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From: "Ann" <>
Subject: Re: NORTHWICH Cheshire (Northwich?) words
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:18:23 -0000
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Now there's a thought Denise. When was smokeless fuel introduced in
Northwich?
My husband asked me that on several occasions and I don't recall it being
so.
But I do remember it happening in Crewe in the early 70s as that was when IO
worked for British Gas and we had street after street of older terraced
houses in Crewe where they were having gas fires fitted for the first time.

kind regards
Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: "Denise McNeel" <>
To: <>; <>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: NORTHWICH Cheshire (Northwich?) words


>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: <>
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>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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