crazydave789 wrote: barm cakes were bigger like scotties.
Don't you mean stotties?
Scottie
Stottie
crazydave789 wrote: barm cakes were bigger like scotties.
gloomyandy wrote:I grew up in the E Mids (Notts/Derby border), in the 60s/70s it was always a croggy there! Ay'Up mate gis a croggy! Now living in W. Yorks and a mention of this to my cycling friends resulted in blank expressions!
thirdcrank wrote:It's interesting to read back over this thread on what should largely be a light-hearted if informative discussion. It gives some insight into the brexit thread.
gloomyandy wrote:I grew up in the E Mids (Notts/Derby border), in the 60s/70s it was always a croggy there! Ay'Up mate gis a croggy!
Mike Sales wrote:gloomyandy wrote:I grew up in the E Mids (Notts/Derby border), in the 60s/70s it was always a croggy there! Ay'Up mate gis a croggy!
I remember that line from my short childhood stay in Pinxton. It was a tough pit village for a boy straight from a remote Australian island. I had to fight. "Come on Australian youth. Bang his head on't wall."
I was giving a croggy to my cousin, just returned from Kenya, when a policeman stopped us. No doubt he heard our accents.
"Where are you from?" "Australia."
"Where are you from?"
"Africa."
"Well you can't do that here."
markjohnobrien wrote:
Great story: I know Pinxton and used to visit regularly.
Mike Sales wrote:markjohnobrien wrote:
Great story: I know Pinxton and used to visit regularly.
Thanks. I don't suppose you knew Johnny Moran's bike shop, on Wharf Road? Long gone. He was my grandfather.
markjohnobrien wrote:Mike Sales wrote:markjohnobrien wrote:
Great story: I know Pinxton and used to visit regularly.
Thanks. I don't suppose you knew Johnny Moran's bike shop, on Wharf Road? Long gone. He was my grandfather.
No, but my Grandad mentioned it a few times (he was a local cobbler from Langley Mill). Said it was a cracking shop.
9494arnold wrote:I'm with Lolly Kat on this one, it's a "Backie"
Was the Tandem a Triplet perchance?