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SylviaInCanada | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:58 |
one good thing about the town where I was born and raised was that we could be out on the Moors in less than 5 minutes walking from most parts. Then we moved to the outskirts of the town, and were on the edge of the Pennines ...... so easy to get to good clean air. |
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Barbra | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:51 |
I left Lancashire in 2007 moved to Scotland .when I go back it has changed so much not the Market town I was brought up in .more like a sm city buildings & more buildings. my late mum came from St Helens coal pit county ..when I go to visit there are houses were the pits used to be .that's up north .but I am farther North .fields mountains & lochs .beautiful scenery fresh air love it :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:06 |
I tried to goin adrift mine at Beamish once and that was pretty shameful. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 15 Aug 2015 22:01 |
I left the UK in 1967, Lancashire was full of black buildings, grimy and awful. |
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:59 |
Sharron you can look around without going down the mine! It's not that far from Ebbw,; you should stop for a while on your next trip |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:55 |
Oh no indeed! I haven't been to Big Pit. |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:40 |
We have a large field of cows just a few yards down the road and when it is warm and the wind is in the right direction it don't half pen and ink :-D :-D :-D :-D |
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:36 |
Sharron have you visited Big Pit? |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:36 |
My greatest memory of the hot summer of 1976 is of the smell of pig s*it. |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:32 |
:-D :-D :-D :-D. Sharron, one of the pleasures of living in the countryside where I do now. Didn't have the problem before 1969 when I moved up country from North London. Lots of different smells there and some of those were not very pleasant. ;-) :-D :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:30 |
I expect it was just one of those smells you didn't notice if it was there all the time. |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:10 |
I detest the smell of Sulphur. It does tend to hang in the air doesn't it. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 21:06 |
I think they must have a different way of heating the brick ovens because the sulphurous smell is certainly not there now. |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:58 |
Part of it is I believe, There are not many brickworks still in production around here now. My nearest one was Arlesey where they made the famous white clay bricks but that went long ago. |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:56 |
Is it still working? |
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LaGooner | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:54 |
I'm just south of Bedford :-D :-D :-D. And Stewartby Brickworks still looks the same |
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Gee | Report | 15 Aug 2015 20:05 |
Somewhere is north of Bedford! |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 19:38 |
That's right. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 Aug 2015 19:26 |
Bedford is not in the north of England !!! |
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Sharron | Report | 15 Aug 2015 18:56 |
But, some time in the seventies, the grime of the industrial revolution was removed from the buildings and it's underlying beauty was revealed. |