Guest Spike Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 I have just put up my cross of St George in the window. It looks so fine looking down over Newport.haha same here only its overlooking cardiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mr Mosquito Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Oliver Cromwell's English Republican Army Ironside cavalry - in the September of 1645 they rode to liberate Bristol from the terrible royalist tyranny of the Scottish born traitor tyrant King Charles I ......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSN Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Oliver Cromwell's English Republican Army Ironside cavalry - in the September of 1645 they rode to liberate Bristol from the terrible royalist tyranny of the Scottish born traitor tyrant King Charles I ......... they had cameras back then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinC Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 they had cameras back then?No, they had to stand still for a very long time while the artist painted them. Horses were not impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagest Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 they had cameras back then?It's a little known fact that Oliver Cromwell atcually invented the prototype camera. However, it was under the royalist tyranny of Charles II that this invention was suppressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalky Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Happy St Georges day everyone! This day has got to be the best in the calender as it's my birthday aswell! What a day to have a birthday!Wearing my st georges tshirt today and have a flag and bunting in the window and outside of my house! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Happy St Georges day everyone! This day has got to be the best in the calender as it's my birthday aswell! What a day to have a birthday!Wearing my st georges tshirt today and have a flag and bunting in the window and outside of my house! Happy Birthday, I raise a toast to you as well as to England and St George. You also share your birthday with maidenheadred on this forum - I raise another toast to the pair of you - blimey my head's spinning. PS I share my birthday - March 22nd - with William Shatner AKA Captain Kirk......beam me up Scotty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Batman Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 oh my god, the amount of racism on this forum today, all these people posting st george cross', they must all be BNP and National Front supporters.. {well that's the goverments view anyway.}i shall follow suit and say Happy St George's Day to you all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 oh my god, the amount of racism on this forum today, all these people posting st george cross', they must all be BNP and National Front supporters.. {well that's the goverments view anyway.}i shall follow suit and say Happy St George's Day to you all... Balls to the Government and how they view us........Here's a topical view of the pseudo socialist, anti-English, war-mongering, royalist frauds that are the 'New' Labour Party......the 'New' Labour flagship governmental policy is......£7,000 for a haircut for Tony Blair's wife !!!!!!! Worth every penny?? Cherie Blair QC - the corrupt Queen's Council lawyer - would be better employed as a letter box to serve her 'God' Queen's Royalist Mail service An image I found on the londonclasswar website...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedUn Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Happy St.Georges Day - get your flags out peopleBig up St Aldhelm and the Wessex Republic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Big up St Aldhelm and the Wessex Republic!All hail St Aldhelm and the church devoted to him on Chessel Street Bedminster - I was Christened there within sight of Ashton Gate !!!! "Aldhelm was the first Englishman who cultivated classical learning with any success, and the first of whom any literary remains are preserved" Source: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01280b.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loderingo Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Happy Birthday, I raise a toast to you as well as to England and St George. You also share your birthday with maidenheadred on this forum - I raise another toast to the pair of you - blimey my head's spinning. Not to mention toasting the health and happiness of the Queen, I'm sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepton red Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Edited highlights from a website I just found that also has some good historical comment on Oliver Cromwell and John Lilburne.......Celebrate St George's Day ......On looking around the internet you will see many Welsh and many more Scottish sites, some of which base their nationalist sentiments on a general dislike of everything English. Even the corrupt war-mongering Tony Blair Government do not resist their little digs. Jack Straw called the English 'violent' whilst David Blunkett called for the Cross of St George to be reclaimed from the far right. What a pair of muppets !!!! Blunkett's comment is a little strange, firstly I wonder if all the people flying the flag during football matches are all 'far right' and secondly is it the official embargo on flying it which marginalizes it and takes it away from the mainstream?England is not perfect and there are pages in our history which make uncomfortable reading but we do have a great deal to be proud of. From Alfred the Great to the time of Oliver Cromwell and the Levellers to Nelson's navy and the Battle of Britain this is a story of triumph over adversity, how a motley group of starving Anglo Saxon tribes forged their own nation in a new land, how they fought off invasion after invasion and started on the road to forming one of the largest empires the world has seen. For nearly 1,000 years since the Norman invasion of 1066 England has remained free and independent.Dr Johnson once called patriotism "The last refuge of the scoundrel". Which probably explains why the English have never really been as good at being patriotic as some other nations. Source: http://crossofstgeorge.net/As I come from an Irish background I find your hero worship of the Lord Protector rather strange, are you aware of his foriegn policy on Ireland?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 As I come from an Irish background I find your hero worship of the Lord Protector rather strange, are you aware of his foriegn policy on Ireland??A real twist of fate that Southern Ireland is now a Republic when they were harbouring English Royalists at the time of Oliver Cromwell and the English Republic. Read the comment on the Irish campaign on the weblink below, not my website but it does represent fair historical comment on Drogheda and Wexford....http://crossofstgeorge.net/cromwell2.