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They might also have been pikies waiting for the new piping and rads to be insalled:D

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"3. Greyhound Inn, 45 Market St, Church. Built in the 1850's, with a number of typical victorian features, (note ashlar facade)"
Have put a photo on The Gallery

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Came across this...

THE HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDS,

From the Earliest Times to the Present Day.

BY JACOB LARWOOD, AND JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. 1866

'Lower down still in the sphere of callings and professions the signs will take us. At Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, we meet with the Tinker's Budget. The budget is the tinker's bag of instruments ; we see the word thus used in Handle Holme:* — "A Tinker with his budget on his back, having always in his mouth this merry cry : — ' Have you any work for a Tinker V " and Shakespeare, in the " Winter's Tale : —

"If tinkers may have leave to live And bear the sowskin bitdget,"

This inn, then, is certainly very modest in its pretensions.'

http://www.archive.org/stream/cu3192...96556_djvu.txt

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Hello John how you doing

are you guys still on about pubs in ossy yet --FOXHILL-- is now open also the Tinker they have done a nice Job of the FOXHILL

Mick.

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A lot of pubs and clubs have shut because of the smokeing ban thats what i think.

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Maybe it's time for the new government to revoked the smoking ban.. it would be easy for them to do it because it would not need a vote in parliment.