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Reply #15 on: July 06, 2020, 04:56:19 PM
Over Dorking is the next village down the road, and is not for from Greater Dorking. These places should not be confused with Dorking-on-Sea


Let's not forget Nether Dorking.


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Reply #16 on: July 06, 2020, 05:12:13 PM
Or the Forest of Dorking

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Reply #17 on: July 06, 2020, 05:23:42 PM
Over Dorking is the next village down the road, and is not for from Greater Dorking. These places should not be confused with Dorking-on-Sea


Let's not forget Nether Dorking.

Oh yes. I'd forgotten about that.

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Reply #18 on: July 06, 2020, 05:54:32 PM
Dorkingham

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Reply #19 on: July 06, 2020, 05:57:07 PM
Wasn't Guy of Guisborne the sheriff of Dorkingham?

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Reply #20 on: July 06, 2020, 06:11:01 PM
Wasn't Guy of Guisborne the sheriff of Dorkingham?

What Guy dorks to his ham in the privacy of his Guisborne is entirely up to him.

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Reply #21 on: July 06, 2020, 06:32:22 PM
...you may be the only person in our version of reality that actually understands that statement. ???

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Reply #22 on: July 06, 2020, 06:35:44 PM
It's safe to say that no one else understands him.

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Reply #23 on: July 06, 2020, 07:18:20 PM
This sounds like the start of a Midsommer Murder episode.
Can Chief Inspector Bawbany ferret out the dastardly villain?

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Reply #24 on: July 08, 2020, 01:54:04 AM
he may have used Dorking as a previous wargame Rules for the conduct of the war game on a map published in 1896 used the maps titled the Hills east and west of Dorking https://archive.org/details/rulesforconducto00grearich/page/n5/mode/2up see page 17

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Reply #25 on: July 08, 2020, 02:12:23 AM

Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum


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Reply #26 on: July 08, 2020, 10:35:13 AM
This is interesting. I do enjoy 'what if' types of games.

I found the original story online, if anyone wants to check it out: https://archive.org/details/battleofdorking00chesrich/page/n9/mode/2up

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Reply #27 on: July 08, 2020, 11:17:53 AM
Of course, reading it now, and thinking about it, you realise that the forces involved would have been totally inadequate for the task. The idea of a couple of division marching to and then through London, which is a pretty big place, and taking the centre of government is pretty far fetched. And then they detach a force to take out Woolwich Arsenal, who, it seems, is the sole provider of ammunition, and no reserve stocks to be had?

By the time they had marched through the suburbs, half of them would have disappeared into houses of ill repute, pubs, gambling dens and drug holes, Womans Institute tea parlours or pounced upon by various religious zealots and dragged off to sing hymns.

By Jove, it won't do sir! dash it all.

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Reply #28 on: July 08, 2020, 12:34:38 PM
Well, those places would attract the lower, coarser type of landser.
For the more erudite, there was the Salvation Army bands and reading rooms.

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"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.