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Who Knows What These Are

5/13/2016

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Who knows what these are please don't just think its a brick, it is the graffiti we are talking about here, these 2 images most people who live in the village walk by on a regular basis and never even notice it, this graffiti but not all is from the turn of the last century so your looking at 100 year old graffiti, they are located about head hight on what used to be the Old Antique Shop, now i hear you thinking to your self what might it be graffiti of, well for a little fun i will keep every one guessing for now I might let on in a months time, for now why not leave a message with your thoughts what this might be about.
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Jim Uney
5/17/2016 07:14:25 pm


Firstly, Congratulations on your new village website, I'm sure that a lot of villagers will enjoy it in the future.
As for the graffiti on the wall of The Old Antique Shop, In my opinion it's possible that the sketches could have been scoured into the brickwork all those years ago by a happy farm lad using his knife for cutting binder band at some local farm where he had just been re-hired for the coming year at Michaelmas.
As he was so conversant with the shape of these stacks of wheat,(I think they could have been called Pikes, in this area, he would find it easy to draw what he knew about, while waiting for Watts Arms to open.
The Pikes were possibly thatched at the top and finished with some form of straw decoration.
The timber shoring was to prevent the stack from falling over.
Regards, Jim Uney,Hedon.

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