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Nan told me that they tipped the coal in the street by each house. If you didn't take it in you got to trouble. It was left to the women. In the 30s. She used to sing that song, Keep the home fires burning, while the hearts are yearning, Lord turn the dark the clouds inside out till the boys...

How hard life was then. Hard on horses. I think they worked till they dropped for many. People too. I wonder when work houses ceased to be.

In Amsterdam There Lives a Maid, The Keel Row, The Mermaid. Brennan On The Moor. When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue. Lavendars Blue Dilly Dilly.

Mine has 202 then 3180x on the back Songs Of Praise on the front with 2 deer drinking at a stream,

Mrs Maguire she was a liar took her a way in a black Mariah, and they set her pants on fire, not much of a tune though.

I was in the school choir which I loved and we got out of lessons for choir practice when there something special like the school concert, we sang Blow The Wind Southerly, The Cuckoo and Westering Home, Would She We Here, The Lewis Tramping Song, Mairie's Wedding etc. and the Christmas Carol...

Gathering Peasecods!!

We did country dancing at school. I was captain of my team partnering Elaine Hancock. A big wench bigger now. We were the worst of 4 teams but we had the best laugh. Neil & Christopher had to dance together they hated it. Neil had to be the girl., And when we did dances in a big ring like In...

Did you have the small blue hymn book?

It was sandman softy sweeping, I mistyped.And lady moon keeps shining not whingeing! Mac changes things I am sure. It is time for me to renew Nan's little kerbstone plaque is why I was reminded of her.

Fantastic voice gives me shivers and reminds me of Nan. I didn't know the introduction. She sang Loola Loola Loola Loola bye bye, does ya want the moon was play with, etc in her Black Country accent. And Go to sleep my baby. close your pretty eyes, sandal softly sweeping through the darkened...

I just noticed some old tramlines or the indentations of some in Coventry, and thought of this site. Not quite the same but similar. You must have a some left too. What struck me was it was a like rather than a track to nowhere more like in to another dimension.

I made a new friend last year who is Yorkshire born and bread. I was only in Birmingham for a matter of weeks and was raised in Coventry. He said, jokingly, that that Yorkshire people perceive Brummies to be thick, because of their accent. I replied that it's funny he should say that as we...

In a previous posting there is a photo of The Gough Arms. Can you tell me where its name derives from? If I have asked this before I apologise my memory plays tricks. But I could tell you what happened years ago.

I have been talking to many over the years, how so many babies were lost during washing day. And not just washing day. So sad. Women worked so hard well everyone did but there were no concessions for them then

I would uptick everybody I have been locked ewt!

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The Alexandra Cov (the Flea Pit) showed foreign films & mucky ones , gran said, & some were foreign & mucky! But she stayed till the end, cos she' d paid, she said.

In what way diffent?

I had to say the "when theTatler was the best seller," In a weird school play called Here We Go Round The Prickly Pear, I was the dad I always hot old gittish parts, but I got a part, So .. we asked teach what the Tatler was, .