Hi Keith, That was fun - I think I've found them as follows : 1861 Breedon Henry WILLICK Servant (Carter) with the Swain family And 1871 Humberstone FREDERICA WALLAT Servant (Labourer) with the Russell family Hope you can now find them, but if you need copies, please let me have your email address - don't seem to have saved it anywhere. Regards, Marianne -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of keith Hammond Sent: 15 February 2012 09:17 To: [email protected] Subject: [LEI] census look up please ? Hi, can any kind person please help with 2 census lookups ? 1 1861 census HENRY WILLETT born 1844 at hugglescote 2 1871 census FREDERICK WILLETT born hugglescote 1847. Any help would please be so very kind. THANK YOU. Keith in Malta. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, can any kind person please help with 2 census lookups ? 1 1861 census HENRY WILLETT born 1844 at hugglescote 2 1871 census FREDERICK WILLETT born hugglescote 1847. Any help would please be so very kind. THANK YOU. Keith in Malta.

I am also enjoying all of your memories of Leicester in the 50's it has bought back many happy times I spent as a child growing up in Belgrave. My gg grandfather lived in Queniborough back in the late 1880's and family members did run a pub in the villiage as well and as I have never been there these last two emails are of great interest to me. My gg grandfathers name was Sam North, he was a farmer and butcher, he was married to Mary Ann. His son John was my grandfather. Margaret Riley On 15/02/2012 09:52, Alison Bendall wrote: > My grandfather's family lived next to the Methodist Church at 2 Main Street until the mid 1940s I think although my great grandmother may still have lived there until her death in 1976. My great aunt and uncle ran the Horse and Groom pub in the 1930s and my grandparents met each other there when my granddad was home on leave from the army and my nana was staying with her sister. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emma Faulkner > Sent: 15 February 2012 09:33 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories > > Wow, Peter - doesn't sound like Queni had changed much by the time I was a kid in the 70s. > > The Wrights still ran the Crossroads Store - no leaving of the order book by then, he just filled your basket while you waited. I had 10p pocket money and I'd either buy sweets from the wooden counter at the back on the left, or in the late 70s I used to save up for a £1 little circular jigsaw off the shelf above. > > There was a pig farm at the top of the village, on School Lane, and the old school on that road had been converted to a swimming pool by the time I started school, and the new primary school opened. Ian Bramley ran the butchers, the post office& hairdressers were still going and there was an offie as well. Janet Hartshorn did some hairdressing from home. > > The world revolved around the scout building/methodist hall in the 70s: > playgroup, the village library, Sunday school (at which my brother Michael taught), Young Mothers, the photographic club, the WI, brownies, guides, cubs and scouts - all met here. > > There were regular barn dances at the village hall on Rearsby Road, and in about 1980 a youth club started too. > > In 1977 Queniborough jumped on the band wagon and was twinned with Sceaux-du-Gatinais/Courtempierre - my Mum was on the advance trip and both my parents were involved. Thanks to the Twinning Association trips every year, I developed an ear for languages early on which has persisted to this day - I use French every day in my work. > > In 1980 or 1981, a committee purchased some land at the top of the village and created a village cemetery. It is still privately owned by committee. > My father was heavily involved as he was on the Parish Council at the time, and he took the photo of the new lych gate that appeared in the commemorative issue of the gazette. > > In the early 80s, the Saxon mud wall outside the village was demolished to make way for a new housing development. Rumours& grumbles at the time maintained that it was pushed through due to certain people having friends on the council. In a vain effort to appease villagers, many of the roads on the estate were named after villagers that had passed away in the past year, including "Michael Close" which was named after my brother. > > Back in the 60s, Queni didn't even have proper pavements. Now it's a wealthy commuter village with a bypass, famed for a BSE outbreak. > > On 14 February 2012 22:51, Peter HOLMES<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Queniborough. >> >> My family moved there from Lincolnshire in about 1954 and of course >> after >> WW2 things were a bit tough shopping wise, but I do remember in the >> late 50's/early 60's we were never allowed to buy the individual >> wrapped in paper Walls Ice cream "bars" but just before lunch on >> Sunday I was given 2/- by mum& walked from 91 Main Street to Mrs >> Hooleys near the lane way alongside the "tree" and the 2 pubs >> (Britannia - aka Stubbies -& the Horse and >> Groom) >> to buy a block of ice cream which was the family tret at lunch or tea time! >> >> Other retail places included Oliver Wright's Crossroad Stores - the >> village grocers where Mum used to deliver her order book - and then >> her would create a box of our stuff& Mum would collect it later on. >> When going to Roundhill HS we used to wait there for Clayton's coach >> to collect us. >> >> Newspapers were of course delivered morning& night by boys working >> for the newsagent in Syston Road. >> >> Mrs Mansfield used to run the Post Office at about 30 Main Street >> opposite the Horse& Groom and I think used to sell a few groceries form there. >> Quite >> a poorly lit shop if I remember. Another memory of that shop was that >> a regular customer was an old gent from a couple of doors along who >> regretfully used to have horrendous body odour and if he walked in the >> shoppers would immediately go outside& he got to the front of the queue! >> >> Ladies hair dresser was Janet Stubbs& she had a shop almost alongside >> Mrs Hooleys. My own hair - I had enough to cut then - was cut by Dad >> when I was sitting on a stool in the kitchen with hand clippers. >> >> Village butcher was Reg (then his son Ian) Bramley. Didn't Ian end up >> Marrying Janet S? >> >> There were a few shops and Branston's service station on Melton Road >> opposite New Zealand Lane, but we rarely used that area as we were >> used to the "old" part of the village. >> >> We were not strictly C of E but Mum& Dad used to insist