Narrow Marsh was the street running through the centre of one of the most notorious slums of Nottingham in the early part of the 20th century, giving its name to the surrounding area. Later it was named Red Lion Street after the eponymous pub on that thoroughfare. I can imagine a cross reference to an untidy house, but given the almost total lack of greenery in the Narrow Marsh area, the likening to an untidy garden is odd. Funnily enough I have never ever heard this expression, but then again my ancestors came from Radford, New Basford, and Hyson Green where this expression might never had been used. When the Narrow Marsh area was cleared in the 1930s the occupants were in the main rehoused on Council Estates- can't recall which ones - so perhaps this expression was used by recently rehoused folk. There is lots of information on the net about Narrow Marsh, including lots of photos for instance on www.picturethepast.org.uk Brian Binns -----Original Message----- From: nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lcsearch3528@aol.com Sent: 01 November 2013 14:33 To: tony@proctor.net; djwilson22@yahoo.com; nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past - Narrow Marsh When I was a girl if our house or garden looked slightly untidy, my mother used to say that 'It looks like Narrow Marsh'! Does anyone have any idea where this phrase came from and why? Lin (nee Harrison) In a message dated 01/11/2013 09:38:32 GMT Standard Time, tony@proctor.net writes: I have ancestors from the Narrow Marsh (or Red Lion St) area - usually Watts - and ancestors with the surname Burton. However, this Annie Elizabeth Burton doesn't figure in any of my research so far. I'd be interested for any details on her David. Tony Proctor ----- Original Message ----- From: "david wilson" <djwilson22@yahoo.com> To: <nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past Well have been experimenting with online ocr sites and this site was one of the easiest to use and was perfect for converting a modern pdf invoice from my inbox to an editable.txt file , no trouble at all ......however it really struggled with old news- type from the news archives , kept getting a message saying image "image quality too poor ". http://free-online-ocr.com/ Eventually I managed to produce the following 16 lines of text after pasting part of a column into Paint . Then saving as a .jpg and then using Windows photo gallery to turn the contrast right up , so I ended up with with black type on a white background rather than the "muddy" background of old newspapers . It seems to struggle with longer columns of print though so is probably more trouble than its worth ! This is the unedited result from a piece about Narrow Marsh : Oonvicted on the pr~ ions evening of the manslauffhteJ of Annie Elizabeth Burton, in Narrow-marsh, on the l5th of September last, was brought up for sentence. ~ On being asked by the Clerk of Arraigns whether he had anything to say why jaugment should not be nassed upon him, be said, ~ 61 hope your lordship will be as lenient to me as you nD." The Judge said : James Temporif. you have been tried for the wilful murder of Annie Elizabeth Burton, who was jiving wftft you, and have been found guilty of ~ They have come to that conclusion. I :lo not know on what gnunds, but that is the view they nave taken, and you have the benefit of it. There was some evidence given to chow your kindness to the woman and the children. and that may have affected ,he view the jury took of your case ; but thfs is not a `^~ ~- ^ ~* r ^an tuba Ihtn rnna{darnhnn Ti T a..n),l On Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:09 PM, Balloon Expedition Co. <balexped@ihug.co.nz> wrote: What if you right click on the image and copy to folder ? Di ----- Original Message ----- From: "david wilson" <djwilson22@yahoo.com> To: <nottsgen-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [NTT] Find my Past > Thanks Roy , don't have MSWord , only have Wordpad and just tried it but > if you copy and paste from the downloaded pdf it just appears as an > un-editable image. > > > > On Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:45 AM, Mike Fry <fredbonzo@iafrica.com> > wrote: > > On 2013/10/31 12:24, david wilson wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an >> editable >> text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . > > You need MS Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer. > > The basic process is to copy the webpage in its entirety to a new > document. If > you're clever, you can select just the part of the webpage containing the > text > of the article, and copy that. > > Start a new, empty document and Paste what you've copied from the webpage. > With > LibreOffice and OpenOffice Writer, this can be pasted in several ways, but > the > best choice is probably as HTML. 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