A day aht ont’sharra ..

[hillsbro]

Is this the industrial estate on the left as you leave Maltby just after the old Maltby pit?. Aven Industrial Estate.

Yes, it could have been this industrial estate as the location is about where I remember it. Edited May 23, 2018 by hillsbro

[bullerboY]

It was where the Aven works is now in the war they made ammo and sten guns and other ordnance.Hemswell was once commanded by Guy Gibson In the cold war it held a very large stock of Hydrogen bombs.

[St Petre]

It was where the Aven works is now in the war they made ammo and sten guns and other ordnance.Hemswell was once commanded by Guy Gibson In the cold war it held a very large stock of Hydrogen bombs.

 

I think W.C. Guy Gibson at the 'Dam Buster' time was based at RAF Scampton (Lincolnshire), RAF Hemswell was a sort of 'back up' airbase. The outside scenes for the Dam Busters film were made at RAF Hemswell (near Gainsborough.

[soft ayperth]

It's not dialect, just an old word for a thing that doesn't exist anymore.

 

It's of French origin. Literally means a carriage with benches.

 

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/charabanc

[St Petre]

It's of French origin. Literally means a carriage with benches.

 

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/charabanc

 

Correct Mr. Ayperth.

[winks]

I remember going on day trips with 'The Steel' on Harborough Avenue. We used to get to the pub and there would about a dozen coaches lined up, Ron Haighs I think, or Haighys as my mum called them. We would be directed to our coach, though parents and grown ups had their own further do the line. We were given a brown wage packet with 10 bob [50p]. If we wanted to wee you had to ask the driver to stop somewere, usually near bushes. Then we would get to the stop off and wait for our mums, have a bottle of pop then all get on the coach to reach our destination, usually Cleethorpes. When we arrived we went went for fish and chips, bread and butter and a cup of tea. The rest of the afternoon was our own. At the set time we all piled back on, settled down and waited to get back to The Steel, where my dad would be waiting for us. They would go for a quick pint and bring me out a bag of crisps and a bottle of pop. Then off home to bed very happy, with a stck of rock and sand in our shoes and socks. Happy times.

[susie1]

It's not dialect, just an old word for a thing that doesn't exist anymore.

 

I agree “charabanc” isn’t dialect (it’s a French word) and is no longer in common use in English. However, the Sheffield corruption/abbreviation of “charabanc” ie “sharra”, surely is a dialect (a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group) word .......

[soft ayperth]

I wonder whether in the early days it ever was referred to as a "charabanc?" Like a "bus" used to be called an "omnibus?"

[susie1]

I wonder whether in the early days it ever was referred to as a "charabanc?" Like a "bus" used to be called an "omnibus?"

 

Sort of ..... they tried after a fashion; as well as “sharra”, people used to say “sharrabang” - at least, round the Holme Lane/Taplin Road area they did!

[Ms Interpret]

Ive just made a journey by bus from one end of the city to the other and quite enjoyed myself and it got me remembering for some reason holidays as a child to devon and norfolk when we didnt have a car and enjoying the day trips by coach to nearby places but especially enjoyed the "Evening Mystery Tour" where we all piled on a couach at 6pm not knowing where we going but it usually included the countryside a stop at a pub I suppose they were popular as not many people had cars in those days. I wonder if any companies still run tbese trips or are they assigned to history now ?