Grimsby Town FC badge, nickname "The Mariners"
Greetings blog fans, I'm floating again. I joined at Immingham in England on thursday last week, Immingham, known as "Ming Ming" in merchant navy slang is beside the town of Grimsby, home of Grimsby Town FC and once a large fishing port until the Cod war with Iceland, not much fishing being done now out of Grimsby, the cod in the chipper on Cromwell Road probably was caught in the Barents Sea, frozen, sent to China, filleted frozen again, sent back to Europe and battered,deep fried and that will be £5.20 please. The Cromwell Road also feaured the "Oliver Cromwell Barber Shop" a good place for all the roundheads to get their short back and sides, I didn't know what I felt about being in Cromwell country, apart from the obvious "so this is where the bastard was spawned" (to all non-Irish history lovers Oliver Cromwell sacked Wexford back in 1649 and massacred half the town)
Ironically Cromwell was a Republican and wanted to end the Monarchy, the similarities with Wolfe Tone, and all other Irish Republicans end there, a hero if you read history books written in England, a murderous bastard if you read history books written in Ireland.
Cromwells New Model Army were sent to Ireland by the English Parliament to defeat the Confederates of Irish and Royalist English and it is all very complicated and part of the reason Ireland is still divided today, I did not buy a bag of chips or get my haircut on the Cromwell road.
King Billy
Now we are floating off the Dutch Coast near Amsterdam, probably where William of Orange set off from, and eventually got to Dunboyne in 1690, well things really get complicated here, William III, Charles II heads getting cut off, I won't even begin to try and explain William the III, but that is why the orangemen go around marching on the 12th of July, celebrating a victory from 316 years ago.
Here endeth the history lesson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne follow the link for more info.|||114825027060137540|||