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Stanley
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Opening text too long so I've moved it to the first response.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 14/09/2009 : 15:47
Good moleskin wears well, I have a couple of pairs of trousers still. Best wearer of all was either a thornproof or cavalry twill. They went shiny but never wore out.
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Posted - 15/09/2009 : 11:32
Cavalry twill....my dad made every male child wear it!
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Posted - 15/09/2009 : 14:43
I had occasion to mention Krumlin Mill today and it struck me what a strange name it was, sounds more Russian than Yorkshire. Krumlin Mill was at Barkisland. I wonder where it got its name?
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Posted - 16/09/2009 : 12:53
Barkisland itself is quite a strange name!
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Posted - 17/09/2009 : 09:11
Had a furtle Belle.
"BARKISLAND, in the parish of Halifax; Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 5½ miles SW. of Halifax, 6 from Huddersfield, 12 from Rochdale, (Lanc.) Pop. 2,224. Here is a Free School founded in 1657, by Sarah Gledhill. The old Hall at Barkisland, now occupied as a farm house, is a good specimen of ancient architecture, built about the time of Charles I. It now belongs to the Bold family, of Bold Hall, in Lancashire. --Watson's Halifax." [Genuki] EPNS gives ‘Barkisland’. ‘Bark’s stretch of land’. First element is Old Norse personal name; ‘Barkr’, Barkar’.
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Posted - 17/09/2009 : 09:14
Barkisland Hall was owned by Lord Kagan of Gannex fame when I delivered cattle there. The explanation for 'Krumlin' is that it is a corruption of 'crumbling' and in First Edition OS it was 'Crumble Hall'. so a later corruption.
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Posted - 23/09/2009 : 13:33
Here's one I came across today while editing Vol II. Where does the phrase 'down to a 'T'' come from. Is it one I have made up? For instance, 'He had the job down to a 't''.
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Posted - 23/09/2009 : 15:17
I suspect it will be related to `crossing your t's'
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Posted - 23/09/2009 : 16:13
'And dotting your 'I's'. I'll bet you're right Ted. 'Knowing your 'ps' and 'qs' will be the same source.
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Posted - 25/09/2009 : 12:43
'Slink' is a nice word and sadly neglected these days. I found an alternative meaning while I was editing Vol II today:
'One little known fact about calves is that the name the trade gives to a calf found dead in the womb of a casualty cow is called a ‘slink calf’. If you can get a skin from a slink calf it is beautiful quality. This is the same principle as genuine Astrakhan fur used for facings on overcoat collars and hats. This the lambskin from slink lambs from the district of Astrakhan in Russia.'
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Posted - 25/09/2009 : 12:46
ugh not sure i wanted to know that! I will never touch slinky fabric again without thinking of dead baby animals!
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Stanley
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Posted - 25/09/2009 : 16:16
All part of life's rich pattern Belle.
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Posted - 02/10/2009 : 09:33
Samming = to pick something up, ie, of the floor
Frame thissen = shape up, pull your self together.
Fend = look after ones self
Fratch = fighting
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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Stanley
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Posted - 03/10/2009 : 07:08
Bodge, the use of 'samming' I have come across is gathering together. Samming up sheep.
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Posted - 03/10/2009 : 09:19
On an earlier post i quiered [flarching], i discovered that it comes from the Lake district, it's meanig given as, paying false flattery to obtain favours, I think it came into our family via my father in law, his Harling ancestors coming from Westmorland, and with that i leave you with , harling, what is it's meaning ?
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
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Dialect and other regional matters.
