woolybanana Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 ..... it would be such a powerful reminder of values now lost. I hope it has not gone abroad though, that would be the ultimate insult.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221983/Only-surviving-Union-Jack-Battle-Trafalgar-sells-record-breaking-384-000.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Last year, in some places in the UK, it would have cost about £384,000 just to have a wall!That should be in a museum. Imperial War Museum would be a good place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buelligan Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 ...or perhaps the National Maritime Musuem at Greenwich. Interesting choice of title for this thread WoolyB! Hopefully we will think too about those that died unsung so that some daft bugger with too much money could hang it on their wall....[I] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 [quote user="woolybanana"] I hope it has not gone abroad though, that would be the ultimate insult.[/quote] It has gone to an American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted October 21, 2009 Author Share Posted October 21, 2009 All Gordon Brown's fault!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Which particular values did you have in mind Wooly, pressgangs, sodomy or the lash?[:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I wasn't listening properly, but I think that I heard on R4 news that the flag has been owned by a family in Australia. It was returned to Britain for sale and that the new American owner is looking to it remaining in England.But next time I shall listen more attentively .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted October 21, 2009 Author Share Posted October 21, 2009 [quote user="just john "]Which particular values did you have in mind Wooly, pressgangs, sodomy or the lash?[:P][/quote]Sodomy is now legal and even encouraged, the lash is much sought after in certain quarters and press ganging is called working in call centres.I was thinking of a seagoing tradition; looking outwards from the island and a more entrepreneurial spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Trunk Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Britain is full of entrepreneurs, Wooly B. They are called bankers, and they have recently reduced the country to bankruptcy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buelligan Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Mr Trunk wrote; [quote] Britain is full of entrepreneurs, Wooly B. They are called bankers...[/quote] ...that's not what I call 'em...[:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 But it rhymes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just john Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Perhaps you'd like to translate “blown away” the owners comment on the eventual sale price. Incidentally the original owner was a press-ganged hero James Clephan, from Fife in Scotland, began life as a weaver, but was press-ganged aged 26, one of only 16 men in naval history to have risen so high after being press-ganged. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6884574.ece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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