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From: "Ann" <>
Subject: Re: NORTHWICH Cheshire (Northwich?) words
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:51:13 -0000
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You don't get many coal fires any more do you, but you couldn't beat a
roaring fire in Winter and we didn't have the problem of getting rid of
excess litter either. Except those poor binmen those days had to lift the
bins that were full of hot ashes and being a bin in those day was a real
dirty and hard job just as being a coal man was.

Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: "Denise McNeel" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: NORTHWICH Cheshire (Northwich?) words


> Now we kept our coal in the coal house-outside door but located under the
> staircase. It was a dark difficullt place to get coal when the supply was
> low because it sloped deeply. We always said the dustbinmen and dustbin
> Denise
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Mike Morris <> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ann,
>> I could have said Bin men and Bins, but I have been away so long I
>> forgot.
>> Our garbage was put in the midden (bin) in Hulme.
>>
>> During the war years, some people grew potatoes in the back yard in their
>> midden/bin.
>>
>> The Scullery had a brown porcelain shallow rectangular sink with one
>> brass
>> cold water tap. Near by was double ring gas burner with a gas grill above
>> it. The coin slot gas meter was in this room. There was no gas light in
>> the
>> room. You used candles to cook by. This was the same cold water tap you
>> washed your face under to get ready for school.
>>
>> I do wonder if a lot of this old language/slang might have been Gaelic in
>> its origins. I was told that goodbye (Tarraaaa/ Tat Taaa) and thank you
>> ( Taaa) were Gaelic................... but maybe I have opened a can of
>> worms with that information............... :))
>>
>> 'Up yon brew' (Hill) was used in Middleton near Rochdale. Incidentally
>> Middleton means Middle Hill. Ton I am told was a Hill.
>>
>> By the front door in the pavement/sidewalk was a cast iron
>> grid................ it was called the coal hole.
>>
>> All my best
>>
>> Mike Morris
>> Toronto Canada
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ann" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:35 AM
>> > Those Middens were not "garbage" as such <snip>
>>
>>
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