Hi Maggi Oh I'd forgotten about Paulden's. But I remember the Arcade ! Pamela -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.5 - Release Date: 04/05/2005

don't remember Wild's but remember Pauldens on the opposite side of the road down in what is now part of the Arndale. Eileen

Hi, Very strange to think Pamela and I were possibly wearing the same style coats from C&A as we stood in that queue at Lewis with our mums. I remember staring up at the dome it always had a seasonal display but I don't remember Father Christmas up there. Do you all still have the annual photograph standing next to Father Christmas in your winter clothes, bonnet and all ? The next trip into Manchester was usually for a new outfit for the Whit walks when the dome display at Lewis' was all spring flowers and branches. Henry's was always the next shop on the round, not quite as posh but packed with more trendy stock. I do remember the shop next to Lewis' but it seemed more "toys for boys"at the time. My mother in law at 90 has a better memory that me she will probably recall the name of the shop. As we came into town from the north Tib St was on our route to the bus in Cannon St, anyone remember that? Happy days. Sylvia ----- Original Message ----- From: "pamela" <pamelas@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] Lewis's Deptartment Store in Manchester > Hi > I remember Lewis's at Christmas. I was so excited because every year my mum > took me to see Father Christmas (I live in Leigh) . We got off the bus at > Greengate bus stop (under the railway lines) and walked over Blackfriars > Bridge, where the flower sellers stood ,past the Grosvenor Hotel and the > bombed out bit across the road from there and into the Kardomah Cafe for tea > and a toasted tea cake then up Market Street and onto Lewis's. There was a > different theme in the dome every year and I remember Angels one year and > White horses another - they stick out in my mind . As we entered the store I > used to get really excited wondering what would be in the dome and I don't > remember ever being dissappointed. I don't remember Father Christmas coming > down from the dome but there was always a queue to see him . We would then > go into the restaurant for lunch -there was a man playing a white piano and > my mum always had "a nice piece of plaice"!!! I think it was in the 60's > when they decided "to modernise " the store (a big mistake) but can't tell > you the date .I don't remember the name of the shop next door but I remember > Henry's across the road in Market St and C&A behind it > Happy Memories!! > Pamela > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.5 - Release Date: 04/05/2005 > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > To change from List to Digest mode (or vice versa) or from one e-mail address to another, unsubscribe then resubscribe. See http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ENG/LANCSLIFE.html > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

I remember going to Lewis`s to see Father Christmas. There was a lot of discussion about this a while ago, maybe there could be something in the archives about the "dome". Olive

Now come on all of you! How about giving us the words to these items instead of tantalising us!!! I'd love to see waht you are all talking about! Cheers Linda Visman NSW OZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Winterbottom" <i.winterbottom@ntlworld.com> > Sorry, can't resist getting in on the act! I loved the Hippopotamus, and > the Omnibus song too. "Scarlet-painted, London Transport, 97 horsepower > Omnibus!" Especially as I was a Bus conductor at the time! Also "I'm a > G-nu, Spelt G-N-U!" As a patriotic Lanky however, I preferred Mike > Harding, have you ever heard his "The Ghost Bus", the 81 to Crumpsall > Green? That or "Napoleon's Retreat from Wigan"! > Ian Winterbottom Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] > > >> Ah, yes, I loved the gas-man cometh, and isn't it true? >> Personally, my favourite Flanders and Swann was the Hippopotamus Song. >> They________________________

