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The Legacy of Tony Wedd CD-ROM In 1955 Tony attended a lecture by Desmond Leslie about the contactee George Adamski, and became fascinated by contact claims. He was also interested in the countryside, and his booklet Skyways and Landmarks was the first to connect flying saucers with Alfred Watkins' discovery of prehistoric ley alignemts. He believed the connection was a form of energy in the ley system, which the space people could use and which also could have been used in prehistoric times for such things as healing. It was later found that the ley system does seem to contain subtle energies which can be detected by dowsing. During the 1960s he did research on leys, particularly at Stonehenge, in Kent and in his native Somerset, and was the person who brought the subject back to life after the Straight Track Club started by Alfred Watkins ceased in the 1940s. He also did much work on uses of this universal energy, and formed the STAR Fellowship, whose aim it was to welcome the space people and learn from them. He proposed a travelling exhibition which would give the evidence for flying saucers and free energy, which unfortunately never came to fruition. This CD-ROM is intended to remedy that by providing the exhibition in electronic form, as an archive of the work done by Tony Wedd. It is divided into three galleries, each concentrating on one of the three main areas of Tony's work - Flying Saucers, Landscape Energies and Lost Technology. Tony's own voice guides you round the exhibition and he describes his work and findings as well as those of others interested in these subjects. £9.99 from Jim Goddard , 25, Albert Road, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 2PX. (Please make cheques payable to J. Goddard) Skyways and Landmarks Revisited BOOKLET This is a re-evaluation of Tony's work on leys and flying saucers, and includes the full text and illustrations from his original booklet, with other pictures of the places he mentioned. It also has histories of the ley and flying saucer subjects, and of the STAR Fellowship, the organisaiton Tony founded. It also goes into ideas on the significnce of sound to earth energies, which Tony believed flowed along the alignments and could be used by extraterrestrials. £3 plus 50p postage and packing from Jim Goddard , 25, Albert Road, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 2PX. (Please make cheques payable to J. Goddard). Skyways and Landmarks VIDEO Tony was enthused with the subject of ley alignments when, after reading Alfred Watkins' book on the prehistoric alignment system, he walked on Hampstead Heath and discovered a mark aligning on the tumulus there and Westminster Abbey, built on an island called Thorney Island. Later he found a number of alignments in his own home area of Kent and was surprised to find flying saucer sightings often made at or near mark points. Connecting the ley system with the "orthoteny" UFO alignments of Aime Michel in France, he made a trip there and found several marks where Michel had reported sightings. From this, and from mentions of magnetic currents by contactees Buck Nelson and George Adamski, he derived his theory of the use of ley energy in saucer propulsion and/or navigation. Since then, many people have experienced energy effects in the ley system and dowsing has been used extensively to detect energy lines across the landscape. He brought out his small duplicated booklet Skyways and Landmarks, which sold for the princely sum of six old pence, to put forward these ideas, and he also gave several talks with the same title. This video, partly narrated by Tony and using his original pictures, shows the alignments he found in his home area of Kent and in France, and puts forward the ideas once again which brought the subject of leys back to life after Watkins' Straight Track Club ceased operation in the 1940s. As well as this it features A Visit to Tony Wedd Country, a record of a field trip to the Chiddingstone area by members of the Surrey Earth Mysteries Group at which a number of other interesting leys were found between the significant sites in the area, and at which a visit was made to the mysterious Bull Rock Cave that Tony discovered near to his home. Tony was also a strong supporter of contact with extraterrestrials and was very interested in the accounts of contact which had arisen during the 1950s and early 1960s. The Adamski Scoutship, which is also featured on this video, shows with photographic evidence that quite a number of sightings of this type of craft have been seen in places throughout the world, including a number in Britain, supporting George Adamski and other contactees of the time. The video also includes George Adamski's own account of his first contact. £5 plus 50p postage and packing from Jim Goddard, 25, Albert Road, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 2PX. (Please make cheques payable to Jim Goddard).

John Anthony Dunkin Wedd was born in Langport, Somerset, on 1st March 1919. He was an RAF pilot during the war, operating training aircraft in Canada. When the war ended, he took on a variety of activities, including running a home for maladjusted children. He was also an artist and designer and had a book published entitled Pattern and Texture.

He was a countryman by nature and inclination, and in 1955 settled in the small picturesque Kentish village of Chiddingstone. At first, he, together with his wife and three children, occupied a not very big flat in Chiddingstone Castle. The Castle owners were, however, selling off parts of the estate and he acquired a magnificent walled garden on the edge of the village. He designed and had a bungalow built there, moving in in 1958.

