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Incendiary Wadding #651263 09/09/24 03:58 AM
Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,198 Likes: 550 Parabola OP Sidelock
OP Parabola Sidelock Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,198 Likes: 550	Whilst delving around to find the earliest use of the term “Rook Rifle” I came across this written by Col. Hawker in the 1830’s. At the time agricultural buildings and cottages in Hampshire would have mostly been thatched. He is using tenter-hooks in its original sense, a double pointed (at right angles) nail for stretching cloth. Last edited by Parabola; 09/09/24 04:05 AM.
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Re: Incendiary Wadding Parabola #651266 09/09/24 08:48 AM
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,243 Likes: 423 Great Lakes region ClapperZapper Sidelock
ClapperZapper Sidelock Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,243 Likes: 423 Great Lakes region	How times have changed. I never knew rookeries were managed as a food source. Thanks for posting those pages. I really enjoy the reissuance of the late Jack Hargreaves docu series on English country life. Especially the changes that WWll brought to it. It explains so much. So many practical surprises. Out there doing it best I can.

Re: Incendiary Wadding Parabola #651273 09/09/24 12:12 PM
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 2,768 Likes: 115 Derbyshire, England lagopus Sidelock
lagopus Sidelock Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 2,768 Likes: 115 Derbyshire, England	There used to be a bounty on Rooks at one time in the past because of their habit of pulling up growing grain. I think the local church had something to do with administering the payments. The nursery rhyme 'four and twenty black birds baked in a pie' is a reference to rooks. Never tried them myself. Lagopus.....

Re: Incendiary Wadding Parabola #651275 09/09/24 12:32 PM
Joined: Apr 2022 Posts: 113 Likes: 107 Olde Hampshire HistoricBore Sidelock
HistoricBore Sidelock Joined: Apr 2022 Posts: 113 Likes: 107 Olde Hampshire	Perhaps the paying of a bounty explains why 'fellows' would climb the tall elm trees to catch rooks asleep. I wish some fellows would thin out the rookery across the road from me - the noise is deafening! And I dare not use any of my Rook rifle collection as these trees are now surrounded by houses. HB
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Re: Incendiary Wadding Parabola #651289 09/09/24 05:55 PM
Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,198 Likes: 550 Parabola OP Sidelock
OP Parabola Sidelock Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 1,198 Likes: 550	I was told a story about a probationer Constable in Oxford who was told by his Sergeant to go a quieten down a noisy Rookery in the City. For some reason he did not fully understand, climbing up the branches and saying “Hush” seemed to have the opposite effect. The copper who told me the story said that the probationer had by then reached an elevated rank in his force. Last edited by Parabola; 09/09/24 05:56 PM.

Re: Incendiary Wadding Parabola #651318 09/10/24 06:50 AM
Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 133 Likes: 27 greener4me Sidelock
greener4me Sidelock Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 133 Likes: 27	Oxford has a lot to answer for.

Re: Incendiary Wadding Parabola #651321 09/10/24 07:15 AM
Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 6,523 Likes: 162 Tree City Jimmy W Sidelock
Jimmy W Sidelock Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 6,523 Likes: 162 Tree City	Very interesting, indeed!!

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