Lovely Rita addendum

"Iraq's Economic Free Ride May Come to an End"


News.


Local castle, come across some new information, although in a source that doesn't mention material facts such as the 1906 royal visit.


ray: That's Sir Dole, if we're being correct about it. My Rita post is inspired by the mention of Rita at the end of your most recent. I'd forgotten the cole/coal/kohl though. Cola. Several footballers, Andy Cole, Joe Cole, Carlton Cole, Ashley Cole. Three of those black, all from London.


The miners were always the strongest union, before they were destroyed in the year of my birth.


I hadn't spotted the Lia Fail either, although I'm sure my notes somewhere include something about it. The stone pillow upon which some biblical figure rested his head, Jacob I think, which became the royal stone at Tara and roared beneath a rightful king, as the Stone of Scone chooses the kings of Scotland.


Jacob. Jacob's ladder.

Ladders are a common motif in the graffiti of local Templar sites. Several are seen at the castle where the Templars holed up, in a bottle dungeon or "hole" in fact, after their dissolution. Many pieces of geometric graffiti are also seem along with the less usual open compasses (masonic) over a high-prowed ship and the words "W in the kist". Kist = stone contained in which a relic is kept. As I've said there is an alcove in the wall of stone which was for centuries hidden behind a wall of brick until it was apparently bashed open by a royal in 1906. The brickwork has a ladder scraped into it above the hole.

The most likely course of events would seem to be that the Templars were allowed the use of the dungeon as a place of worship, round like their round churches, by the owner of the Castle, the Templar-friendly Dalderby. The dungeons were built between 1290 and 1320, around the time of the Templar dissolution. The castellan during the civil war was a freemason, although freemasonry was supposedly not founded at that time, but after the war the castle was mostly destroyed and is now ruins above ground. The dungeon was bricked up at that time and later used as an ice storage. Then in 1906 whatever had been stashed was retrieved.

Other graffiti includes a bird of prey with the globe in its talons (or the sun disc, perhaps).

Ladder, helter skelter, tree of life.

That's all I currently have to say on the matter.