Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

They did!

It's called a dinghy!

Not convinced. They'd have called it a nunghy!

GDB2222

Sheringham fishermen wore ganseys (oiled woollen pullovers), each with a unique pattern to enable the bodies to be identified.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

In my reading/research, I discovered somebody's humorous take on religion etc:

Dig up a body long after it's been buried and it's still immaculate:
Western religion: it's a SAINT!
Eastern religion: it's a VAMPIRE!

Is that why they dug up bodies? Just to find out if the deceased was a saint/ vampire?

GDB2222 wrote: »

Sheringham fishermen wore ganseys (oiled woollen pullovers), each with a unique pattern to enable the bodies to be identified.

Could be the start of name tags.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Sheringham fishermen wore ganseys (oiled woollen pullovers), each with a unique pattern to enable the bodies to be identified.

Yes, I saw that on the telly

Ganseys will just be their local pronunciation of guernseys no doubt.

Pyxis

That's really, really interesting, Pastures!

It's funny how the bug to keep digging gets to you!

Many years ago, I had a connection with a Cathedral City, and also used to frequent antique fairs, so when I found some old postcards from the turn of the century written by a lady living just outside the Cathedral City to a young girl who was the daughter of the vicar of the main parish church in my town, I was hooked!

I was determined to find the cottage in which she lived. I knew its name, but not its road, but by asking around, I found it! And it didn't look much changed from how it would have been. I felt quite emotional!

What was really interesting, was that one of the postcards, posted in the early morning from the Cathedral City to my town, some 70 miles away, said that they were looking forward to seeing the young girl later that same day!
Sigh......the days of multiple postal deliveries!

I really should do some more digging.............

You've inspired me now, Pastures!

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, I saw that on the telly

Ganseys will just be their local pronunciation of guernseys no doubt.

Ah! I hadn't thought of that. It's obvious when you say it, particularly when you hear the local accent, but it had gone whoosh right past me.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was brought up on the edge of the Fens, with Fenfolk relatives....

You quoted an ISBN recently (maybe want to delete it?) that relates to what is now a suburb of Cambridge, but was probably more of a village at the time.

Not that I'm stalking, but I was interested to see what you had bought. I find these old photos really fun. This was our local underground station just before it was built, in 1904:



And here it is 6 years later, once the railway had come (not all that much different from now, really).

oldandhappy

Bexhill on sea well known nunnery and lots of abuse reported over many years...now converted to (luxury)as in lots of orignal festures etc...(okish) flats basically ...heartache etc for so many adults still of course...

oldandhappy

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/nuns-abused-hundreds-of-children-1171988.html

ivyleaf

I have a falling-to-bits copy of a "Peacock" paperback called "The King of the Barbareens", written by Janet Hitchman who was brought up in Norfolk.
She mentions that her grandad used to knit "ganseys" for her and that they could stand up all by themselves because the oiled wool was so stiff Her parents were dead so she lived with her grandparents, then when they became too infirm to look after her she was fostered, and then went to one of those servants' training schools PasturesNew mentioned. It was called Anguish's and was in Norwich. After that she went to the Barnardo's village at Barkingside in Essex, seemingly because the authorities decided she was too bright to settle for being a servant, and won a scholarship to the High School.

The book is in a sorry state - it was secondhand when I bought it - but I won't part with it because it's out of print now. It's fascinating because it describes a way of life that's long gone.

I love old postcards. I have a collection which belonged to my Nan's best friend. One of them says "Bill - Just you come round and see your mother this evening," which sounds as if Bill was in for a telling-off. Perhaps he hadn't been round to see his mother for some time!

Pastures Thanks for sharing your stories, they're so interesting

I have several books of old photos of the area where we live and I really enjoy looking at them, even though I didn't grow up here. We're not far from a nice park which apparently used to have a lido in it!