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[NGP]

Coal bunker.Outside box for puting coal in.

No coal bunkers seven floors up in a multi-storey Muirhouse flat! I believe the original bunker was a wooden board that went over the kitchen sink.

 

[Findlayhibby]

dreep doon,keep shottie,clackers,gie's a lift over mister.

 

[Findlayhibby]

'mind and take the stamp books,and if you cannae get a square pan get a half loaf'

 

[Doc Shrink]

No coal bunkers seven floors up in a multi-storey Muirhouse flat! I believe the original bunker was a wooden board that went over the kitchen sink.

Covered the mangle.

 

[HaarlemShuffler]

funny thing language eh next you'll be wondering where it came from after ye've established yer dialect boundaries

 

[joethehibby]

'mind and take the stamp books,and if you cannae get a square pan get a half loaf'

Aye and get me a thrppny single at the cafe

 

[joethehibby]

Aye and get me a thrppny single at the cafe

Sorry thruppny

 

[joethehibby]

This is a brilliant thread, who started it, oh

 

[joethehibby]

Ye want a thick ear ( before corporal punishment was outlawed)

 

[Peevemor]

Ye want a thick ear ( before corporal punishment was outlawed)

Or "I'll take my hand off your face!" As Billy Connolly said, it's the putting on at great speed that's the problem.

 

[joethehibby]

Or "I'll take my hand off your face!" As Billy Connolly said, it's the putting on at great speed that's the problem.

Think I’d prefer the thick ear, rugby players seem tae cope wi it

 

[WJC1848]

Covered the mangle.

Fir us, it wis the wringer.

 

[WJC1848]

'Peevers'?

Peevers wis "beds" fir us in Leith. An' evribuddy played it, lassies and laddies, intil that point in life whair us laddies thought it wisnae fir us anymair, an' so probably our furst taste o' bein' "macho" a wurd Ah didnae even ken existed at that time!

 

[hibbybilly]

My Kiwi daughter in law looked pretty puzzled when we told her not to put the big light on.

Stupid Kiwis.

Handy if you want a game of peevers though.

 

[hibbybilly]

Messages.
Only in Scotland is shopping described as messages.

The rations.

 

[hibbybilly]

No coal bunkers seven floors up in a multi-storey Muirhouse flat! I believe the original bunker was a wooden board that went over the kitchen sink.

Two Belfast sinks in my maws, with two metal uprights tae attach the wringer tae. And as you say ,a bunker put over one of the sinks when it wisnae in use.

 

[Doc Shrink]

Two Belfast sinks in my maws, with two metal uprights tae attach the wringer tae. And as you say ,a bunker put over one of the sinks when it wisnae in use.

Me too.

In the scullery.

 

[hibbybilly]

Me too.

In the scullery.

We were posh, called it the kitchen. Had a wee serving hatch between that and the dining part of the living room. Big fuck off table wi loads of chairs round it. @jadamson2704 ? Remember that ?

 

[Peevemor]

funny thing language eh next you'll be wondering where it came from after ye've established yer dialect boundaries

My mum was from Forres and my dad from the Dean Village. As I said we also had family in Kirkcudbright.

Different words & expressions from my childhood came from all these places as well as being specific to Edinburgh/SW Edinburgh.

I've always found it tremendously rich & fascinating. People here struggle to believe that different parts of Edinburgh have different dialects, and even moreso when you go a wee bit outside - Dalkeith, the Pans, etc. That just doesn't happen here.

 

[greencol]

Two Belfast sinks in my maws, with two metal uprights tae attach the wringer tae. And as you say ,a bunker put over one of the sinks when it wisnae in use.

Probably been a Tub & Sink. One deeper than the other.
The mangle hung, or was fixed to the end of the Tub( the deep fella).
Lugged many of them doon the stairs of tenements.
No wonder my back is playing up noo!

 

[hibbybilly]

Probably been a Tub & Sink. One deeper than the other.
The mangle hung, or was fixed to the end of the Tub( the deep fella).
Lugged many of them doon the stairs of tenements.
No wonder my back is playing up noo!

