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krappyrubsnif

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Ancient Corporation of </span><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stroud Green will soon rise again. I present The Stroud Green Badge on Facebook: </span><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://ow.ly/4mLms0</span>;

miss annie

I've still got my ACSG badge and look forward to updates.

krappyrubsnif

Go to the Ancient Corporation on Facebook to see a preview of the info board

miss annie

I have 'liked' it.

conformable_kate

<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">Have you seen the Medieval Tube Map?</span></font><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: normal;">http://londonist.com/2014/12/the-medieval-tube-map</span></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: normal;">Pleasingly what is now Finsbury Park appears as Strode. Bring back ancient names!</span></font></div></div>

krappyrubsnif

Strode for ever!

krappyrubsnif

<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">I thought I should remind the citizenry of Stroud Green that the Ancient Corporation of Stroud Green (Stapleton Hall Tavern, 1773) has a motto, and a song.</span><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;">The motto is: <span style="font-style: italic;">Justitia Floreat, ut Noi ab Origine</span>  ["Let Justice Flourish, .....] Translation help needed.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">The seven verses of the song are posted on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/corporationofstroudgreen/timeline">the Ancient Corporation of Stroud Green Facebook Page</a>  (first verse below). Apparently all this is quite genuine and in the Bodleian Library.   </div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I would like to issue a challenge: who in Stroud Green can set it to music?</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">It goes like this:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Song for the Ancient Corporation of Stroud Green (1773)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Ye Sons of Jollity and Mirth</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Of each denomination,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Attend, while I declare the worth,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Of Stroud Green Corporation:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Tho' weak my Verse, 'tis strictly true,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">And Free from adulation,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">The praises then let me pursue</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Of Stroud Green Corporation.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">etc</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">[Source:  </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">The Song for the Ancient Corporation of Stroud Green</i><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Fraternal Melody</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> a song book of 1773, by William Riley (Bodlean Library, Oxford, ESTC Number T184510) ]</span></span><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; 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krappyrubsnif

Just for fun, I'd like to propose a dinner/drinks at the Stapleton Tavern in July to mark the 243rd anniversary of the Ancient Order of Stroud Green - the obvious date would be July 23rd, as that's the date engraved on the back of the 1773 Stroud Green Badge.  It could be sooner although I'm away for a bit.   July 23rd is a Saturday.  Anyone interested?<div><br></div><div>What I really have in mind is a small get together of a few like-minded people, maybe half a dozen, interested in local affairs/history, and the story of the Badge, over a burger.......it could equally easily morph into a Stroud Green Org social as the day wears on.  I haven't told the pub yet and wasn't thinking anything more dramatic than booking a table for eight, no fancy dress or speeches as there were last time.</div><div><br></div><div>Like it on Facebook:  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/corporationofstroudgreen/">https://www.facebook.com/corporationofstroudgreen/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Any takers for that date?   Krappy </div>

miss annie

<p>Yes, I'm in.</p>

krappyrubsnif

Well done Miss Annie.  Right.  With previous responders, that's table for four and counting........

Mimsy

hows about me? ... I've been walking this road daily for 28 years... and I love beer and a burger and a song..<br>

krappyrubsnif

Yesssssssss All comers welcome. Pay as you go. I think we're up to about six, but plenty of time. I'm away but will get round to some fun stuff before then.

krappyrubsnif

The proposed July 23rd 'Mayor and Corporation Dinner' is postponed because nobody is able to come in the holiday season. It was a daft idea anyway and nothing's been prepared. I can't be arsed really. I will, however, personally make it my business to be in the Stapleton that night should anyone from SG Org who happens to be around wish to share a convivial drink.

A better date can be arranged, possibly in the autumn, if anyone is actually interested (there have been quite a few takers, but not in July). If so I will probably just call it 'drinks', as 'relaunch dinner' sounds ridiculously formal and intimidating (and expensive). Perhaps it could simply double as a SG. Org social?

Also, I quite like the idea of kicking off a specific purpose to such an event: for example, I'd be interested in making and designing a modern 'Stroud Green Map' (see SG.Org thread passim). A SG brains trust - "Let's Put SG on the Map!" Anyone up for that?

Mimsy

what brain-power I have you may surely leverage..