The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

ivyleaf

Jackmydad - "Second post" delivery ended much later than you remember. They started trialling a single daily delivery in February 2002 :eek:
I thought it was longer ago than that, but not as long ago as the 1960s.

I had elocution lessons for a while in the infants' dept of the convent school I attended for a couple of years. When we went on holiday to visit my granny she exclaimed "Don't you talk posh!" then when we moved back to the town where she lived I went to a state school and immediately picked up the local accent again, so that was money wasted

I do have a certificate from a Verse-Speaking Competioion we all took part in. The poor audience must have got very fed-up with hearing multiple renditions of: " 'Yesterday', by G.K.Chesterton."

Pyxis I can't roll my r's either!

PasturesNew

Tipping it down again .... bank holiday weekend, eh!

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Tipping it down again .... bank holiday weekend, eh!

It's been sunny spells and dry all day here. Maybe, your new home should be in East Anglia? Parts of East Anglia are officially classified as semi-arid.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/external-links/articles-and-summaries/articles/portrait-of-the-east-of-england.html

Jackmydad

ivyleaf wrote: »

Jackmydad - "Second post" delivery ended much later than you remember. They started trialling a single daily delivery in February 2002 :eek:
I thought it was longer ago than that, but not as long ago as the 1960s.

I had elocution lessons for a while in the infants' dept of the convent school I attended for a couple of years. When we went on holiday to visit my granny she exclaimed "Don't you talk posh!" then when we moved back to the town where she lived I went to a state school and immediately picked up the local accent again, so that was money wasted

I do have a certificate from a Verse-Speaking Competioion we all took part in. The poor audience must have got very fed-up with hearing multiple renditions of: " 'Yesterday', by G.K.Chesterton."

Pyxis I can't roll my r's either!

I wonder if the memory's because we moved to an estate out of town in 1966.
Where we live now I still feel that we're lucky to get the post delivered daily.

Jackmydad

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's been sunny spells and dry all day here. Maybe, your new home should be in East Anglia? Parts of East Anglia are officially classified as semi-arid.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/external-links/articles-and-summaries/articles/portrait-of-the-east-of-england.html

I always wondered where West Anglia was. . .;)

zagubov

Was reading a while back about how in the 19th century you could be on the coast and send a postcard home to London in the morning to get relatives to meet you at your destination by lunchtime the same day. Some places used to have up to fourteen collections a day.

Wonder how many deliveries they must have had in those days.

Jackmydad

zagubov wrote: »

Was reading a while back about how in the 19th century you could be on the coast and send a postcard home to London in the morning to get relatives to meet you at your destination by lunchtime the same day. Some places used to have up to fourteen collections a day.

Wonder how many deliveries they must have had in those days.

I read about that, or similar too.
About 12 months ago I ordered something from eBay about 4 one afternoon. It came from London and reached deepest darkest West Anglia the next morning.

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

I always wondered where West Anglia was. . .;)

Just done some googling, and apparently the West Angles were the Mercians, and the North Angles were the Northumbrians.

There were also Middle Angles and South Angles.

I know this map is stretchy, so I'll delete it in a minute.


Edit ...link to map......

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Britain_peoples_circa_600.svg/1548px-Britain_peoples_circa_600.svg.png


I don't think anything of them were Right Angles, though. Neither did their houses have quadrangles.

Pyxis

zagubov wrote: »

Was reading a while back about how in the 19th century you could be on the coast and send a postcard home to London in the morning to get relatives to meet you at your destination by lunchtime the same day. Some places used to have up to fourteen collections a day.

Wonder how many deliveries they must have had in those days.

Several years ago, I bought some vintage postcards all written by the same lady to a girl about 65 miles away around the turn of the century, over a period of about a year or so.
On one postcard, she said she was looking forward to meeting them a bit later on that day, when she came down by train.

Not only would the postcard have got there before she did, but the trains obviously had very good connections, because not only was it cross country, but you can't even go by train from/to those two places today!



Re. Deliveries, I think I read somewhere they had up to twelve a day.
The Victorian/Edwardian email system!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Free ANC weekend started last night, so I thought I'd have a quick dabble.

My tree is "guesses" - I'm pretty sure, based on free evidence I can gather, that my tree is "very good", but you can never tell.... so, where I don't have full evidence I'll continue checking/looking.

And I just found .... something (exciting?) new:

There's a longevity gene floating round in the family, down the female line... I think it'll miss me, but a sibling will get it....

From what I could see/guess, I thought my gt-gt-grandmother died in 1920. A woman of her name, of the right age, was buried in her home village. I assumed that she'd been shipped home to be buried for some reason... which seemed reasonable.

But, with the free ANC weekend, I've just been dabbling round in the fairly new Electoral Roll data for the county - and I found her alive and well in 1930 ... and 1935 - living with her daughter and son-in-law. Thought I was going mad because, even though I didn't have evidence my gg-gm died in 1920, I was pretty sure as that "made sense" to me....

But there she was 1930 ... 1935... then gone by 1939. So I checked for deaths - and there she is, I think ... died 1937, buried 3 August, aged 94, which is a match! I'd previously thought, for the times, that she was doing quite well to get to 1920 (aged ~80)!

How exciting... (for me, obviously nobody else gives a flying...)

That sounds like we've got you for the duration then!