Istanbul's Hagia Sophia no longer a Museum.

[Ivan Cloherty]

#7 Des, they create a home from home system to feel comfortable but enjoy things they would never enjoy at home, like free speech, benefits, health care, free housing the list is endless, being able to jump housing queues etc etc and cry racialism if things don't go their way

[Brenda Shackleton]

What's going to happen to the beautiful Christian mosaics - some of the finest dating to the 9th Century? They depict Christ and Mary and the Saints . The Religion that the Turkish President belongs to does not recognise the human figure in a place of worship. Will the mosaics be ripped out? They are plastered into the walls , so not an easy removal job.
Time for a march......just thinking of an appropriate banner
Brenda

[Captain Kong]

I thought at first this thread was about BOLTONISTAN.,
we are surrounded by mosks, Mosks are sprouting up like weeds everywhere. all with Towers over 100 feet in height.
I have no need to go to Istanbul or any other country of that nature. I very rarely hear any English spoken, I now live in a Foreign land I do not recognize. The land my fathers generation fought and died for, so we could be free, now ruled by that religion. My Town Councilors are from pakistan and so is my MP. I have no one to represent me.
They have a new way of avoiding Council Taxes that I am forced to pay.
A religious building is exempt from Council Tax, So they now register their Homes as mosks. Whole streets of terraced houses are now Tax Free.
But we still have to pay it to subsidies the invaders.
Es Salaam u alakum.
Brian el Tabnab

[Rodney Mills]

I guess that must be the church Keith. Funny how ones mind plays tricks. I would have bet the ranch that it was on the other side of the road. Well done. By the few photos of the exterior and the type of brickwork. it has the Norman style I remember. And you can see Theydon St on the map.

Thanks, but unless they came in with bulldozers I can't imagine dramatic changes to my Dad's street.

Cheers, Rodney.

[Rodney Mills]

Captain, absolutely no disrespect meant, but why do you stay there? I'd be out of there in a flash and I wouldn't give a monkey's if it looked like I was surrendering, I'd wave the white flag and collect a white feather off the lot as I took off for greener pastures. How much time have we left, just a matter of a handful of years and it's toes up. Who cares if we loose money on the sale of a house at our age, at thirty yes, but in our eighties? I'd walk away, no I'd run. Anyway, it's our kids who take the loss, not us. It just means they don't get as much. I never got a birthday present from my parents ever let alone a chunk from a will. My folks thought Will was the guy who lived in the corner house.

Cheers, Rodney

[Rodney Mills]

Brenda #12.

I don't think anything will be done to the mosaics for a couple of reasons. Jesus is respected in their religion as a holy man, and a prophet, also it was a mosque for five hundred years and the were not harmed and seventy odd years as a museum.

I have been in at least a dozen mosques as I like the tile work and am very interested in art. I have never been molested or shown disrespect, nor have I disrespected their faith. I have witness tourists dressed in short shorts, thongs and halters turned away from Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's and rightfully so.

Cheers, Rodney

[Rodney Mills]

Des. #7

Totally agree with you mate. I took to the States like a duck takes to water, it truly was and is a land of opportunity, Where else could a kid who left school at fifteen end up as president of an international company.

My leaving England was primarily to get away from a rotten family life plus it was impossible to get a place to rent, not even with bribe money available to move up the waiting list (key money) for a bed, sitting, one room flat, for a couple who wanted to get married in 1958, plus I didn't want to be conscripted into the army. So emigration was the answer for me.

My Ozzie friends would get real angry when some dude who'd lived there twenty years or so would say "Yes, I m looking forward to going home for Christmas" (or whatever), What happened to "When in Rome do as the Romans do"...or leave. Though I'm proud to be an American, I'm certainly proud of my heritage and Britain's history.

Cheers, Rodney

[Ivan Cloherty]

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Brenda[/QUOTE]

Remember...……. Mosaics On Site Quantify Understanding Eternally

[Keith at Tregenna]

#14:

Theydon Street -

LINK 1: Theydon Street

LINK 2:Memoirs

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[Rodney Mills]

#19 Keith

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