No cars and Joe’s shop in the background
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Put the date in your diary Saturday 6th December! £10 a ticket! Welcome to Captain Fantastic! – The UK’s Premier Elton John Tribute show. This 90 minute show takes you through most of Elton’s early hits including Your Song, Daniel, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road to the present day. Every show comes complete with a…
Good Neighbour Schemes. The Community Council, with the support of Staffordshire County Council, has been involved over the past 12 months in a project seeking to address the issue of isolation and loneliness, often experienced by elderly, disabled or vulnerable people. This is a pilot project helping 6 local communities scattered around the county to…
This year (2014) is obviously 100 years since the start of what some people call World War One (WW1) but is officially termed “The Great War”. It was called the Great War because this type and scale of utter and total devastation had never been seen before and indeed not since. It changed the way…
Just who is this lovely little boy? leave a message if you think you know the answer! For those of you that need a clue …..He didn’t look very happy then but now he has a smile on his…
Narthen summats cheenged dine bruke. In tarms gunbye childer wudsken fur bullnoggers frumunder evry stoon. Dust Ayer siree the wun oo ower theplice. Theecust cetch afeadozin in afanhoor, butnar thees nowt, not a one in fact the custsee itsjed. If you can understand the above you must be a Brine Edger. Perhaps…
So are you in the Brown Edge Tree? I was once talking to Harvey Durber when he accosted someone walking past and said “Ado ooat at a strug?” Once the unidentified person had worked out what he meant, she said that she was a newcomer on to the village. A sharp intake of breath from Harvey followed by “Thee tad better watch ite who they speykst to up ayare the knowst. Dunner towk ill abite anywun. Thee tarow inbreds! Well my research has confirmed this! Odds…
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This is a photograph of the victorious Smallthorne and District Darts League who had competed in The People Darts League Championship Held at Rugby in the early 1950’s.
Mr Alan Hayes pointed out the lucky mascots worn by the players that were made by Mrs Burrows
We all probably use them but local sayings contain a wealth of history. For example “She has more faces than Bucks clock” You need to know that this relates to Bucks Jewlers (now closed) and that it had a clock on the ourside of the building with two faces. I am told that inside the…
Over the years I have collected many dialect words but others keep popping up from time to time. Most of these words (around here) seem have Saxon meanings and are classed as Old English. If you can think of any words please take the time to record them by clicking on this article and adding…
This year (2014) is obviously 100 years since the start of what some people call World War One (WW1) but is officially termed “The Great War”. It was called the Great War because this type and scale of utter and total devastation had never been seen before and indeed not since. It changed the way we fought wars, lived our peace, and thought about each other. When the war started people said “It would all be over before Christmas” and joined up, as in previous wars, in groups…