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IMPORTANT PLEASE READ This website and forum has been living on borrowed web server time for years. At the end of this month silsden.net in it's present form will cease to exist, BUT there is a new silsden.net in the making, and a new forum, and lots of exciting new things coming to this space. Peter |
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| do-gooders |
this post has been edited 1 time(s) OWD SILSDEN Can tha rememba days goun by, when ivry summas day wor dry When all wih wore wer pumps n shorts, n trainers wor men not shoes ya bought. When Aprils days browt art the sun, an't tar in't gutters wod melt-n-run. Bouts-n-steerers, whips-n-tops, Cowboys-n-Indians, bandits-n-cops, Rallio, Releevo, Cargo, skooters, no cars an sich blowin thur ooters. Sledgin run darn lockers 'ill, wimmin ih clogs goin t'mill, a chap wih a powl, ivry neet, went round an lit ivry gas leet. Leonard Claughton who taught us all, fearsum fella, not reet tall lads ih one yard, lasses in t'other, wih nivva got to know each other. Fosters icecream, smooth n'creamy, summa days, hot-n-dreamy A pound cud buy enuff foh two, as long as tha wornt a hoyl in thi shoe an if thur wor, well off thard obble, ta owd Joe Berry ta get it cobbled. Holberts shop, near t'owd Punch Bowl, selled bacon, bacca, mattchis, n Swiss Rolls, parafin, turps, tin tacks n segs, cow ties, clothes lines, birds seeds, eggs. Wades gen'ral grocer, sugur ih blue bags, Harold allus smokin fags, ash oft fell off into t flower bin, nobody knew when he mixed it it. Owd Charlie Barber, get ya air cut thea, enta tremlin, full a fear eed snip away, nowt wud stop im, all wihd ev wvd bih a bit a toppin. Co-op ower-t-town, men in aprons, cotton, white with fringe at bottom. Blind Bella Barbers darn St Johns, sat art on-t-pavement all day long. Amos Cockshot ringin 'is bell, ee ed ta tell "Thurl bih turnin-t-watter off reight soo-in, an it weernt bih on till t-afernoe-in" Orse drawn bargis bringin coyl, cartid tan t mill tah mak t water boil John Spensa wih is greeangrocas cart, why dint taties all fall art? Think on t mills that we ed then, ah reckan thur musta bin nine-a-ten Fletchas, Dryvas, Ceeaychis, Knoxis, Wiilsans, Taylas, Greens n Stockis, wih all ed wark, life wur simple then, ah reckan thurl nivva cum agenn. One last thing ah ooapp at thar, can understan mih dialect nar. by E Bottomley Past resident of Silsden, West Yorkshire ____________________________ If you would like to see more of Edwin's poems: www.silsden.net/yorkshiredialect/edwin/index.htm Peter |
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| photoman |
Brilliant. Put that to music and go on Xfactor. |
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| paperclip |
Great poem which brings Owd Silsden to fizzing life even for a soft southern invader, living ont wrong side of by-pass. Read the others too! Is there a book of poems or a memoire about Edwin? Thanks for this interesting post Peter. It's a really refreshing change from recent war games. |
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