that we kids >> go to the village Hall (past the Methodist Chappel) after lunch each >> Sunday to go to Sunday School. We would rush home because if I >> remember correctly we could get there in time to watch the Sunday afternoon movie on TV. >> >> Who remembers the Sunday evening TV movies and also "Sunday Night at >> the London Palladium"? I knew I had grown up when I was allowed to >> watch the latter after the half time break! >> >> Just a few memories of childhood in Quenni in the 50's& 60's! >> >> Peter Holmes >> Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes >> [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington >> then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. >> [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire& Nottinghamshire)] [FREER >> (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT& WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N& S Kyme, N& S >> Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario >> Canada& some in New York& Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire >> unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in >> Dutch). >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter >> HOLMES >> Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 5:56 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [LEI] All these memories >> >> It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and >> products has created such a series of threads! >> >> >> >> Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited& >> collated it all to a single document it would make a great segment in >> the Rootsweb/Genuki (??) Leicestershire page perhaps? >> >> >> >> Peter Holmes >> >> Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes >> >> [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington >> then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. >> [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire& Nottinghamshire)] [FREER >> (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT& WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N& S Kyme, N& S >> Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario >> Canada& some in New York& Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire >> unless stated. 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Wow, they probably knew my Great-Great Uncle then, Albert Cross. He and his wife Myra lived on the main road (not sure which number now), and then my Mum, brother and sister moved in with him in the 1960s On 15 February 2012 09:52, Alison Bendall <[email protected]> wrote: > My grandfather's family lived next to the Methodist Church at 2 Main > Street until the mid 1940s I think although my great grandmother may still > have lived there until her death in 1976. My great aunt and uncle ran the > Horse and Groom pub in the 1930s and my grandparents met each other there > when my granddad was home on leave from the army and my nana was staying > with her sister. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Emma Faulkner > Sent: 15 February 2012 09:33 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories > > Wow, Peter - doesn't sound like Queni had changed much by the time I was a > kid in the 70s. > > The Wrights still ran the Crossroads Store - no leaving of the order book > by then, he just filled your basket while you waited. I had 10p pocket > money and I'd either buy sweets from the wooden counter at the back on the > left, or in the late 70s I used to save up for a £1 little circular jigsaw > off the shelf above. > > There was a pig farm at the top of the village, on School Lane, and the > old school on that road had been converted to a swimming pool by the time I > started school, and the new primary school opened. Ian Bramley ran the > butchers, the post office & hairdressers were still going and there was an > offie as well. Janet Hartshorn did some hairdressing from home. > > The world revolved around the scout building/methodist hall in the 70s: > playgroup, the village library, Sunday school (at which my brother Michael > taught), Young Mothers, the photographic club, the WI, brownies, guides, > cubs and scouts - all met here. > > There were regular barn dances at the village hall on Rearsby Road, and in > about 1980 a youth club started too. > > In 1977 Queniborough jumped on the band wagon and was twinned with > Sceaux-du-Gatinais/Courtempierre - my Mum was on the advance trip and both > my parents were involved. Thanks to the Twinning Association trips every > year, I developed an ear for languages early on which has persisted to this > day - I use French every day in my work. > > In 1980 or 1981, a committee purchased some land at the top of the village > and created a village cemetery. It is still privately owned by committee. > My father was heavily involved as he was on the Parish Council at the > time, and he took the photo of the new lych gate that appeared in the > commemorative issue of the gazette. > > In the early 80s, the Saxon mud wall outside the village was demolished to > make way for a new housing development. Rumours & grumbles at the time > maintained that it was pushed through due to certain people having friends > on the council. In a vain effort to appease villagers, many of the roads on > the estate were named after villagers that had passed away in the past > year, including "Michael Close" which was named after my brother. > > Back in the 60s, Queni didn't even have proper pavements. Now it's a > wealthy commuter village with a bypass, famed for a BSE outbreak. > > On 14 February 2012 22:51, Peter HOLMES <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Queniborough. > > > > My family moved there from Lincolnshire in about 1954 and of course > > after > > WW2 things were a bit tough shopping wise, but I do remember in the > > late 50's/early 60's we were never allowed to buy the individual > > wrapped in paper Walls Ice cream "bars" but just before lunch on > > Sunday I was given 2/- by mum & walked from 91 Main Street to Mrs > > Hooleys near the lane way alongside the "tree" and the 2 pubs > > (Britannia - aka Stubbies - & the Horse and > > Groom) > > to buy a block of ice cream which was the family tret at lunch or tea > time! > > > > Other retail places included Oliver Wright's Crossroad Stores - the > > village grocers where Mum used to deliver her order book - and then > > her would create a box of our stuff & Mum would collect it later on. > > When going to Roundhill HS we used to wait there for Clayton's coach > > to collect us. > > > > Newspapers were of course