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From: metaphor <>
Subject: [WAR] Re: WARWICK-D Digest V01 #100
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:35:14 +1030
In-Reply-To: <200102122050.f1CKo7D19114@lists5.rootsweb.com>


At 12:50 12/02/01 -0800, you wrote:
>WARWICK-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 100
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>Today's Topics:
> #1 Re: [WAR] SHIPS-[Robert & Gary] ["dean13.worldonline.co.uk"
> <alan@d]
> #2 [Fwd: Re: [WAR] Old Brummy sayings []
> #3 Re: [WAR] Old Brummy sayings : do []
> #4 [WAR] Face as long as Livery Stree []
> #5 Re: [WAR] Old Brummy sayings : do []
> #6 Re: [WAR] CENSUS [1861] ["David Obrey"
> <]
> #7 Re: [WAR] Old Brummy sayings : do ["Jan" <>]
> #8 Re: [WAR] Old Brummy sayings : do [Pandora
> <>]
> #9 Re: [WAR] Old Brummy sayings : do [nettie edwards
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>______________________________X-Message: #1
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:46:29 -0800
>From: "dean13.worldonline.co.uk" <>
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>Hello Jean
>Try joining the list below to find your ships (there is also a list call
>SHIPS
>but I have not got the email address)
>just send an email with the word subscribe their most helpful
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>All the best
>Alan Dean(Heath Hayes)
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>______________________________X-Message: #2
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:50:21 GMT
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>With regard to the saying "get out of the road" I've always understood it
>to mean "get out of the way".
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>Regards
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>Frances
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>Kenneth wrote:
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> > Following on the the 'long face' mesages, can List members explain these
>old
> > Birmingham sayings : remembered from my grandparents and parents days.
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> > 1) Mind the horse road
>??????
> > 2) Half a tick
>Very soon, no time at all, same as just a mo for wait a moment.
>
> > 3) Lets see about it then
>Think it over, don't be hasty.
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> > 4) Mouth like a parish oven
>Probably a gossip, mouth always open.
>
> > 5) All round the Wrekin
>Take the long way around, not come to the point.
>
> > 6) Well! I'll go to the foot of our stairs
>???????
> > 7) Keep you hair on
>Don't lose your temper, stay calm.
>
> > 8) Get out the road will you
>?????
>
> > 9) Time to get up the wooden stairs
>Bedtime.
>
>Brian Butler.
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>______________________________X-Message: #3
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:06:41 EST
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>Brummie sayings
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>1. I'll go to the foot of our stairs
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>Well I never (surprised)
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>2. Get out of the road
>Move or shift!
>
>How many can remember all the saying of "up the wooden hill?"
>
>Up the wooden hill to bedfordshire
>into sheet lane,
>down blanket square
>into the highest pillow and
>let's have a game of shut eye
>
>I know my children are grown up now, but I used to say this to them!
>
>Jackie
>Kidderminster, UK
>
>Researching MILLWARD, COTTERILL, OWEN (Coventry), COOK (Bristol &Taunton),
>GREGORY (London & Bristol), DUNMORE, LOWE
>
>______________________________X-Message: #4
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:18:05 EST
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>Subject: [WAR] Face as long as Livery Street
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>In a message dated 2/11/01 10:19:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
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> > And secondly, have many of you heard the saying
> > before?
> >
>
>Yup, my mom said that to me too....
>
>Georgina in Orange, Ca.
>
>______________________________X-Message: #5
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:29:19 EST
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>Subject: Re: [WAR] Old Brummy sayings : do you know them ?
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>In a message dated 2/12/01 6:13:21 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> writes:
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>
> > 1) Mind the horse road
> > 2) Half a tick
> > 3) Lets see about it then
> > 4) Mouth like a parish oven
> > 5) All round the Wrekin
> > 6) Well! I'll go to the foot of our stairs
> > 7) Keep you hair on
> > 8) Get out the road will you
> > 9) Time to get up the wooden stairs
> >
>
>1. Just to get out of the road ... the roads in the old days just
>had horses using them and it was called the 'orse-road
>2. Half a minute or wait a minute
>3. Let's see what we can do about it (the situation)
>4. I have not heard that one!
>5. The longest way round
>6. Just a saying like "well I'll be darned"
>7. Don't get mad, keep you wig on or your hair on
>8. Get out of the way
>9. Time to go to bed - the stairs were wooden ones in those days.
>
>Another addition:
>"Its like Clapham Junction" -- meaning its really busy with traffic or
>people. Clapham junction is in London.
>
>Georgina in Orange, Ca.
>
>______________________________X-Message: #6
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:39:54 -0000
>From: "David Obrey" <>
>To:
>Message-ID: <00bb01c0952d$413911e0$>
>Subject: Re: [WAR] CENSUS [1861]
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>look ups can also be very time consuming!
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Herbert Christopher Beresford" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:30 PM
>Subject: Re: [WAR] CENSUS [1861]
>
>
> > Jean,
> >
> > At 10am British Time on Saturday 10th February you ask for a lookup in the
> > 1861 census. Less than 24 hours later you ask why have you not had a
>reply.
> > The point is that very few people have got copies of this census at home.
> > Lookups are done at the record offices and libraries etc. These are all
> > closed on Sundays.
> >
> > Many of us have the 1881 census and 1851 census (for Devon, Norfolk and
> > Warwick) on CD but that is all.
> >
> > If you remain patient someone may be able to do the lookup as soon as
> > possible. I regret that I cannot help as rarely get to the record office
> > these days.
> >
> > Chris Beresford Birmingham UK.
> >
> > Researching Beresford at Morton Bagot 18th & 19th Century
> > Boswell, Lee Warwickshire 19th Century
> > Horton Birmingham 19th & 20th Century
> > Bunn at Knowle, Warwickshire 19th century.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: rolly or jean <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [WAR] CENSUS [1861]
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: rolly or jean <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 10:00 AM
> > > Subject: [WAR] CENSUS [1861]
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello one & all, could sks please look up 1861 census for Joseph& Mary
> > > Cooper [Harnell lane Coventry] & tell me names of children.Much
> > appreciated
> > > .
> > > > Jean from down under [nz]
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > > Hello again, doesn't ANYONE have access to the above. Jean
> > >
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>______________________________X-Message: #7
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:49:31 -0000
>From: "Jan" <>
>To:
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> > > 4) Mouth like a parish oven
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>yow got a big mouth <vbg>
>An oven to feed a whole parish would need to be very large!!!
>Nothing Personal:-)
>Also used to say "Mouth like the Mersey Tunnel"
>Jan in Birmingham
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>______________________________X-Message: #8
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:00:22 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Pandora <>
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>On 12 Feb, <> wrote:
> > 9) Time to get up the wooden stairs
>
>Up the wooden hill, I remember.
>
>--
>Chris Ramsbottom
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>______________________________X-Message: #9
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:41:32 +0000
>From: nettie edwards <>
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>"STOP PITHERING!!!!!!"
>as my nan used to say to my grandad!
>Nettie in Cheltenham


Hi Nettie,
I know that one too, also :

1)
What ya mitherings over ??
2)
What ya Mooching for !!

Oh yes there must be hundreds of them .

Margaret in South Australia .

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