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The Lighter Side / Re: rag rugs
« on: Thursday 24 January 13 18:01 GMT (UK)  »
I was born in 1936 and still find the war-time 'waste not, want not' philosophy impossible to shake off.  When my youngest child outgrew clothes and there was no one to pass them on to I made them into peg rugs. (have to confess my children go boy, girl, boy, but they got hand-me-downs none the less!)
I get sacks from the pet shop.  Would recommend a large crochet hook works better for me than a latch hook.  I cut the clothes 1/2 inch wide and as long as possible, just pull a loop through from the back until you reach the end of the length.  I did 'flowers' (just blobs really) as you can do a different colour when you get bored.
I made one with old blanket dyed with blackberry juice, lovely natural shades of colour.
I have one from 1970 and still very good.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Just testing
« on: Thursday 03 January 13 12:53 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the support.  I'm doing exactly what I've done before but since Dec.  When I click on the  POST button either nothing happens or it deletes my message.  Now I've got the professional solution from my gdaughter which  is-  just click again on the button until it finally works!

Anne

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: 'Top of the Bill' ?
« on: Wednesday 02 January 13 13:37 GMT (UK)  »
Having probs posting again , so here goes.

Thanks Graham.  Will follow up your kind suggestions. 
As you may guess, I'm interested in the person -'bottom of the bill'.  My father's aunt "ran off" with her (big family scandal).  We've traced them through shows in Aus., N.Z., USA, etc.  Great Aunt died during this run at B'pool and her partner then disappears.  So I'm wondering how 'popular' she was at this point.  She was very 'big' in the 1920s.  I can't name names for protocol reasons.

Anne

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Family History Beginners Board / 'Top of the Bill' ?
« on: Tuesday 01 January 13 21:53 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking at a poster from Feldman's Theatre, Blackpool, 1938 as it has a connection with my family. ' Rockin' the Town, a merry, musical mirthquake in 18 scenes. Performances twice nightly at 6.20 and 8.45pm.' 13 Acts are named on the poster, from 'Pepino's Circus of performing dogs, ponies and monkeys' to stars of Musical Comedy.  I wonder if Rootschatters  can answer questions arising from this poster.?   1) Did each performance include an interval?  2) At what point did the 'Top of the Bill' appear?   3)  Why is the name at the bottom of the bill printed in lettering the same size as the 'Top of the Bill'  (other acts are smaller)?   4) In the pecking order was the  'bottom of the bill 'second to the' top of the bill' or had  he/she very little 'pulling power '?

A bit vague but I would appreciate any help.
Anne

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Family History Beginners Board / Just testing
« on: Tuesday 01 January 13 19:29 GMT (UK)  »
Having failed three times to post,  my grand daughter is giving me a demo.  Hoping this time I'm successful.  Sorry.
Ashgard

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The Common Room / Re: Pernicious Anaemia
« on: Friday 07 December 12 17:59 GMT (UK)  »
Don't know if this is of any help.  My grandmother (b.1886) was diagnosed with P.A. in 1950.  She was prescribed chopped, raw liver , which she ate mixed in salads.  She had a hard life, brought up six children and lived to be 83.  Though quite healthy she was always very pale.





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Lancashire / Re: Ruins and Romans, Fonts and Furrows. Anything Old in Lancashire
« on: Monday 27 February 12 11:35 GMT (UK)  »
That looks like a very good match.  I wonder why these two are quite shallow whereas the one at Slaidburn looks so deep.

I often fondly think of returning to live in the Ribble Valley, but was reading Country Life in the Dentist's waiting room and they had an article on ' Houses in and around Clitheroe', with prices!!!

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Lancashire / Re: Ruins and Romans, Fonts and Furrows. Anything Old in Lancashire
« on: Monday 20 February 12 17:54 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry about my intervention, which refers back to earlier posts.  Thanks, Maggie for your photos of Slaidburn Church font,. It doesn't look very like yours, unless yours has been more 'smoothed by an improver'! but at least I know now what was meant by a cylindrical font, I couldn't imagine what J. Lofthouse meant.

I don't know what counts as a long distance in terms of quarrying stone.  I suppose it depends if there is a nearer source or not.
Thanks
Anne

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Lancashire / Re: Ruins and Romans, Fonts and Furrows. Anything Old in Lancashire
« on: Monday 13 February 12 17:35 GMT (UK)  »
Following this thread from exile in Somerset and hoping I'm not adding something you all know.  Reading J. Lofthouse's  'Lancashire Countrygoer ', she says that Slaidburn Church has a cylindrical Norman font , smoothed' by an 'improver'.  Is that anything like yours, Maggie?  Also, same area,  (p.134) she mentions 3 types of building sone - gritstone, limestone and a rosy pink stone from quarries on Kitcham and Birkett.

p93 She has a picture of your beautiful farmhouse dated 1592.  It reminds me of an early home of the Peel family who moved from that area to Blackburn in 1640 and prospered from generation to generation, finally producing Robert  Peel as P.M. I wonder how much social mobility there was in the area.

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