delivered morning & night by boys working > > for the newsagent in Syston Road. > > > > Mrs Mansfield used to run the Post Office at about 30 Main Street > > opposite the Horse & Groom and I think used to sell a few groceries form > there. > > Quite > > a poorly lit shop if I remember. Another memory of that shop was that > > a regular customer was an old gent from a couple of doors along who > > regretfully used to have horrendous body odour and if he walked in the > > shoppers would immediately go outside & he got to the front of the queue! > > > > Ladies hair dresser was Janet Stubbs & she had a shop almost alongside > > Mrs Hooleys. My own hair - I had enough to cut then - was cut by Dad > > when I was sitting on a stool in the kitchen with hand clippers. > > > > Village butcher was Reg (then his son Ian) Bramley. Didn't Ian end up > > Marrying Janet S? > > > > There were a few shops and Branston's service station on Melton Road > > opposite New Zealand Lane, but we rarely used that area as we were > > used to the "old" part of the village. > > > > We were not strictly C of E but Mum & Dad used to insist that we kids > > go to the village Hall (past the Methodist Chappel) after lunch each > > Sunday to go to Sunday School. We would rush home because if I > > remember correctly we could get there in time to watch the Sunday > afternoon movie on TV. > > > > Who remembers the Sunday evening TV movies and also "Sunday Night at > > the London Palladium"? I knew I had grown up when I was allowed to > > watch the latter after the half time break! > > > > Just a few memories of childhood in Quenni in the 50's & 60's! > > > > Peter Holmes > > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington > > then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, > Skegness)]. > > [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER > > (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S > > Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario > > Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire > > unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in > > Dutch). > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter > > HOLMES > > Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 5:56 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [LEI] All these memories > > > > It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and > > products has created such a series of threads! > > > > > > > > Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited & > > collated it all to a single document it would make a great segment in > > the Rootsweb/Genuki (??) Leicestershire page perhaps? > > > > > > > > Peter Holmes > > > > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > > > > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington > > then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, > Skegness)]. > > [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER > > (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S > > Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario > > Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire > > unless stated. 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My grandfather's family lived next to the Methodist Church at 2 Main Street until the mid 1940s I think although my great grandmother may still have lived there until her death in 1976. My great aunt and uncle ran the Horse and Groom pub in the 1930s and my grandparents met each other there when my granddad was home on leave from the army and my nana was staying with her sister. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emma Faulkner Sent: 15 February 2012 09:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories Wow, Peter - doesn't sound like Queni had changed much by the time I was a kid in the 70s. The Wrights still ran the Crossroads Store - no leaving of the order book by then, he just filled your basket while you waited. I had 10p pocket money and I'd either buy sweets from the wooden counter at the back on the left, or in the late 70s I used to save up for a £1 little circular jigsaw off the shelf above. There was a pig farm at the top of the village, on School Lane, and the old school on that road had been converted to a swimming pool by the time I started school, and the new primary school opened. Ian Bramley ran the butchers, the post office & hairdressers were still going and there was an offie as well. Janet Hartshorn did some hairdressing from home. The world revolved around the scout building/methodist hall in the 70s: playgroup, the village library, Sunday school (at which my brother Michael taught), Young Mothers, the photographic club, the WI, brownies, guides, cubs and scouts - all met here. There were regular barn dances at the village hall on Rearsby Road, and in about 1980 a youth club started too. In 1977 Queniborough jumped on the band wagon and was twinned with Sceaux-du-Gatinais/Courtempierre - my Mum was on the advance trip and both my parents were involved. Thanks to the Twinning Association trips every year, I developed an ear for languages early on which has persisted to this day - I use French every day in my work. In 1980 or 1981, a committee purchased some land at the top of the village and created a village cemetery. It is still privately owned by committee. My father was heavily involved as he was on the Parish Council at the time, and he took the photo of the new lych gate that appeared in the commemorative issue of the gazette. In the early 80s, the Saxon mud wall outside the village was demolished to make way for a new housing development. Rumours & grumbles at the time maintained that it was pushed through due to certain people having friends on the council. In a vain effort to appease villagers, many of the roads on the estate were named after villagers that had passed away in the past year, including "Michael Close" which was named after my brother. Back in the 60s, Queni didn't even have proper pavements. Now it's a wealthy commuter village with a bypass, famed for a BSE outbreak. On 14 February 2012 22:51, Peter HOLMES <[email protected]> wrote: > Queniborough. > > My family moved there from Lincolnshire in about 1954 and of course > after > WW2 things were a bit tough shopping wise, but I do remember in the > late 50's/early 60's we were never allowed to buy the individual > wrapped in paper Walls Ice cream "bars" but just before lunch on > Sunday I was given 2/- by mum & walked from 91 Main Street to Mrs > Hooleys near the lane way alongside the "tree" and the 2 pubs > (Britannia - aka