Is there a way of dating the etchings as the armouries have a collection of original 15c armour which they say was etched in the 19c, including my personal fave peice which is a breast plate with a lovely pattern down the front which must have taken a long time to do unfortunately they have done it ...

Have a look at the wars of the roses federation page for groups their all over the country
http://www.wotr-fed.co.uk/
also on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/WOTRF

Sir john saviles household are a late 15c group mostly based around south Yorkshire but do have a few members around Manchester and stockport

http://www.savilehousehold.co.uk

the wars of the roses fed group the tudor household are from brighton way

Is there any groups that reenact ww1 era HLI as i am thinking of branching into another period and it was my great grandads reg
any other tips about starting would be helpful

"YOU'RE GOING HOME IN A HORSE DRAWN AMBULANCE"

There not wotr groups

easy answer there isnt any apart from me who has been looking for years there used to be one down in looe cornwall but i dont know if there still going i think there is a thirteenth cent group though

theres a 15 c image of sailors wearing stripes

there is also fred at http://www.ryallarmouries.co.uk/
hes very good

should have said wotr i was wondering because some of the effort which goes into some of the detail on armour just for the inside to be left bare

i was wondering if there was any evidence of lining the inside of armour

yuck mountain dew almost as bad as gatorade

their the saviles a wars of the roses yorkist household who are very family orientated there are plenty of kids (2-3 of the familys have 3 generations going) with members from all over the place mostly yorkshire/cheshire but as far away as plymouth and germany most of our events are midlands way and...

white rose apparel very nice can be quite expencivehttp://www.whiteroseapparel.com/brigandines.htm

Pin tin
wilton st , millbridge plymouth

http://www.thepintin.co.uk/

Michael jecks does a series of medieval mystery books set in devon there not brilliant but deffinately readable

there the bonville family the senior side of the courtney family had a major feud with the bonville family which went to the extent of when the bonville famly fell out with henry vi and defected from lancaster to the yorkist cause then the courtneys defected form york to lancaster however sir willia...

i went last sunday thats what got me thinking and looking into him

does anyone have any information about Sir William COURTENAY of Powderham b1427 d1485 all i can find is he was married to Margaret Bonville (died before July 1487), by whom she had issue.
and he was a yorkist

speak to our captain he wrote it he dosnt normaly post on here but will bring it to his attention

dont know if the arrows have gone but acording to the news a load of the artifacts off the mary rose are going on display in london for three months
inculding the sword unfortunately i did not see where

i may as well ask i have come across a line "all the lord chamberlain's men have become my lord of buckingham's men"(simon stallworth's second letter to sir william stoner dated 21st june 1483)
would that be common to take over a hole household and retinue???

ideal in theory but most archers dont like the blocks trampling all over there arrows as all arrows broken would have to be replaced and i would be worryed about arrows going in to crowds

there is a book called pleyn delit
which has medieval recipies inclueing a french one for mushroom pasties

that picture is the edward III one tis bugging me now

if you are up north get in tuch with the saviles they are majoritaly wotr archers

didnt spot that bit

i like this one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Medieval-chaperon-hat-re-enactment_W0QQitemZ270224031243QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item270224031243

cant figure out how he waters his flowers without getting his head wet though