Featured My Grandad's cupboard which he called a pastry table

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  1. daveydempsey

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    FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
    Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto
    SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
    Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
    You're right there, Obadiah
    FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
    Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
    FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
    In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea
    SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
    A cup o' cold tea
    FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
    Without milk or sugar
    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
    Or tea
    FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
    In a cracked cup, an' all
    FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
    Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper
    SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
    The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth
    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
    But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor
    FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
    Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son"
    FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
    Aye, 'e was right
    FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
    Aye, 'e was
    FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
    I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof
    SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
    House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling
    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
    Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
    FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
    Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh
    FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
    Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us
    SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
    We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake
    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
    You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road
    FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
    Cardboard box?
    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
    Aye
    FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
    You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt
    SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
    Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
    THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
    Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife
    FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
    Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah
    FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
    And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you
    ALL:
    They won't!
     
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  2. BoudiccaJones

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    ♬ ♬ ♬♪ ♪ ♪ ♬ ♬ ♬♪ ♪ ♪ **Now hands that do dishes can be soft as your face...with Mild Green...Fairy Liquidddddd ** ♬ ♬ ♬♪ ♪ ♬ ♬ ♬♪ ♪ ♪
    Mrs.B now that IS an earworm !    ​
     
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    That's gorgeous SIS,what a beautiful colour !!
    I LOVE THE ILLUSTRATION isn't that just a wonderful piece of history?
    Mine came out of here http://www.blackswancottage.co.uk/


    It had electricity but no hot water, no bathroom, no toilet...I LOVED IT <3

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    I'm not touching paint! Didn't mean to give the impression I was, I never would mess with this xxx

    Many thanks Brad and all xx
     
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  6. BoudiccaJones

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    Yes it's a castle...I was brought up in Hay,love the place.
    Richard B died last year which was a shame. He was what they call A Character

    As an aside, I used to go to Major Armstrong's old office,almost next door to my Gran's which was largely unchanged from his day, and my Gran n Grandad had his old intercom things which they told me they could hear ghost sounds in :O
    If anyone is interested here is the link to the old bad major
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Rowse_Armstrong
     
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  7. BoudiccaJones

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    ...and here is the man himself, best man who ever lived imo!! in the Top Room,makin' a noise!
    My G'dad <3
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  8. clutteredcloset49

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    Love it.
    Looks like so many areas around my house.:rolleyes:
     
    clutteredcloset49, May 4, 2020
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    Gotta say same here too xx
     
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  10. clutteredcloset49

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    @BoudiccaJones
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    Do you have a hard time looking at the remodeled rooms?
    I think I would.

    The people who bought my parent's property really changed it, and I don't think for the better. I have a hard time when I go back to the old neighborhood.
     
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  11. KSW

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    Small world. We used to live in Huntley and now in the Cotswolds. My memories of Hay on Wye are that it always took FAR longer to get there than we ever planned and also being rodeod around Hay on Wye showground on a naughty young horse at his first ever 'party' that he thought was wildly exciting:rolleyes:. Went there more recently and was disappointed there weren't more antiques shops just lots and lots of books. I know that's what it's famous for but.......
     
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    I hate to admit this,and if we were in real life I'd deny deny deny but I remember Hay well before the books. :O
    I also remember as a very young child April Ashley.
    For a little backwater, Hay has some stories xx

    The furthest away from Hay I have ever lived is twenty miles.

    My Uncle had a farm in the Mountains and he had horses ... they were Shires and when I saw a normal sized horse I WAS SHOOK...I thougt all horses were Shire sized :O     ​
     
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    Oh CC yes yes yes...it breaks my heart.
    I can't bear to look at what *they* have done. My Dad says they've also mooshed all the upstairs rooms into one :O
    it had a proper landing,three bedrooms and a teeny teeny little room with no windows. Now that's GONE :O
    It has hot water, toilet,bath now...just grateful my Gran n Grandad aren't here to see it.

    It's all different,all of it...imo it's ruined xx    ​
     
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    God I could cry (Who am I kidding? I do.) At the same time I am lucky I WAS there at all. The very last time I was there when I got my table ( but not the goddamned Rayburn) I whispered to the house please don't forget us. Tis only bricks n mortar. But such lovely bricks n mortar!
     
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  15. KSW

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    Probably best not to go back. I only need to get one whiff of Imperial Leather soap and I'm back in Bournemouth on the landing of my grandparents house. It wouldn't be their house without that smell!.
     
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    Just noticed my typo :hilarious:
     
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  17. BoudiccaJones

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    I try to not look when I go past it,but I haven't been for ages anyway, no car. xxx
     
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    Imperial Leather! TOTALLY get that...and Pears for me. My other Gran's place though not this one,no bath xx
     
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    I can't see one!
     
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    hahah this made me lol **THROUGH MY TEARS induced by the butchering of Le Swan :( **
     
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