Stubbies - & the Horse and > Groom) > to buy a block of ice cream which was the family tret at lunch or tea time! > > Other retail places included Oliver Wright's Crossroad Stores - the > village grocers where Mum used to deliver her order book - and then > her would create a box of our stuff & Mum would collect it later on. > When going to Roundhill HS we used to wait there for Clayton's coach > to collect us. > > Newspapers were of course delivered morning & night by boys working > for the newsagent in Syston Road. > > Mrs Mansfield used to run the Post Office at about 30 Main Street > opposite the Horse & Groom and I think used to sell a few groceries form there. > Quite > a poorly lit shop if I remember. Another memory of that shop was that > a regular customer was an old gent from a couple of doors along who > regretfully used to have horrendous body odour and if he walked in the > shoppers would immediately go outside & he got to the front of the queue! > > Ladies hair dresser was Janet Stubbs & she had a shop almost alongside > Mrs Hooleys. My own hair - I had enough to cut then - was cut by Dad > when I was sitting on a stool in the kitchen with hand clippers. > > Village butcher was Reg (then his son Ian) Bramley. Didn't Ian end up > Marrying Janet S? > > There were a few shops and Branston's service station on Melton Road > opposite New Zealand Lane, but we rarely used that area as we were > used to the "old" part of the village. > > We were not strictly C of E but Mum & Dad used to insist that we kids > go to the village Hall (past the Methodist Chappel) after lunch each > Sunday to go to Sunday School. We would rush home because if I > remember correctly we could get there in time to watch the Sunday afternoon movie on TV. > > Who remembers the Sunday evening TV movies and also "Sunday Night at > the London Palladium"? I knew I had grown up when I was allowed to > watch the latter after the half time break! > > Just a few memories of childhood in Quenni in the 50's & 60's! > > Peter Holmes > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington > then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. > [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER > (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S > Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario > Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire > unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in > Dutch). > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter > HOLMES > Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 5:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LEI] All these memories > > It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and > products has created such a series of threads! > > > > Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited & > collated it all to a single document it would make a great segment in > the Rootsweb/Genuki (??) Leicestershire page perhaps? > > > > Peter Holmes > > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington > then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. > [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER > (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S > Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario > Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire > unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in > Dutch). > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you for your kind e-mail.   I have a feeling that I am going to be grateful for any help that is offered. June Fleetwood (nee Rainbow) West Yorkshire  From: John & Jan Marchant <[email protected]> To: J FLEETWOOD <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 8:25 Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories June, I might be able to help. I often collect a thread and put it all into one email, which can get quite long, as this one is doing. I can forward it to you when the discussion stops - although I think all we "oldies" and expatriates really enjoy it and never want it to stop! My Hubbie, John especially, loves Leicester things and, apart from following Leicester City football on the net, he has pictures of Leicester and maps of Leics. on his bedroom wall - also old photos of the football team sent by our daughter who lives in England (in the south, wouldn't mess about in Leics. and Lincs.!). John's going to love all this nostalgia when I show it to him! I tend to just put the emails as they come in, working upwards so that the most recent is at the top, but you might want to edit it in some other form. Then again, you might prefer to create your own document from the archives. Cheers Jan Marchant in now sunny Nowra, NSW, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "J FLEETWOOD" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories > Right/ Now I made the suggestion about collecting all these threads > together, as before. Perhaps I could do it again, but I will need help. As > I said previously, I have deleted most of the threads as they came in, so > where can I collect them all from? This time the threads have covered a > much wider area & such a lot of very special memories have been remembered > by us all. If I can collect all the e-mails, I would be willing to edit > them & to prepare an article for publishing to Genuki or a Leicester Page > on Rootsweb as suggested. So, please help................ > June Fleetwood > West Yorkshire. > > From: Peter HOLMES <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 21:55 > Subject: [LEI] All these memories > > It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and > products > has created such a series of threads! > > > > Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited & > collated > it all to a single document it would make a great segment in the > Rootsweb/Genuki (??) Leicestershire page perhaps? > > > > Peter Holmes > > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington > then > Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. > [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER > (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S > Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario > Canada > & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless > stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4810 - Release Date: 02/14/12 >

