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[stutterdog]

Caron wrote: stutterdog wrote: Caron wrote: BarFly wrote: Caron wrote: Heck, Uno Hoo, small world int it.I don't know the name of the butcher but he did lovely pork pies and sausage rolls and he was a nice chap. I haven't been back to Farsley for a few years but I have Google street viewed it and the shops are nothing like as good as they were. When my husband and I divorced, I didn't need a car as I could get everything I needed on Town Street. That's what really bugs me now, the fact that the bigger stores have taken over yet you've to travel miles to get to them. They wonder why there's no community spirit anymore....that's because there is no such thing as community anymore! My beloved Auntie and Uncle live in Farsley and I think they find most of what they need in local shops. Farsley does seem to be a good little community with some real pub, shops and tradesmen. Sadly the local shops, pubs and the like are going all over Leeds and being replaced with, well, I'm not sure -- wat are they building since not even flats make any money any more? Down here there doesn't seem to be much building work going on and when there is it's often some really expensive retirement homes in Bournemouth. Shops that close down re open as charity shops or cafe's. Poole high street used to be great. You were spoilt for choice at one time. Asda and Tesco seem to spring up in the blink of an eye. It's the same everywhere it seems.As this is the Dialect/Slang page I'm going to end this with a.....Eee by gum When I moved to Farsley in the 70's there was a pork butchers on Town St. Everybody called it "Pork Jim's). I dont know the ownwers surname. It was opposite the New Inn.In those days there were 2 bakers shops too! Hello Stutterdog Yes, I remember Jim at the pork butchers. I couldn't remember his name though. I left you a comment somewhere re Farsley but can't remember where I put it! There was a bakers behind the fish n chip shop (sort of) and a lovely bakers on the corner of the road where the church is. I think it was mother and son who owned it. Lovely bread and currant tea cakes I was very friendly with the couple who ran the (old) Farsley post office as I worked at the post office in Horsforth town street. Farsley was a place I was very happy to live in. I really miss those days. I must look up where you are on Google as place names escape me. Not age, it's just that I didn't really pay attention..haha.     Hi Caron, If you haven't been to Farsley for some time there are one or 2 changes that may seem strange. The old post office is now a hairdressers.The postoffice was moved over the road to the newsagents. The public loo's were demolished 2 weeks ago!Staintons toy shop is now an estate agents.Both bakers shops as well as Pork Jims have gone now too!Time does not stand still does it?Shame.

[Uno Hoo]

