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22 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 13:41
karlypants
Nat Lofthouse
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boltonbonce wrote:Or perhaps,karlypants wrote:
https://hongkonggourmet.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/creamy-knob-soup/
Sounds right up Nat's street that.
23 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 13:55
Sluffy
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wanderlust wrote:They literally grow on trees.Sluffy wrote:
Bay leaves certainly weren't free where I lived
You stupid or something?
Where I lived there were no tress, grass, lawns or even bubbling brooks!
I was brought up in the back to back terraced houses and cobbled streets, the front doors opened directly on to the street and the back yards flagged floored.
We lived in two up, to down, with an outside water closet, no on suite, not even a bath let alone bathroom!
Whole areas were demolished under slum developments, including mine - because they were slums - we lived there because that's all we could afford to live in - are you really so ignorant of the fact that people didn't cultivate bay leaves or pop to the shop for some peppercorns to put in their pepper mills???
That was the reality of life as I knew it and lived it.
Lucky you with your personal bay leaf tree!!!
25 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 14:07
Norpig
Nat Lofthouse
Is it just me thinking of the Hovis theme while reading Sluffys last post?
I think naughty Lusty is trying to wind you up Sluffy
I think naughty Lusty is trying to wind you up Sluffy
26 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 14:07
wanderlust
Nat Lofthouse
So now I'm posh because I had a neighbour with a bay tree in a container in his back yard next to his bog 60 odd years ago?Sluffy wrote:
You stupid or something?
Where I lived there were no tress, grass, lawns or even bubbling brooks!
I was brought up in the back to back terraced houses and cobbled streets, the front doors opened directly on to the street and the back yards flagged floored.
We lived in two up, to down, with an outside water closet, no on suite, not even a bath let alone bathroom!
Whole areas were demolished under slum developments, including mine - because they were slums - we lived there because that's all we could afford to live in - are you really so ignorant of the fact that people didn't cultivate bay leaves or pop to the shop for some peppercorns to put in their pepper mills???
That was the reality of life as I knew it and lived it.
Lucky you with your personal bay leaf tree!!!
Phenomenal.
TBF we did have running water in the house 15 years before my mate did so I must be posh. You can call me "sir".
27 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 14:09
wanderlust
Nat Lofthouse
So now I'm posh because I had a neighbour with a bay tree in a container in his back yard next to his bog 60 odd years ago?Sluffy wrote:
You stupid or something?
Where I lived there were no tress, grass, lawns or even bubbling brooks!
I was brought up in the back to back terraced houses and cobbled streets, the front doors opened directly on to the street and the back yards flagged floored.
We lived in two up, to down, with an outside water closet, no on suite, not even a bath let alone bathroom!
Whole areas were demolished under slum developments, including mine - because they were slums - we lived there because that's all we could afford to live in - are you really so ignorant of the fact that people didn't cultivate bay leaves or pop to the shop for some peppercorns to put in their pepper mills???
That was the reality of life as I knew it and lived it.
Lucky you with your personal bay leaf tree!!!
Phenomenal.
TBF we did have running water in the house 15 years before my mate did so I must be posh. You can call me "sir".
28 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 14:09
Natasha Whittam
Nat Lofthouse
Only Bonce & KP could turn a thread about soup into one about cocks.
Obsessed.
Obsessed.
29 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 14:13
karlypants
Nat Lofthouse
Posts : 38250
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Natasha Whittam wrote:Only Bonce & KP could turn a thread about soup into one about cocks.
Obsessed.
30 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 14:18
boltonbonce
Nat Lofthouse
My brother was a bed wetter, and his side of our bedroom had a tropical climate, where he grew his own pineapples. This helped offset the cost of replacing the wallpaper, which was constantly peeling off due to the steam.
He was also the only kid on the street with his own punkah wallah.
He was also the only kid on the street with his own punkah wallah.
31 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 14:52
Norpig
Nat Lofthouse
You've still not answered the burning question Nat
32 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 14:54
boltonbonce
Nat Lofthouse
Yes, we need to know.Norpig wrote:You've still not answered the burning question Nat
Home made, packet, or tin.
33 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 14:57
Sluffy
Admin
Norpig wrote:Is it just me thinking of the Hovis theme while reading Sluffys last post?
