Schoolboys digging in what is now the school playing field
A bill from our old smithy (1902)
Two horseshoes 6d, one horseshoe 3d.
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alan refail
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I have unearthed some pictures of our village at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth century.
Schoolboys digging in what is now the school playing field
A bill from our old smithy (1902)
Two horseshoes 6d, one horseshoe 3d.
Schoolboys digging in what is now the school playing field
A bill from our old smithy (1902)
Two horseshoes 6d, one horseshoe 3d.
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Dear Alan, are you the lad with the watering can? 
It took me ages trying to work out what the items were on the bill before the penny dropped.
It took me ages trying to work out what the items were on the bill before the penny dropped.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
There's no fool like an old fool.
There's no fool like an old fool.
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Superb! What a lovely bit of history Alan.
I rekon school children of that age would die now if you asked them to dig anything!!
I rekon school children of that age would die now if you asked them to dig anything!!
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food - Frank A. Clark.
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During the last war, the senior class had allotments at the school to help the war effort. I think my interest in growing veg started then.
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Another old one - summer 1928
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Johnboy. About the same year
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That's 66 years of growing 
! That is impressive!!
Good effort!! (bowing smilie)
! That is impressive!! Good effort!! (bowing smilie)
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food - Frank A. Clark.
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Hi GS
Here's your bowing smiley
Here's your bowing smiley
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Thankyou Alan, You can always be relied upon to produce the goods!! 
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food - Frank A. Clark.
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That's right Monika, it's the Cornish flag.
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They sure did...
Just for you JB . Are you a Beryl Cook fan 
Its a shame our old Avatars do not stay on the old messages.....
Just for you JB
. Are you a Beryl Cook fan Its a shame our old Avatars do not stay on the old messages.....
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food - Frank A. Clark.
Hi GS,
It matters not which of Beryl Cook's paintings I have looked at I immediately break into a grin. Now her paintings are frowned upon by those who are sooo serious about art but then they look at Picasso and think his warped paintings are sooo wonderful. The words Clothes, New and Emperor come to mind!
I think she was simply brilliant!
JB.
It matters not which of Beryl Cook's paintings I have looked at I immediately break into a grin. Now her paintings are frowned upon by those who are sooo serious about art but then they look at Picasso and think his warped paintings are sooo wonderful. The words Clothes, New and Emperor come to mind!
I think she was simply brilliant!
JB.