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Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Stanley Makepeace-Lott, George Washington and Us
The Nolan Insignia website is named after a former relative, Johannah Nolan. We are keen genealogists and we also believe in ancestor worship and ancestor spirits, in the Shaman sense. One of our direct relatives was a man called William Makepeace who worked as a Footman for Lady Olivia Bernard Sparrow at Brampton Park in Huntingdon, in the 1830’s. Some relatives were wealthy and others were poor but they always had a good sense of self and were proud of their abilities, whether they were serving others or serving themselves. Some were farmers, some were teachers and others had a trade. Many were interested in the arts.
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, the composer is related to us via Caroline Makepeace Harrison, one of the daughters of William Makepeace and Mary Cragg. he is a distant cousin, (hence his name, Harrison). We are also related to science fiction writer and novelist Stanley Makepeace-Lott, from a time when some of the family lived at 75, 99 and 105 Brunswick Road in Liverpool, Merseyside, now possibly demolished.
A very intrepid distant cousin (with a lot of time on his hands and presumably a lot of hobby money to spare!) has actually traced one branch of our family back to the 15th Century. Some of the Makepeaces were cousins of the Washington family and both families held on to Sulgrave Manor in Oxfordshire until about 1659, where apparently there is a statue of George Washington, so presumably we are all distantly related to him too!
The reason for this post is that we’d like to think that we are also carrying on some of the Makepeace art at Nolan Insignia, as we take our Theater of the Streets very seriously as a ‘Street’ art-form.
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The Frizinghall Bunnyman
The Frizinghall Bunnyman has some similarities to the Clifton (Virginia) Bunnyman in that he is a bunny like creature who was often seen near the railway and terrorised passers by. The Frizinghall Bunnyman was first mentioned back at the very beginning of the 20th century, again around 1904. He was seen on more than one occasion at the now non-existent Manningham station, the station before Frizinghall, and also at nearby Shipley station between 1903 and 1908.
The story of the Frizinghall Bunnyman was well known in the Manningham area of Bradford in the early 20th century. He is reported to be a man around seven feet tall with large rabbit like ears and apparently dressed in some sort of suit. Some reports of the time said the Frizinghall Bunnyman also known as ‘The Jack Rabbit Man’ or ‘The Rabbit Man’ sometimes appeared on or under the railway bridges and footpaths in the area and that he had glowing orange eyes, so was he a man or a cryptid?
Having only came across the story of the Clifton Bunnyman by chance a few weeks ago we were quite amazed at some of the similarities of theses two Bunnyman stories.
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Musical Exploration Of Netta Fornario
Iona, a sick little island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, boasting former religious splendour from a monk allegedly more mad and more sinister than Rasputin (and I’m a big fan of Rasputin, a great man) – wickedness, pretending to be good, evil masquerading as holy!? A monk from Ireland who allegedly buried his friend in the foundations of his monastery. How unholy and ungodly is that? Get real, that is evil. But monks and nuns came and went and Iona became a tourist attraction in the Gulf Stream, alive with legends of Selkies (seal elementals), mermaids and much more. Drawing poor Netta Fornario, a rich but lonely psychic healer from the safety of her London home in Mortlake Road, Kew, to the horrors of Iona in August 1929, when Netta was in her early 30’s. Netta was found naked and dead in November 1929, near a ruined village, logged as a ruined farmstead, nothing there just a few stones and hastily buried by the islanders of Iona in one of the biggest conspiracy cover-ups to hit Scotland in the 20th Century. No wonder she reputedly haunts the scene, or is that Iona island tourist propaganda too? Just what did those mad islanders do to Netta Fornario? All reports of her later days are from supposed islanders reports and they could well all be lies as well as the supposed accounts of what Netta said and the accounts of her last days on Iona, they may be pure fiction, disinformation allegedly put about to cover the truth of Netta Fornario’s murder by the islanders.
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The Golden Dawn In Bradford
We have added a short documentary regarding the the Golden Dawn, to our ever growing list of films. The documentary can be viewed at the link below.
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Paparazzi Sees GooGoo On Top Form
Laydee GooGoo Posing
GooGoo Wears For Bunny Girl
Nolan Insignia is also promoting the new Laydee GooGoo video Paparazzi (Stalkerface), showing just how intrusive life can be today and how no one is ever free of Big Brother (not the TV series) but more the George Orwell’s 1984 variety. How much privacy does anyone really have? Does anyone really care or even value their privacy any more? Is constant CCTV monitoring a good thing or just an invasion of Human Rights?
Watch Laydee GooGoo Ft. Lady Candlelight & Lady Tickseed performing ‘Paparazzi’
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Documentary Throws Up Paranormal Clue
From the Tribe of Alphaeus, to the First Ascendant:
Second Sine (or sign)
Third Sine (or sign)
Artifice is Nigh
(delivered via deep trance conditions)
Work this out – it may contain a personal message for you.
The photograph still is from the documentary ‘Gang Stalker’, the original filming was done at the very end of December, 2004 and was lost for many years, until it was discovered again by chance in February 2009. The whole scene is very Occult, from Eastern European Xylomancy twig predictions, to an actual word captured within the film.
