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Dinosaur Mania is once again rife in Modbury thanks to the new BBC television series `Walking with Dinosaurs'. The Modbury Web-site has been inundated with requests for information about dinosaurs so we asked Bob Sprout of the Modbury Local History Society to share his knowledge with us |
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WHEN DINOSAURS RULED MODBURY |
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by Bob Sprout |
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Big monsters, the size of houses, destroying everything in their path. Stomping about all over the place and feared by all the other creatures of the planet. No, I'm not talking about tax inspectors!!! I'm talking about dinosaurs, those fearsome beasts that terrorised the world for literally zillions of years before time began. It's hard to imagine Modbury being home to these oversized grotesque lizards, but that was almost certainly the case. Of course, they didn't live in houses but in nests made out of giant twigs. Twigs then, of course, would have been generally bigger than they are now, as were most things. Grass would generally have been much longer as well, and not just because there weren't any lawnmowers!!! It was just generally longer. |
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The people who inhabited Modbury at the time of the monsters would have worn very few clothes. The men would have gone around in loincloths made out of tiger skins, and would have carried clubs and things like that. The women would have worn bras made out of tiger skins and furry hats in the winter made from rabbits. Of course lipstick and perfume would not have existed at the time, so the women would not spend endless hours looking in mirrors (also non-existent at the time) making themselves up. (How different from the ladies of today!) As electric razors, and even non-electric razors, had yet to be invented, men would have had big beards and communicated with each other using grunts and very simple words. It was also common to see the husbands dragging some of the more unruly wives round by the hair! (What would some of today's `women's libbers' have to say about that!) |
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Because Modbury was so small, there would only have been room for about eleven dinosaurs. These would have included the deadly Raptors, who hunted in packs and had the ability to turn door handles, the mighty Tyrannosaur, who could not see you if you stood still because it had wonky chicken eyes, the Petrodactus, which was able to fly and had a terrifying `Caw! Caw!' cry, and the dinosaur with the horns. |
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The people of this time would have had battles with the monsters, and often men with blonde hair would have battles with men with black hair. Thus, it was a violent time, with no place for cissies. But then a man with black hair would fall in love with a woman with blonde hair, and they would go off and do `you know what', leading eventually to modern civilisation. |
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Of course, all this was a long time ago, but have people really changed that much? Well, today we don't live in caves and live in constant fear of giant monsters, so the answer would have to be yes. |
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