What's The City

[kayo]

Ah well, why didn`t you say do.

Where they filmed scenes of the song remains... and which they bought in 73.....

Hammerwood Park

therefore, Easst Grinstead East Sussex

TIRVIA

>>Hi - I'm David Pinnegar at Hammerwood Park which Led Zep owned from 1973 to

>>1982. Source

>>>She's Buying a stairway to Heaven.... you're not supposed to be able to buy

>>>you're way... or maybe she's buying death... what do you think... i personally

>>>don't think they're satanic, but look at Led Zeppelin IV... those four symbols

>>>(i think... i`ll probably get 50 people emailing me tellingme I'm wrong) stand

>>>for the four members of the band.... those COULD be satanic or witchcraft or

>>>something....

I think the idea is that She's sure she is buying her way - we read it that she's sure that she is buying her way with money. But words have two meanings. With a word she can get what she came for. We're misgiven about her. She's bought her way not with money but with her words, her prayers. I wonder . . . ? All that turns to gold at the end, I believe isn't metallic gold or money, it's gold light and all that's wonderful . . . ?

Perhaps I'm wrong.

The reason why I think they were inspired was that there is a bustle in the hedgerow and the piper is calling him to join him "when all are one and one is all". There's still time for us to change the path we're on. The answer is in the wispering wind.

So all must be "one and one is all

To be a rock and not to roll"

I hope I'll be a rock in the coming storms. Perhaps I'm mad but that's what people thought when my family and I took on the unrestorable Hammerwood Park. Although Led Zep apparently did nothing for Hammerwood Park in their ownership but allowed it to go derelict, history may regard the group as having rescued the house from Mammon: the property developers who had turned it into 11 flats. In its dereliction the house found resurrection when in 1982 we took it on to restore it and bring it to life.

Little did Led Zep know when they bought the house in 1973 that a decorator working for the developers had hidden an inscription beneath lining paper on the stairway hall ceiling: "This house is full of rot. God help you. 1968".

What the earth is facing now is what Hammerwood faced when Led Zep took it on. In order for it to come to life in a resurrection it had to be rescued from Mammon. It went derelict in the process. It was a tragedy. But it didn't need t

Edited September 21, 2006 by kayo

[Neeranam]

Sorry - it's not in England!!

[kayo]

Bugger, East Sussex isn`t in Scotland?

I watched Braveheart, I thought all of england was in Scotland!

[Neeranam]

A member of Led Zep bought a house here in 1971, and the grounds can be seen in 'the song remains the same'.

I went to a very famous stretch of water near this city once and saw some very strage things - maybe due to the fungii I had been eating.

Edited September 21, 2006 by Neeranam

[kayo]

Paul delta9.. Enfield

I'm a big lover of the Zeppelin sound, what a true super group they are indeed. Just last week I was in Scotland on the south side of Lock ness and found Boleskin house,(Bol-LES-kin)the mansion Jimmy Page lived in. Aleister Crowley's home once too.

source finally found it

[Neeranam]

But what is the city(near this house) in the photos?

[kayo]

crikey... I gave you the bloody name of... -

Oh, alright... Searching....

EDIT 1:

Inverness.

EDIT 3; A lot of sppoky stories about that crowley house there BTW! Interesting reading

EDIT 2:

For A bonus point: Can anyone guess this building (stil lin scotland)

Edited September 21, 2006 by kayo

[Neeranam]

Well Done! Your turn Kayo.

[Neeranam]

That building looks awfy like the tesco in Peterheid.

[jezchesters]

crikey... I gave you the bloody name of... -

Oh, alright... Searching....

EDIT 1:

Inverness.

EDIT 3; A lot of sppoky stories about that crowley house there BTW! Interesting reading

EDIT 2:

For A bonus point: Can anyone guess this building (stil lin scotland)

Hampden Park, Scotland's national stadium...

[kayo]

shit dead giveaway wasn`t it... Can you tell me what is housed within?

[jezchesters]

I thought I said - Scotland's National Stadium (Home venue for football and rugby matches)

[kayo]

yeah. It`s also th3e home of the Scottish National Football Museum.

Anyway, your turn!

[jezchesters]

OK - where's this?

[Neeranam]

Karachi

[Old Croc]

Brighton?

[jezchesters]

Brighton it is! Your go...

[Old Croc]

The next one, should be easy for some.

[jezchesters]

Rio?

[Old Croc]

not Rio

[mittheimp]

looks middle eastern

Damascus?

[Neeranam]

Brighton it is! Your go...

?England, Oz?

Jerusalem?

[Neeranam]

Timbuktu?

[Old Croc]

Mitty is the closest.

[mittheimp]

Amman?

[jdinasia]

Lebanon?

[Old Croc]

Amman it is. Your go Mittheimp!

[mittheimp]

next....

[kayo]

looks a little like New york in that 5th element movie with the sexy naked girl

[jdinasia]

Is the river REALLY that shitmuckle brown color?