Thanks

Maybe, most of these events happened around 30 years ago.

You could say that again.

Delacroix was a painter who's most famous work is Liberty Leading The People which is in the Louvre (although at the moment it is away for restoration and not on show).

Well spotted. I put a deliberate mistake in all my clips to see if people are watching carefully.

Yes the all stations stoppers do but I was on the express. And this was a few years back when very few people were travelling.

@@historyinfo-bites cool thank you

Worth every penny then! 👍

No, but their parents are more likely to have Wikipeda pages.

Well Aston Hall is very close to the Aston Expresway and Spaggeti Junction so you would get traffic noise being in the City of Birmingham

You'll have to ask the driver although I haven't seen him for 6 months

I often think of these as Nelson's Eye Patch stories, he never actually wore an eye patch but as it's often quoted that he did then people believe it. Same with the story that's told about this farm.

Thanks, I'll see if I can catch up on that online.

Thank you. I'm always fascinated by abandoned railways and the Petite Ceinture is a real draw for me.

Indeed. But there is the factor of time and importance. Maybe their way of thinking was that the raiders had more pressing issues than to wait by a tower for a few days and would hopefully move on to the next place to pillage as their raid was to be short, quick and brief.

@@historyinfo-bites Aye, maybe so, with that said, I find it contradictory that, whilst being far from perfect defensively, they would be so numerous and uniform on that model. The great height is not really useful to that end and a bit of a waste of resources, a tower half as high would do the same job [perhaps better since you'd be more likely to be able to hit someone at ground level with a projectile from, say, 30 feet rather than 100]. ...Likewise, if wishing to cram a lot of people in there, you'd be better off building in such a way as to allow them to use their numbers to defend - as it stands, one man can stand by the door with an axe and the rest are twiddling their thumbs. One or two attempts by eccentrics for that purpose would make sense, with others choosing to build more practical defences... but over a hundred on that design leads me to think they served a religious function perhaps which quickly rose to prominence across the country... under command of a previously existing country-wide authority, such as the church. Heard it said that they may have been bell towers but no bells have been found so I wonder about the possibility of crier climbing up them to make a call to preyer. Otherwise, might they have served as grain stores or some such?

Thank you