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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiffanny Twisted View Post
    very beautiful picture ans even more intresting story . what is the catherdial called?

    [ame]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gxLAzuGtPpI[/ame]

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    LOL, I can see why you never cared for the song, but it has some decent Winchester pics in the video! If you ever get the chance, you should visit. I know I am biased, but it is absolutely beautiful and full of history.

    Of course, this is another song (closer to my heart) featuring the Cathedral...

    http://youtu.be/bg-_QyJQago


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    Quote Originally Posted by TimothyBFan View Post
    That is a very cool story but yet a bit disturbing, Troub.

    What PFD said about the movie reminded me. The movie Prancer was filmed in our town the year Larry and I were dating. My sister in law even had coffee with Sam Elliott and met Cloris Leachman during it and my niece Barb was an extra in the school dance scene. How did I forget that? The house that Cloris Leachman lived in in the movie was an old abandoned colonial house on the town hill in great disrepair. It has since been bought by the town and is now a bed & breakfast called The Old Republic. Here's what it looks like now.

    Thanks TBF, that's cool! Loved that movie! What a beautiful old home!

    Troub, that's awful! Don't it just make you wonder the things some people will do?!
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    Beautiful house, TBF!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Troubadour View Post
    I just came across this pic in my Photobucket account and thought I'd share it. It's one of the six mortuary chests in Winchester Cathedral. Originally, they contained the skeletons of some of our earliest kings, but when the cathedral was badly vandalised in the Reformation, the chests were opened and the bones were scattered over the floor. So now, the chests still exist and they still contain the bones of our kings and queens... but they are all mixed up! Nobody knows which bones are in which chests.

    You do have William II in there, though. (You knew I would have to say something like that)! I've only been to Winchester once but I cherish those postcards you sent me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troubadour View Post
    LOL, I can see why you never cared for the song, but it has some decent Winchester pics in the video! If you ever get the chance, you should visit. I know I am biased, but it is absolutely beautiful and full of history.
    Sadly for me that was the only thing of interest in Winchester, even Amazingstoke had more going on

    Another decent one to check out is Peterborough, and Lincoln.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelastresort View Post
    Sadly for me that was the only thing of interest in Winchester, even Amazingstoke had more going on
    LOL! Nooo. Winchester's much nicer than Basingstoke. Though I guess the shopping/cinema complex is a bonus.


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    Great stories and great pictures, guys! I'm sorry, I didn't have time to write anything on my town ... but I will do soon



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    I've determined that nothing has ever happened in my new town, Elizabethtown (E-town), KY. However, just a few miles away in Bardstown is the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. They're calling for rain today or I'd go check it out.

    We are also near Maker's Mark Distillery, part of the Bourbon Trail, and since MM is one of the premier bourbons, I'll definitely check that out soon. I'm not a big fan of bourbon, I was at one time. Maybe I'll get a taste for it again living here.
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    First of all, I love the idea for this thread, Troub and have enjoyed reading everyone's post. VA, I hope you love your new home, and hope you are pretty much all settled in. I know it has been stressful for you, and, selfishly, I'm gonna really miss my fellow Virginian. Now, that things are somewhat calm in my world, I'll try to post some info on my hometown here soon.

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