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From: "Anne Newman" <>
Subject: Re: A skipping verse and memories
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 06:28:51 +0100
References: <054301c0bab3$e9e3b2e0$213d893e@fsnet.co.uk>


We always sang 'On the last day of September'
Anne
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From: Lancelot Howard Barron <>
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Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: A skipping verse and memories


It continues - "on a cold and frosty morning"
Was the ship canal opened in the winter?

Lancelot Howard Barron
Middlesbrough U.K.
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> >Does anyone remember the game played
> >with a long string of children holding hands and
> >chanting 'The big ship sails through the alley
> >alley oo, the alley alley oo, etc' I can't remember
> >the rest of it.
>
> This is a realtively modern tradition, as it relates to the opening of
> the Manchester Ship Canal.

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