Dreb48 Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 (edited) Hi hillsbro. Yes I'd agree that we were indeed privileged to get that level of education. I came, like you, from a working class background and was given the opportunity to really better myself. I think maybe you grasped it more than I, but I've always appreciated it. Unfortunately I realise now I'd forgotten that there were 4 Pecks in a Bushel, that 12 Sacks was a chaldron and 36 trusses of hay was a load. I now feel I've wasted the last 50 years of my life when I could have been using that information on a daily basis. Edited August 1, 2015 by Dreb48 Misprint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 ...I'd forgotten that there were 4 Pecks in a bushel...As late as the 1970s old Fred Croft, the builder in Dykes Hall Road (1900-1997) sold cement by the peck.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreb48 Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Just an afterthought but do they still teach kids ' 30 days hath September '? I noticed it was in a box in the corner along with the metric tables. That's learning by rote so surely that's not acceptable these days? If I didn't know that rhyme I wouldn't have a clue what day it was at month end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echo beach Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 As late as the 1970s old Fred Croft, the builder in Dykes Hall Road (1900-1997) sold cement by the peck.. Hillsbro are you sure it wasn't his accent or his dyslexia and he really meant "by the pack." echo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beechnut Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I also remember Croft's selling cement in pecks, probably in the 1960s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TORONTONY Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Today's kids reach for a calculator for the simplest of arithmetic, mind you I got better at maths when working out my tanner doubles and trebles in my head after I left school...LOL;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runningman Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Hillsbro, you are a hoarder of information supreme. Have you had your house and garage extended and bought a dozen filing cabinets to store everything ! Keep the information coming, this Forum wouldn't be the same without you !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Hi Runningman - well, it's nice to know that I'm appreciated! Mrs Hillsbro just thinks I'm a harmless old eccentric!. I do remember old Fred Croft selling cement in pecks (he had large bags of Ketton's cement and sold the stuff loose in smaller 'peck' bags). We lived two doors below his yard. Fred lived to the ripe old age of 97 and was still doing odd bits of slating in his late 70s. The business is now in the capable hands of his son and grandson who are real "chips off the old block"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handypandy Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I don't recall us ever having red exercise books in the 60's, maybe they were reserved for the posh schools Ours looked more like this Mock up. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreb48 Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 You're right handypandy. The school ones were mucky blue, green, brown or grey as I remember. You only had a red Silvine if you bought it yourself from Andrews ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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