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Sue
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A week has passed and I have had a couple of suggestions, but no great progress. I see some 61 people have read my posting on Ethel, but can I ask again. Does ANYONE ( sorry for the capitals) know ANYTHING about this woman, she could be a VERY IMPORTANT key to a long standing family mystery
Sue
Ethel Seymour was a blouse specialist, with a shop at 23 Manchester Road ,Burnley. She lived at 173 Manchester Road Burnley
She appears in the following
1.Kellys Directory for Lancashire in 1924
2. The general and Commercial Burnley Directory 13th Edition dated 1923. She is not in the 14th edition dated 1927-28
Does anyone know what happened to this lady, or shop
This is a real longshot, but a very important one to me
If you keep searching you'll find it
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/06/2006 : 15:20
Romantic.........!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Sue
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Posted - 04/06/2006 : 17:01
Isn't that what weekends are for. I have done the weeding and Bob has hacked his way through two shrubs, one was a 7 foot tall forsythia, I am sure it was only 4 feet tall when we went away 10 days ago. Mel, I don't envy you the gardening task in France. We have been twice since April, and the grass has grown furiously in that time. Luckily we have a good neighbour who helps us out with that.
Sue
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melteaser
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Posted - 04/06/2006 : 21:38
We didn't cut the grass when we were there in March. We don't yet own a mower. We have a strimmer but I don't fancy attempting 1 acre with that! I think I'll ask the neighbour if he wants to put his horses on it!!
Mel
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Stanley
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Posted - 05/06/2006 : 06:14
Any local fire regs about long grass? Very dangerous when it dries out. There will be a farmer with a machine that will mulch it for you.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 05/06/2006 : 07:06
Not that I'm aware of. I suppose the local Mayor will be down on us like a ton of bricks of there is. We have a friend with a sit-on mower and he has a farmer friend. We'll probably get the farmer friend to bale it, our friend can give it his donkeys then later in the year when his land has dried out.
Mel
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Stanley
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Posted - 05/06/2006 : 18:05
I only mentioned it because I know there are regs in NSW about it and wondered whether other places where it could be a risk did the same.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Sue
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Posted - 05/06/2006 : 19:42
The local farmer cut our 1 acre, in April and we have an agreement that he will come back in September. Ours hadn't been cut for 3 years, ie 18 months after the last owners left and 18 months after we bought. Bob managed about half with a heavy duty strimmer last year. it worked well but no way was he ever going to manage it all. The neighbour now keeps it fairly short for us. in fact the neighbour negotiated with the farmer and arranged the marathon mow. The main problem is the thistles and nettles not the grass.
Sue
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Posted - 05/06/2006 : 20:41
It makes sense Stanley.
One of our neighbours is a landscape gardener by trade
Mel
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Sue
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Posted - 06/06/2006 : 11:44
So is ours, the one who does the garden for us
Sue
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melteaser
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Posted - 06/06/2006 : 13:39
I hope ours is as obliging as yours Sue
Mel
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Stanley
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Posted - 24/06/2006 : 07:20
I was looking through recent topics and read this. Why does the thought of an 'obliging landscape gardener' raise a smile? Shades of Mellor?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Now let's get down to something really important
