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Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:11 pm
by alan refail
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.
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:34 pm
by oldherbaceous
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.
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:35 pm
by garden_serf
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!!
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:59 am
by Shallot Man
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.
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:47 pm
by alan refail
Another old one - summer 1928
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:13 am
by Johnboy
Hi Shallot Man,
Which year was that? I started growing on my own account in 1943.
JB.
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:31 am
by Shallot Man
Johnboy. About the same year
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:55 am
by garden_serf
That's 66 years of growing
! That is impressive!!
Good effort!! (bowing smilie)
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:07 pm
by alan refail
Hi GS
Here's your bowing smiley
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:07 pm
by garden_serf
Thankyou Alan, You can always be relied upon to produce the goods!!
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:55 pm
by Monika
Garden_serf, what's your flag? Is it the Cornish flag?
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:14 pm
by garden_serf
That's right Monika, it's the Cornish flag.
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:07 pm
by Johnboy
Hi GS,
It's the flag of St Piran the Cornish misappropriated it from him!!!
Bring back Beryl Cook I say!
JB.
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:03 am
by garden_serf
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.....
Re: Amser a fu - Times gone by
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:12 am
by Johnboy
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.