| Worst recession since 1706 19:31 - May 7 with 2080 views | Wicksy |
So what happened in 1706? Anybody know? |  |
| The cars in the churchyard
Were shiny and German
Distinctly at odds with
The theme of the sermon |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:32 - May 7 with 1783 views | PhilTWTD |
Downvoted for not pointing this enquiry directly to Factual. |  | | |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:33 - May 7 with 1767 views | Wicksy |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:32 - May 7 by PhilTWTD |
Downvoted for not pointing this enquiry directly to Factual. |
You're a hard man | |
| The cars in the churchyard
Were shiny and German
Distinctly at odds with
The theme of the sermon |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:34 - May 7 with 1764 views | Mullet |
Upvoted for not pointing this enquiry directly to Factual. |  |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:36 - May 7 with 1759 views | NewcyBlue |
Hopefully Facters comes along to say “actually it was 1709, I remember it like it was yesterday”. |  |
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| Worst recession since 1706 (Edited) on 19:38 - May 7 with 1747 views | Guthrum |
Middle of the War of the Spanish Succession. Too early for the South Sea Bubble (1720).
Not sure of anything specific, without looking it up.
Edit: Are you sure that wasn't specifically Scotland, which was in a shambles after the failure of the Darien Expedition? [Post edited 7 May 2020 19:41]
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:38 - May 7 with 1742 views | factual_blue |
The Act of Union was passed (coming into effect 1 May 1707), and Twinings Tea Shop opened on The Strand, and is still there today.
So it'll be one or other of those. |  |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:39 - May 7 with 1733 views | factual_blue |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:33 - May 7 by Wicksy |
You're a hard man |
Gav can confirm that, I'm sure. | |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:40 - May 7 with 1725 views | Pecker |
Was it the last time Liverpool won the Premier League? |  | | |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:43 - May 7 with 1724 views | factual_blue |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:36 - May 7 by NewcyBlue |
Hopefully Facters comes along to say “actually it was 1709, I remember it like it was yesterday”. |
Nah - 1709 saw the first county cricket match and the discovery on a Pacific Island of Alexander Selkirk, whose story inspired Robinson Crusoe. | |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:44 - May 7 with 1714 views | Guthrum |
Ah, that's just the earliest economic data they have on record (at least, which has survived to the present day)*. So effectively they just mean the worst recession since records began.
* Tho isolated periods of Exchequer records do survive from before that. [Post edited 7 May 2020 19:46]
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:45 - May 7 with 1710 views | PJH |
Maybe it meant 1706 as in six minutes past five. |  | | |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:48 - May 7 with 1701 views | NewcyBlue |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:43 - May 7 by factual_blue |
Nah - 1709 saw the first county cricket match and the discovery on a Pacific Island of Alexander Selkirk, whose story inspired Robinson Crusoe. |
The great frost...
Surprised you don’t remember it. You often allude to it by saying “it’s cold, but it’s not 1709 cold”. | |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:51 - May 7 with 1683 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:38 - May 7 by factual_blue |
The Act of Union was passed (coming into effect 1 May 1707), and Twinings Tea Shop opened on The Strand, and is still there today.
So it'll be one or other of those. |
Must be the Act of Union. Always brings trouble. Brexit will see us rule the waves again. |  |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:51 - May 7 with 1686 views | bluelagos |
No idea, but a quick google confirms the Tories were in power. |  |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:52 - May 7 with 1674 views | Mullet |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:51 - May 7 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Must be the Act of Union. Always brings trouble. Brexit will see us rule the waves again. |
Pretty sure that was 1707 actually | |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 20:05 - May 7 with 1618 views | factual_blue |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:52 - May 7 by Mullet |
Pretty sure that was 1707 actually |
Read my post. Act passed in 1706, came into force 1707. | |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 20:19 - May 7 with 1597 views | Keno |
yes, I was having a coffee and getting the dogs tea ready.
By quarter past 5 I sitting in the garden |  |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 20:21 - May 7 with 1589 views | Mullet |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 20:05 - May 7 by factual_blue |
Read my post. Act passed in 1706, came into force 1707. |
BALLS! | |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 20:32 - May 7 with 1570 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:32 - May 7 by PhilTWTD |
Downvoted for not pointing this enquiry directly to Factual. |
And to think I got told off for commenting on your pate, based on a well circulated golfing picture.
#doublestandardswotnohobnobs |  |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 21:17 - May 7 with 1507 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 20:05 - May 7 by factual_blue |
Read my post. Act passed in 1706, came into force 1707. |
Yes, the markets obviously reacted to the disaster they knew was coming. Short selling and all that.
Hence why with Brexit on the horizon … oh! | |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 21:35 - May 7 with 1478 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:48 - May 7 by NewcyBlue |
The great frost...
Surprised you don’t remember it. You often allude to it by saying “it’s cold, but it’s not 1709 cold”. |
No, the great frost was 1708,
You,re thinking of the great snow of 1706. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 22:32 - May 7 with 1411 views | Ryorry |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 19:32 - May 7 by PhilTWTD |
Downvoted for not pointing this enquiry directly to Factual. |
I was about to post "who on earth would downvote that?" - but luckily behaved myself and read to the end of the thread first! |  |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 22:49 - May 7 with 1395 views | factual_blue |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 20:21 - May 7 by Mullet |
BALLS! |
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| Worst recession since 1706 on 22:53 - May 7 with 1388 views | factual_blue |
| Worst recession since 1706 on 21:17 - May 7 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Yes, the markets obviously reacted to the disaster they knew was coming. Short selling and all that.
Hence why with Brexit on the horizon … oh! |
Having to bail out the Scots after their ridiculous Darien Scheme investments can't have helped.
(The Darien Scheme was an attempt to establish a Scottish colony in what is now Panama). | |
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