Wow, Peter - doesn't sound like Queni had changed much by the time I was a kid in the 70s. The Wrights still ran the Crossroads Store - no leaving of the order book by then, he just filled your basket while you waited. I had 10p pocket money and I'd either buy sweets from the wooden counter at the back on the left, or in the late 70s I used to save up for a £1 little circular jigsaw off the shelf above. There was a pig farm at the top of the village, on School Lane, and the old school on that road had been converted to a swimming pool by the time I started school, and the new primary school opened. Ian Bramley ran the butchers, the post office & hairdressers were still going and there was an offie as well. Janet Hartshorn did some hairdressing from home. The world revolved around the scout building/methodist hall in the 70s: playgroup, the village library, Sunday school (at which my brother Michael taught), Young Mothers, the photographic club, the WI, brownies, guides, cubs and scouts - all met here. There were regular barn dances at the village hall on Rearsby Road, and in about 1980 a youth club started too. In 1977 Queniborough jumped on the band wagon and was twinned with Sceaux-du-Gatinais/Courtempierre - my Mum was on the advance trip and both my parents were involved. Thanks to the Twinning Association trips every year, I developed an ear for languages early on which has persisted to this day - I use French every day in my work. In 1980 or 1981, a committee purchased some land at the top of the village and created a village cemetery. It is still privately owned by committee. My father was heavily involved as he was on the Parish Council at the time, and he took the photo of the new lych gate that appeared in the commemorative issue of the gazette. In the early 80s, the Saxon mud wall outside the village was demolished to make way for a new housing development. Rumours & grumbles at the time maintained that it was pushed through due to certain people having friends on the council. In a vain effort to appease villagers, many of the roads on the estate were named after villagers that had passed away in the past year, including "Michael Close" which was named after my brother. Back in the 60s, Queni didn't even have proper pavements. Now it's a wealthy commuter village with a bypass, famed for a BSE outbreak. On 14 February 2012 22:51, Peter HOLMES <[email protected]> wrote: > Queniborough. > > My family moved there from Lincolnshire in about 1954 and of course after > WW2 things were a bit tough shopping wise, but I do remember in the late > 50's/early 60's we were never allowed to buy the individual wrapped in > paper > Walls Ice cream "bars" but just before lunch on Sunday I was given 2/- by > mum & walked from 91 Main Street to Mrs Hooleys near the lane way > alongside > the "tree" and the 2 pubs (Britannia - aka Stubbies - & the Horse and > Groom) > to buy a block of ice cream which was the family tret at lunch or tea time! > > Other retail places included Oliver Wright's Crossroad Stores - the village > grocers where Mum used to deliver her order book - and then her would > create > a box of our stuff & Mum would collect it later on. When going to Roundhill > HS we used to wait there for Clayton's coach to collect us. > > Newspapers were of course delivered morning & night by boys working for the > newsagent in Syston Road. > > Mrs Mansfield used to run the Post Office at about 30 Main Street opposite > the Horse & Groom and I think used to sell a few groceries form there. > Quite > a poorly lit shop if I remember. Another memory of that shop was that a > regular customer was an old gent from a couple of doors along who > regretfully used to have horrendous body odour and if he walked in the > shoppers would immediately go outside & he got to the front of the queue! > > Ladies hair dresser was Janet Stubbs & she had a shop almost alongside Mrs > Hooleys. My own hair - I had enough to cut then - was cut by Dad when I was > sitting on a stool in the kitchen with hand clippers. > > Village butcher was Reg (then his son Ian) Bramley. Didn't Ian end up > Marrying Janet S? > > There were a few shops and Branston's service station on Melton Road > opposite New Zealand Lane, but we rarely used that area as we were used to > the "old" part of the village. > > We were not strictly C of E but Mum & Dad used to insist that we kids go to > the village Hall (past the Methodist Chappel) after lunch each Sunday to go > to Sunday School. We would rush home because if I remember correctly we > could get there in time to watch the Sunday afternoon movie on TV. > > Who remembers the Sunday evening TV movies and also "Sunday Night at the > London Palladium"? I knew I had grown up when I was allowed to watch the > latter after the half time break! > > Just a few memories of childhood in Quenni in the 50's & 60's! > > Peter Holmes > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then > Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. > [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER > (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S > Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario > Canada > & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless > stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected]m > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter > HOLMES > Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 5:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LEI] All these memories > > It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and products > has created such a series of threads! > > > > Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited & > collated > it all to a single document it would make a great segment in the > Rootsweb/Genuki (??) Leicestershire page perhaps? > > > > Peter Holmes > > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then > Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. > [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER > (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S > Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario > Canada > & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless > stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

June, I believe that you'll find there's a Rootsweb archive online for this Leics list from which you'll be able to copy and paste)in to word perhaps) all of the various messages relating to the dialects, cafes etc. Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J FLEETWOOD Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 6:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories Right/    Now I made the suggestion about collecting all these threads together, as before.   Perhaps I could do it again, but I will need help.    As I said previously, I have deleted most of the threads as they came in, so where can I collect them all from

