are subject to red tides😅

They believed it was for both God and your salvation. So we made sure it looked good 😊

Ancient Jewish tradition I believe says a man must have eaten a pound of dirt before death to reach heaven

They used to have a great 4th July Get Together; all free entry and very American.