Red brick streets.

Tiff · Post by **Tiff** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:39 am

only seen cobbles near me (well near my actual home rather than my uni home)...theres a cobbled street not far from me on gold hill...you might have seen, they filmed the hovis advert there ages ago...the one with the kid and the bycycle...

the rest is just little country lanes!

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:46 am

Eee, lass, tha mentionin' t'Hovis ad reminds me o' when I lived oop north an' when I'd ter walk 41 mile ter t'pit an' back on just one slice o' bread an' marge...

Steve

Tiff · Post by **Tiff** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:49 am

no jam?

same accent as me mum, shes from uup t'north as well

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:55 am

Jam? Jam?? Eee, by gum lass, we weren't blummin' middle class tha knows!

Steve

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:49 pm

SteveShaw wrote:Jam? Jam?? Eee, by gum lass, we weren't blummin' middle class tha knows!

Steve

Jam?? Marge?? Luxury! We thoght ourselves lucky with a few spots of drippin' on a mouldy damper!

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:56 pm

The town I used to live in in Central Illinois had a lot of side streets that were brick - they were just really old, not kept up, and in bad shape. I wasn't old enough to drive then, but just riding your bike over them could be hazardous.

The town I live in now has a brick street for the couple of blocks of downtown. It's been that way forever. A few years ago they had to dig up main street downtown for new water/sewer lines and they were going to replace the brick - so much of the brick disintigrated when they dug it up they only had enough for 1/2 block or so with the old brick and the other 2 1/2 blocks had to have new bricks used. You can really tell the difference between the old and new brick.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:03 pm

Mitch wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:Jam? Jam?? Eee, by gum lass, we weren't blummin' middle class tha knows!

Steve
Jam?? Marge?? Luxury! We thoght ourselves lucky with a few spots of drippin' on a mouldy damper!

Drippin'? You were LUCKY! Only drippin' we ever got were from bloody mizzle drippin' in through th'oles in t'roof!

Steve

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:05 pm

Mitch wrote:Jam?? Marge?? Luxury! We thought ourselves lucky with a few spots of drippin' on a mouldy damper!

Right. I had to get up in the mornin' at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, oor Da would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.

djm

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:49 pm

djm wrote:
Mitch wrote:Jam?? Marge?? Luxury! We thuoght ourselves lucky with a few spots of drippin' on a mouldy damper!
Right. I had to get up in the mornin' at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, oor Da would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.

djm

Course, we 'ad it tough...

Steve

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:26 pm

SteveShaw wrote:
Mitch wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:Jam? Jam?? Eee, by gum lass, we weren't blummin' middle class tha knows!

Steve
Jam?? Marge?? Luxury! We thoght ourselves lucky with a few spots of drippin' on a mouldy damper!
Drippin'? You were LUCKY! Only drippin' we ever got were from bloody mizzle drippin' in through th'oles in t'roof!

Steve

Arrr! T'roof ya had was ee? All we 'ad were a few sheets o' cardboard! For all 10 of us! An' when t'damper ran oot it was 3 bits o warm gravel then off n t'mill 80 miles away workin' 16 hours a day for only thrupence ha'peny.

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:33 pm

SteveShaw wrote:
djm wrote:
Mitch wrote:Jam?? Marge?? Luxury! We thuoght ourselves lucky with a few spots of drippin' on a mouldy damper!
Right. I had to get up in the mornin' at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, oor Da would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.

djm
Course, we 'ad it tough...

Steve

Arrr.

135 of us in shoe box in mddle o t'road. Evrey morning ad t get up, lick road clean wi tongue then off t'mill fer a good 35 hour day fer a wack in the cods wi a stick on a good day!

Young people o today'd never believe it t's'true. Some more Chateaux old boy?

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:55 pm

Mitch wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:
djm wrote: Right. I had to get up in the mornin' at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, oor Da would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.

djm
Course, we 'ad it tough...

Steve
Arrr.

135 of us in shoe box in mddle o t'road. Evrey morning ad t get up, lick road clean wi tongue then off t'mill fer a good 35 hour day fer a wack in the cods wi a stick on a good day!

Young people o today'd never believe it t's'true. Some more Chateaux old boy?

There was on old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly
And put them to bed.

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:04 am

Walden wrote:
Mitch wrote:
SteveShaw wrote: Course, we 'ad it tough...

Steve
Arrr.

135 of us in shoe box in mddle o t'road. Evrey morning ad t get up, lick road clean wi tongue then off t'mill fer a good 35 hour day fer a wack in the cods wi a stick on a good day!

Young people o today'd never believe it t's'true. Some more Chateaux old boy?
There was on old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly
And put them to bed.

Ay, our ma were kindly ol' thing

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:18 am

Walden wrote:There was on old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly
And put them to bed.

Shoe? Broth?? Bed??? By the livin' 'arry, yer didn't ruddy know you were born! We 'ad to sleep in rolled-up newspaper in t'septic tank, and we'd get 'alf a stale sugar butty to eat once a month IF WE WERE LUCKY!

Steve

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:33 pm

I think just about every little town in eastern Kansas had at least one brick factory at around the start of the 20th century, probably because that shale clay down by the river makes good bricks. Some towns had several. Coffeyville (Walden and other Oklahoma members probably know where that is even if the rest of you don't) had four brick plants turning out 3/4 million bricks a day in the 19002. If you are in the Midwest and have truly old brick streets, you can probably find Coffeyville bricks.

Kansas brick companies also turned out these --

Don't Spit on the Sidewalk Brick, Kansas Museum of History

The Kansas School Board recently voted that these bricks are the result of intelligent design, although there's really been no indication anyone ever thought otherwise.