Curiously Roman-sounding antiquarians cleaned up England's history after its 17th century war. Their technologies are still being removed. Thu 19 May 2022
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Eastbourne pier inexplicably burns down. 2014. Source
When fired burned down Hastings pier four years earlier, the fire inexplicably ran the full length of the pier even while the ignition point was still burning:
Hastings pier fire, 2010. Source: Hastings Pier Burning
From A Heartbreaking History of Victorian Pier Fires:
Hastings pier was effectively destroyed... just days after architects had been invited to submit designs for redevelopment.
Two teenagers were arrested for arson although charges were never brought.
Pier fires were something of a trend in the 2000s. Brighton pier burned (twice) in 2003:
Brighton West Pier. 2003. Source: A Heartbreaking History of Victorian Pier Fires
Grand Pier, Weston-super-Mare. 2008. Source: A Heartbreaking History of Victorian Pier Fires
And almost a trend in the 1970s:
Ingenious Eugenius Birch was an engineering Roman revenant:
- Eugenius Birch, 1818-1884
While still a boy he submitted a design for a passenger carriage to the London and Greenwich Railway company. His innovation, to place the wheels beneath the carriage as opposed to the side, thus freeing more room for the passengers was adopted by the railway.
he received a silver Isis Medal
Ingenious Eugenius allegedly designed 14 English piers.
The foundations of his first pier at Margate proved impossible to blow up. After that, Birch's piers started burning down:

Eastbourne Pier Source
The clean-up continues.
Today they burn piers like they once burned books.
Who invented the atlas?
The Roman-named Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594) from Holy Roman Belgium. He worked with Roman-named Gemma Frisius (a guy) and Roman-named Abraham Ortelius.
Late Roman Eminents
Roman-named eminents in Diary of Abraham de la Pryme, include its author - Abrahami/Abrahamus de la Pryme - himself:
- Very Rev. Augustus Duncombe, D.D., Dean of York, 1814-1880
- Rev. Cornelius Heathcote Reaston-Rodes
- J. A. Fabricius, 1668–1736, a German classical scholar and bibliographer. But reference may be to Johannes Fabricius or Johan Christian Fabricius
- Kaius College - (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge?)
- Mr. Cornelius Lee
- Sir Cornelius Vermuyden ('the drainer') - 1595-1677 - Ie drainer of the Fens
- Cornelius Peroli
- Alexius Elcock
- Octavius Leefe Possibly this one
Roman-named eminents show up in William Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiousum, Second Ed. 1776. They include the author - Guilelmo - himself:
- Theophilus Grant
- Rev. Gulielmo Stukeley

Gulielmo Stukeley himself turns out to be yet another Augustan Roman historian. Source
He even signed Itinerarium Curiosum's preface as 'Guliel'.
Norfolk-based Rev. Augustus Jessopp was very involved with:
- Rewriting the 17th Century reformatting into a Civil War (possibly partnered with Thomas Carlyle): Before the Great Pillage
- Creating a back-story for England's new working class: England's peasantry and Village Life in Norfolk Six Hundred Years Ago
- Co-creating the former Elizabethan elite: One Generation of a Norfolk House
- Changing England's former inhabitants into gentle religious orders: The Coming of the Friars
- Various histories to support a new history of England's so-called religious buildings: Norwich, The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich
- Forging John Donne: John Donne: Sometime Dean of St. Paul's
Early in England's Peasantry, Jessopp helpfully points out that our predecessors were human:
The inhabitants of these areas were human, and so they had their rivalries, their feuds, their quarrels, their fights, just as, I suppose, ants and beavers have among themselves;
Perhaps Jessopp was addressing the problem with folklore: that it keeps saying our predecessors were not human. That giants and giant serpents were still being reported in England into the 18th century.
And that artists were drawing attention to elite efforts to replace real memories with stories based on heroic, dead 'sovereigns' noted for rape and murder:
G. Cruikshank cartoon pokes fun at the Georgian positioning of Henry VIII as a folk-hero. 1813. Source: A Sepulchral Enquiry into English History
Jessopp published his work to American English speakers with the help of another Roman revenant: Titus Munson Coan. Coan introduced Christianity to Hawaii and, like Scotland's Constance Cumming, was involved with describing - and explaining - volcanoes.
Jessopp was also a good friend of MR James, who re-wrote memories of the past as 'mere' ghost stories.
Roman-named antiquarians also ensured appropriate international artefacts appeared in the new state museums and that earthworks were ploughed out or appropriately explained. Others ensured people living in 'problematic' English towns learned sanitised local histories:
- Pseudo-Rev. Octavius Morgan
- Augustus Wollaston Franks
- Augustus W. H. Meyrick - supplied 'antiques' to Augustus Wollaston Franks above
- Augustus Pitt-Rivers
- Cornelius Brown | 1852-1907 | Wrote History of Newark-on-Trent; being the life story of an ancient town |
Roman archaeologists
From Augustus Pitt-Rivers:
Pitt Rivers was a soldier and archaeologist, hugely influential in the development of modern archaeology.
Significant modern archaeologists Pitt-Rivers influenced include:
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born on 10 September 1890 in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. [Wheeler] was: - the first child of the journalist Robert Mortimer Wheeler and his second wife Emily Wheeler (née Baynes).[2] - The son of a tea merchant based in Bristol
Wheeler went on to fabricate a Roman massacre of the British at Maiden Hill, Dorset. However, the Maiden Castle massacre seems to have been one of Wheeler's smaller fibs. Apparently, Mortimer Wheeler also reconstructed Indian history:
From Mortimer Wheeler:
Wheeler had a significant impact on the archaeology of the Indian subcontinent. Indian archaeologist Dilip K. Chakrabarti praised Wheeler's achievements in a 1982 volume of the World Archaeology journal, relating that he had helped to establish a "total view" of the region's development from the Palaeolithic onward.
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His early years were spent mainly in Rome and Geneva (translation: the Holy Roman Empire) he made himself the leading authority in England on medieval antiquities
Kubrick films drop many hints that Roman achievements were fabricated by Pitt-Rivers' students like Wheeler and Franks from the remnants of the Holy Roman Empire:
You say 'Neo-classical', I say 'Roman'. Source: Barry Lyndon
Roman scientists
Astronomer Charles Piazzi-Smyth (1819-1900) was allegedly named after his godfather, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi. Conceived mounting telescopes on mountain tops. Hauling them up with mules. See similar example.
And Roman revenants built nice villas:
18th century Mount Leader House, Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland. Source: Roaring Water Journal
And Romanesque mausoleums:
The Temple, Holme Island, Cumbria. Source: Cumbria Archive Service
From: The Folly Flaneuse:
Local tradition has it that the temple was ‘executed by Italian craftsmen’. This may refer to the lovely painted studies of Roman goddesses that decorated the interior of the dome.
"Italian craftsmen" likely means "Roman craftsmen". Source: The Folly Flaneuse.
This scene from the dome's ceiling depicts Vesta, goddess of the hearth, to the left and Diana the huntress to the right.
Note Diana seems to have horns. And she doesn't carry a bow. Slung over her back is what we would mistake for a quiver. Another goddess warrior-queen is depicted holding something similar - though more stylised - in Location Analysis: Peterborough-Stamford Wild Hunt - Part Three.
Holme Island once boasted another piece of now dismantled technology:
Its just visibly arched causeway. Source: Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Holme Island, Grange-over-Sands
From: The Folly Flaneuse:
The island was connected to the mainland by a causeway in the 19th century
From: The Folly Flaneuse:
In 1828 Holme Island was offered for sale, with the particulars stressing its value as the site ‘for a Villa’.
Holme Island Temple is reminiscent of Brocklesby Mausoleum, Great Limber, Sleaford:

