tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post2209932470703336406..comments2024-03-27T15:59:11.066+00:00Comments on Prometheus in Aspic: Hooptedoodle #299 - The CountiesMSFoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-22519109582496626082018-04-26T18:38:05.377+01:002018-04-26T18:38:05.377+01:00Great if you can put something together. The suppl...Great if you can put something together. The supply question should have been OK, since there is a big Tesco in the middle of Haddington. Reminds me - I intended to look online for a map of the siege, and I forgot. Oh well.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-43227975079153705732018-04-26T16:00:05.020+01:002018-04-26T16:00:05.020+01:00Belatedly, I have some prints ...... I know I once...Belatedly, I have some prints ...... I know I once scanned some in because there they are in one of the early issues of Battlegames and I saw some somewhere on an old back up recently but I have been thinking of trying to do some better scans for nostalgia sake. <br /><br />I'm sure someone somewhere has plans of the works, town and terrain and I have seen some beautiful sculpting of terrain by others but this was more of the 'inspired' by type. We scratchbuilt earthworks, used ceramic Christmas village houses for the town and toy battery positions for the besieging guns. The scenario was inspired by of descriptions of 2 separate attempts to get supplies into the town crossed with what troops were available and our experience at running 8 player convention games with a conclusion and no bored players.<br /><br />I should do up a page on my blog really. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053555991679802013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-58760148106928779902018-04-23T20:39:19.840+01:002018-04-23T20:39:19.840+01:00The Industrial Revolution happened and the towns o...The Industrial Revolution happened and the towns of the West Riding outgrew the rest. It took until 1974 for anyone to realise that the WR had twice the population of the other two and something should be done. Perhaps we shouldn't have mentioned it.Chris Gricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08578412472163593374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-76520245299724804422018-04-23T20:13:20.683+01:002018-04-23T20:13:20.683+01:00That's a tragic tale. When West Lothian, Midlo...That's a tragic tale. When West Lothian, Midlothian and East Lothian were all merged into Lothian Region (though I think Edinburgh was separate), I think all the admin departments moved to Edinburgh (maybe this is not true?). Now we have our separate counties back, the county HQ of East Lothian was Haddington again, but the county HQ of West Lothian, which had been Linlithgow, moved to the new town of Livingston. You can't rely on nothing, as my uncle Alf used to say.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-4162731339299921352018-04-23T20:05:25.974+01:002018-04-23T20:05:25.974+01:00This is good stuff - I had always assumed that a R...This is good stuff - I had always assumed that a Riding was some part of something which equated to a day's ride, or something - I'm probably confused by all the Border town "Common Riding" events here, where the tradition was the young men rode around the boundaries of the district (presumably checking for foreigners - this was all pre-Brexit, of course).<br /><br />Now I realise, with grateful thanks for the heads-up, that the Ridings of Yorkshire were originally Trithings - a third in the same sense as a Farthing was a quarter. I'm pleased with that. Why did they change it, then? Intuitively it is a bit odd having North, West and East Anythings without a South one, I suppose, but for Ridings it's correct. Just couldn't leave it alone, could they? MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-59480840854337329432018-04-23T19:54:43.147+01:002018-04-23T19:54:43.147+01:00Excellent - I had a quick shuftie through your blo...Excellent - I had a quick shuftie through your blog, and found some pics of suitable figures for the Siege of Haddington in a post of yours from 2011 or so - do you have any pics of the original game at the show?<br /><br />The Siege is an important event on local history, but very few of today's residents of the town realise that the garrison in 1547 were the Bastard English.<br /><br />William in Lancashire is a brilliant idea - love it.MSFoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470241067504971068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-38025355753420713472018-04-23T19:25:54.860+01:002018-04-23T19:25:54.860+01:00I was a resident of Westmorland now Cumbria , when...I was a resident of Westmorland now Cumbria , when I started work in 1970 for the W.C.C. we had all our own departments run from mainly Kendal (although the county town was Appleby) , when we amalgamated with Cumberland in 1973 (?) everything went northwards to Carlisle and we became the poor relatives . We still have 'The Westmorland Gazette' our only link with the past and DON'T mention Cumbria to the inhabitants of Barrow in Furness who were 'Lancashire over the water' ! The Good Soldier Svjekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749564052124659180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-72499479016818360722018-04-23T18:42:52.252+01:002018-04-23T18:42:52.252+01:00I vote to return to the old, mainly because since ...I vote to return to the old, mainly because since 1974 this bit of the West Riding of my youth has been South Yorkshire. Apart from being vaguely insulted at being called 'South' anything, a riding is a third, so Yorkshire now comprises four thirds. I feel like a leftover.Chris Gricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08578412472163593374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111053985478999734.post-58153826890610565662018-04-23T16:35:13.409+01:002018-04-23T16:35:13.409+01:00I rather like SELNEC, reminds me of Senlac. I coul...I rather like SELNEC, reminds me of Senlac. I could picture someone writing a new history of the Battle of Senlac hill and an autocorrect would correct the spelling and next thing you know kids would be learning that William landed in Lancashire.<br /><br />btw, completely irrelevant but I have a fondness for Haddington based solely on it having provided me with a legitimate way to have a historical game involving two people's motley collection of 40mm 16thC troops inc Landsknechts, English Bills and Bows, Scottish Pike, French knights, Border horse, armoured lancers and artillery. One of the most popular convention games Rob & I ever ran and a Best in Show to boot. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053555991679802013noreply@blogger.com