Lancs/Yorks old sayings

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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by Lord Beamish » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:13 am

Go play 'round yer own end!
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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by Paranoid » Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:29 pm

Muck or Nettles
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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by Chobulous » Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:00 pm

Jack Moor's monkey. Every Easter there was a sort of fete at Pendle Bottoms, which was at the bottom of Greenhead Lane. Apparently, though I never saw it, the old farmer there (Jack Moor presumably) had a monkey in a cage that people could go and look at.
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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by Chobulous » Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:02 pm

RingoMcCartney wrote:We sat on a form having a camp.
My mum, who is now well into her late 80s still calls a park bench a form. Also calls a clothes dryer a maiden.
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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by Paranoid » Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:43 pm

I'll go t'foot of our stairs
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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by 9thMay1987 » Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:47 pm

Kaffling
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Re: Lancs/Yorks old sayings

Post by Claret&Green » Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:35 pm

We're ya born in't' barn
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