@JHCPAL

All things historical & geographical. Reads. Art. Words.Coal. Turnips. Kyes. Spelks.Percys. Pinnies. Jumps down some very niche NE 🐇🕳️. Shy bairns get nowt!

 N E England and the 'Ding
Joined June 2018
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I post NE dialect, history, old things & anything that interests me. I have eclectic tastes in art but especially like "northern, grim, industrial". I reply to much Brexit & women's rights though rarely post those here. Owner of a very dry sense of humour.
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Guinevere of Mason, Defender of the Spelk. retweeted
Cdr George Ericson
@CdrEricson1h
Flower class corvette HMS Anemone (K 48): Laid down at Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd. Blyth, England 26.10.39.
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Aha ! A top turnip carving tip..
Gavin McLelland@gmac700013h
Replying to @northumbriana
My mum had a spoon with a blade ground on the edge, made it easier but still remember it as hard work
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Exploding turnips ! That would indeed be a smell to remember.
Paul Lynch@pd_lynch13h
Replying to @northumbriana
I can still remember the smell from when the bigger boys asked to borrow mine to knock on a door for trick or treat, put a banger inside it & exploded it all over the street! I hadn't even knocked on a door. My poor mother had to carve out three for me and my two brothers too
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More turnip tips.
Jill Towers@jilltowers8h
Replying to @gardnerstuart39 @JHCPAL @northumbriana
We used matches to stand the candle up. 4 of them, stuck around the candle.
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Turnipy recollections.
Keith Nicholson (Keith E Babes)@FatPunter13h
Replying to @JHCPAL
We never had a turnip lantern back in the 1960s. Don't think our dad's wrists were up to it, but there was always one kid on the street who managed to have one, and he became the Halloween King. Parents also weren't keen on door knocking with said King "penny for Halloween"ing.
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Turnip carving tips.
TH@Trystanian10h
Replying to @JHCPAL @northumbriana
They're a bit easier to carve if you steam them for a bit first.
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Turniptober 26. Snaggie. More recollections of borrowing..... Does anyone live near a turnip field ? You will know if you do simply by the aroma. A lovely smell. I posted a picture of a turnip field in Devon last week.
Bronwyn Twizell@WitchesKitchen3h
Replying to @Catus14 @JHCPAL @northumbriana
This type of borrowing in Newbiggin was “snaggie raiding” conducted from Peacey’s field at Spital under legendary threat of his 12 bore shotgun Only the brave
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Guinevere of Mason, Defender of the Spelk. retweeted
Damian@bourdamo12h
Didn't expect such a response to my Newcastle posts, thanks for all the feedback and tips, it was an enjoyable weekend.
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Guinevere of Mason, Defender of the Spelk. retweeted
Damian@bourdamo20h
A few photos of Durham, charming little city, nice atmosphere.
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More turnipy recollections. First - the borrowing of turnips from a field in Dudley. Now - the borrowing of the church candles. A theme is emerging.....
Stuart Gardner Dosh@gardnerstuart3914h
Replying to @JHCPAL @northumbriana
Difficult to get a candle 🕯️ to stand up in them. Some years we had Holy turnips...candles from church. It's all tea lights in church now. Don't tell the pope it might be a sin... supposed to be for the lady altar not turnips 🫣
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Turnipy recollections.
Peter Hutchinson@Catus1414h
Replying to @JHCPAL @northumbriana
I'm delighted, for the sake of my hands, that my visiting grandchildren assume the only option is pumpkins. I can remember in the 50s "borrowing" turnips from the edge of the field in Dudley then sitting with my cousin on the step in Green Lane hacking at them for hours
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Turniptober 25. A fozy turnip is frost bitten & thus spongy. Also one which is overgrown and thus light & hollow sounding. Were often used as footballs ! Compare fozy.OED.Scottish & dialect. Spongy,loose textured. Unknown origin though Norwegian fos, spongy.
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A thread full of turnipy goodness. Do click through, there are some excellent snippets in it !
Back in Time West London@OldLondonW1424 Feb 2023
Time to dip into British turnip history. A thread on the turnip. In 1865 the pages of Bells Newspaper were full of top turnip advertisments.
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Arriving at Newcastle.
Cdr George Ericson
@CdrEricson19h
W (Flotilla leader) class destroyer HMS Kempenfelt (R 03) Lt.Cdr. James Bogue Marjoribanks, RN: Commissioned 25.10.43. Built by John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. Clydebank, Scotland. Seen arriving at Newcastle.
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Today's piece of turnipy information.
Scotland's Stories - Graeme@StoryScotlandOct 25
We don't carve pumpkins in Scotland, we carve neeps (turnips)!* I think they look far scarier and that's what they're for, to ward off bad spirits, keeping us safe with their light. *of course people do carve pumpkins too, but this is the real tradition.
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Guinevere of Mason, Defender of the Spelk. retweeted
The Tyne and Beyond@tyneandbeyond17h
cormorant riding the waves on the River Nith, Dumfries
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Guinevere of Mason, Defender of the Spelk. retweeted
The Daily Great War at Sea
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HMS Cornwallis' gun turrets under construction at Armstrong Works, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Guinevere of Mason, Defender of the Spelk. retweeted
Lois Zellas@LZellas19h
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPaper When my mam was evacuated to Carlisle during WW2, my grandad wrote to her regularly, always including little sketches and poems about their dog Tuggie. "For Hitler chased our bairns away Through evacuation..."
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I like a map .... Spuggy Watch. It may well become a thing !
Dr Cherry Picker@ScarecrowNeste118h
Replying to @FredTedOlga @JHCPAL @TyneSnapper
Here’s my map of Durham Tree Spuggies last Winter Lots of birds buck the national trends in the North East. (The situation won’t be as rosy in the most urban of our areas). We wud use Spuggies for House, Spugs for Tree.
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Guinevere of Mason, Defender of the Spelk. retweeted
Janis Blower@Just_JanisB23h
HMS Valerian had been built by the South Shields yard of Charles Rennoldson’s during the First World War. Among those lost in her sinking was 19-year-old Able Seaman Joseph Hudson of Berkeley Street, Jarrow.
The British Newspaper Archive@BNArchive23h
The Daily Mirror, 25 October 1926, reports on the 'feared death-roll of 80 in lost British warship,' as HMS Valerian sunk in a hurricane off the coast of Bermuda bit.ly/47hw8r5 #OTD #1926Newspapers
Sepia toned front page of the Daily Mirror, with news about the sinking of HMS Valerian. There are a range of photographs, from top left clockwise: HMS Valerian, Commander W.A. Usher of the Valerian, who was saved, Mr A.J. Cook, the miners' secretary, who had been banned from speaking, the harbour at Hamilton, Bermuda and the cruiser Calacutta, which was damaged during the storm.

ALT Sepia toned front page of the Daily Mirror, with news about the sinking of HMS Valerian. There are a range of photographs, from top left clockwise: HMS Valerian, Commander W.A. Usher of the Valerian, who was saved, Mr A.J. Cook, the miners' secretary, who had been banned from speaking, the harbour at Hamilton, Bermuda and the cruiser Calacutta, which was damaged during the storm.

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