stutterdog wrote: Caron wrote: stutterdog wrote: Caron wrote: BarFly wrote: Caron wrote: Heck, Uno Hoo, small world int it.I don't know the name of the butcher but he did lovely pork pies and sausage rolls and he was a nice chap. I haven't been back to Farsley for a few years but I have Google street viewed it and the shops are nothing like as good as they were. When my husband and I divorced, I didn't need a car as I could get everything I needed on Town Street. That's what really bugs me now, the fact that the bigger stores have taken over yet you've to travel miles to get to them. They wonder why there's no community spirit anymore....that's because there is no such thing as community anymore! My beloved Auntie and Uncle live in Farsley and I think they find most of what they need in local shops. Farsley does seem to be a good little community with some real pub, shops and tradesmen. Sadly the local shops, pubs and the like are going all over Leeds and being replaced with, well, I'm not sure -- wat are they building since not even flats make any money any more? Down here there doesn't seem to be much building work going on and when there is it's often some really expensive retirement homes in Bournemouth. Shops that close down re open as charity shops or cafe's. Poole high street used to be great. You were spoilt for choice at one time. Asda and Tesco seem to spring up in the blink of an eye. It's the same everywhere it seems.As this is the Dialect/Slang page I'm going to end this with a.....Eee by gum When I moved to Farsley in the 70's there was a pork butchers on Town St. Everybody called it "Pork Jim's). I dont know the ownwers surname. It was opposite the New Inn.In those days there were 2 bakers shops too! Hello Stutterdog Yes, I remember Jim at the pork butchers. I couldn't remember his name though. I left you a comment somewhere re Farsley but can't remember where I put it! There was a bakers behind the fish n chip shop (sort of) and a lovely bakers on the corner of the road where the church is. I think it was mother and son who owned it. Lovely bread and currant tea cakes I was very friendly with the couple who ran the (old) Farsley post office as I worked at the post office in Horsforth town street. Farsley was a place I was very happy to live in. I really miss those days. I must look up where you are on Google as place names escape me. Not age, it's just that I didn't really pay attention..haha.     Hi Caron, If you haven't been to Farsley for some time there are one or 2 changes that may seem strange. The old post office is now a hairdressers.The postoffice was moved over the road to the newsagents. The public loo's were demolished 2 weeks ago!Staintons toy shop is now an estate agents.Both bakers shops as well as Pork Jims have gone now too!Time does not stand still does it?Shame. Davison's Pork Butcher Chain ceased trading during the 1970s. The manager at Farsley continued to run the shop as his own business, so he probably became "Pork Jim". Another Davison branch at Greengates, Bradford, continued in similar vein for some time, but it's likely that the supermarkets put both shops out of business within a few years.I remember all the shops in Farsley mentioned here, but I can't remember the name of the bakery at the end of New Street either. It carried an ad for Kunzle Cakes in its window. Next door, going downhill, was B. Procter, china and hardware, then Stainton's toys and babywear, set back a little from Town Street, then Clegg's newsagents and Lumby plumbers on the corner with Back Lane. A gent's hairdresser was on the opposite corner, then I think Davison Pork Butcher (Pork Jim?) came next. Can't remember what was next door - might have been Ernest Wilson (Wiltex) Ltd, then John S. Driver, groceries and provisions, then C. Proctor & Son, hardware (my godparents, shop, altho' Uncle Bill also ran a plumbing business), then Skelton drapers, another branch of John S. Driver, and the last building in the block was a bank, one of the forerunners of NatWest.On the opposite side, just above Lambert's garage was (working upwards) Charlie Hart, the chemist, then the Conservative Club, then Thomas's, toys and newsagents. Then the Post Office - one sub-postmaster there was convicted of fiddling the books - then another shop I simply can't recall, followed by a big branch of Jesse Stephenson, bakers, grocers and provisions. Then the New Inn and the Samuel Marsden memorial garden, then the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society, which brings us back to opposite the bakery at the junction with New Street, near to the Parish Church (vicar the Rev'd Clack).There were more shops lower down near the war memorial, and others tucked away in back streets. I remember that being sent on errands - my grandparents lived in Priestthorpe Road - could involve lengthy walks with quite a heavy basket to carry back. In an attempt to get back on topic, "Ah wah fair lathered" when I got back     

[BLAKEY]

Uno Hoo wrote: There were more shops lower down near the war memorial, and others tucked away in back streets. I remember that being sent on errands - my grandparents lived in Priestthorpe Road - could involve lengthy walks with quite a heavy basket to carry back. In an attempt to get back on topic, "Ah wah fair lathered" when I got back A shame Bob that you were "pipped at the post" in the audtitions for the wonderful "EE wurra great baker wu' our Dad" Hovis commercial - a carrier's bicycle was provided for those errands     

[majorhoundii]