Queniborough. My family moved there from Lincolnshire in about 1954 and of course after WW2 things were a bit tough shopping wise, but I do remember in the late 50's/early 60's we were never allowed to buy the individual wrapped in paper Walls Ice cream "bars" but just before lunch on Sunday I was given 2/- by mum & walked from 91 Main Street to Mrs Hooleys near the lane way alongside the "tree" and the 2 pubs (Britannia - aka Stubbies - & the Horse and Groom) to buy a block of ice cream which was the family tret at lunch or tea time! Other retail places included Oliver Wright's Crossroad Stores - the village grocers where Mum used to deliver her order book - and then her would create a box of our stuff & Mum would collect it later on. When going to Roundhill HS we used to wait there for Clayton's coach to collect us. Newspapers were of course delivered morning & night by boys working for the newsagent in Syston Road. Mrs Mansfield used to run the Post Office at about 30 Main Street opposite the Horse & Groom and I think used to sell a few groceries form there. Quite a poorly lit shop if I remember. Another memory of that shop was that a regular customer was an old gent from a couple of doors along who regretfully used to have horrendous body odour and if he walked in the shoppers would immediately go outside & he got to the front of the queue! Ladies hair dresser was Janet Stubbs & she had a shop almost alongside Mrs Hooleys. My own hair - I had enough to cut then - was cut by Dad when I was sitting on a stool in the kitchen with hand clippers. Village butcher was Reg (then his son Ian) Bramley. Didn't Ian end up Marrying Janet S? There were a few shops and Branston's service station on Melton Road opposite New Zealand Lane, but we rarely used that area as we were used to the "old" part of the village. We were not strictly C of E but Mum & Dad used to insist that we kids go to the village Hall (past the Methodist Chappel) after lunch each Sunday to go to Sunday School. We would rush home because if I remember correctly we could get there in time to watch the Sunday afternoon movie on TV. Who remembers the Sunday evening TV movies and also "Sunday Night at the London Palladium"? I knew I had grown up when I was allowed to watch the latter after the half time break! Just a few memories of childhood in Quenni in the 50's & 60's! Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter HOLMES Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 5:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LEI] All these memories It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and products has created such a series of threads! Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited & collated it all to a single document it would make a great segment in the Rootsweb/Genuki (??) Leicestershire page perhaps? Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and products has created such a series of threads! Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited & collated it all to a single document it would make a great segment in the Rootsweb/Genuki (??) Leicestershire page perhaps? Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch).

Thanks for that Peter.   I have already collected the latest e-mails for today so have made a good start. June West Yorkshire From: Peter HOLMES <[email protected]> To: 'J FLEETWOOD' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 23:41 Subject: RE: [LEI] All these memories June, I believe that you'll find there's a Rootsweb archive online for this Leics list from which you'll be able to copy and paste)in to word perhaps) all of the various messages relating to the dialects, cafes etc. Peter Holmes Western Australia.      Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J FLEETWOOD Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 6:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories Right/    Now I made the suggestion about collecting all these threads together, as before.   Perhaps I could do it again, but I will need help.    As I said previously, I have deleted most of the threads as they came in, so where can I collect them all from

Hi Carolyn What a truly generous offer of your time.   Please send any of the e-mails you can retrieve to my e-mail address - [email protected] with 'Memories' as the subject & I will see what I can do.   The memories that are being recorded here are an important part of our lives.   So many times in my life I have looked back & wished I had recorded a happening having thought 'I can do that later', but somehow we never get around to doing it.   As I have grown older &, in particular, since researching the family history, I realise how important it is to have these details recorded somewhere for future generations.   My immediate family always disappear or find 'things to do' when I try to tell them of a break-through I have had in my research, but one day they will thank me for recording our family history in such detail. (at least I hope so)   Thank you once again for your offer of help which is very much appreciated. Regards June Fleetwood (nee Rainbow) West Yorkshire.  From: Charles Sidebottom <[email protected]> To: 'J FLEETWOOD' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 23:09 Subject: RE: [LEI] All these memories Hi June, It sounds like many like the idea of collating all of the e-mails into some sort of memory document.  I hardly know what or where anyone is talking about since I grew up in America, so I am not the person for the collating job.  However, I have also deleted the e-mails but I still can get access to them.  Tell me how and where to send them and I will see what I can do to get them to you. Carolyn, in Minnesota, USA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J FLEETWOOD Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories Right/    Now I made the suggestion about collecting all these threads together, as before.   Perhaps I could do it again, but I will need help.    As I said previously, I have deleted most of the threads as they came in, so where can I collect them all from?    This time the threads have covered a much wider area & such a lot of very special memories have been remembered by us all.   If I can collect all the e-mails,  I would be willing to edit them & to prepare an article for publishing to Genuki or a Leicester Page on Rootsweb as suggested.    So, please help................ June Fleetwood West Yorkshire. 

