Interesting Emma, what was they name? Margaret On 15/02/2012 18:57, Emma Faulkner wrote: > Margaret, by coincidence one of my ancestors ran/worked in the Midland pub in Syston :-) > > Sent from my mobile device, please excuse lack of formatting. > > On 15 Feb 2012, at 18:54, fabis<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have connections with Syston too with the North side of my family, If >> I remember correctly David North ran a pub in the village. Pubs seem to >> run in the family on both my mum's side and also my dad's >> >> >> Margaret >> >> >> On 15/02/2012 17:48, [email protected] wrote: >>> There seems to be strong Queniborough lobby on the list. Anyone from Syston >>> still subscribing? I spent the first, very impressionable half of my >>> childhood there, and the second half in Newtown Linford. Chalk and cheese, >>> those two villages. >>> >>> Syston sounds (and smells) : - >>> >>> A Sunday morning 'procession'. You could hear the band heading with its >>> banners and bigwigs down High Street towards the Church in good enough time >>> to dash out and march beside it along with Coco, the ginger mongrel from >>> Bath Street, and his piebald chum, Jacko, who'd jump up and bite the large >>> wholemeal I'd been sent to collect from Barnacles on the Green. >>> >>> The Church clock striking backwards, or so we were told. (And its Vicar, the >>> Reverend Haddlesey, who hatched, matched and despatched so many of us, would >>> sit backwards on his bike and ride it just like that all the way to the top >>> of Bath Street.) >>> >>> The moan of the stink lorry as it headed for the houses with outside lavvies >>> in the back yards (only the Very Prim called them 'toilets' in those days) >>> to empty the buckets; and the snap of windows closing on its malodorous >>> approach. >>> >>> The clop of hooves and the shout : "Rag Bone ...... Any old Rag Bone....?" >>> >>> The sluggish shunting of steam engines on hot summer evenings and the >>> wondrous smell of hot pennies that we'd left on the line to be squashed by >>> the down train. >>> >>> Six-pennourth of chips in newspaper from Dodwells. What heaven ! >>> >>> Jill >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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: 2112/4811 - Release Date: 02/15/12 > >