Have you heard of these sayings ?

[willybite]

It's the only one I've ever heard of, grinder, but have no idea how or why it got the name. I'm not even sure if 'Docker' would be the correct spelling As we say 'Brocker Bank' instead of 'Brocco'? It might really be the Docco

 

In my later years I always wondered whether it was some Norse/Viking derivation of a place name?

 

hiya can't sa i remember rubydazzler but i do remember BOBBY DAZLER. as for going round the lump, this was used by us kids in 1948 when the london olympics were on the 100 yards was a straight piece of causey, the 200 yards were from the finish to the start of the 100 yards andback to the finish, the mile was once round the lump, 2 miles was twice round the lump and so on, we had long jump,high jump,and one of our own the standing long jump, we weren't ready for the longer races as the shorter ones took it out ar us the lump was thomas lane,on egerton street,up thomas street then on bath street,we were aroiund a day late with the results unless your family had a wireless then they say the good old days ??????? i remember too well i was 10 in 1948.

Edited July 4, 2010 by willybite

[rubydazzler]

T'Docker was a mound of shale like material which was heaped up to the left hand side of Carfield Road opposite Hides & Spears, I believe it was from the brick works but, I could be wrong. When we were kids we used to slide down it on tin trays but, we used to get really scruffy so it was no good lying to your mum about where you'd been.

The Docker was built on many years ago, there are several semis there now.

There was still a bit of it behind the houses. until a few years ago anyway although istr that a planning application was put in to build on it.

 

Any idea why it was called t'docker?

[DUFFEMS]

There was still a bit of it behind the houses. until a few years ago anyway although istr that a planning application was put in to build on it.

 

Any idea why it was called t'docker?

 

There was an explanation in an issue produced by the Heeley History Society but, I've mis-placed my copy. Something in the back of my mind says that it literally meant "to dock" , in this context it referred to the men who worked on the site where the material was produced, if they didn't produce a certain amount then their pay was "docked".

As a child I never questioned the name, it was something I walked past four times a day on my journey to and from Carfield School and occasionally "trassed dahn" on a tin tray.

I was surprised that houses were built on there, I think they were built late 60's/70's.

[pinkgirl]

My MIL says it (she lives here). I'd not heard of it in my part of the Midlands...we used to say a walk around the block.

 

My family including me have alaways said this too, my 12 year old daughter

took me the other day she had toom the dog rounfd the block:hihi:

[pinkgirl]

I remember my mum saying this to me when I was a kid and I say it now to my kids..

When asking "Whats for tea?" Mum and I say "A run round table and a bite off leg"

 

From my Mum if asked what was for tea ' a run round table and a kick at

the cellar door' lol

[Plain Talker]

From my Mum if asked what was for tea ' a run round table and a kick at

the cellar door' lol

 

that culinary delicacy was served frequently, chez talker... my mum was always using that one.

[Rivelin6]

From my Mum if asked what was for tea ' a run round table and a kick at

the cellar door' lol

Mine too,

[shanes teeth]

that culinary delicacy was served frequently, chez talker... my mum was always using that one.

 

But did you ever enjoy roast leg of liver or bread and scrape?

[grinder]

Speaking of food,

Any one remember pretty young ladies being refered to as "a nice bit of crackling"...

Edited June 29, 2010 by grinder

[Plain Talker]

But did you ever enjoy roast leg of liver or bread and scrape?

 

We had bread and scrape, but we didn't have "roast leg of liver".