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Piano and Herrings
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Extract from: Piano and Herrings by Bill Elliot
My father used to go crow starving up in Linford Wood when he was 7 years of age.
Years ago when the farmers had sown the corn up in the fields there were a lot of crows and they used to have these boys up the fields to keep yawking and shouting at them, walking across the fields to frighten them off; of course the crows used to pick the grain up off the ground. What they have now is a gun firing off every so often. In that period we used to have a winter and summer, we don't get that now.
My grandmother, I heard her say, used to have to cook my dad a roly-poly, jam up one end and meat the other end. He used to go to the house, if they were working near the farm, and ask for a basin of greens' water, and they'd put a bit of pepper and salt in it and they'd have that. It was that cold I've heard my father say he used to put the roly-poly under his arms with his hands in his pockets, and bite it.
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Milton Keynes Football Project
Funded by a 'Your Heritage' Lottery grant this project will collect personal testimonies, photographs and memorabilia to document the history of football in Milton Keynes over the last 100 years. The primary source material collected will be used to create a website, exhibition, book and digital stories. more |
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