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My Great Aunt Agnes had gaslight for years - it made electric light look very harsh by comparison.

Her reason for sticking with it was that if the gas leaked, you could smell it, but if the electricity leaked, it could be all over the house before you knew about it .......

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Oh, Pendy.....my gran was like that, she had spare plugs in all the sockets so that the electricity couldn't escape......no amount of explanations from my dad would reassure her that it didn't do that. It makes me smile to think about it now.

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This is what my Dad would have said Staggers.
Wot dust tha mean.
Tha dunt ev ta speyk lik that.
Speyk propper.
When thas speykin t me.
Tha dunt ev ta gu or theer yon. T ged at it.
Just sit thi bottom on that cheer or theer.
If thas drippin wet get them clooas off an purem int back kitchen.
Get thi sel dried befoore tha catches tha death.
When we were sent to bed,we had to go up the airy mountens.
Some times they would be Dancers.
We had a guzzunder when me and my sister stopped at mi nans.
Why a guzzunder?
Because it gus under the bed of course.

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exactly....i understood your dad,,

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Our stairs were the jolly dancers - we were also told a lot to put th'wood in th'ole (or please shut the door to the uninitiated)

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I love the old dialect and I used to be able to write poems in it, but because you rarely hear it now I have lost the knack.

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my word did i laugh at that pendy :rofl38: but i too had grandparents who were worried that 'leccy would escape.

makes me think of when i lived in croft street (Neto there now) and playing with melted tar in the summer and mi ma saying "thi'll git mucky n' thi'll ned a b'th" :engsmil: :dummy:

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MARGARET, who was your uncle who worked at the gas board? I worked there fo 14 years, 1960-74.

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tha's nod as green as tha'art cabbage looking

thers nowt as griddle as wick

????????????

incidentally I am 28 and was in the new Accrington & Rossendale College construction building a few days ago and I remarked that I remember when this was all fields. I instantly felt octogenarian

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All the dilects are dying out which is a shame its part of our heritage. :(

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[
quote=cashman]pumee stoning the step was another.[/quote]


The Pumice stone was used for sloughing hard skin off the feet, I think you mean 'donkey stoning' the step.

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My dad worked on Croft St at the conveyor & elevator company, also wasn't there a tripe works at the end of the street?

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heres a wee bit of northern ireland hospitality !! hope its not to rude and its still in use today
"Man, he's a fuggen dickbax, no bones about it. I'd knack the ballbegs ballix in...."
Translates as: I'm not particularly fond of said person in question, but by jove, I'd hit him if I saw him.

if this posts controversial tell me quick and i will remove it ..also if it offends anyone ..

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No Geoff, if the auto censor doesn't slap you it's ok.;)

I'm sure I don't know what it means, I'll have to get a little Northern Ireland dictionary.:)

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Heres a word from the past, "Gradely", it was used in quite a few instances but loosely it meant good or something to be proud of as in "He's got himself a gradely car now instead of that old banger", or "About time tha got thi sel a gradely meal in thi".