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Post by jeffwaynefan on May 1, 2006 14:49:39 GMT
This is a excellent website about 'Horsell Common' in Woking, the landing place of H.G. Wells invading Martians from The War Of The Worlds (1897/98). HORSELL COMMON Website www.horsellcommon.co.uk/index.html The pine trees on Horsell Common |
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Post by Tripod on May 2, 2006 17:29:56 GMT
Nice find Horsell.
If I ever visit England I'm sure to go to Woking.
Tripod
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Post by Thunder Child on May 2, 2006 21:05:47 GMT
And it IS a very nice area, Martians or no Martians ;D
Johan
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Post by EvilNerfherder on May 2, 2006 22:05:50 GMT
Yeah. Looks a really nice place to wander around apart from the WotW connection.
Next time I'm down South I'l try and make a point of visiting.
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Post by the Donal on May 4, 2006 17:42:16 GMT
The history is all very inaccurate- no mention of the martian landing at all!
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Post by Stuuullaaa on May 6, 2006 9:44:34 GMT
This is a excellent website about 'Horsell Common' in Woking, the landing place of H.G. Wells invading Martians from The War Of The Worlds (1897/98). HORSELL COMMON Website www.horsellcommon.co.uk/index.htmlThe pine trees on Horsell Common The dreaded sandpit on Horsell Common  |
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Post by Lensman on May 6, 2006 9:57:49 GMT
Wonderful to see the woods have grown back so nicely. But then, it *has* been over 100 years since they were burnt by the Heat Ray.  |
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Post by Commandingtripod on May 6, 2006 11:39:03 GMT
I went to Horsell Common once with this picture that was taken over 100 years ago:  I can't seem to find to find the god ugly metal thing stuck in the sand (aka. the Martian Cylinder) - it seems to have disappeared. Can anyone help me? |
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Post by Luperis on May 6, 2006 17:50:28 GMT
Ask those people in the photo... as they're still in exactly the same spot after after 100 years, they must have seen something. |
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Post by Lensman on May 7, 2006 5:13:28 GMT
I can't seem to find to find the god ugly metal thing stuck in the sand (aka. the Martian Cylinder) - it seems to have disappeared. Can anyone help me? Reminds me of the following sequence from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail": ~~~~~~~~ TIM: Follow! But! follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of four fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty big pointy teeth. ARTHUR: What an eccentric performance. ... TIM: There he is! ARTHUR: Where? TIM: There! ARTHUR: What, behind the rabbit? |
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Post by beecus on May 8, 2006 23:19:46 GMT
Pendragon must have used that photo as reference for their crowd scene, look at the crowds of people gathered about the cylinder, just as Wells described.. ;D ''The crowd about the pit had increased.... a couple of hundred people, perhaps...'' |
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