citynoise.org
What is Citynoise?..... Today's posts..... This month..... Recent Comments..... Contact..... RSS Feed.... Post your own Citynoise.....
http://www.citynoise.org  

browse by city

New York, NY (772)
Brooklyn, NY (766)
Toronto, ON (743)
Montreal, QC (390)
London, UK (296)
complete city list

popular articles

Water Falls on the City
from: CartLegger
Governors Island: The Death of Motel 8
from: CartLegger
Downtown MinneApple
from: Tyfoid Kid
Commerce
from: luna park
A Sign of Past Times?
from: CartLegger
what's hot this month?

recent articles

Heavy MTL 2008: Disturbed
from: EvilGentleman
Positively 4th St.
from: Tyfoid Kid
Random Street Art Throughout Philly
from: serlingrod
Irony Transcends the Hip
from: serlingrod
Truckin'
from: luna park
Watering the Lawn
from: joey
Storefront Beauty
from: serlingrod
Black Hebrew Israelites
from: serlingrod
Left Leaning
from: luna park
MAVone
from: Peter
read all today's articles

browse by author

Peter (784)
joey (275)
EvilGentleman (266)
hool (246)
jack (232)
complete author list

hot topics

graffiti
Justo Gallego
JA One
graf trux
sane smith
wheat paste
nyc
sixy
harlem
banksy
throw up graffiti
new york
brooklyn
nyc graffiti
dr. sex

Very, Very Old Windows

- Andrew Smith - Sunday, July 16th, 2006 : goo

[previous] :: [next]

image 13621

The windows were put in in 1559. Using my powers of translation, I can tell you the inscription, in modern English, reads:
"Richard Dale, Carpenter, Made these Windows by the Grace of God" (I bet you were all struggling with that one)

It's at Little Moreton Hall, a timber building now nearly 500 years old (now a National Trust Museum.) It's nice he got some credit for his work!

This article has been viewed 2608 times in the last 2 years


zagg: 16th Jul 2006 - 17:27 GMT

Thank you for the translation. Did you major in English to English translation in your schooling?

:D

jack: 16th Jul 2006 - 17:40 GMT

dale, wasn't he with the band of outlaws known as robin hood and his merry band of theives. he probably left the sherwood forest after they were pardoned by richard the lionheart and went into the window business. but hemade nice looking windows and to think they are still there and not damaged by the wwii, that is something. i have to visit england some day, after all it is our mother country and we are tied to the english people since time began. i met two guys from england back in 1964 in germany. they were travelling around europe with their two female cousins. i of course dated one of the girls and she invited me to go to liverpool to stay with her and she mentioned this fab group of 4 guys in a band and they were the liverpool beatles, soon to be the beatles as we knew them.

Andrew Smith: 16th Jul 2006 - 18:27 GMT

That's the guy Jack. I'm sure the guide said the wood came from Sherwood Forest! He was a bit of a turncoat, though, and sometimes used to steal windows from the poor to give to the rich.

Funny you mention The Beatles. The guide did mention that the Beatles recorded a medieval-acoustic set in The Great Hall after a feast in the mid 60's, but it was never released.

You said you'd like to visit Ye-Olde-England. Well there were quite a few American's visiting the site and all seemed very interested in the history. I was more concerned about the fact that I'd been savagely bitten on the thumb by a duck as it relieved me of the remains of my ice-cream cone. (This paragraph is actually true)

Andrew Smith: 16th Jul 2006 - 18:31 GMT

Zagg - how did you guess? (I did cheat & Babelfished this one, though)

jeeff: 17th Jul 2006 - 02:53 GMT

it's funny, almost like he had a hunch it'd be around for a looong time. well played, richard dale.

Comment on this article..

Name:

Type your comment here: Upload photos (opens in popup window)

[previous] :: [next]

search citynoise.org

recent discussions

Le 281
from: EvilGentleman
Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004
from: CE
MTA Decay
from: Peter
Le Parkour
from: Luli
The Pearly Kings and Queens
from: Jamie
The Past Is Closer Than You Think
from: ghost of grandin
Back Ally Finds
from: CE
Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville
from: Jones
Acorn Community High School
from: Peter
Feeling Sixy?
from: Peter

from the archives

Bw298


Bw298

recently viewed

These Things No Longer Exist
from: Andrew Smith
Very, Very Old Windows
from: Andrew Smith
Zojoji Temple
from: serlingrod
Dove Interiors
from: Jamie
Toynbee Tiles
from: Cosmo
Contrails
from: Elicar
Home Pt. 1: The Trailer Park
from: CE
Rome
from: Mad Jane
The Freedom Tunnel
from: Peter
View from My Office in Calgary
from: Helen