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Topic Started: Dec 7 2009, 01:28 PM (578 Views)
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For those of you who haven't wandered across yet .. the dialect on the forum is also on the new website as well now.


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Hi All

I was handed an old ish paperback book today of local sayings here is an extrtact.

Extracts From a Book of Lancashire Nicknames and Sayings.
By Bob Dobson
1973


PILLING

There are no nicknames for Pilling or its inhabitants, but it is mentioned in several sayings and proverbs:—(a) Never done—like Pilling Moss. This perhaps alludes to the extent of the Mossiand, a large area of black peaty soil, or its continual movement, (b) God's Grace, like Pilling Moss, is endless, (c)—
Once a wood, then a sea, Now a moss, and e'er will be.
This rhyme tells of the natural changes that have taken place in Pilling over the years, caused by the incursions of the sea. T'Pilling Pig. This was the name that the locals gave to the little train which used to run from Knott End to Garstang. Many tales are told of its rural passengers and operators. See "Garstang and Knott End Railway Book" by Rush and Price, 1964. The stretch between Garstang and Pilling operated from 1870 to 1963, the stretch from Pilling to Knott End from 1908 to 1950. Another brief history is by Frank S. Walmesley in "The Railway Magazine" for December, 1959.


POULTON-LE-FYLDE

There are no nicknames applied to this township or its people, which was a thriving port and market town long before Fleetwood and Blackpool, its neighbours. The word is pronounced "Pooton" in the local dialect. Keep out of Hell and Poulton. This phrase was in common use last century when Poulton was a market town having many more public houses in the town centre than it has now. The people attending the cattle market would drink there, and become disorderly in the town afterwards. A similar phrase is quoted relating to "Hell, Hull and Halifax" in Yorkshire.

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Now that is the weirdest thing ever !!!!!!!!!

I had an email the other day and at the end the lady asked if I knew a relative called Bob Dobson .. ex -policeman, book dealer and local author. Today I went to the other lady who had the information on Thornton Police and she said you need to speak to Bob Dobson (ex-policeman). Now I come on here and you have a book by the man himself.

Very interesting but I refuse to believe that Poulton ever had any more pubs than it does now .. impossible ;)


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There are no nicknames for Pilling or its inhabitants


That is...none that the residents actually know about.
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