Tours of  Sir Ruby de Fossato,bart, A Non-Tory,Around The

    Redditch Area, Blog No 2

                 

                     Setting out on a very rainy Friday,I believe I crossed 2 parish borders immediately,that of Feckenham,and that of Ipsley.I had a post-modern,or grumpy man,experience immediately,but in my characteristic happy rambling style I want to tell you a little about the two above.

          Feckenham is Worcestershire,but Crabbes Cross,on the Evesham Road,scribes the old Warwickshire border and falls into Ipsley.The latter has hidden history.It was partly built on in the form of Church Hill North,where a main building of the Hubauds,aka Huband was,Tan House,knocked down about 2010,and one still exists near  the Common and Ipsley Church and Hall (latter where the Law Society and GKN are).The Hubauds descended from Scrob,The Conqueror (who William of Worcester sleighted in a poem)'s bumchum,who was responsible for the ruined Richards Castle.There was one baronetcy in their family,somebody on the High Court scene,but his heir died at Eton in 1717.A Hubaud sold Shakespeare his land in Stratford!Ipsley also contained Hugh Shakespeare,who the baronet Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare claimed to be connected with Shakespeare's grandfather..theres no evidence for this! He was present at the signing of the Irish Peace Treaty in 1922,and claims Lloyd George, in his book "Let The Candles Be Brought In", threatened war! Re baronets,I know I'm one,but its awful having to pay for one's Livery,and somebody to do one's washing,despite my vast lands!! I'm actually also the Lord of Derrynakilly,or Killnaderry,or for English gobstoppers,Londonderry-Upon-Arrow.I'm also known in the Jacobite Peerage as the Earl of Coogreekavin (Irish "Cugroiche Calvineach",Border of the Calvinists).I'm actually the author of two Irish Jugs and Airs,"An Cruiscin" and"Earl of Arran's Badger".The exiled Walter Savage Landor,author of Imaginary Conversations,,who like the Windrush,had to stay out of his counrty, was born in Ipsley cottage,where his Savage mother had estates.His father had converted Ipsley Hall,and his father Samuel also.A Welshman named Lewes ap Williams also owned land in Ipsley.Interestingly,Australia's only female Pirate,called the Red Pitcheroo,came from Ipsley!

         Anyway,I turned onto the path,and saw a well dressed teenage couple,then smelt the awful strong cannabis! Where has decency gone,(parents?) and police awareness?! This young cad whom she clung to might well father a brain-damaged child!!As Ye Olde Yarrinton of Ipsley said,No Brat of his Brain Would Live With Balm! I Hop that's true!!

        Its not long before youre up the famous Unicorn Hill and over by Lakeside! I love it when I see a sign for Kings Norton! However,before that I had a dream where Kevin Turvey was dancing with Rachel McLean at Ricky Ticky Turvey's (aka Rictus),Kevin's brother's party..then other nobility flashed into mind!! Lord Kings Norton,who had an affair with Dr Johnson's mum,and told Queen Henrietta Maria,"You cant take the lead off MY roof!!"The latter stayed at KN on her way back from Holland via Yorkshire,on her way to Charlie in Oxford! She met there poor Pwince Wupert Soames,Serconly a Loser!! Rumour is it she had a load of Scots with her.Her next stop,after passing Good Rest Lane where the King had stayed,and probably trouping up Moss/Wapping Lane near Skilts,was Stratford where she stayed with Shakespeare's granddaughter,Elizabeth Hall.Latters husband had donated £100,a large sum,to the the royalist cause,and her husband knew a number of Royalists,including Sir John Bernard of Abington,Northants,who had connections with Apsley near Beoley.The latter was a neighbour of Grafton Regis,Northants,where in Jan 1643 Sir John Crane,after a visit by the king,was invested with the defence of the key Grafton Hall.Its my belief that at Stratford Elizabeth gave the Queen a picture of her grandfather as a young man on panel,which the King then,on Sir John Bernard's advice,gave to Crane as a reward.Later that year Sir John and Elizabeth moved,a married couple(Thomas Hall having died),to Abington.The aforementioned painting,a bit like the 1952 chimneyed panelled portrait ,possibly of Marlowe,found at Cambridge Un,was stored in a barn during the December 1643 Grafton siege by Burger Anthony Smith,and then disappeared into oblivion.Its known as the Grafton Shakespeare.

        So Stratford...and Skilts...where a PROFU se  MO ment of history occurred there...at the cottages on Ullenhall Lane,where Christine Keeler was a visitor!! A third place...my beloved Skull Beoley,where I saw a rare Marbled White Butterfly,and Tree Pipit....divine!!

    Anyway I know a couple of other baronets....there's Mrs Mills of Studley's son....she was great on the foot pedal,but often broke the piano....and  Scotchknee, heir of Arthur Rictus Denis Matilda Scotchknee,Bishop of the Equator-for-a-Guinea,and Senor of Eig,where Bonnie Prince Charlie landed with Rev Kelly,and Waters of Macroom (my grandfather's birthplace)and a barrel of CumberlandKno sausages!! Egg's forefather was World Rackets Thru Windows Champion (unchallenged) in 1721.  It was at Eg that the famous meeting took place between Lord Lucan,Jeremy Thorpe,and Denis Thatcher!

   Anyway,enough this week.I know my name rhymes with tomato,but I will point out that in Austrian German the word for tomato is "Paradiser",and I would definitely give that to any lady willing!! Ah well,with a reel and a jig with the Earl of Arran's Badger,I sign off for this week! Ta-tar!!