Hi I remember Lewis's at Christmas. I was so excited because every year my mum took me to see Father Christmas (I live in Leigh) . We got off the bus at Greengate bus stop (under the railway lines) and walked over Blackfriars Bridge, where the flower sellers stood ,past the Grosvenor Hotel and the bombed out bit across the road from there and into the Kardomah Cafe for tea and a toasted tea cake then up Market Street and onto Lewis's. There was a different theme in the dome every year and I remember Angels one year and White horses another - they stick out in my mind . As we entered the store I used to get really excited wondering what would be in the dome and I don't remember ever being dissappointed. I don't remember Father Christmas coming down from the dome but there was always a queue to see him . We would then go into the restaurant for lunch -there was a man playing a white piano and my mum always had "a nice piece of plaice"!!! I think it was in the 60's when they decided "to modernise " the store (a big mistake) but can't tell you the date .I don't remember the name of the shop next door but I remember Henry's across the road in Market St and C&A behind it Happy Memories!! Pamela -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.5 - Release Date: 04/05/2005

Ah, yes, I loved the gas-man cometh, and isn't it true? Personally, my favourite Flanders and Swann was the Hippopotamus Song. They were so good, weren't they? Happy days. Cheers Pauline ----- Original Message ----- From: "olive" <olive.cookson@btinternet.com> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:26 PM Subject: [LANCSLIFE] > No, but I am smiling now at "The Gasman cometh" > I would love to hear the rules re Irish football too. > Olive > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Lanky Life -- dialect, slang, and sayings; culture and traditions; history of towns and villages; folklore; poetry and songs; recipes; and nostalgic essays. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: 2/05/05 > >

I wonder if we're all talking about the same thing? I recall listening to somebody trying to describe a cricket match to somebody from history who had lived before cricket was ever heard of. It was hilarious. Try it for yourself. Can you imagine trying to explain a TV/CD/DVD to Lord Nelson or Henry VIII? Cheers Pauline ----- Original Message ----- From: "pamela" <pamelas@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] > Was it somebody like Flanders and Swan? > Pamela > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.3 - Release Date: 03/05/2005 > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Scouser.com: http://www.scouser.com/core.html > University of Liverpool: http://www.liv.ac.uk/ > Bolton links: http://bold.bolton.gov.uk/naughton/bolton.htm > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: 2/05/05 > >

Anyone remember the one about worms? Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, So I'm going into the garden to eat worms. Long thin slimy ones, short fat hairy ones, gooey, gooey gooey, gooey worms. Now the short fat hairy ones stick between the toothy pegs, but long thin slimy ones go Sluuuurrrppppp!!! And that's all I know, can anyone complete it? Suzanne

Hello Olive Now you've got me intrigued! Where did we both hear/see it? What is Irish football? Well, it seems to me to be a bit of a cross between Aussie Rules football and suicide! :o) Cheers Pauline ----- Original Message ----- From: "olive" <olive.cookson@btinternet.com> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:56 PM Subject: [LANCSLIFE] > Hello Pauline > I still think this piece is so funny and I know it went on longer than the > snippet sent by Rodney. > I also know it was in a film. > There were a lot of comedy films about at that time, I used to go to watch > them. One of them was "A Kid for Two Farthings" (or similar name). > I have to ask what is so different about Irish football? > Thanks to Rodney, I now have more information to go on with the wording so > this may help my searching. > I have tried to think of comedians about that time re films. Carry On > films, don`t think so. Peter Sellers, don`t think so. Norman Wisdom, again > don`t think so. > What a puzzle! > Olive > > > > > > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Please keep signature blocks to four lines or less. Do not include surnames you're researching as that impedes the interactive search process. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: 2/05/05 > >

Thank you Rodney, just looked at these and still laughing. Thanks to Ian too. I cannot remember the Bus song, remember the Gnu one, cannot say I have heard of The Ghost Bus or the Retreat from Wigan. Well, all this has cheered me up no end. There was a website given last year and on this one were all the Comic Songs etc. Anybody still got the name for this one please? Olive

Suzanne wrote: > Anyone remember the one about worms? > > Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, > So I'm going into the garden to eat worms. Check out this site: http://dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songbook/songs5/S5_60.htm Katie Ontario, Canada

Glad to see folks posting to the list. :-) Please do remember to use subject lines. Otherwise, it's very possible your mail will be discarded or blocked by some subscribers' spam-blocking programs. :-( Best wishes, Lynne

