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KenCunningham
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columb said:
Aye petal, 'appen it does.
cresbydotcom
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- May 22, 2006
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a "Yankee Broomie" eh?
well, when I was in Wednesbury I lived just off Birmingham St and just to include the Tykes as well it was a street called York Crescent, right on the corner of the two. Neat coincidence eh?
But like you Mafusa - I excaped - and via many places (some even antipodean) landed in deepest Gloucs.
I even managed to write a magazine column on Folk music called - Glouc 'n Schpiel. I called it that because "Venues in Blue Jeans" was already taken.
well, when I was in Wednesbury I lived just off Birmingham St and just to include the Tykes as well it was a street called York Crescent, right on the corner of the two. Neat coincidence eh?
But like you Mafusa - I excaped - and via many places (some even antipodean) landed in deepest Gloucs.
I even managed to write a magazine column on Folk music called - Glouc 'n Schpiel. I called it that because "Venues in Blue Jeans" was already taken.
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SantaMufasa
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Cresby,
Actually, I know that area of Wednesbury...Doesn't that section of Birmingham Street stretch between Walsall Rd and Mill Street? Isn't there some big factory behind York Crescent (to the Southwest) just off Darlaston Road?
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Actually, I know that area of Wednesbury...Doesn't that section of Birmingham Street stretch between Walsall Rd and Mill Street? Isn't there some big factory behind York Crescent (to the Southwest) just off Darlaston Road?
Mufasa(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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cresbydotcom
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- May 22, 2006
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Mafusa
Oh! nostalgia - Yo' mean Wilkins and Mitchels - Service Washing Machines - made in Italy now.
Dunkums little factory & Corn St is now blocks of flats called Corns Passage.
B'ham St is blocked-off at Walsall Rd.
Hartsornes Lorry depot is still there but a dump now.
The Factory opposite York Crescent is more flats.
And, you know - each time I return, what I see most of is a film of dark dust everywhere. They say "Never go back" and that is why. It is so much better in the mind than in the filth of industria.
Is ther much sand in Sandy?
Oh! nostalgia - Yo' mean Wilkins and Mitchels - Service Washing Machines - made in Italy now.
Dunkums little factory & Corn St is now blocks of flats called Corns Passage.
B'ham St is blocked-off at Walsall Rd.
Hartsornes Lorry depot is still there but a dump now.
The Factory opposite York Crescent is more flats.
And, you know - each time I return, what I see most of is a film of dark dust everywhere. They say "Never go back" and that is why. It is so much better in the mind than in the filth of industria.
Is ther much sand in Sandy?
Not in Wednesbury but currently working in Staffs (Burton) with a whole bunch of Brummies, Am-Yams, Black Country Buglers and Covs.
Rgds, Geoff
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Rgds, Geoff
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colours but they all live in the same box.
Please read FAQ222-2244 before you ask a question
SantaMufasa
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Actually, Cresby, Sandy is rather sandy because anciently, most of Utah was covered by a massive inland sea called Lake Bonneville (LB). The Great Salt Lake (GSL) (and its tributary Lake Utah) are the remaining vestiges of LB, and at 1,700 sq. miles (75 miles long and 28 miles wide) GSL is 1/10th the size of its predecessor, LB. (You can still see Lake Bonneville's ancient shoreline, known now as "The Bench" rimming the base of our Wasatch mountains, at about the 150-meter level up from the valley floor.)
Sandy is at the mouth of the Little Cottonwood and Big Cottonwood Canyons and their creeks by the same name. Those creeks to this day drain those canyons where Alta, Snowbird, Brighton, and Solitude ski resorts reside and the creeks, over the eons, have deposited massive amounts of sand in "deltas" at the canyon mouths. Those deltas form plateaus upon which some of Sandy's ritzier homes are today. The geographical centre of Sandy, up until about a year ago, was a large commercial sand pit/gravel quarry. The owners sold the quarry and (following a massive public debate/battle/vote) is now transforming into a Wal-Mart/Lowe's shopping centre and upscale townhomes and condominiums...But most of Sandy is, as our name implies, built upon sand.
