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  1. Of course a lot of the clays are made near here at the Clay Pigeon Company in Bottesford.
  2. Isn't that what Lindisfarne's song, "All Fall Down" was about?
  3. I don't know if anyone can help me. Salem Chapel stood on the site of what is now Gothic House until about 1880, it was on the City side of the Graveyard, St Mary's Institute was built on the other side of it although this was also built on the site of a chapel. I'm wondering if there are any photos or drawings of it or maps from the middle of the 1830s to the beginning of the 1880s. It's a long shot but I'm amazed at the information that some of you have.
  4. Not meaning, why are they allowed to exist but why are they called that. As far as I know, it doesn't have anything to do with being cowardly
  5. When I was a lad in the 1960s we used to have an annual visit from a group of aunts from the Mid-Notts and Derbyshire border area, places like Kirkby, Selston and Underwood. Their accents always fascinated me, especially (if my memory isn't playing tricks) the use of two syllables where I would use one. So, for example, they would rhyme "here" and "there" when they spoke as hee-yer and thee-yer and "book" would not just be boook but boo-uk. "No" could often be no-wer. Does anyone else remember this and is it still used in broad accents in the area?
  6. 50 years or so ago, kids used to sing a song with the words (as I remember them) "Wallflower, wallflower, growing up so high We are little children and we should never die except for (name), he/she is the only one Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake Turn your backs to the wall again." Does anyone else remember it and what do you think the words were? I've just been reading other versions and they have it swapped around so the children are the ones who will die except for the named one. While we're at it, does anyone know the full version of "I had the