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bobstafford Started conversation Jan 17, 2010
Can you establish links between
Soissons France, Faversham Kent and footwear.
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Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller Posted Jan 17, 2010
Leather, pigs, or perhaps the letter 'f'...
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logicus tracticus philosophicus Posted Jan 17, 2010
might it be something to do with gunpowder, know faversham was, one of the main production centers for it, did they import shoes/clogs from there.
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bobstafford Posted Jan 17, 2010
DGI +1 logicus for gunpowder faversham.
Alas no for the rest
Clues to hand if required
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Jan 17, 2010
Pizza, its how I like them
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Jan 17, 2010
I know I shouldn't but I will, England France and footwear. Wellington (Duke of)?
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Jan 17, 2010
I have just remembered the connection. It was the post about gunpowder that jogged the memory.
Josiah Purdy was the master powder maker in Faversham and he invented a new type of gunpowder which was extremely powerful but unfortunately unstable. During an experiment he was blown up, his body came to earth just outside Soissons in France, and his remains were buried there. Deep and crisp an even was the state he was in when he landed. And the shoes? They were all that was left of him in Kent, and can be seen in the local museum to this day.
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bobstafford Posted Jan 17, 2010
Hi pebblederook
No its not food its more spritual than that, and it was not an experiment in intercontinental flight 
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jan 17, 2010
wellingtons/ galloshes/ rubber boots
just the thing old king weceslass needed for wading through the snow and rubber soled footwear is what you need working with gunpowder so you don't get sparks from bootnails or static discharge
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bobstafford Posted Jan 17, 2010
Faversham is famous for gunpowder but it is not the connection in this question.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jan 17, 2010
Anything to do with WW1 Bob?
I know Soissans is in Picardy, but cannot yet get the footwear connection..........Unless it is socks....
GT
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bobstafford Posted Jan 17, 2010
No GT this is a connection that very old, but within the Christian era
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jan 17, 2010
France....very old......Christian Era???
Agincourt, or something that led to it???
English massacred by French???
GT
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Keith Miller yes that Keith Miller Posted Jan 17, 2010
A Saint or somesuch burnt at the stake and all that was left was a pair of smouldering boots or smelly toerags and his/her ashes were mixed with saltpetre and...(
I know) in even parts and crisply despatched to France.
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