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Story of Hobble End Cottages
Frosty weather glistens inside, a fridge you could compare, Roof half filled with starling's nests, built up over the years. In one of our farthest fields, situated about a mile east of the village was a pair of cottages known as Hobble End. There...
The Home Guard Contraband (1945 ish)
The railway "lengths men" were a gang of about six men who maintained the railway tracks and fences on their length between half way to Stafford and half way to Norton Bridge based at Great Bridgeford. Father got to know them well as they were...
The War-Ag had a stock of arable machinery.
Most tractors ran on petrol (gas), or started on petrol and run on TVO vaporizing oil (kerosene) War time restrictions During the second world war , everyone suffered in some way or other, what with the food rationing , restrictions on fuel and most of...
The Bacon Rashers were 50/50 Fat and Lean
Flitch of Bacon Pair of hams We watched all this when we were kids, fingers in our ears, Then bang the butcher shot him, and cut its throat mid tears, Every house and cottage in the village had a pig sty, and the farms had three or four sty's where...
This is a follow on to the thread "Trotters"
We watched when we were kids, fingers in our ears, Then bang the butcher shot him, cut its throat mid tears, I never knew who owned the pig bench but it went round all the village to who ever had got a pig ready for killing. I Remember Killing the Pig...