From Christine Bate’s document titled Sadie Steel-Porter (no extension) Mother’s Family It’s time to write about mother’s family. Where shall I start? With her mother’s family , I think, because several unrelated stray thoughts have recently crossed my mind, probably precipitated by the book about Beatrix Potter that Nicholas and Gayle brought for me two ..
From Christine Bate’s document titled Other Sayings.doc Other Sayings Auntie Bessie: Whistling woman, crowing hen bodes no good for God nor men. A Rhyme to Say While Using Bellows – Blow blow blow the fire, puff puff puff, First you blow it gently then you blow it rough A coppy stool such as we had ..
From Christine Bate’s document titled Sadie’s Sayings.doc Sadie’s Sayings She’s like a hen with one chick. A large sewing needle “like a dyke stour”. Eat your (burnt) toast, it’ll make your hair curl. In two shakes of a lamb’s tail. It’ll be a pig’s foot in the morning. Draught like a stepmother’s breath Like a ..
From Christine Bate’s document titled Rotherham.doc ROTHERHAM The nearest town to Brinsworth is Rotherham, about 2 1/2 miles from Whitehill,. Rotherham is a very old town, in fact it has more of a history than Sheffield, the big city of South Yorkshire. The name has Norse origins and means “the town on the river Rother”. ..
From Christine Bate’s document titled William Porter.doc This is the story of William Henry Porter Childhood, early work history, World War I service, railway experiences, enjoyment of music, radio William Henry Porter, my father, was born in August 1900 and thus he was born during the reign of Queen Victoria who died in 1901. We ..
From Christine Bate’s document titled Yorkshire Saying.doc Yorkshire Sayings Yorkshire Sithee serra Nesh Mardy Clean and paid for, washed and cared for, if you don’t like it, what do you stare for? Go run up a shutter Go and boil your head Flitting Barmy Also: barm treacle causey causey edge (get a) coppit – get ..
From Christine Bate’s file titled Bob Barrie.rtf From: Christine Bate <batece@yahoo.com> Subject: Bob Date: January 15, 2015 at 3:09:24 PM PST To: “dhemer@shaw.ca” <dhemer@shaw.ca> Cc: Christine Bate <batece@yahoo.com> Hello Morag, Thank you for your prompt email. I have delayed a couple of days to give me time to think things over – old memories are ..
From Christine Bate’s document titled Woodhouse.doc THE WOODHOUSE YEARS Woodhouse Grammar School, the name evokes so many memories, but requires some explanation. To begin with it was a high school with students aged 11 through 18 and was a selective school entered either by winning a scholarship or by paying fees of £9 per year, ..
From Christine Bate’s document titled Geoff in WW2.doc Geoff’s War Experiences There was an article in the San Jose Mercury last week about Bob Burgess who was at school in England near St. Neot’s during WW II. His school was near an American Air Force Base. The article mentioned the ATC or Air Training Corps, saying that ..
From the document by Christine Bate titled Activities 1939.doc Activities 1939-45 Food Our activities were limited and changed from 1939 to 1945, although within that time span there were three different periods. The first was the “phony war” when there was not much enemy activity at home but big changes were made to equip us ..