Earthquake

[Keith at Tregenna]

Ice cream ? luxury, we were always told that Wales was so hilly as it was all the land that we won off England, can see the funny side now.

99 ?

Keith.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Gulliver.
As usual the poor Welsh miner will be blamed, Dai Thomas and his last shift before Maggie closed the mines didn't back fill the shaft they had started to dig under one of the valleys, ninety nine year old Dai and his old mates went down to fill it in singing ' Why are they still shafting us that Was A Bloody Try".
Cheers Des

[Keith at Tregenna]

My Mum & Dad used to tell us when the ice cream man was playing his music when he came into our street it meant he had run out of ice cream.

Did you have the pop man ?

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[Keith at Tregenna]

Hi Gulliver.
As usual the poor Welsh miner will be blamed, Dai Thomas and his last shift before Maggie closed the mines didn't back fill the shaft they had started to dig under one of the valleys, ninety nine year old Dai and his old mates went down to fill it in singing ' Why are they still shafting us that Was A Bloody Try".
Cheers Des

Keeping the Iron Lady out of it as it would get political.

There are still rumblings in the valleys.

C'est la vie.

Keith.

[Keith at Tregenna]

On 20th February 1247 St David's Cathedral suffered earthquake damage.

A History of St David's Cathedral;

6th century - The monastic community was founded by Saint David (Dewi Sant; c. 500 – c. 589)
Between 645 and 1097, the monastery suffered many attacks, including those by Vikings and several of the Bishops were murdered, including in 999, Bishop Moregenau and in 1080, Bishop Abraham.
c.885 - The cathedral was of such note as both a religious and intellectual centre that Asser, a Welsh monk from St David's was asked by King Alfred the Great to join his court and help rebuild the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Wessex. Asser later wrote a biography of Alfred in 893.
1081 - William the Conquerer visited St David.
1090 - Welsh scholar, Rhigyfarch wrote a Life of St David.
1123 - Pope Calixtus II bestowed a Papal privilege on St David's, making it the object of pilgrimages.
1131 - A new Cathedral was completed.
1171 - King Henry II's visit saw the following of David increase – and the need for a larger Cathedral.
1247 - Reported earthquake damage to the cathedral.
1540 - During ‘The Dissolution of the Monasteries’ in the reign of Henry VIII, the body of Edmund Tudor, father of Henry VII, was brought to St David's from the dissolved Greyfriars’ Priory in Carmarthen, for reburial.
1649 - 1658 - During the Puritan Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell, the Cathedral was all but destroyed by Cromwell’s forces, and the lead stripped from the Bishop’s Palace roof.
1793 - The Welsh architect John Nash was commissioned to restore the West Front, to repair the damage done one hundred and fifty years previously.
1862-70 - Within a century the Nash West Front had become unstable, and the whole building was restored by George Gilbert Scott.
1995 - The British Government reinstated the title of "City" to St Davids.

[happy daze john in oz]

I live in the Severn Valley, equidistant from Birmingham and the Welsh Border and can categorically say I did not feel a thing. I was not asleep,or drunk ,or under medication ,and am now alternating between thinking people are lying ,and wishing I had felt it --that forlorn feeling of missing out on something-like being a kid and not having money for an ice cream when the van comes round--there,I feel sad now.Damned Earthquakes!

I do believe Gulliver that at one time the actress said to the Bishop, 'I did not feel a thing"

[Keith at Tregenna]

?

K.

Added in jest.

Do what John? Do what John?
Come again do what?
Do what John? Do what John?
Do what? Do what? Do what?
Do where John? Do where John?
With what, with whom and when?
Terriffic realy terriffic
Pardon come again

[Keith at Tregenna]

Touch wood, not to Pythonesque ?

K.

[Captain Kong]

I am Not getting Political, but just setting the record straight,
I am from a mining family so we were affected by it, My brother and nephews all lost their jobs.
Maggie did Not close the mines, it was the left wing commies, Scargill who closed the mines. FACT.
Another fact, Wilson closed more mines than the last time.
End of.........


Hi Gulliver.
As usual the poor Welsh miner will be blamed, Dai Thomas and his last shift before Maggie closed the mines didn't back fill the shaft they had started to dig under one of the valleys, ninety nine year old Dai and his old mates went down to fill it in singing ' Why are they still shafting us that Was A Bloody Try".
Cheers Des

[Lewis McColl]

I am Not getting Political, but just setting the record straight,



Hi Gulliver.
As usual the poor Welsh miner will be blamed, Dai Thomas and his last shift before Maggie closed the mines didn't back fill the shaft they had started to dig under one of the valleys, ninety nine year old Dai and his old mates went down to fill it in singing ' Why are they still shafting us that Was A Bloody Try".
Cheers Des

That woman made the miners strike an excuse to destroy the unions. Same as she used the Falklands to get herself re elected, with out a victory there she was finished. We still import coal into the UK from places like Germany, how come they can keep there mining industry going.It will not be until this year that the German government will end subsidies for the mining of hard coal.

Germany has considerable reserves of hard coal and lignite, making these the country’s most important indigenous sources of energy. However, in the case of hard coal, there remain only approximately 20 million tonnes to be extracted following the political decision to end subsidised German hard coal production in 2018. For lignite, there are long-term prospects for about 5 billion tonnes of mineable reserves in existing and approved surface mines.

How many million tonnes are there left in the UK. The Government yet again shafted the working man, not only the miners but also the support industries. Scargill was a gobshit- no doubt about it. But the handling of the miners strike was always planned to be about breaking the back of the working man. Any decent negotiator could have resolved that strike, that government did not want to resolve it.