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Part of the city walls of Southampton |
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The plaque on the city wall is basically Jane Austen waz 'ere!
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Jane Austen apparently went to visit friends in Hythe - did she take the same ferry as I arrived on - on 15 September 1807. Amazing I didn't bump into her!
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Walk the Southampton Walls
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Southampton - Tudor Merchants Hall & Westgate |
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Southampton - Tudor Merchants Hall & Westgate |
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Plaque on the so-called Tudor Merchants Hall |
According to the plaque and
the blurb, this building was originally constructed before 1428 - possibly during the reign of
Henry VI, of the
House of Plantagenet - and thus well before the Tudors came into being. Even if we take the date - of 1634 - when it was demolished, moved and re-erected in its present location, that comes into the reign Charles I, the second king of the House of Stuart, the lot who followed the Tudors. And either way you look at it, Tudor it is not.
So why not call it Medieval after the era - usually interpreted by historians as the period between 1066 (the Norman Conquest) and 1485 (the accession of the Tudors) - into which it actually fits? Surely, there should be even more kudos in something being even older than Tudor? This is hired out as a venue for weddings, so maybe this is a case of history re-written by the marketing department, on account of the most famous Tudor - and serial wedding host -
Henry VIII.
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They managed to call the replica boat Medieval |
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Westgate: The Pilgrim Fathers embarked here from the west quay on the Mayflower on 15 August 1620
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