towisuk Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 Tonight at Scunthorpe museum..........A History of the Lincolnshire Regiment Start is at 7.15pm and I beleive its free!!!! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 Tom, Nice one, matey. Will try to get there promptly for the kick off. Lee in Scawby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 28 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 28 November , 2005 I think that this is one of the lectures put on by the Scunthorpe historical society. This information was passed on to me by a work colleague Lee, I don't have a copy of the local telegraph to hand to check for myself Might just be worth looking at a local internet site to check if my informant has passed on the info correctly Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towisuk Posted 28 November , 2005 Author Share Posted 28 November , 2005 Yes just checked myself............The talk is by Mr C Bailey on the History of the 5th battalion of the Lincs regiment in WW1. Non members welcome and the start time is indeed 7.15pm in the lecture room in Scunthorpe museum. I'll be the one wearing a red fleece jacket and beard!!! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 I have been sussed out. It is me doing the talk, and as you say it is about the 1/5th Lincs Bn during WW1. It is about a one and a half hour talk giving an overview of what the Battalion did during the war, with interesting (hopefully) asides focusing on several men from the Scunthorpe, Barton and Brigg areas who served within its ranks. Hope i am up to the task Chris Lee: No barracking from the back, otherwise you will be pulled out of the crowd and invited to add your own input Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 Lee: No barracking from the back, otherwise you will be pulled out of the crowd and invited to add your own input <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ME?? BARRACKING?????? I learned my lesson at school, mate. Hit by a board rubber - front to back of the classroom - straight on the back of the head. Still finding chalk dust to this day, or is that sawdust trickling outta my ears. Nope, as usual, I'll be up the front dodging the flak and the shrapnel. Just picked up a survivor pair to the 1/5th to - wait for it - Pte. Jasper Fooks, gassed November, 1918. Nice name - an easy one for the 1901 search. Later LinL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 Oh, I'll be the one with the big stupid grin on my face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofatfortakeoff Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 Would anyone like to take notes? Im on a ruddy late. If hes selling anything take his address so I can get back to him ps Never heard of him burt why not invite him onto the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 I only heard of him through the Evening Telegraph. The bit with the geezers caught without a T.V. licence Allegedly, it is an idea to count not only your rings, but your fingers as well, when you shake hands with him. Don't bother wearing a watch!!!!! And don't mention notes - he'll only want you to get 'em out when he has dragged you to the Blue Bell. Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Bramley Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 I've never heard of him either. Isn't he the one related to Richard Holmes? Or was it Sherlock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 Steve Don't you mean Barrett Holmes - one of the well known twins the other being Bovis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 28 November , 2005 Share Posted 28 November , 2005 Joking apart, Chris did us all proud. He presented our interest in such a way that everyone got a real feel for the subject. Right from the start, be they total novice, or well informed swat, he related personal stories, and intertwined them with the battalion overview. The use of maps, an overhead projector, and some fantastic quality reproduction photographs (not to mention his undoubted charm - OK, he's not a bad lad), all added to the occasion. I look forward to the second installment. Good job, well done, mate Then there was a mate of my Dad's I ain't seen for 20 odd years. He's the one who got me into drinking Ward's bitter, when I was a kid. I thought its like 'This is Your Life' in here. To cap it all, a guy behind me is one of the Gaffers at work - I know his name - but have only today met him. I know his son well, however. An eventful, informative, and most enjoyable night. Cheers, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Bramley Posted 29 November , 2005 Share Posted 29 November , 2005 Well done Chris, sounds like a success, you'll have to recap for me on Thursday. Steve. Barrett and Bovis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted 30 November , 2005 Share Posted 30 November , 2005 Cheers Lee. Thanks for the comments, plus your help in showing the pictures to the gathered masses. Actually my first attempt at that type of talk, and i enjoyed it once i got going. The Blue Bell should have been visited afterwards, a good opportunity missed. