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From: Wendy Leyland <>
Subject: Re: [ BRAD] Keighley Characters 4
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:09:30 -0800
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Thanks for these Jan . . . they're wonderful characters! I'm tempted
to adopt some or all, however must continue with my own elusive bunch
for now.

>More for the Listers who are interested.
>
>John KILROY
>Was an Irish navvy and a massive 6'5" tall. He had hands like shovels. Every
>now and then, after a heavy drinking bout, he would have to be restrained in
>a straightjacket - by at least half a dozen bobbies from 'Number one'
>(Devonshire St) as the local police station was known.
>
>'Tar Pan Joe' (ASHTON)
>worked on the tarpan boiler, which was puilled by a horse, when the
>Corporation men laid the roads with stone setts.He would fill in the cracks
>with hot tar from the spout of his tar bucket.
>
>'Ski' Milk Man
>Skim-milk or blue-milk had the cream taken away. The 'Ski' Milk Man had a
>hand cart made for the job, with two milk churns on it. He sold the skim-milk
>at about 1d per pint.
>
>'Old Nellie'
>was a peg seller, lived in Oliver's lodging-house with Abe MILNES, a stone
>sawyer. She had a gruff voice, much deeper than you could expect a woman ever
>to have.
>
>'Daddy' FEATHER
>had a pot/crockery shop on damside. He would auction dinner and tea services.
>He could pile almost a whole service between his fingers and chin. And if his
>price, was not reached, he would smash them against the wall. His wife was
>called 'Tapioca Semolina' FEATHER
>
>Billy FEATHER
>Used to sing in pubs. He was 'Daddy and 'Tapioca Semolia' FEATHER's son. He
>was going away to college and had a good education. But for whatever reason
>he was down on his uppers. Although he had a cleft palate he was a good
>singer. He would always end up singing 'Maquita'. He lived with 'Malizzie'
>(Mary Elizabeth) HALLIGAN in Eastwood Square. They would sing together.
>
>'Old Granny' HEAPS
>Lived on Damside. Whatever the weather, she would always sit outside on a
>little chair. All she lived on were cat's lights. No one ever knew how old
>she was. She said she remembered soldiers in the place called the 'Barracks'
>later knows as Ivy Place............
>
>Patsy COLLINS
>Had a peg leg. He would crack wooden doors and so on with his head for a bet,
>when he had been drinking. Once he cracked an old oven door with his head
>(which was shaped like and egg) He lived in the Workhouse.
>
>Any of you found your relatives yet????????

--
Wendy Leyland
Victoria, BC Canada

Researching - MOULSON, HARGREAVES, RYAN, HARON - Bradford, Yks.

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