                     

Tours of  Ruby de Fossato,bart, A Non-Tory,Around The

Redditch Area

                       May 17th,2018

                                          Beautiful sunny afternoon!Got up to the Holloway,on my way to Rowney Green.Whitethroats singing everywhere! Always love passing the Dower House at Beoley where that stupid former Bromsgrove Tory MP Julie Kirkbride lived...she was Had for something (we wont mention Spike Milligan!) Love the spot as the honourable Sheldons,originally from cradley Heath, originally lived in the lost mansion just above it on Beoley Moor,and introduced Flemish tapestry to Redditch and Barcheston.Shakespeare's skull,or Ann Hathaway's is still grinning a Tory rictus up at St Leonard's, oh sorry, on Beoley Hill.Shakespeare probably knew Sheldon at court,indeed John Taylor of the honourable Painter Stainers and Grocers Company who painted the Chandos Shakespeare,also painted William Sheldon,Recusant.The latter died at nearby Skilts (^Old Norse "Bell,i.e. Upper Skilts Grange's Bell),where Darwin's niece later married Theodore Moeillet,who's grandfather was Matthew Boulton's protege.Skilts has the 3rd highest trig-point in Warwickshire,and former owners included Roger de Corbizon,Captain Smith who rescued Charles I's standard at Edgehill,Sheldons,Wm Jaffray who founded the Evening Mail with O'Connor,the former being Lord Jaffray whose title still exists down at Petersfield,Hants and whose holder used to chair the "Investors against Loyds of London" Grizzlers;and nearby in Ullenhall the forbears of the honourable Lord Carrinton,who with David Mellor were the only Tories ever to have the guts to attend a pro-Palestinian march,dwelt! .Before I cycle on,just to say that in the post Civil War land grab,despite the Ant-Brexit Putney debates,the devious Colonel Wildman,doyenne of  Pepys and Megan's Duke of York,got hold of Beoley,and later passed his ignominy to his heir John Shute,friend of the tinker John Locke,who was thrown out of parliament in 1721 over the Hamburg Conspiracy,and later became Viscount Barrington,whose descendant Peter Barrington lived in Moseley until the mid 80's.Just wish the Very Honourable Donagh McCarthy,Earl of Clancarthy 1721 and Seigneur of  Rotturmeroog,or Ragamuffins,near Hamburg,could have got  him,maybe done a Tory citizen's arrest on him! .
     Anyway, I concede Jacky Smith,Home Secretary let us down,in the Smith-Tapes:but she wasnt a Julie or Karen or Rachel.Yes another Tory Karen Lumsden was useless and very hubristic,that's from people who met her! Where do they get these people from?! Now we've got another stupid MP who laughs hysterically in the Parliament Chamber and makes selfist tirades!! SHE'll be gone soon!! Time for the eighteenth century Cabal-for-Power known as the Tory "Party" to go! After all,we live in modern times!!
    Anyway2,I'd thought I might see the Ravens that were honking and ridge-formation flying  last week! No luck! Just an amazing symphony of Carrion Crows by Beoley Hill...all sorts of sounds!! I'm sure these noble creatures are communicating!!Some polite drivers today,actually waiting,but it was left to re-entry to the environs of Redditch on Icknield Way to experience a speedo for whom Tory materialistic quick buzz or buck and no knowledge of what a car represents shines,to be able to trouble me! Anyway,Come the Day when the Brum-Deracinated Redditch working class,in their insecurity and fear,wake up and see their way to break ranks with the  "I'm alright Jack" small business owners and suede-shoed retired walking sticks of the Feckenhams,Winyates Green etc and vote Labour! I dont want to see little children in rags!
  Just gotta add this wheeze of a "grumpy old man" story before I go: have you noticed how shit the paths go in winter in that part of the Queen's Royal Forest of Feckenham by Headless Cross?! You know I love birds,and wildlife,and woods: but wellied/heavybooted dog-walkers bear down on that there already tired soil and shit up the paths so you can hardly walk!! Great for coming generations of children who want to go into the woods,play,and listen to the birds!! You know,that Forest in the time of Henry II extended as far north as Hopwood,co-sharer of the Arrow with us!! They used to hang people like me,the poachers,who cared for their own families,down at the gallows at Hanbury!More a place today I think for people who cause inequality by their ignorance,selfishness and sycophancy,and their voting ,such that disabled people are disenfranchised etc...and  the Beautiful People of Windrush,whose faces I want to see next every Blossom of Joy that bedecks the course of all our Redditch roads and gardens,are racially abused!!  Abused also are all the hard working impoverished people of this country!!
        Next week I'll also tell you a little of how I believe Eton should be abolished,and Oxbridge nationalised!! Did you know the pious Henry VI founded Eton for the poor people of the town?? And ta-tar,just to say the soulless attitude of all Britons,regarding the forthcoming trade and border disaster for our first Colony (1132...there he goes,Good Old Henry II !)...you've got it...Leprechaun Ireland ...ha ha tee hee...IS APALLING. Taraah,VOTE TORY!!
      Ha ha ha hee hee hee  Look out for my next journey next Thursday! I might even stretch my notion of the "Redditch Area" wildly,and ride somewhere else where the priesthood of the bundle of rods vote,Dudley!!

Negativity is in all intersubjective exchange,at its mildest it is still consensable-towards-agreement,at its worst, it brings some pain and conflict:the latter occurring thru conflicting demands. In the worst form,Evil,the negativity is caused by a Power force,denying a reasonable request ,which seems to be endemic in government behaviour at the moment!! 16/05/2018