Alethiak
You kindly posted the pointers to the Blanchflower website yesterday
re that enigmatic English quadripoint. No, curiously that wasn't
where I found out about it, (and I'll still working on getting you a
contact from local people who thrive in an Internet free world). But
Monsieur Blanchflower has surely got the Ordnance Survey Grid
Reference wrong. He suggests the quadripoint is at TF190057. It is,
if 'hidden europe' is to be believed, exactly 1 km east of that at
TF 020057.
If I am sometimes a tad slow about replying, apologies. I am away
quite a lot during the present period - interestingly, in the Piran
area on the still unsettled Slovenian-Croatia border yesterday.
Nicky
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
wrote:
>
> nicky
> still very much looking forward to your coming issue
> i just realized for some reason i neglected to mention this
earlier
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19456
> & especially
> http://www.blanchflower.org/tripoints/ca-nh-ru-li.html
> which was the actual forgotten source & cause of all the stamford
commotion here
> & which just again inspired me to write away to its creator for
the desired local help
> since i dont agree with his quadripoint positioning in any case
> & am hoping i can persuade him of mine
> as well to go take another look for an expected marker up on the
expressway
> so hopefully please stand by for more data on this yet too
>
> but was he perhaps your unknown local informant with the tape
measure etc
> or just a coincidence i have found a kindred spirit in the
neighborhood
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos <aletheiak@>
wrote:
> >
> > welcome nicky & thanx for all the great news
> > tho i got only as far as this tantalizing teaser page
> > http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk/article_info.php?articles_id=244
> > so please do follow up as soon as possible with the
> > balance of the report if you can
> > or with as much as you can if you cant
> >
> > in the meantime these excerpts from our recent ongoing
> > & perhaps even simultaneous quest for your great
> > english quadripoint may interest you as well as
> > explain my excitement over seeing it evidently
> > referred to in your article
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19709
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19710
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19712
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19714
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19716
> >
> > indeed your article fairly promises to be an answer to
> > our calls for help
> >
> >
> > also
> > about your above title
> > the following much older highlight from
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/1715
> > A very nice site about the old tp atderu:
> > http://www.zollgeschichte.de/monatskarten/11_98.htm
> > To continue: click on Dreikaiserreichsecke. Lots of
> > old postcards.
> >
> > --- Nicky Gardner <nicky@> wrote:
> >
> > > The September 2006 issue of hidden europe magazine
> > > has an article on the
> > > art of bagging tripoints. The tripoint and
> > > quadripoint examples it
> > > includes are possibly well worn examples, many
> > > surely well-known to
> > > members of this forum. But it does include a report
> > > from the point,
> > > southeast of Myslowice in southern Poland, where a
> > > hundred years ago the
> > > territories of three great empires met at a
> > > tri-point. The
> > > Dreikaiserreichs Ecke is nowadays a rather forlorn
> > > spot, but there was a
> > > time when visiting this tripoint was seen as a
> > > curious excursion. There
> > > are many late nineteenth century postcards of the
> > > spot, many including
> > > images of the Kaiser, the Tsar and the Austrian
> > > Emperor. For those
> > > interested, the hidden europe website is at
> > > www.hiddeneurope.co.uk
> > > <http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk> . The magazine has
> > > regularly carried
> > > articles on aspects of life in any around European
> > > borders.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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