Sorry, can't resist getting in on the act! I loved the Hippopotamus, and the Omnibus song too. "Scarlet-painted, London Transport, 97 horsepower Omnibus!" Especially as I was a Bus conductor at the time! Also "I'm a G-nu, Spelt G-N-U!" As a patriotic Lanky however, I preferred Mike Harding, have you ever heard his "The Ghost Bus", the 81 to Crumpsall Green? That or "Napoleon's Retreat from Wigan"! Ian Winterbottom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pauline Kirschner" <pdk541@bigpond.net.au> To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [LANCSLIFE] > Ah, yes, I loved the gas-man cometh, and isn't it true? > Personally, my favourite Flanders and Swann was the Hippopotamus Song. > They > were so good, weren't they? > > Happy days. > Cheers > Pauline > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "olive" <olive.cookson@btinternet.com> > To: <LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:26 PM > Subject: [LANCSLIFE] > > >> No, but I am smiling now at "The Gasman cometh" >> I would love to hear the rules re Irish football too. >> Olive >> >> >> ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== >> Lanky Life -- dialect, slang, and sayings; culture and traditions; >> history > of towns and villages; folklore; poetry and songs; recipes; and nostalgic > essays. >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: 2/05/05 >> >> > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Oldham:http://www.oldham.gov.uk/ > Institute of Family History: > http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/humanities/family/famintro.htm > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: 02/05/2005 >

Hello Olive, I can't remember where I originally got it from, but I have had it on file for many years. However, a Google turned it up on http://www.jokes.net/cricketexplained.htm and http://www.desisport.com/cricketexplained.html with a variation on http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=300012628&messageID=30 0448168&start=0 There are other sites, but I haven't found the version you are looking for. Regards -- Rodney HALL Heywood, Lancashire Suaviter sed fortiter Agreeably but powerfully ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ rmh@rmhh.co.uk http://rmhh.co.uk/ http://rmhh.org.uk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -----Original Message----- > From: olive [mailto:olive.cookson@btinternet.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:17 AM > To: LANCSLIFE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [LANCSLIFE] > > Rodney, > Well, I am sure that is part of the piece in the film. > However, it did go > on for longer than that and the short leg and long leg seem > to ring a bell. > You have got me chuckling again at this, I can remember > nearly having to go > out of the Cinema. > Where did you get the rhyme from? > I just wish I could remember the film, I am sure I could get > a copy from > somewhere if I knew the flipping name. > Oh, I am a bit nearer now. > Olive > > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Oldham:http://www.oldham.gov.uk/ > Institute of Family History: > http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/humanities/family/famintro.htm > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

Mud, mud, glorious mud. I just love a good laugh. Olive

Hello Rodney and Olive I know the piece that Olive's enquiring about because I heard it on the radio in UK many years ago, but I'm sure it wasn't a 'Carry On' item. I think it was on it's own, so to speak. I wonder if it's worth contacting the BBC to see if they've got a copy in their archives. Just a thought. It was hilarious and since hearing it, I have often tried to wonder how to explain other games to those who have never seen or heard them. Can you imagine trying to explain Irish football to an alien? :o)) Cheers Pauline K in Oz

No, but I am smiling now at "The Gasman cometh" I would love to hear the rules re Irish football too. Olive

Was it somebody like Flanders and Swan? Pamela -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.3 - Release Date: 03/05/2005

Hello Pauline I still think this piece is so funny and I know it went on longer than the snippet sent by Rodney. I also know it was in a film. There were a lot of comedy films about at that time, I used to go to watch them. One of them was "A Kid for Two Farthings" (or similar name). I have to ask what is so different about Irish football? Thanks to Rodney, I now have more information to go on with the wording so this may help my searching. I have tried to think of comedians about that time re films. Carry On films, don`t think so. Peter Sellers, don`t think so. Norman Wisdom, again don`t think so. What a puzzle! Olive