skipper

the piano in the stairwell!!.

FormerMember

My mother had few bad habits, but one of her pleasures was to visit the local saleroom

Here she would buy all sorts of objects large and small, there didn’t seem to be any logic in her choice but we were always assured when the horse drawn wagon arrived outside the house that this latest load of acquisitions was much better and in a much better condition than the last lot

Her treasures were always delivered…
- 14 Oct 2009
yellow stone steps and red draws 3

FormerMember

of nine to about twelve, every Tuesday and Saturday I had to Yellow Stone Grandma’s steps.

I don’t know where the idea of “yellow stoning” steps came from but I often wished it far enough away. However it was done it left your hands a nasty pale yellow.

The “Yellow Stone” was a brick made of a yellow stone material which was soluble in water and to yellow stone a step it had to be soaked in a…
- 2 Oct 2009
where did it all go 2

FormerMember

Well I got to know that silver cross pram quite well over the next two years sometimes I had to share Top to Toe with a later addition of mothers team but it was a tank of a pram built to last one hundred years; or fifty kids!, whichever the sooner. It once saved my life when the brakes disengaged at the top of Castlegate and it went charging down this one in five cobblestoned hill towards the seafront. It never negotiated…
- 2 Oct 2009
where has it all gone 1

FormerMember

I suppose I had better write something of me so here goes

I was born very young; in fact it took me a year to get a number because until you have had twelve months you’re not even one. So I started with Nowt

Launch day was January 8 1936. at 12 noon exactly, I was launched by my aunty Jill who was married to a sheep farmer in the dales and used to come over whenever mother was “having her time”, Mother had…
- 2 Oct 2009
thats all for now folks

FormerMember

guess that will keep you going for a while

skipper/pete
- 2 Oct 2009

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the piano in the stairwell!!.

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thats all for now folks