Tony was the sort of person who was always willing to learn and was attracted by new and unconventional ideas. In 1955, for example, he attended a lecture organised by the Tunbridge Wells Flying Saucer Club, at which author Desmond Leslie was speaking about the experiences of "contactee" George Adamski. Tony was fascinated, and quickly became knowledgeable on flying saucers in general and the contact stories in particular. (He always hated the term UFO as to him the saucers were not unidentified). He saw contact as a way forward and a method by which information could be brought through which might benefit the people of earth both physically mentally and spiritually.

Another strand of Tony's interest was that of the countryside. He was born on the portals of the Glastonbury Zodiac and when young went for walks around the "Girt Dog of Langport". While in Canada during the war, he was fortunate enough to meet the discoverer of the Zodiac, Katherine Maltwood, at her home in British Columbia. It was in 1947, however, that he first read Watkins' The Old Straight Track. He was living in Hampstead at the time and, fresh from reading the book, he took a walk across Parliament Hill to Highgate Ponds.

"Turning there towards Ken Wood, and climbing up the slope, I spotted a solitary Scots pine tree among the beeches. 'A mark!' I cried ecstatically. It stood a clear 10ft. above the other trees, like a flag on top of a fortress, its mushroom structure always pressing for the extra light due to its extra height."

"It often seems to me that the lay of the land itself reveals the angle from which a mark is meant to be approached. So, as I stood there on Hampstead Heath, I felt that it was just from that point of view that the single surviving pinus sylvestris was intended to be seen. With what delight, therefore, on scanning the surroundmg heath did I spot. barely 50 yards to my left - the tumulus. There is only the one, topped by pinus sylvestris and encircled by a crown of thorns."

Returning home to plot the line on the map, he found that it passed straight through Westminster Abbey, the site of which was originally known as Thorney Island - from a conspicuous mark - a hallowed clump of hawthorn. Even at that stage, Tony put forward a theory that the ley was marked with hawthorns on the lower ground, pines on the higher ground, and that the double planting around the tumulus was to mark the changeover.

On moving in Kent in 1955, Tony observed similar clumps in the countryside around Chiddingstone, frequently occupying prominent positions on or near hilltops on the North Downs, the Sevenoaks Range and the Upper Weald. Whilst living in the flat a Chiddingstone Castle, he first noticed the alignment of these clumps, mentioned in Skyways and Landmarks. This was the line from Chested to Mark Beech.

The next major development occurred in 1960, by which time he and his family had moved into the new bungalow at Tye Cross. Philip Rodgers had introduced Tony to a sensitive called Mary Long, who came to stay over the weekend of 21st - 22nd May. From her own extra-sensory perception, Mary found her way to a sycamore tree standing in the wood just beyond the garden wall of Tye Cross. The tree had a very pronounced spiral form, and Mary felt that there was a "vortex" at that point.

Mary was in regular telepathic contact with several Space People, who gave her information on scientific matters - mostly in relation to energy and energy fields on the Earth. They worked from a very large Space Ship, which didn't usually come over England - except very high up: it was usually over the Pacific. Her regular contact was Attalita and, on the Sunday morning, on awakening, she wrote down her memory of a communication which had been brought through during the night.

Mary tells what happened:

"It came through first of all that the sycamore tree was very important indeed, that it's on a magnetic line of force and that it's a sort of nodal point from which we can assess the magnetic direction of the Earth when the Earth is tilted or whatever is going to happen which will change the direction of the magnetic north. The picture I got was of this tree being in the true magnetic line - in some curious way a permanent magnetic pomt which doesn't change - and that if you drew a circle round it and a twelve pointed star then you would be able to ascertain the true magnetic direction of these various centres."

Mary felt that the tree was of very great significance and that in some way Tony was the custodian of it. She felt that it was at the crossover of two important lines of force, and was a vortex. She also felt that the tree had grown where the actual cross occurred, being very significantly in a spiral form. When she visited the tree Mary was interested to notice that she got a very powerful feeling of energy around it, but not actually at the tree, which she felt rather pomted to it being a vortex.

Mary also got the impression that her tree was on a very, very strong line of force, in the approximate direction NE-SW. Working with David Pester, who was also present, they brought through that the line was 6 degrees N of NE, .and that if Tony worked round the clock from this line he would fmd a centre of healing power on each of the twelve alignments so obtained.