Right/    Now I made the suggestion about collecting all these threads together, as before.   Perhaps I could do it again, but I will need help.    As I said previously, I have deleted most of the threads as they came in, so where can I collect them all from?    This time the threads have covered a much wider area & such a lot of very special memories have been remembered by us all.   If I can collect all the e-mails,  I would be willing to edit them & to prepare an article for publishing to Genuki or a Leicester Page on Rootsweb as suggested.    So, please help................ June Fleetwood West Yorkshire.  From: Peter HOLMES <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 21:55 Subject: [LEI] All these memories It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and products has created such a series of threads! Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited & collated it all to a single document it would make a great segment in the Rootsweb/Genuki (??)  Leicestershire page perhaps? Peter Holmes Western Australia.      Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I remember ” Jonah “ the whale being reported in the paper but i don’t know if it ever came to leicester. How about those lethal bombs , 2 halves of cast iron held together with elastic bands and loaded with caps and then launched with the aid of swinging it around on a piece string. You hoped to let go at the right time so it would go as high as possible .The fact it could have caused serious damage if it landed on your head didn't trouble at all . Health and safety !!!!!!

Good grief yes We used to use squeezy bottles though, you could get more in it :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) Remember the snappers made out of brown paper and cardboard that were given free with the Beezer or Dandy and getting soaked the day after pancake day because everyone had one of those plastic lemons full of water!

Hi Jill Yes there were fads for one game or another and then seasons for some as well Like Conkers ! (another no-no for health & safety) I can't recall ever having wet playtime, I think they just threw us out no matter what was happening outdoors <g> I remember there was a Whale at the museum up New Walk amongst many other artifacts (I did love museums) they had a Dodo in a glass case, and mummies under the stairs and yes clambered on the same canons The Magazine for the Leicester Tigers, the Guildhall with the prisoner in the cell, you peered in and pressed the light which made you jump, why we thought it was scary I don't know <g> Then the Newarke Houses , the costume museum (only visited that once as it was a bit sissy :-) Yes queuing up for "the jab" (eeek!) or was that the next school up ? Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Re playground games : there were crazes. For a couple of weeks it would be skipping ; a sea of > twirling ropes from one end to the other ("All in together girls; all out together girls...") > while the boys played snobs and 'fag cards'. Then it was all change for 2-ball against the wall > (onesies, twosies, threesies, dropsies etc) or The Big Ship Sails through the Ally Ally-Oo. And > crates of little bottles with metal tops bulging over the frozen milk that took all of playtime to > thaw? > > Anyone old enough to remember ragged piles of Dandy & Beano and plasticene (all colours in a muddy > mix-up) pulled from the cupboard for wet playtime, the shock as the cane met the back of your > hand, the effort to hold back tears of rage and pain, the churning in your stomach just before the > whistle to start a race on sports day, or the smell of meths and carbolic in the church hall where > they sent you - in those days on your own, mark you - to see the school dentist ? > > Not exclusive to Leicestershire, but fun to recall, I reckon. > > Did anyone see the whale (what was its name?) that parked up on a lorry in the city centre back in > the 1950s or climb on the canon outside the Museum in New Walk? > > Jill

Remember the snappers made out of brown paper and cardboard that were given free with the Beezer or Dandy and getting soaked the day after pancake day because everyone had one of those plastic lemons full of water! -----Original Message----- From: Linda Chapman Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] Dialect & nostalgia another game that no one has mentioned and you don't see today is french skipping ie elastic around the ankles health and safety would have a blue fit lol ps didn't think anyone went to the palais unless they were under or over age lol On 14 February 2012 18:14, <[email protected]> wrote: > Brilliant Graham. Some of these had me falling about. I'd completely > forgotten them. > > Could add EyergooinoopPally? (Are you going to the Palais?) > Gerofforullskinyeralive (Go away or I won't be best > pleased) > Wezzmewinders? (Where are my glasses?) > > Re playground games : there were crazes. For a couple of weeks it would be > skipping ; a sea of twirling ropes from one end to the other ("All in > together girls; all out together girls...") while the boys played snobs > and > 'fag cards'. Then it was all change for 2-ball against the wall (onesies, > twosies, threesies, dropsies etc) or The Big Ship Sails through the Ally > Ally-Oo. And crates of little bottles with metal tops bulging over the > frozen milk that took all of playtime to thaw? > > Anyone old enough to