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mr Mosquito Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 I've found the story to go with Lordofthebling's piccie ......SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGONThe best known form of the legend of St. George and the Dragon is that made popular by the "Legenda Aurea", and translated into English by Caxton. According to this, a terrible dragon had ravaged all the country round a city of Libya, called Selena, making its lair in a marshy swamp. Its breath caused pestilence whenever it approached the town, so the people gave the monster two sheep every day to satisfy its hunger, but, when the sheep failed, a human victim was necessary and lots were drawn to determine the victim. On one occasion the lot fell to the king's little daughter. The king offered all his wealth to purchase a substitute, but the people had pledged themselves that no substitutes should be allowed, and so the maiden, dressed as a bride, was led to the marsh. There St. George chanced to ride by, and asked the maiden what she did, but she bade him leave her lest he also might perish. The good knight stayed, however, and, when the dragon appeared, St. George, making the sign of the cross, bravely attacked it and transfixed it with his lance. Then asking the maiden for her girdle (an incident in the story which may possibly have something to do with St. George's selection as patron of the Order of the Garter), he bound it round the neck of the monster, and thereupon the princess was able to lead it like a lamb. They then returned to the city, where St. George bade the people have no fear but only be baptized, after which he cut off the dragon's head and the townsfolk were all converted. The king would have given George half his kingdom, but the saint replied that he must ride on, bidding the king meanwhile take good care of God's churches, honour the clergy, and have pity on the poor. The earliest reference to any such episode in art is probably to be found in an old Roman tombstone at Conisborough in Yorkshire, considered to belong to the first half of the twelfth century. Here the princess is depicted as already in the dragon's clutches, while an abbot stands by and blesses the rescuer. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries St. George's day remained a holiday of obligation for English Catholics. Since 1778, it has been kept, like many of these older holidays, as a simple feast of devotion, though it ranks liturgically as a double of the first class with an octave. Source: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06453a.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinC Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 The Church of England has transferred the celebration of St. George's Day to today (Monday) as Sundays in Eastertide cannot be displaced by another feast day. So, for this year at least, happy St. George's Day to English patriots. Personally, being of Irish - Welsh descent, I really don't care too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophs Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Bit late, but Happy St George's Day to you all for yesterday anyway! Hope you had a great day! We had our flag out of the window over the street all day, flying proudly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 No one's tried to hijack the Flag of St.George - it was the Union (Jack) Flag that was abused. We have every reason to be proud of England and should not shy away from celebrating our Englishness just as fervently as the Irish, Scots and Welsh celebrate their own Saint's Days. I made a flag pole yesterday and my St, George's flag ( patriotically bought for me by SOPHS) was flying proudly all day - hopefully there will be many occasions before next April when an English celebration will see it displayed again. Despite the headlines, the English people in general (and i stress English as the vast majority of immigrants stay in England when they settle in Britain) are recognised as the most racially tolerant in the world and this is an added reason why we should be rightly proud of our Country, our Flag, and indeed ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophs Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 I made a flag pole yesterday and my St, George's flag was flying proudly all day - hopefully there will be many occasions before next April when an English celebration will see it displayed again. Come on England! (You forgot to mention who bought the flag! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Come on England! (You forgot to mention who bought the flag! ) :razz: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophs Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 :razz: :@ ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinC Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 :@ !Stop whinging young lady, you got a mention in the end..... some kids are NEVER happy. And did you enjoy your time in Wiltshire? You never really said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophs Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Stop whinging young lady, you got a mention in the end..... some kids are NEVER happy. And did you enjoy your time in Wiltshire? You never really said.Hehe, didn't notice Nogbad had edited his post, just thought he was being annoying Indeed I did, bar the lack of telecommunications over there. The views and weather were gorgeous, especially on easter morning! I was glad to be home for the Oldham match though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the wiltshire 1 Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Hehe, didn't notice Nogbad had edited his post, just thought he was being annoying Indeed I did, bar the lack of telecommunications over there. The views and weather were gorgeous, especially on easter morning! I was glad to be home for the Oldham match though! stop this Wiltshire bashing young lady, our telecommunications are second to none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophs Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 stop this Wiltshire bashing young lady, our telecommunications are second to none....which is why there was no sign on my mobile the entire time?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_red Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 ...which is why there was no sign on my mobile the entire time?! theres no need for mobile signal they don't use mobiles, wiltshire folk are very primitive and stick to telegrams and pidgeons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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