Chris Collyer
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Re: immingham blue stone
Mar 10, 2012, 13:32
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I wonder if they ever produced a report of the findings?
I found a cached version of Tekh's journal (the link I mentioned previously that no longer works) which mentions the Grim, Boundel and Havelok stones -
http://web.archive.org/web/20090427112456/http://www.tc-lethbridge.com/tekhs_journal/?id=88
Still no information on the Immingham stone though, unless it turns out that it's the missing Grim stone.
-Chris
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thesweetcheat
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Re: immingham blue stone
Mar 11, 2012, 15:33
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Chris Collyer wrote: I wonder if they ever produced a report of the findings?
You'd like to think so, unless the Revd didn't get any volunteers to actually go and do the recording he's asking for.
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Rhiannon
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Edited Mar 15, 2012, 19:22
Re: immingham blue stone
Mar 15, 2012, 20:20
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Not about this one, but about another one in Louth
http://www.archive.org/stream/naturalhistoryof00woodrich#page/30/mode/2up/
You'll be horrified I'm sure to hear that the boulder "became a nuisance as a rendezvous for loafers and idlers," and so it was moved.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: immingham blue stone
Mar 15, 2012, 21:15
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Rhiannon wrote: You'll be horrified I'm sure to hear that the boulder "became a nuisance as a rendezvous for loafers and idlers," and so it was moved.
It sounds like Stonehenge. :-)
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Chris Collyer
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Re: immingham blue stone
Mar 16, 2012, 13:33
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Rhiannon wrote:
As far as I know the stone mentioned is one of the ones now outside the museum -
http://g.co/maps/5ew9r
-Chris
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BuckyE
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Re: immingham blue stone
Mar 23, 2012, 05:05
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Gosh, that looks ****so**** like the Red Lion in Avebury. Except cleaner.
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darkman
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Re: immingham blue stone
Mar 30, 2012, 16:56
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belive me its nothing like the red lion inside , hey thanks for all the replys good stuff and interesting that a reverend wanted to study these stones(boulders) there is a couple around the whole area from here to louth even one at humberston library ... but not connected to the humber stone in leicester ( but why is it called humber? x
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darkman
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Re: immingham blue stone
Mar 30, 2012, 17:01
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this is the one at humberston library about 7 mile from immingham ...
http://humberston.inandaround.org.uk/files/2011/10/Humb-Library-1.jpg
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Lizzyp1972
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Edited Jun 02, 2019, 13:56
Re: immingham blue stone
Jun 02, 2019, 13:46
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My grandmother lived at 7 Bluestone Lane from the 1930s to the 1990s and my mother from when she was born in 1930s to marrying my dad in the late 1960s. I spent every summer of my childhood there. The stone is a glacial erratic and no-one knew for sure where it came from. It was originally further up Bluestone Lane, about half way up on the right hand side going towards the church. In this location it was laid on its side and kids used to play on it, sliding down it. It was a well known meeting place in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. It may have been taken from a field at the top of the Lane and placed there. There is a very old church, St Andrews dating from the 13th Century, at the top of Bluestone Lane, there may be some connection between the stone and the church (might have been a standing stone originally on the site of the church?) but my mum doesn’t know. If so, the local memory of this has been lost. When the Bluestone pub was built in 1961 it was moved to the corner of Habrough Road and Bluestone Lane and set on a plinth in its current upright position. The locals did not want it to be moved and there was a belief that moving it would bring bad luck, but as far as my mum can remember nothing bad happened after it was moved. Bluestone Lane has always been called that, even before any houses were built there and it was just a lane through the fields leading to the church (the first houses, including no.7, were built in the 1920s) and the bluestone has always been there, hence the name of the Lane. Don’t worry, the stone is where it belongs and is quite happy.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: immingham blue stone
Jun 02, 2019, 13:58
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Hi lizzie,
I remember being very interested and doing some research when we had this discussion a while back, that's a great piece of additional info. Worth you adding to the site page if you fancy it, perhaps as a "Miscellaneous" post?
https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/19213/immingham_blue_stone.html
tsc
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