remember ragged piles of Dandy & Beano and plasticene > (all colours in a muddy mix-up) pulled from the cupboard for wet playtime, > the shock as the cane met the back of your hand, the effort to hold back > tears of rage and pain, the churning in your stomach just before the > whistle to start a race on sports day, or the smell of meths and carbolic > in the church hall where they sent you - in those days on your own, mark > you - to see the school dentist ? > > Not exclusive to Leicestershire, but fun to recall, I reckon. > > Did anyone see the whale (what was its name?) that parked up on a lorry in > the city centre back in the 1950s or climb on the canon outside the Museum > in New Walk? > > Jill > > > > -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Graham Jennings > > > .......Here’s a cracking site of Leicester sayings > > www.angelfire.com/fl2/slang/ > > Graham > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

another game that no one has mentioned and you don't see today is french skipping ie elastic around the ankles health and safety would have a blue fit lol ps didn't think anyone went to the palais unless they were under or over age lol On 14 February 2012 18:14, <[email protected]> wrote: > Brilliant Graham. Some of these had me falling about. I'd completely > forgotten them. > > Could add EyergooinoopPally? (Are you going to the Palais?) > Gerofforullskinyeralive (Go away or I won't be best > pleased) > Wezzmewinders? (Where are my glasses?) > > Re playground games : there were crazes. For a couple of weeks it would be > skipping ; a sea of twirling ropes from one end to the other ("All in > together girls; all out together girls...") while the boys played snobs and > 'fag cards'. Then it was all change for 2-ball against the wall (onesies, > twosies, threesies, dropsies etc) or The Big Ship Sails through the Ally > Ally-Oo. And crates of little bottles with metal tops bulging over the > frozen milk that took all of playtime to thaw? > > Anyone old enough to remember ragged piles of Dandy & Beano and plasticene > (all colours in a muddy mix-up) pulled from the cupboard for wet playtime, > the shock as the cane met the back of your hand, the effort to hold back > tears of rage and pain, the churning in your stomach just before the > whistle to start a race on sports day, or the smell of meths and carbolic > in the church hall where they sent you - in those days on your own, mark > you - to see the school dentist ? > > Not exclusive to Leicestershire, but fun to recall, I reckon. > > Did anyone see the whale (what was its name?) that parked up on a lorry in > the city centre back in the 1950s or climb on the canon outside the Museum > in New Walk? > > Jill > > > > -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Graham Jennings > > > .......Here’s a cracking site of Leicester sayings > > www.angelfire.com/fl2/slang/ > > Graham > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Brilliant Graham. Some of these had me falling about. I'd completely forgotten them. Could add EyergooinoopPally? (Are you going to the Palais?) Gerofforullskinyeralive (Go away or I won't be best pleased) Wezzmewinders? (Where are my glasses?) Re playground games : there were crazes. For a couple of weeks it would be skipping ; a sea of twirling ropes from one end to the other ("All in together girls; all out together girls...") while the boys played snobs and 'fag cards'. Then it was all change for 2-ball against the wall (onesies, twosies, threesies, dropsies etc) or The Big Ship Sails through the Ally Ally-Oo. And crates of little bottles with metal tops bulging over the frozen milk that took all of playtime to thaw? Anyone old enough to remember ragged piles of Dandy & Beano and plasticene (all colours in a muddy mix-up) pulled from the cupboard for wet playtime, the shock as the cane met the back of your hand, the effort to hold back tears of rage and pain, the churning in your stomach just before the whistle to start a race on sports day, or the smell of meths and carbolic in the church hall where they sent you - in those days on your own, mark you - to see the school dentist ? Not exclusive to Leicestershire, but fun to recall, I reckon. Did anyone see the whale (what was its name?) that parked up on a lorry in the city centre back in the 1950s or climb on the canon outside the Museum in New Walk? Jill -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Graham Jennings > .......Here’s a cracking site of Leicester sayings > www.angelfire.com/fl2/slang/ > Graham

Hi All, My husband remembers rides on croggies too. There was also "crogs" which apparently you said with fingers crossed if you wanted a pause in a game to tie your shoelaces or something. He also remembers snobs, which we called Jack o' 5 Stones in London. Up came a few more memories of marbles and cigarette cards, football and cricket in the street, and French cricket. He played British bulldog in the Scouts and tig was tick to him ('He' in London). Most family historians have at least one branch of their families who migrated to London, and comparing Leicester's different words for games and things with the words we used down there made me think. If I thought I was learning a whole new language here, how did those migrants to London cope with a different vocabulary as well as back slang and rhyming slang? They must have thought they were in foreign parts! Lesley