Brocklesby Mausoleum - also modelled on the temples of Vesta at Tivoli and Rome. Source: How The Past Was Hidden
Theophilus Fairfax Johnson allegedly built Spalding's Johnson Mausoleum, consecrated in 1843 at Holland House, Spalding.
Blended-named German and Roman artists - and their art - were forged in the 19th century, says Oleg Novoseltsev. Presumably, as part of the creation of Christianity.
And art by Roman and German-named artist Hieronymus Bosch was faked in the 1930s by Salvador Dali.
Miscellaneous Revenants:
Roman-named eminents in Tealby Gleanings, Jim Murray
- The Duke of Sussex AKA Augustus Frederick, 1773-1843 - sixth son of George III
American Roman Revenants:
- Evert Augustus Duyckinck, 1816-1878 - American publisher
- Cornelius Mathews, 1817-1879 - American publisher
- Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass, 1818 - 1895 - United States diplomat
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass. Source
Why?
Because there was good reason to rewrite the evidence of our past:
We needed time to adapt and grow. Source: Life Like
From his collar to her tattoos, every detail in that scene is a Revelation. An eight-second Disclosure of the Apocalypse.
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From Grimston Park - Tadcaster - Parks & Gardens:
The 2nd Lord Howden commissioned Decimus Burton c.1840 to rebuild Grimston House
He engaged William Andrews Nesfield to design the gardens c.1843, creating his trademark terrace parterre and sunken rose garden.
From William Andrews Nesfield - Parks & Gardens:
he began a new career as a landscape gardener, often in collaboration with Anthony Salvin (1779-1881)
Again, see Location Analysis: Peterborough-Stamford Wild Hunt - Part Three to appreciate what you are being told. Though you do need to the ability to take a hint.
From Grimston Park - Tadcaster - Parks & Gardens:
Roman settlement is also attested as the site of a Roman villa lies within the parkland west of Kirkby Wharfe (centred at SE 5056 4088), which was excavated in May 1711 and re-investigated in 1971/72 by Mr Maurice Thackrah (NRHE: 56512). Extensive areas of medieval ridge and furrow ploughing survive as earthworks within the parkland (NRHE: 1199083; Google Earth aerial image, accessed 27 July 2017).
The landscape is well wooded with plantations, today used for forestry and sport. Mature trees survive across the former parkland and arable areas have remnants of hedgerows with mature trees.
There are a number of former quarries within the parkland and evidence of processing lime (i.e. Limekiln Wood). The small scale limestone quarries were disused by 1909, according to the 6” Ordnance Survey map, but a larger one within Ladyflats Plantation continued in use during the Second World War. The place name evidence ‘Brick Kiln Plantation’ adjacent to Raw Lane also indicates extraction and processing of clay.

Note the tracks. Source: Legacy of Margate Jetty still evident...

Source: Margate Pier - Disappointed Tourist

Source: Grimston Park Yorkshire Gardens Trust
See also towers in Grimston Park Tower, near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire – The Folly Flaneuse
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Longfellow also helped market Christian history. ↩
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