Is it a map...? Is it a game....? Any ideas appreciated!

[Hackstaple]

Nowadays known as Sudoku 

[LizzieW]

A thought I had in bed last night   Is it some kind of diagram for a treasure hunt.

Lizzie

[little meg]

After looking at the google maps I might take back that I did not think it was a plan of a garden.

In the googlemap there is a crescent shaped group of bushes in one of the open fields near the main building.
On one of the plans/graph sheets there is also a crescent shape.
Possible link there.

Also no paths to be seen.

Margaret

[little meg]

. . .also noted that in that same field which is enclosed by a road, on the left and right sides there are plantings of small trees.
On the right side they are on either side of the road - exactly 8 on each side of road and on the left side, only on one side but also 8 plantings.

I had hope they might match with the grids on the graph paper but I cannot see it.

May not be worth mentioning  . . . but ya never know!!

Margaret

[MissM]

I met only one ghost in my two visits  Second time around I was not too happy about being there...I didn't go inside   It is an amazing house. If you ever get the chance to go there you can feel history happening...it's a very lovely house. Well worth a visit...barring ghosts 

mab

Hi Mab

You are quite right about the Hall's atmosphere - it is like stepping back in time.  It feels, smells and looks so old and when I sat in the archive room, I did hear lots of creaks and groans, not surprising when you think how old the house is and how many planes fly over it in take off every day!  My own house rattles from them sometimes!

I also heard the bells ringing downstairs as if calling the servants to attend their mistress but the guides told me this happens when a mouse runs along the top of them! 

If anyone of you are able to visit, please do because it is well worth it.

Lynne

[MissM]

Brief account here, with another interesting account of a more recent incident...scroll down a bit...

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0459/

China
....just before bedtime, too...

Hi China

I have met Tom Whatmore a couple of times and he is a lovely man.  His book is an amazing history of a time in Speke that will never return: not just of Speke Hall but of the Mistress and her servants who lived there.

She cared deeply for the welfare of her tenant farmers, their families and the running of her estate; for the Church she had built for her people and the school she was Patron of for the children she cared about.

Thanks for posting the link to Tom.

Lynne

[LizzieW]

I showed the diagrams to my OH.  He says they look very familiar to him and at the back of his mind, he thinks it might be something to do with architecture.  He was going to look into it, but the allotment beckoned.

Lizzie

[GeoffE]

The smaller 3x3 grid throws a monkeywrench into this logic.

Surely, if it is a scale drawing of something, 3 feet to the yard is quite a logical explanation.

[HensonYoung]

My OH's theory is that these are room layouts i.e., someone planning/designing where and how objects/furniture etc., fit into specific rooms.