This was partlcularly convincing for Tony in that the flrst alignment in the area which he discovered - that coming down trorn One Tree Hill on the Sevenoaks Range, through the pine clump at Chested, Chiddingstone Castle, and on to Wilderness Farm .and Mark Beech - was exactly on that orientation. He found it a little difficult to .accept the significance of thc sycamore tree in the scheme of things, however, for as he remarked, it "drew such emphasls to my own particular dunghill". However, I think he later took the view that he had somehow been guided to live in the vicmity of the tree. At the very least, he was certainly fortunate to have been offered the walled garden, to have been granted planning permission and a loan to build Tye Cross, as if this was part of an overall plan.

.Mary also told Tony that the bark of the sycarnore tree had healing properties and that it had to be charred and then infused. I can certainly vouch for this, as Tony gave me a piece of bark, which I did not char, but f iled down into a powder and then infused it. It certainly helped a friend who had a skin complaint quite considerably. Through thought communication, Tony had received detailed plans for a free energy coffee pot similar to that which was seen by Reinholdt Schmidt, the American contactee, during a trip in a space ship . This is not the place to describe this device in detail, but Mary felt that the coffee pot may have been intended to infuse the sycamore bark as well. NB: Reinhold Schmidt's contact account is contained in the book The Pawn of His Creator, by David Kammerer. See All the Planets are Inhabited!

"The chalybeate spring at Tunbridge Wells lies exactly upon one of these lines, and so does the Spa Hotel, which is 6 miles as the crow flies (are crows ley-sensitive?). On the next alignment, lies an interesting pine clump at Burrswood, a healing centre established by Dorothy Kerin, and the main spring of this place flows out from the grotto among these trees, five miles off. And five miles off on the other leg of the next alignment still, the one 9 degrees to the east of north, lies Spring Hill, a magical spot in Whitley Forest, where the River Darent flows out so strongly that a mill lay only just 200 yards away, until burnt down recently. This alignment passes through the striking clump of Scots Pines that stands untouched close to the Sevenoaks by-pass."

The coincidences start to pile up. There is a clump of pines at Outridge Farm on the 21 degrees west of north alignment, and the line joins Weardale Manor, another magical spot on Toys Hill, to the high point on Keston Common, 497 ft., touching the boundary of Caesar's Camp. A clump beside the Hartfield - Withyham road marks the most interesting ley of all (Spring Hill in the other direction) as it passes through what the old tithe maps clearly call The Clump, now only a few pines lost among the modern planting, by Highfields, in the woods close by. Here there is an old cruciform cave cut out in the rocks, partly caved in, but said to be Mithraic in its layout: a southern transept which conceals five lamp-holes, four square and one circular. I interpret these as signifying the four cross-quarters of the Celtic calendar, and the sun at high summer. The dark north transept stands for midwinter, the "coffin" of the year. There is a slot to hold three veils, and a sentry box complete with "elbow room". There seems to be a dove in the strata of the crossing. The altar, which might show the Primeval Egg, is quite defaced."

In one of his own thought communications, Tony understood that the 12 sorts of healing water has 12 specific uses. He surmised that it would be necessary to classify human afflictions into 12 categories. This also brings to mind the 12 signs of the zodiac and suggests the possibility of a terrestrial one around Chiddingstone, similar to the one at Glastonbury.

About a week before and a week after that sighting UFOs had been seen at Keston Mark, also in Kent. As Tony records: "The conjunction of the two place-names was too big a hint to miss - and I began to suppose from that date that the saucers' crews knew about the leys.''

Tony had already suspected that something of the sort was true, however, several years previously. His reference in Skyways and Landmarks to Buck Nelson is significant here. Nelson was one of the contactees, and Tony already had his book My Trip to Mars, the Moon and Venus. One sentence in it now struck him with significance: "The Space People tell me that the places where magnetic currents cross is comparable to a crossroads sign." The idea was that the flying saucers appear to travel along certain well-defined lanes and execute a "falling leaf" manoeuvre at the "crossroads" point before settmg course along another line was put forward by Aimé Michel in 1958 in his Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery. Tony suddenly realised the significance in the word "sign" m the quotation from Buck Nelson. The sentence would be complete without it. "Places" must mean places on Earth and "signs" rnust relate to some features on the Earth's surface. It suddenly fitted into place: the lines along which the saucers travel are actually identical to leys and the crossroads signs are the ley mark points and tree clumps.

