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

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 > >

Now that I remember! Next to de la Rue's jewellers - both on Melton Road if I'm not mistaken (unless Dodwells was the one down near the market square). I was a member of the 1st Syston (10th Leicester) Cubs then scouts for several years and specifically remember 3 things Armistice Day parades (so cold I wore 2 pairs of shorts and at least 2 layers under the uniform shirt or jumper), Easter and August camps and of course the Gang Show in the Oxford Street hall (was still there when we visited in 2010). Was anyone entertained by me & my contemporaries in about 1961 to 1966? 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 [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2012 1:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] Memories Six-pennourth of chips in newspaper from Dodwells. What heaven !