Aye that’s the one, (or two)

 

[joethehibby]

We were posh, called it the kitchen. Had a wee serving hatch between that and the dining part of the living room. Big fuck off table wi loads of chairs round it. @jadamson2704 ? Remember that ?

We called that hatch a bowly

 

[joethehibby]

We got a bath in the sink( obviosly when we were really wee

 

[joethehibby]

The lassies played pawldies ( hopscotch was the posh name )

 

[Doc Shrink]

Aye that’s the one, (or two)

Same.

Big deep one with clothes getting dragged up through the mangle and then hung on the pulley.

The origin of that common phrase "I havenae laughed as much since ma granny got her tits caught in the mangle".

 

[Spanish-hibs]

The guy who delivered our coal wore a donkey jakkit
Had leather or plastic patches on the shudders so the coal bags didny damage his coat

 

[joethehibby]

Same.

Big deep one with clothes getting dragged up through the mangle and then hung on the pulley.

The origin of that common phrase "I havenae laughed as much since ma granny got her tits caught in the mangle".

Beat me to it, you’ll no see that

 

[hibbybilly]

The guy who delivered our coal wore a donkey jakkit
Had leather or plastic patches on the shudders so the coal bags didny damage his coat

Done 2 days on the coal back in the day. Fuckin manky wi sare shudders for a few days. Good money though.

 

[Spanish-hibs]

Coal man whose name escapes me, I will mind later, went on to have the Newington Inn when Bestie was here.

 

[hibbybilly]

Coal man whose name escapes me, I will mind later, went on to have the Newington Inn when Bestie was here.

Jock?

 

[Forzahibs]

We got a bath in the sink( obviosly when we were really wee

I'm getting an image of old man Steptoe

 

[hibbybilly]

I'm getting an image of old man Steptoe

HAROOOOOOOOLLLLLLDDDDDDD

 

[joethehibby]

I'm getting an image of old man Steptoe

You talkin about ma grandad then

 

[jadamson2704]

We were posh, called it the kitchen. Had a wee serving hatch between that and the dining part of the living room. Big fuck off table wi loads of chairs round it. @jadamson2704 ? Remember that ?

I do indeed Billy, Mum still has it I think!

It was serious business when that table was extended for mair visitors

 

[Findlayhibby]

'It's oor shy!' 'digaholeandburrythum!'(bring it back please) 'tannerbaw player' 'he's got a heid like a thruppney!' 'erramacaroon bar a spearmint chewinggum a chewwits!' 'gerrintaethum!' (often seen in 'Fitba Crazy' by Gilzean in the 'Pink').'Georgie Best superstar! Walks like woman and he wears bra!''Says Bertie Mee to Bill Shankley 'Have you heard of the North Bank Highbury?' Shanks says'No I don't think so''But I've heard of the mental Hibees! 'we're the mental Hibees baby, we've got class!''Hiiibees ya bas!'.

 

[Doc Shrink]

'It's oor shy!' 'digaholeandburrythum!'(bring it back please) 'tannerbaw player' 'he's got a heid like a thruppney!' 'erramacaroon bar a spearmint chewinggum a chewwits!' 'gerrintaethum!' (often seen in 'Fitba Crazy' by Gilzean in the 'Pink').'Georgie Best superstar! Walks like woman and he wears bra!''Says Bertie Mee to Bill Shankley 'Have you heard of the North Bank Highbury?' Shanks says'No I don't think so''But I've heard of the mental Hibees! 'we're the mental Hibees baby, we've got class!''Hiiibees ya bas!'.

It was Bobby Moore no Georgie Best.

Fuck sake Moaty.

 

[Findlayhibby]

Was it?Oh well.

 

[1875]

Hoochin up the loaby = Dancing in the hall.

A slider. = A lovely ice cream and wafer concoction.

Peevers = poor kids hopscotch

 

[Findlayhibby]

Elastics. 'There's a Tarzan doon Craigy golf course'.

 

[Findlayhibby]

'Johnny and Alice up a tree''K.I.S.S.I.N.G.'.