I think naughty Lusty is trying to wind you up Sluffy
The thing you need to realise with Wanderlust is that he is one of those people who believes he can never be wrong about anything.
He's arguing to defend his comments about bay leaves and peppercorns.
He's doing it so not to lose face rather than attempt to wind me up, although no doubt he will say otherwise - but that's his real reason.
Well good for him if his family was better of than mine, plenty were but my dad was a builder and when there was no work for him there was no money coming into the house - it was as stark as that.
Everybody were in exactly the same boat where we lived - otherwise they would have lived some place better!
Fwiw I've tried to find some pictures of my old street and found some from the area in Humphrey Spenders records 'Worktown' - Bolton in the 1930's
https://boltonworktown.co.uk/photograph/mossfield-mill
If you look in the comments people are talking about Leicester Street, etc, being demolished in the late 1960's one of the people talking about the shop that was there - that was our local corner shop - run by a Scottish couple Jim and Brenda Patterson!
My point being that thirty years after Spencer's pictures of 'old' Bolton, people like my family were still living in these houses built in the Victorian era!
I didn't know as a kid that we were poor, everybody were exactly the same where we lived and even when we caught the bus to visit family we travelled to other areas just the same as Daubhill and Orlando Bridge area, where GUS is now (that's if it still exists?).
It was only really when we were moved out to new council housing to allow the demolition of where we lived that I realised the difference in housing, the first time we had an indoor toilet, running hot water, an actual bath (we used to have a 'bath' by standing up besides the kitchen sink - and in winter we had to light the cookers gas rings to warm the kitchen up before we could even strip off for one!) and a bedroom I didn't have to share with anyone!
I'm not making out that I was hard done by or anything (like that famous Monty Python sketch) it was just how it was at the time.
I really enjoyed my childhood, I guess it helped form me into the person I am.
Going back to Wanderlust though, once you realise that he can't admit to being wrong then you can understand why he posts like he does, particularly to me.
34 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 15:05
boltonbonce
Nat Lofthouse
Work Town by David Hall is well worth the read, for anyone interested in the period.
35 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 15:08
Cajunboy
Frank Worthington
Very tasty.
It's not easy to find , even Ocado are unable to supply it.
36 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 15:18
wanderlust
Nat Lofthouse
Anything that's hot and filling?Norpig wrote:You've still not answered the burning question Nat
37 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 15:26
Norpig
Nat Lofthouse
My Mum grew up one of the streets around Gaskell street so not a million miles away from you on Vernon St Sluffy. My Granny worked at the big mill on Gaskell st for many years before she retired.
38 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 15:31
Norpig
Nat Lofthouse
I think my Mum grew up on Snowden Street? It rings a bell but could be wrong?
https://boltonworktown.co.uk/photograph/snowden-street
https://boltonworktown.co.uk/photograph/snowden-street
39 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 15:40
wanderlust
Nat Lofthouse
You know what I believe? Cool! I believe the word for someone who has that skill is a mentalist.Sluffy wrote:
The thing you need to realise with Wanderlust is that he is one of those people who believes he can never be wrong about anything.
So if you can read my mind as you claim, what am I thinking right now?
And now.
And now.....
mentalist1
/ˈmɛnt(ə)lɪst/
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a magician who performs feats that apparently demonstrate extraordinary mental powers, such as mind-reading.
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40 Re: What's your favourite soup? Tue Aug 04 2020, 15:46
Sluffy
Admin
Norpig wrote:My Mum grew up one of the streets around Gaskell street so not a million miles away from you on Vernon St Sluffy. My Granny worked at the big mill on Gaskell st for many years before she retired.
I went to nursery and junior school at Gaskell Street, County Primary School, Church of England, when it faced the big mill where your granny worked before the school was knocked down and rebuilt where it is now.
I was probably there at the same time your granny was across the road working in the mill!
That whole area from Gaskell Street (Chorley Old Road really) through to Halliwell Road and from Gaskell street across to Vernon Street was demolished as I was growing up.
You may want to ask your granny or mum if they remember the ginnel at the side of the mill running from Gaskell Street leading to Oxford Grove Park, which we used every week to walk from school to play either football or cricket on the playing fields.
I even remember once going into the lodge area at the side of the ginnel for an art lesson, to sketch it.
Didn't see any Bay Leaf trees though!
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