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Post by cliff on Nov 20, 2007 12:13:49 GMT
Have checked my transmission. For some unknown reason my reference to a well known old fashioned made up meat item has had letters taken out with asterisks. Why?. I have not realised how P.C. we have become.
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Post by cliff on Nov 20, 2007 12:05:56 GMT
Well, Well,Well, At last some action on this site. Sweet shop. In my day it sold f*g**ts and peas, also genuine authentic polony sausages. Its owner was the J. CULL, with his name in gold letters over the door. On my last visit to Tetbury the name was still there. No need for a health inspector, everything in the shop was scrubbed white and had highly polished brass. Owner immaculate in white apron etc. Other sweet shops. There were two in Church Street. Mrs CLARK where you took your rabbit skins and received threepence each. She also sold one cigarette and a match, at that time a packet of Woodbines cost two pence halfpenny. The other one was owned by the PEGLER family, next door to their grocery shop. In my day Mrs PEGLER sold ginger beer in stoneware bottles, now seen in antique shops. Chip shop in West Street. Is there any one out there who remembers it? The side entrance to the White Hart ( I have an idea that it has an up dated/snooty title now) had a white deer on top. Can anyone re-call its nether regions being blue, and why they were ? Enough for now to start an interest in the Town from a few years back. Be pleased to hear from anyone.
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Post by cliff on Jan 23, 2008 10:35:22 GMT
Hi Normanspants, I guess the format has been changed some where along the line. Logged on hoping for page five of our usual seriously under- used, but came up with your page three. Not very revealing as one usually finds on a page three, but appreciated just the same. Back to the grindstone after Christmas/New Year break in Malta. Lhasa Fever!, I thought more like the "Black Death". I keep trying but no one wants to know about Tetbury. As a one time native, now returned, I guess you found that there was something about the place the still living ( ??) do not appreciate. Another of my school form fellows is considering returning on his full time retirement . Thank you for your help and encouragement during the low time that we experienced at the back end of last year. Would appreciate hearing from you at any time, but not in the open forum. I have E= contact with Monicamary. Wishing you and any other readers a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Cliff.
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Post by cliff on Feb 29, 2008 11:29:50 GMT
Hi John, I know your enquiry in respect of Anzac fliers has been here for quite a long time. I can remember that back in the 1940's my Grandmother used to cycle to Leighterton Church to place flowers on an Australian grave. I have no knowledge of the actual grave, but I should guess there are Church records that could be researched. From time to time, during WW2 she quite often received a food parcel from a family named GOLDING or GOULDING. I also remember her telling me little anecdotes of the Australians during WW1. I hope the above is of some help. Cliff B. Ex-Tetburian
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