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