My neighborhood, however, is up on the bench and is called "Granite", for an equally appropriate reason. Some of the granite boulders in my garden are the size of Volkswagen Beetles and weight many tons. But the sand had to come from somewhere, didn't it?
Mufasa
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Sandy is at the mouth of the Little Cottonwood and Big Cottonwood Canyons and their creeks by the same name. Those creeks to this day drain those canyons where Alta, Snowbird, Brighton, and Solitude ski resorts reside and the creeks, over the eons, have deposited massive amounts of sand in "deltas" at the canyon mouths. Those deltas form plateaus upon which some of Sandy's ritzier homes are today. The geographical centre of Sandy, up until about a year ago, was a large commercial sand pit/gravel quarry. The owners sold the quarry and (following a massive public debate/battle/vote) is now transforming into a Wal-Mart/Lowe's shopping centre and upscale townhomes and condominiums...But most of Sandy is, as our name implies, built upon sand.
My neighborhood, however, is up on the bench and is called "Granite", for an equally appropriate reason. Some of the granite boulders in my garden are the size of Volkswagen Beetles and weight many tons. But the sand had to come from somewhere, didn't it?
Mufasa(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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cresbydotcom
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- May 22, 2006
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xlbo
Burton is surrounded by beatiful rural country - be greatful - Wednesbury is not. Oh! I can remember taking the pretty route to Grandparents past cows in fields, then when we moved to Walsall/West Brom. We had dairy farms nestling in corners - now just acres of brick or in one case the Aston Uni sports complex - brick with occasional green - rarely a bit of grass.
The biggest expanse of grass to be seen from the Yew Tree Estate is the canal embankment, mostly obscured by bits of the M5 & M6 motorways and the slip roads thereof.
You try telling young people what it was like back then ........................
Mafusa - is it true that the Snowbird flies backwards to keep the sand out of it's eyes?
Burton is surrounded by beatiful rural country - be greatful - Wednesbury is not. Oh! I can remember taking the pretty route to Grandparents past cows in fields, then when we moved to Walsall/West Brom. We had dairy farms nestling in corners - now just acres of brick or in one case the Aston Uni sports complex - brick with occasional green - rarely a bit of grass.
The biggest expanse of grass to be seen from the Yew Tree Estate is the canal embankment, mostly obscured by bits of the M5 & M6 motorways and the slip roads thereof.
You try telling young people what it was like back then ........................
Mafusa - is it true that the Snowbird flies backwards to keep the sand out of it's eyes?
SantaMufasa
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Yes, that sounds like an appropriate test for identifying Snowbirds. I also heard that you can identify an owl because, while flying, both of its wings go down at the same time.![[wink]](/data/assets/smilies/wink.gif "[wink] [wink]")
Mufasa
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Mufasa(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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cresbydotcom - it may be surrounded by countryside but it still smells of marmite !!
Rgds, Geoff
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colours but they all live in the same box.
Please read FAQ222-2244 before you ask a question
Rgds, Geoff
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colours but they all live in the same box.
Please read FAQ222-2244 before you ask a question
cresbydotcom
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- May 22, 2006
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xlbo
Well - you either love Burton or you hate it
Personally, Marmite is the one blotch on an otherwise perfect Stafordshire. The advertising slogan is wrong hate is too pretty a word - some people detest Marmite with a passion that would ........................... curdle Marstons Pedigree.
Well - you either love Burton or you hate it
Personally, Marmite is the one blotch on an otherwise perfect Stafordshire. The advertising slogan is wrong hate is too pretty a word - some people detest Marmite with a passion that would ........................... curdle Marstons Pedigree.
lol - don't mind marmite - it's just the smell that comes out when they are producing it that makes me want to hurl but mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...Pedigree 
Rgds, Geoff
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colours but they all live in the same box.
Please read FAQ222-2244 before you ask a question
Rgds, Geoff
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colours but they all live in the same box.
Please read FAQ222-2244 before you ask a question
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