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Don’t know what is happening but I have had to re register with RootsChat.
It says I must accept the privacy policy,but I have posted several times today without problems.
I have watched an excerpt from. Morecambe and Wise show and a couple of episodes of It ain’t Alf ot Mum.
And everything went wrong .
Seems O. K now .
Viktoria.
Oops gone funny again.

I was bought a reprint of a book of Lancashire dialect poetry for Christmas.
The poems in very heavy dialect are about the hard times in the cotton famine ,when Lancashire operatives did not want to work with cotton produced on slave plantations.
There were also blockades at ports ,but there was a  high degree of sacrifice
too.
I was speaking to the giver,when thanking them and mentioned a book about the subject,for the life of me I can’t remember the title.
A novel,but based on fact and at the front a copy of Abraham Lincoln’s letter to the people of Lancashire,thanking them for the great sacrifices they made.
One incident in the book stands out,a bigoted bible thumping preacher takes advantage of a young girl.
He starts buying up the little mills which were closing down and selling for very little money.
He takes advantage of this too,
However the young man who was in love with the girl,knows what has happened,and “fixes “the pressure gauge on a Lancashire boiler,very dangerous!
I won’t say more if anyone wants to read it.


Do any of you clever people recognise the book,and author as the person who gave me the poetry book is now very interested?
I would like to own a copy ,read it first in about 1976 but The Hungry Mills ,which may be the one,was not published until 1978 .
I bought a copy second hand at the Church book fair,but stupidly sent it back with some others I donated  time later.
However I copied the letter from Lincoln.
Any help much appreciated with many thanks in advance.
Hope everyone had a really nice day,just my son and lovely daughter in law
and myself,lots of family phone calls and I was only five minutes late with the food!
Cheerio.
Viktoria.

It was decided today that we ought to do something special to mark the 100 th anniversary.
We have been  asked to lend any material we have,photographs etc for two weeks.Medals etc will be put in the safe overnight.
I was seeking inspiration,we have a lovely stained glass window in memory of s young man aged 19 ,killed September 9th 1916,at Delville Wood
at the Southern end of the main site of the Somme,across the road to Albert.
He was Percy Turnbull, of the hereabouts well known family who were in business with Stockdales.
Turnbull and Stockdale.
Sadly gone the way of many textile firms.
We ought to get in touch if possible,I will have to look into that.

But any ideas,as yet we do not know what exactly there is to display.
I thought RootsChatters may have some brilliant ideas,they usually do.
Thanks in advance.

Viktoria.

Listening to BBC4 today some one spoke about how some people(and there has been a tread re getting children interested in History and how difficult it sometimes is for them to get a sense of time)just don`t have a sense of time and can`t relate to the past at all.
They told about conducting a group of,if not all Americans at least some in the group  being conducted around a stately home ,were.
The date the house was built,- 16th century -the portraits around the walls. many from the reign of Charles .1.etc .were all explained.
I think a plane flew overhead, ( I was busy in another room but could pretty well hear) and it was explained there was a nearby airport.
An American lady asked whatever possessed the owners to build so near the airport!
And we think little children find it hard .
I can remember my dad talking about life in the trenches, I had a vision of nice, straight, tidy ditches.No sense of the utter chaotic nature of those winding passages deep  in mud.


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My email address is now different but I still get messages to the previous one and none to the new one. How can I change this on RootsChat please ?   Viktoria..