I've found the tread but none of the pictures will come up, I'll send him IM and ask if he will put them up again
https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=27008&highlight=john+knight
Well there's a coincidence Alf. I also could eat the coloured one's easier. The white fondant was very sickly.
John Knight said he has posted them on another site,that must be where i seen them,i knew it wasn't on here,they are very good Alf
Maggs have you looked at them
Hi Kayka,
Must admit never heard of this one. I was born near the Horse Fair in Birmingham in 1949. The area had been very heavily bombed and we just called the vast seas of rubble the bombed buildings. Never hearrd it called anything else. I'm not saying that you're wrong though. but maybe the expression was a more localised one. It is always interesting to hear the different names for things,
All the best
Hello David,i understand what you mean now,had no idea peck could mean that.Re: bompeck
Being fascinated by words - and never having hear the word "bompeck" - I conferred with my faithful friend "The New (1993) Shorter Oxford English Dictionary" and found the word "peck" can be used to mean "a measurement of land equal to three acres (approx. 1.214 hectares)", which would make it the size of 2½ football pitches. I imagine members' bompecks were far smaller.
May I suggest that the word is spelt “bomb-peck” to bring it in line with bomb-site (which it is!) and bomb-sight or possibly “bombpeck” to coincide with bombshell and bombproof ? I shall use to former. Only an idea ……. David
Hello again, Dek,
Having tried to comment on the word "bompeck" in the Group section of the Forum without success, and having typed bompeck into the search engine at the top of the page, I've only just seen your recent posting. I far prefer the letter "b" being inserted into the word. Whether or not the hyphen is included is debatable. I think I'll include it; it is after all a synonym of bomb-site. Excuse me, David
Well, what can I say ...... I've just looked up bomb-site in another of my many dictionaries .... and it's written bombsite - no hyphen !!! So I'll eat my own word (intended!) and go along with you, my friend .... I'll use bombpeck. D.
We used to say,if you can't be good be careful, if you can't be careful.buy a pram.lolAstonian, the continuation of 'if you cant be good be careful' is 'if you cant be careful remember the date'