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What Is a Donkey Stone? | Lancashire History & Mind The Trams
What is a donkey stone? Discover the Lancashire tradition of donkey-stoning doorsteps, its mill-town history and why it appears in Mind The Trams. What Is a Donkey Stone? A Lancashire Tradition If you grew up around the mill towns of Lancashire, the words donkey stone may immediately bring back memories of scrubbed front steps, terraced…
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THE ACCRINGTON HERALD
Accrington, Oswaldtwistle & District — 1939 LOCAL MAN TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO GIN **JIMMY’S STILL INTRODUCES GIN SPINNERS** “Spirit of the Mills” promises a rather different taste of Lancashire Residents of Oswaldtwistle who believed Jimmy’s activities with a whisky still represented the full extent of his ambitions may wish to reconsider. There is, apparently, gin…
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AT LAST! MRS LOCKWOOD REVEALS THE CHEESE PIE
MRS LOCKWOOD’S RECIPES LANCASHIRE CHEESE & ONION PIE “There are some recipes which do not require improving. They require making properly.” You Will Need For the filling For the pastry To finish Mrs Lockwood’s Method Begin with the onions. Melt the butter gently in a large pan, add the sliced onions and season with salt…
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THE ACCRINGTON HERALD
MRS LOCKWOOD’S RECIPES HOT CROSS BUNS From the fictional world of Mind The Trams HOT CROSS BUNS MRS LOCKWOOD INSISTS THERE IS STILL TIME TO MAKE THEM PROPERLY Fruit, spice, a good glaze and sufficient patience — Mrs Lockwood shares her method for one of the bakery’s most anticipated seasonal treats. There are certain things,…
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MRS LOCKWOOD’S RECIPES SPICE CAKE
MRS LOCKWOOD’S RECIPES SPICE CAKE From the fictional world of Mind The Trams SPICE CAKE “A proper cake for a proper table.” — Mrs Lockwood There are some cakes intended for decoration and others intended for eating. I have never understood why anybody would confuse the two. A good spice cake should be rich, well…
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THE ACCRINGTON HERALD NEW ACCRINGTON MUSICAL SONG REMEMBERS THE MEN WHO WERE BUILT LIKE THE TOWNS AROUND THEM
STONE FATHERS A powerful new song from Mind The Trams looks at Lancashire fathers, working lives and the emotions rarely spoken aloud They built walls from it. Houses. Mills. Chapels. Schools. Entire Lancashire towns rose from stone pulled from the ground beneath them. And sometimes, it seemed, the men were made from much the same…
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THE ACCRINGTON HERALD ACCRINGTON MUSICAL TURNS TO FATHERS, MEMORY AND THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY
MY FATHER’S SONG A deeply personal new number from Mind The Trams asks what remains of a father when only memories are left There are some conversations between fathers and sons that never quite happen. Not because there is nothing to say. Quite the opposite. Perhaps there is simply too much. “My Father’s Song,” from…
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A FINAL SUMMER JOURNEY INSPIRES NEW SONG FROM LANCASHIRE MUSICAL
LAST TRAM BEFORE SEPTEMBER THE ACCRINGTON HERALD A FINAL SUMMER JOURNEY INSPIRES NEW SONG FROM LANCASHIRE MUSICAL LAST TRAM BEFORE SEPTEMBER One ordinary journey through Oswaldtwistle becomes a farewell to the summer of 1939 Nobody thought to remember which tram it was. There was no reason to. It rattled along the familiar rails through Oswaldtwistle,…
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THE ACCRINGTON HERALD. ‘A COUPLE OF YOUR VERY BEST’ SERVES UP A GENEROUS HELPING OF LANCASHIRE HUMOUR
Friday, 12th July, 1939 ‘A COUPLE OF YOUR VERY BEST’ SERVES UP A GENEROUS HELPING OF LANCASHIRE HUMOUR Jerry’s cheerful new song proves that sometimes the most important decision of the day is which pie to choose There are men who enter a bakery knowing precisely what they want. Jerry is not one of them.…
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THE ACCRINGTON HERALD. Jean Harlow Red..
Friday, 28th June, 1939 ‘JEAN HARLOW RED’ BRINGS HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR TO OSWALDTWISTLE Nellie’s joyful new song proves every Lancashire girl deserves her moment to shine For one evening… The flour dust disappears. The work apron is folded away. And somewhere inside every ordinary girl lives a little bit of Hollywood. That is the inspiration behind…