Corroboration of this theory was forthcoming:

"There was another very good sighting over Tonbridge, by a Mr and Mrs Holman on November 1, 1961, but when I interviewed them it was after dark. It was quite a while later that I realised that a group of pine trees stood just where they had seen it. Then again, in 1967, Miss Ginnie Lockhart and a friend saw a UFO hovering above the excellent clump by the rock at Chiddingstone Hoath (the word means "rock").

Tony had the opportunity in August 1963 of a five-and-a-half day tour of Northern France. His aim was to see whether there were pine trees at the places where Aime Michell's orthotenies crossed, though he restricted his investigation to those places where the UFOs visibly altered course and at the moment of doing so executed a ''fallling leaf" manoeuvre.

'I vislted Meursanges first, in Burgundy, and just about where M. and Mme. Vitre had observed their UFO, and alerted nearby farmers, I found a group of three pine trees. Strike one! At Frasne, disappointed, I found nothing - until I reread my Michel, and realised that actually the UFO had been seen south and west of Dompierre. Useful negative check: you cannot find pine trees just by going out looking for them! Travelling on to Le Tertre I found a little knoll by the roadside, wlth a little shrine set at its edge, and a tree clump including both pinus nigra and pinus sylvestrls: Holy Ground, beloved by the gods. (Maybe some angels died at Meurs-anges?) Strike two! Next I visited the Rhine bank between Niffer and Kembs and saw nothing m the twilight, so turned into the woods to camp. In the morning I found rnyself in a forest thick with Scots pines! Too thick to make out any one particular mark point, so I could only allot myself two-and-a-half points out of three. Maybe that's not conclusive for anyone but me. But I returned home well satisfied that leys and orthotenies had some very promising points of sirnilarity."

See Surrey Earth Mysteries Group for further work on leys.

Some, including Tony, were beginning to feel, however, that the only real advance was likely to come through contact and by looking seriously at the claims that beings from other planets had come down and met individuals from Earth and had imparted information. The most famous "contactee" was George Adamski from California, though there were dozens of other stories being publicised, in Britain as well as in America and other parts of the world.

Now, "contact" was rather a dirty word amongst most "serious" saucer researchers of the time and there developed quite a split in the ranks of enthusiasts between those who were content to quantify and analyse and those who were prepared to accept that contact had occurred. Brinsley Le Poer Trench (later Lord Clancarty) had resigned the editorship of the Review in 1959 and it seemed to be taking up an anti-contactee stance.

It was in response to this that Tony Wedd decided to submit an article to the Review to redress the balance. "Diffusionist Theory and the STAR Fellowship" appeared in the January/February 1961 issue. In it, he put forward the idea, very popular nowadays, but less so then, that we had been colonised from other planets. He suggested that the Earth could be likened to a penal colony from which we are only now slowly emerging. The implications of this were that ours is not the only inhabited planet and that our visitors from space are in a very real way our brothers and sisters.

In the second part of the article Tony took this idea a stage further and, after expressing the feeling that we must welcome these people, announced the formation of the STAR Fellowship. It had three aims: to build a travelling exhibition of the evidence for flying saucers; to assist students on Earth to learn more about the space people; and to declare a welcome for our friendly visitors from space by means of the STAR badge.

Some time previously, Tony had received telepathically the image of a small seven-pointed star and he put forward the idea of adopting a little star badge as a sign of welcome. The badges which were produced had a small white star on a midnight blue ground.

The response to the Flying Saucer Review article was encouraging, with letters and donations from many countries wishing the endedvours well. A notice was therefore placed in the May/June 1961 issue informing readers that there was to be a picnic on Saturday 27th May at Chiddingstone. It requested that spades and sandwich lunches be brought by anyone interested as they were hoping to dig up a field where an old track was supposed to run "in connection with a theory that the old straight tracks were aligned on the same markers that the flying saucers use". As far as I am aware, this was the first time that a suggested connection between UFOs and leys had appeared in print.

Nothing particularly significant emerged from the dig, but at this first "STAR Rally" there was on sale a small duplicated booklet, the second in a series of "Information Leaflets" produced by the Fellowship. It described the alignment of tree clumps in the West Kent area and showed a relationship to flying saucer sightings. The title of that booklet was Skyways and Landmarks.

POSTSCRIPT
Tony continued his earth mysteries research including some interesting discoveries of a seven-point arrangement at Stonehenge and in the surrounding countryside. In 1970, at the age of 51, he emigrated to Australia, ending up running a youth hostel in the remote mountains on the Queensland/New South Wales border. He died in 1980.

Source:
Skyways and Landmarks Revisited, by Philip Heselton, Jimmy Goddard and Paul Baines