HONOUR & ARMS CLUB
HUNDREDS of spectators watched as competitors fought head to head in medieval combat.
Competitors battled it out at in both group and singles categories over two days.
Over the Easter weekend between 300 and 400 members of the public joined to witness the epic battle at Castleton Primary School.
Daniel George, owner of Honour & Arms Club, said: “The action was vicious and lots of hard work was done, and it was great. The event went really well and we live streamed it on YouTube too.”
Honour & Arms Club, based on Tong Lane, Whitworth is an independent club dedicated to the study and competition of Full Contact Medieval Combat to HMB or IMCF rules.
could identify with and enjoy information about.
First he produced a liberty bodice which he told us was invented towards the end of the 19th century and was called an emancipation bodice in USA.
Then an old tin of ZamBuk which was produced
in Leeds and sold by the Bile Bean Company in 1902 as a herbal balm and antiseptic ointment, also Zam-Buk soap which was effective for cuts, bruises sprains, ulcers, piles and even toothache!
He brought a small box of Oxydol a brand of soap powder which was created
in 1914 and was the first laundry soap to be used in the 1930’s and it was the sponsor of the “Ma Perkins” radio show which was considered to be the first soap opera, and this put the “soap” in soap operas we know today such as Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
Donkey Stones were a type of scouring blocks used mainly in the mill towns in the north of England to highlight the edges of stone steps.
When he brought out squares of newspaper strung together, he asked what these were used for.
They were to hang in the toilet, and sometimes left print marks if you weren’t careful!
Then he showed a roll of Izal toilet paper. He then showed the ladies a “Little Black Sambo” cast iron mechanical money box, where you placed a coin in his palm and lifted his ear or arm which lifted the money into his mouth.
Towards the end of his talk he showed us books popular in children’s literature “Chicken Licken” and “Janet and John”.
He finished with showing a liquorice root and told of the benefits of eating this which is supposed to be for indigestion.