Fair Flora ?
Peter Lander
I have just found Fair Flora.
With out giving away her location (fear of vandalism) can anyone give me
her full story?
Thanks in advance.
Pete
(Looking north towards the Crooked Spire)
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Charles Frederick Wildgoose
> I have just found Fair Flora.
> With out giving away her location (fear of vandalism) can anyone give
me
> her full story?
Last time I tried to find her I took a wrong turning. Not quite sure how
that happened.
I have a friend who knows something about her so I'll make enquiries. In
the meantime if anyone knows anything perhaps they'll be in touch .......
[Anyone reading this will probably wonder what we're on about. Well, Fair
Flora is a statue somewhere in Derbyshire.]
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Richard Wright
"Charles Frederick Wildgoose" <wild...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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Statue of Fair Flora, Stoke, Derbyshire.
That's where it is :-0 30 second search on internet :-))
Picture:
http://www.wishful99.freeserve.co.uk/genuki/DBY/Stoke/FairFlora.html
Richard Wright
Richard Wright
"Richard Wright" <richard...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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The Statue depicts Flora, the Greek Goddess of Flowers. She now stands in
the Wood known as "Flora Wood", just outside the modern village of
Grindleford, beside a footpath off Goatsciffe Farm Lane - a sideroad off the
B6521 road going towards Eyam. Her original home, it is said, was Chatsworth
House, but she was given to the owners of the nearby Stoke Hall as a gift.
Indeed, Chatsworth House grounds have a number of this type of statue.
However, the lady of the house at Stoke Hall became convinced having the
statue in the grounds was unlucky, and she was said to be frightened by it
at night, so it was moved on her insistence to its present site.
Richard Wright
Richard Wright
> > http://www.wishful99.freeserve.co.uk/genuki/DBY/Stoke/FairFlora.html
> >
> Addendum:
>
> The Statue depicts Flora, the Greek Goddess of Flowers. She now stands in
> the Wood known as "Flora Wood", just outside the modern village of
> Grindleford, beside a footpath off Goatsciffe Farm Lane - a sideroad off
the
> B6521 road going towards Eyam. Her original home, it is said, was
Chatsworth
> House, but she was given to the owners of the nearby Stoke Hall as a gift.
> Indeed, Chatsworth House grounds have a number of this type of statue.
> However, the lady of the house at Stoke Hall became convinced having the
> statue in the grounds was unlucky, and she was said to be frightened by it
> at night, so it was moved on her insistence to its present site.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Stoke/
Richard Wright
Chris Street
<spire...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have just found Fair Flora.
> With out giving away her location (fear of vandalism) can anyone give me
>her full story?
> Thanks in advance.
> Pete
> (Looking north towards the Crooked Spire)
Dunno but most of Derbyshire's south of Chesterfield. Wasn't it in
Alfreton or am I thinking of something else?
79.84% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
The other 42% are made up later on.
In Warwick - looking at flat fields and that includes the castle.
Richard Wright
"Fran" <u...@ynys.fslife.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <9pednq$hsgfi$1...@ID-98222.news.dfncis.de>, Richard Wright
> richard...@hotmail.com said...
> > The Statue depicts Flora, the Greek Goddess of Flowers. She now stands
in
> > the Wood known as "Flora Wood", just outside the modern village of
> > Grindleford, beside a footpath off Goatsciffe Farm Lane - a sideroad off
the
> > B6521 road going towards Eyam. Her original home, it is said, was
Chatsworth
> > House, but she was given to the owners of the nearby Stoke Hall as a
gift.
> > Indeed, Chatsworth House grounds have a number of this type of statue.
> > However, the lady of the house at Stoke Hall became convinced having the
> > statue in the grounds was unlucky, and she was said to be frightened by
it
> > at night, so it was moved on her insistence to its present site.
> >
Should think it's because it's unlucky;-) After looking at the statuue, I'm
not surprised!!! Oh, it looks just like the wife :-))))
Veiled secrecy, go to the the web site referenced :-)
Richard Wright
Richard Wright
> In article <9pg4u5$ilpjf$1...@ID-98222.news.dfncis.de>, Richard Wright
> richard...@hotmail.com said...
> > > So why all the veiled secrecy?
> >
> >
> > Should think it's because it's unlucky;-)
> >
> >
> to Stoke. What did I miss?
Another post I made:-) "Genuki" same web site but link is there about 2
pages of it. Interesting???? if your interested :-)
R W [ gets hard work spelling me name:-0]