BLAKEY wrote: A shame Bob that you were "pipped at the post" in the audtitions for the wonderful "EE wurra great baker wu' mi' Dad" Hovis commercial - a carrier's bicycle was provided for those errands Capstick Comes Home (with apologies to Hovis)I’LL NEVER FORGET THAT FIRST DAY AT T’ PITME ‘N MI FATHER WORKED A 72 HOUR SHIFTTHEN WE WALKED ‘OME FORTY THREE MILETHROUGH T’ SNOW IN US BARE FEET‘UDDLED INSIDE US CLOTHES MADEART ON OWD SACKSEVENTUALLY WE TRUDGED OWER T’ ‘ILL TILL WE COULD SEE T’STREET LIGHT TWINKLING IN OUR VILLAGEMI FATHER SMILED DOWN AT ME THROUGH T’ ICICLES ‘ANGING OFF ‘IS NOSE“NEARLY OM NAR LAD” HE SAIDWE STUMBLED INTO T’ ‘OUSE AND STOODTHERE FREEZING COWD AND TIRED ARTSHIVERIN’ AND MISERABLE IN FRONT O’ T’ MEAGRE FIRE“ANY ROAD,” MI MAM SEZ “I’VE GOT YER SOME NICEBROWN BREAD AND BUTTER FOR YER TEA”EE MI FATHER WENT CRACKERS!‘E REACHED ART AND GENTLY PULLED MI MAMTOWARDS ‘IM BI T’ THROAT“YOU BIG FAT IDLE UGLY WART,” E SED“YER GRET USELESS SPAWNY EYED, PARROT FACED WAZZOCK”(‘E ‘AD A WAY WI WORDS MI FATHER – HE’D BEEN TO COLLEGE YER KNOW)“YER’VE BEEN ART PLAYING BINGO ALL AFTERNOON INSTEADER GETTING SOME PROPER SNAP READY FOR ME AND THIS LAD”‘E EXPLAINED TO MI POOR LITTLE PURPLE FACED MAMAND TURNIN’ TER ME HE SED “ARTHUR” – (‘E COULD NEVERREMEMBER MI NAME) “’ERE’S AFE A CROWN, NIP DOWN TO T’CHIP ‘OIL AND GERRUS A NICE PIECE O’ ADDOCK FOR US TEA,MAN CANNOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE”‘E WERE A REIGHT TATER, MI FATHERE SED AS HOW WUKKIN FOLK SHOULD ‘AVE SOME PRIDEAND DIGNITY N’ SELF RESPECT, N’AS THEY SHOULDCOME ‘OME TO SUMMAT WARM N’ CHEERFUL.AND THEN ‘E THREW MI MAM ON T’ FIRE.WE DINT ‘AVE NO SHOES, OR TELLYS OR BEDCLOTHESWE MED US OWN FUN IN THEM DAYSDO YOU KNOW WHEN I WERE A LAD YER COULD GERRA TRAMDOWN INTO T’TOWN, BUY THREE NEW SUITS AND AN OVERCOATFOUR PAIR O’ GOOD BOOTS, GO AND SEE GEORGE FORMBY AT T’ PALACE THEATRE, GET BLIND DRUNK, ‘EV SOME STEAK AND CHIPSA BUNCH O’ BANANAS AND THREE STONE O’MONKEY NUTS, AN’STILL A’VE CHANGE ARTEN A FARTHIN’. WE’D LOT O’ THINGS IN THEM DAYS THEY DON’T ‘AVE TODAYRICKETS, DYPTHERIA, ‘ITLER, AN’ BY WI DID LOOK WELL GOING TO T’ SCHOOIL WI NO BACKSIDE IN US TROUSERS AN ALL US LITTLE ‘EDSPAINTED PURPLE BECAUSE WE ‘AD RINGWORM.THEY DON’T KNOW THEY’RE BORN TODAY!

[geoffb]

See this from Tony Capstick, this was posted by Jogon on an other threadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSA0W3mkn4

[majorhoundii]

geoffb wrote: See this from Tony Capstick, this was posted by Jogon on an other threadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSA0W3mkn4 Very good. I haven't seen that before. BTW the Hovis street isn't in the North of England - it's in Shaftesbury in Dorset - it also features in the film "Far From the Madding Crowd" with Julie Christie, Terrence Stamp and Alan Bates

[Caron]

majorhoundii wrote: geoffb wrote: See this from Tony Capstick, this was posted by Jogon on an other threadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmSA0W3mkn4 Very good. I haven't seen that before. BTW the Hovis street isn't in the North of England - it's in Shaftesbury in Dorset - it also features in the film "Far From the Madding Crowd" with Julie Christie, Terrence Stamp and Alan Bates Lovely film. The farm used for the filming belonged to a friend of a friend of mine. The place in Shaftesbury which is used in the Hovis advert is fine to walk down but I nearly died walking back up it..."OXYGEN PLEASE!"................Think it's called Gold Hill. There used to be a big bin at the top of the hill resembling a Hovis loaf..hahaha    

[Jogon]

Aa've just been roond the gyetsheed metro centre wi me wifie an dowtah . They bowt loads of dresses an stuff an Ah got 4 free hot cross buns. Aa've spent up an Ahm knackered Pet

[Caron]