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 30 November , 2005 Share Posted 30 November , 2005 I had a go at that giving talks bit at work. It can be fun and once you have got the bug, it can be a bit addictive. A bit like me on a karaoke - once I get cranked up, you need a sniper set up somewhere to get me off. Or someone else to sing a Celine Dionne number That'd get rid of most. For first effort you did remarkably well - I thought you had done more for sure. Plenty of opportunity for getting a bevvy coming up. Do you know Mel Akester? He is one of our bosses - I never met him, but when he mentioned his name I was taken aback a bit. I have helped him with his FH in the past on LINCSGEN. Nice guy - anyway. See you later, Lee PS: Its the girlfriends and my anniversary today - 2 years{it seems longer} I had better come up with something, because last time I forgot something she said "you always remember the bloody Hohenzollern Redoubt", but so does she now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted 30 November , 2005 Share Posted 30 November , 2005 Happy anniversary Lee, have a nice day. Mel, who you are right is a real nice guy, answered one of mine and Steve's early appeals in the Telegraph for information about a year ago. A relative of his, Pte. Fred Akester was killed at the Hohenzollern. He has a real interesting pic of half a doxen 5th Lincs lads taken in camp on which he believes Fred features. I am sure it was taken at the same time as the picture of your relative William Allison in front of the tent with his rifle. Anyway have a nice day Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted 30 November , 2005 Share Posted 30 November , 2005 Its a shame I cannot get any of you Lincolnshire Lads interested in WW1 tanks. You would make fine members of the 'Friends of Lincoln Tank'.........our Honary President is Richard Holmes........he knows a bit about WW1 I`ll be meeting up with him next March, should be a laugh. Well if any of you are interested our next meeting is only next week...........in the Board Room Lincolnshire Life Museum December 9th at 7 PM. The head keeper will let you in at the main gate. The bad news is it costs a tenner to join. I see from the Redoubt photos posted on this forum one of our new members will actually be one of the chaps featured in the photos. Always good for a laugh there, we spend about 1 hour talking about tanks and an additional two hours talking about militaria..........and when they kick us out we are still talking for another hour in the car park! Dont get the wrong idea though its not a collectors club.......the aim of the group is to increase public awareness of the Lincoln tank and also build on an already substantial research archive regarding WW1 British Tanks. The members are from a wide range of backgrounds authors, artists, model makers all have some connection or just an interest in the Tank at the museum. All are welcome. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 1 December , 2005 Share Posted 1 December , 2005 Cheers Chris We had lovely night - meal etc. and a trip to the Mint in Hull, for a few slurps. Steve Lincolnshires connection with tanks is an old interest of mine - I was always in awe of the picture of the tank placed in Scunthorpe at Britannia Corner which my Mum's family had. Did you see the Timewatch programme on the development and first uses. I had it recorded but in time lost it. I found that fascinating. Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted 1 December , 2005 Share Posted 1 December , 2005 My group and myself actually spent a considerable amout of time trying to find out about the Scunny presentation tank. Believe it or not all the information concerning that tank is held at the Grimsby Archives. I would mind a look at the photo which you have, if possible could you scan and post it please? You know the rarest presentation tank photo you can obtain is one to the Lincoln tank which used to be situated outside the water tower in Westgate.........no photo is known to exist. There were also two other tanks outside Monks Tower (this being knocked down in the 1930's). Of course all this interest in WW1 tanks encouraged many members of the group to collect Tank items........some of the show and tell items are amazing..........one chap even owns a door from a Mark I!!! If anyone here does want to attend......at present we are only a small group of seven.......it will be the forth meeting next week. You dont need to be a know it all...........I know almost nothing about the mechanics of the tank...........I love learning about this from others members............whilst they love to listen to me babble on about the men and weapons. Steve. P.S. I got it wrong, Holmes is the Honary President the Chairman is Robert Scott from Grimsby. The group will be meeting Richard in March hes staying at The White Hart in Lincoln. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 1 December , 2005 Share Posted 1 December , 2005 Steve I dont have the photo - it belonged to my Mum's Brother. He got it when their father died in 1953, an ex - Lincs Yeomanry\Sherwood Ranger type. I will ask to borrow it/them from old Uncle Douglas - guess who he was named after. In fact there were a number in a sequence with the tank arriving on some sort of transporter with a large crowd of Scunny residents. Also my Grandfather Thomas Stow, and his brother John Mantle Stow {ex 8th Bn. Lincs}were photographed by it. Leave this with me. Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted 1 December , 2005 Share Posted 1 December , 2005 Good work. I shall look forward to seeing those photos. You could always pop down to one of the meetings with them as I am sure our chairman would love to take a look. I'm not a man who likes to score brownie points from other peoples materials. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy.72 Posted 1 December , 2005 Share Posted 1 December , 2005 Good work. I shall look forward to seeing those photos. You could always pop down to one of the meetings with them as I am sure our chairman would love to take a look. I'm not a man who likes to score brownie points from other peoples materials. Steve. Mmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C729LEE Posted 2 December , 2005 Share Posted 2 December , 2005 Yeeees, Mmmmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellow Posted 2 December , 2005 Share Posted 2 December , 2005 Mmm No need to hide behind a haze of innuendo or hyperbally............just spit it out lad! Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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