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From: "Ian Winterbottom" <>
Subject: Re: [LAN] Mines, Cotton Mills
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:01:28 -0000
References: <200502251417.j1PEH4jq004874@sentinel.mcc.ac.uk>


True, Phil, very true; definitely farther than I'd care to walk regularly.
Having said which I myself actually come from Shaw, between Oldham and
Rochdale, which is around the same distance, but now live in Bolton; what I
meant to say was that the two are "local". For instance I class Oldham,
Rochdale or even Manchester as "close" to Shaw. The correspondents were
trying, IIRC, to establish whether their families might once have been
something like "neighbours"? Though I still find myself occasionally
thinking of Bolton as "furrin parts", which is daft considering I've lived
here about fifteen years! Cheers, Ian

> It depends on what think of as 'not very far apart' as its 17 miles. So
> not
> far for moving from one area to another but not close enough to just
> wander
> down the road.

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