Uno Hoo wrote: stutterdog wrote: Caron wrote: stutterdog wrote: Caron wrote: BarFly wrote: Caron wrote: Heck, Uno Hoo, small world int it.I don't know the name of the butcher but he did lovely pork pies and sausage rolls and he was a nice chap. I haven't been back to Farsley for a few years but I have Google street viewed it and the shops are nothing like as good as they were. When my husband and I divorced, I didn't need a car as I could get everything I needed on Town Street. That's what really bugs me now, the fact that the bigger stores have taken over yet you've to travel miles to get to them. They wonder why there's no community spirit anymore....that's because there is no such thing as community anymore! My beloved Auntie and Uncle live in Farsley and I think they find most of what they need in local shops. Farsley does seem to be a good little community with some real pub, shops and tradesmen. Sadly the local shops, pubs and the like are going all over Leeds and being replaced with, well, I'm not sure -- wat are they building since not even flats make any money any more? Down here there doesn't seem to be much building work going on and when there is it's often some really expensive retirement homes in Bournemouth. Shops that close down re open as charity shops or cafe's. Poole high street used to be great. You were spoilt for choice at one time. Asda and Tesco seem to spring up in the blink of an eye. It's the same everywhere it seems.As this is the Dialect/Slang page I'm going to end this with a.....Eee by gum When I moved to Farsley in the 70's there was a pork butchers on Town St. Everybody called it "Pork Jim's). I dont know the ownwers surname. It was opposite the New Inn.In those days there were 2 bakers shops too! Hello Stutterdog Yes, I remember Jim at the pork butchers. I couldn't remember his name though. I left you a comment somewhere re Farsley but can't remember where I put it! There was a bakers behind the fish n chip shop (sort of) and a lovely bakers on the corner of the road where the church is. I think it was mother and son who owned it. Lovely bread and currant tea cakes I was very friendly with the couple who ran the (old) Farsley post office as I worked at the post office in Horsforth town street. Farsley was a place I was very happy to live in. I really miss those days. I must look up where you are on Google as place names escape me. Not age, it's just that I didn't really pay attention..haha.     Hi Caron, If you haven't been to Farsley for some time there are one or 2 changes that may seem strange. The old post office is now a hairdressers.The postoffice was moved over the road to the newsagents. The public loo's were demolished 2 weeks ago!Staintons toy shop is now an estate agents.Both bakers shops as well as Pork Jims have gone now too!Time does not stand still does it?Shame. Davison's Pork Butcher Chain ceased trading during the 1970s. The manager at Farsley continued to run the shop as his own business, so he probably became "Pork Jim". Another Davison branch at Greengates, Bradford, continued in similar vein for some time, but it's likely that the supermarkets put both shops out of business within a few years.I remember all the shops in Farsley mentioned here, but I can't remember the name of the bakery at the end of New Street either. It carried an ad for Kunzle Cakes in its window. Next door, going downhill, was B. Procter, china and hardware, then Stainton's toys and babywear, set back a little from Town Street, then Clegg's newsagents and Lumby plumbers on the corner with Back Lane. A gent's hairdresser was on the opposite corner, then I think Davison Pork Butcher (Pork Jim?) came next. Can't remember what was next door - might have been Ernest Wilson (Wiltex) Ltd, then John S. Driver, groceries and provisions, then C. Proctor & Son, hardware (my godparents, shop, altho' Uncle Bill also ran a plumbing business), then Skelton drapers, another branch of John S. Driver, and the last building in the block was a bank, one of the forerunners of NatWest.On the opposite side, just above Lambert's garage was (working upwards) Charlie Hart, the chemist, then the Conservative Club, then Thomas's, toys and newsagents. Then the Post Office - one sub-postmaster there was convicted of fiddling the books - then another shop I simply can't recall, followed by a big branch of Jesse Stephenson, bakers, grocers and provisions. Then the New Inn and the Samuel Marsden memorial garden, then the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society, which brings us back to opposite the bakery at the junction with New Street, near to the Parish Church (vicar the Rev'd Clack).There were more shops lower down near the war memorial, and others tucked away in back streets. I remember that being sent on errands - my grandparents lived in Priestthorpe Road - could involve lengthy walks with quite a heavy basket to carry back. In an attempt to get back on topic, "Ah wah fair lathered" when I got back      Hi Uno Hoo and StutterdogI fear we Farsley-ites are taking over this thread.Lol. Maybe someone with magic power should take out our Farsley memories and put them on a thread of their own. I reckon it's starting to sound like "All our yesterdays" with Brian Inglis..Do you remember that prog?Uno Hoo, Where in Farsley do your auntie and uncle live? and...when did the sub post master scandal take place? Was it in the late 70's early 80's? I was reading up on Coal Hill Baptist Cemetery yesterday. I used to walk miles when I lived there and came across the cemetery quite by chance one afternoon. It was in such a state. I couldn't do much in the way of exploring as my eldest daughter was in a pushchair so I gave up on the idea. Did I read correctly that the graveyard is being sold? I think it's so wrong to do so. People paid to be buried there, the church were happy to take their money so the church should show respect. There are plenty of unemployed folk who I'm sure could lend a hand in tidying these areas....the folk in these old cemeteries are folk who helped make Leeds when all's said and done.    

[jdbythesea]

My late auntie (born 1899) used to describe her handbag contents and small portable personal belongings as "trantlements". She was from Hunslet as am I but I've not heard the word used in years.