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Barron Knights

Do you remember?

Jun 30, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, humour

alternative names, Barron Knights, Belgium, comedy songs, eating disorders, Ghent, half-inching, Israel, Joan of Acre, John of Gaunt, metrication, Metropolitan Police, Michael Foot, Scotland Yard, theft

There was a British comedy song in the 1970s about metrication. Although I cannot trace it, even on their website, it may well have been by the Barron Knights. It suggested that a Cabinet Minister of the time be renamed Michael 30.24cm and the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police (who arrest people for 1.27cm-ing) Scotland…
There’s a dentist in … Hertfordshire

Apr 24, 2020

buildings, law, religion

Barron Knights, Bishop of London, dentists, dispensations, Edward IV, Elizabeth Lambert, Hertfordshire, Hinxworth Church, John Ashdown-Hill, non-consummation, Richard III, St. Albans, The Private Life of Edward IV, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Lynom, William Lord Hastings, William Shore

{with apologies to the Barron Knights} Back in August of last year I drove over to a dental practice in St Albans for my annual check-up. Yes, it is a long way from where I live in Yoxford but the dentist and I go back a long way. I have actually been his patient since…