ENG-CHS-NORTHWICH-L Archives

Archiver > ENG-CHS-NORTHWICH > 2008-11 > 1226939586


From: "Denise McNeel" <>
Subject: Re: NORTHWICH Cheshire (Northwich?) words
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:33:06 -0500
References: <752396.35999.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <752396.35999.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com>


I used to sing that song , too, but always wondered about it , we always
said dustbinman. Of course the dust came from the ashes from our ubiquitous
(in Northwich) coal or coke fires. What a difference it made when smokeless
fuel eas introduced and then legislated. My mother washed windows and I
dusted the living room (then called the kitchen)every single day when I got
home from school! Denise

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:47 AM, zanitaz zoe <> wrote:

>
> Hi
> Yes, we used the word dustman too. I remember a song - I think it was this
> - `My old man's a dustman, he wears a dustman's hat. He wears cor blimey
> trousers and lives in a council flat' .
>
> I lived in Stockport, Cheshire in the 60's and 70's. Incidently Stockport
> was in Cheshire in those days.
>
> When I came to Sydney, Australia in the 70's, the term rubbish man/truck or
> garbage man/truck was used. From the number of American TV programs, the
> words were getting Americanised by then.
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:27:14 -0400
> From: "Jean White" <>
> Subject: Re: NORTHWICH Cheshire (Northwich?) words
> To: <>
> Message-ID: <011b01c94736$a312e3a0$>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Dustman was the term we used but we lived just outside of Birmingham. Mum,
> and Grandma were from Manchester and Dad was from Northwich.
>
> Jean In Nova Scotia
>
>
>
> Make the switch to the world's best email. Get Yahoo!7 Mail!
> http://au.yahoo.com/y7mail
>
> -------------------------------
> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to
> with the word 'unsubscribe' without
> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
>

This thread: