Not from Syston but a whole branch of my family were from Thurmaston & Syston. And obviously things like play scheme, the main library, the big shops and most importantly the chippy were all there! I only escaped Wreake Valley (or Roundhill) school by emigrating just in time... Sent from my mobile device, please excuse lack of formatting. On 15 Feb 2012, at 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