Is this word ELOHIM? Sometimes people scrying with a crystal ball, would place the crystal on a table, against a dark backdrop and the table would be in a circle with the words Adonai, Elohim, Tetragrammaton around the circle containing the table and the crystal ball. Is this area then, a portal to other worlds, captured on film inadvertently?
So, to actually watch the Gang Stalker documentary, there is much, much more going on here, than is apparently present.
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Laydee GooGoo Previews As Haus Goes GaGa
Snapshots of the upcoming Nolan Insignia presentation were released this week with Laydee GooGoo keen to show just how GaGa the Haus is.
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Laydee GooGoo’s Pokerface Earns New Site
The enigmatic Laydee GooGoo phenomena has led to a new site featuring the antics of the Haus of GooGoo.
Visit LaydeeGooGoo.com
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WHERE IS IT?!…
WHERE IS IT?!… was originally going to be entitled ‘Dew and Light’ after the Society of Dew and Light, which produced a magazine called ‘the Lamp of Thoth’ and who began operations in a house in Parkwood Street, Keighley, West Yorkshire and were a rival group to The Golden Dawn.
The Golden Dawn had a temple in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the Horus temple, which first began at the Alexandra Hotel, Great Horton Road, Bradford (demolished in 1993 and now the site of a car park) and which then moved to premises in Godwin Street, Bradford. This temple was only re-discovered in the early 1980’s and its original leader was a former member of the Theosophical Society, still in existence in Shipley today, a Mr T H Pattinson, watchmaker and jeweller, of 6 Piccadilly, Bradford, who lived at 20 Westfield Terrace, Baildon, Shipley, West Yorkshire. When Florence Farr took over as leader of The Golden Dawn, Pattinson was quoted as saying that the Horus Bradford temple would not respond to a ‘Petticoat Government’. The writer was privileged indeed to actually enter the REAL Horus (No. 5) Golden Dawn Temple in Bradford, West Yorkshire and to view its original, amazing wall murals, talked about by many but never actually experienced. How many people today can actually say they have been in a REAL, original, 19th century Golden Dawn Temple, left as it was then and entered by some of the original Golden Dawn leaders and supporters, with the original paintings? (The paintings are very significant to the Temple workings) Now that was an experience indeed. Sadly, the Horus temple was destroyed soon after by crass individuals who did not care for its historical value or interest.
WHERE IS IT?!… follows the Occult theme of life in the aether. An extra life, within the trappings of everyday existence. We meet Andy Warhol, but we see the pop art, trippy, paintings in a Bradford subway. haunted Bolling Hall, in East Bowling Bradford, opens the film on a wet day in December 2008. We actually caught paranormal activity on the film in the haunted garden but did not include it. Again we featured songs by well known artists of the 60’s and 70’s, sung plainly without guile or pomp.
Henry Clifford of Skipton Castle, was allegedly a wizard who ran a coven on Ilkley Moor. he had a secret spell book, which fell in to the hands of one of the ancestors of the Murgatroyd family, originally of East Riddlesden Hall. Mr Murgatroyd allegedly shared some of the details of Henry Clifford’s book with The Society of Dew and Light of Keighley, West Yorkshire. And so, all around, there is a sort of anticipation, menace, yet expectation, even reflected in the light of the Ferris wheel. there was, allegedly, a secret paranormal link between Skipton Castle, Ilkley Moor, Bingley, Bradford Cathedral and Bolling Hall.
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IT IS HERE!?…
The filming for the film IT IS HERE!?… concluded October 31, 2008, somewhat appropriately at Samhain, (Soween) better know as Halloween. The turnip lantern sequences were filmed on Gallow’s Bridge, Shipley, West Yorkshire, which stands over the Leeds/Liverpool Canal. The opening sequence features the old packhorse bridge which originally went over to the side of the old Bradford Canal which ran from Shipley but was closed in 1922. Luckily and by pure chance, when we took our ‘runescript’ paper out it was an incredibly windy day.
I personally read all the ghost stories of Montague Rhodes James some years ago. I thought it strange that a man of the Church was such a prolific writer of ghost stories as was his contemporary, E F Benson (who also wrote the Mapp and Lucia stories, which were televised). The story was originally called ‘Casting the Runes’, which was made in to a brilliant 1950’s film, ‘Night of the Demon’. Of course, we all know that Karswell in the film and in the original story is based on Aleister Crowley as allegedly was Mr Arkadin, the film by Orson Wells.
We decided that we wanted to show that there are many things and beings floating around in the aether and so we gave our film an unseen air of menace, whilst taking it back, in part, to the 1960’s. The film pays eerie tribute to such singers as Janis Jopin, Brian Jones and Paul Kossoff, as well as featuring other artists, in a 60’s and 70’s medley, the idea being to strip the songs or characters to base roots, without any trace of sycophant fan worship. We are not and never will be fans. We see music artists as equal people to all on Planet Earth, without special favour, but we acknowledge the work that they did and do. What we attempted to show is that the whole world is really only a sphere of the Occult and paranormal, which is always going on, no matter what incarnates on the earth planes actually do. Green Tea, by Sheridan Le Fanu, also inspired the opening sequences, as did subliminal messaging such as shown on TV today, all the time. Green Tea is about a parasite that won’t leave a man alone, bit like a stalker. We tried to show that in everyday life, you win some, you lose some but ultimately, you either get on with the job or fall by the wayside.
