@Kaytee posted:

Oh gawd The Corn Laws.....remembering suffering that for O level😬

I didn't do it at school, or if I did we must have just touched on it...I've since read up about it

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

yes same here

Blagged that one ....only thing I could remember was Free Trade so blathered on without a clue of what I should be talking about.......bit like some people today really😂😂❤️

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

I didn't do it at school, or if I did we must have just touched on it...I've since read up about it

Tbh Dame it bored me rigid back then....but most school did when I was 15😂

@Kaytee posted:

Blagged that one ....only thing I could remember was Free Trade so blathered on without a clue of what I should be talking about.......bit like some people today really😂😂❤️

@Kaytee posted:

Blagged that one ....only thing I could remember was Free Trade so blathered on without a clue of what I should be talking about.......bit like some people today really😂😂❤️

yes

Oh wow!

@Kaytee posted:

Tbh Dame it bored me rigid back then....but most school did when I was 15😂

I looked forward to History and English Lit, I would have happily done them for five days

And it’s still going strong

Here comes Marxism

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

I looked forward to History and English Lit, I would have happily done them for five days

Ditto Dame

Cheetham has changed so much hasn't it Ros

@Baz posted:

And it’s still going strong

yes

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

I looked forward to History and English Lit, I would have happily done them for five days

English Lit was fine, but we were doing all the political stuff 1812-1914....and it wasn't very inspiring

@Kaytee posted:

English Lit was fine, but we were doing all the political stuff 1812-1914....and it wasn't very inspiring

My friends great,great uncle was Engels😂

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

I liked French best of the lot though😂

@Kaytee posted:

My friends great,great uncle was Engels😂

What THE Engels ?

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

Cheetham has changed so much hasn't it Ros

TBH damee don't know it that well - I lived in Eccles but since I have left -loads of places around Manchester have become really fashionable and have been massively developed and  it has become quite expensive to live there

Gaskell

@Baz posted:

What THE Engels ?

Oh yes!.....the Real one😂

@Kaytee posted:

I liked French best of the lot though😂

yes I loved French

@Kaytee posted:

Oh yes!.....the Real one😂

wow

@Baz posted:

Gaskell

Got one of her books at O level too😬

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

TBH damee don't know it that well - I lived in Eccles but since I have left -loads of places around Manchester have become really fashionable and have been massively developed and has become quite expensive to live there

I always drove in Pendlebury, Cheetham Hill when travelling into Manchester. Cheetham Hill was full of warehouses selling goods at cost to shop owners...old buildings that have now disappeared and modern offices have replaced them.

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

wow

And my daughter's friend has Mary Wollstonecraft as her great great great something or other❤️

Yes, it was horrible what the enslaved people on the plantations went through

@Kaytee posted:

And my daughter's friend has Mary Wollstonecraft as her great great great something or other❤️

not a bad famous relation

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

I always drove in Pendlebury, Cheetham Hill when travelling into Manchester. Cheetham Hill was full of warehouses selling goods at cost to shop owners...old buildings that have now disappeared and modern offices have replaced them.

My Gran lived  near Pendlebury so know that well  - used  to get the bus near Pendlebury church when I visited on my own yes a lot of the old areas have developed dammeee

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

not a bad famous relation

no

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

My Gran lived  near Pendlebury so know that well  - used  to get the bus near Pendlebury church when I visited on my own yes a lot of the old areas have developed dammeee

Cheetam hill isn't far from it Ros, maybe five minutes by car

she reminds me of Susan Boyle

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

she reminds me of Susan Boyle

she does have a look

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

Cheetam hill isn't far from it Ros, maybe five minutes by car

yes been  sometimes when  quite young  and remember it as shabby and Shewd Hill was as well

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

she reminds me of Susan Boyle

It's the hair😂

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

she does have a look

@Kaytee posted:

It's the hair😂

yes

My dad was Tom King's half cousin....Tory MP and otherwise known as Lord King of Bridgewater....he didn't talk about him much

wow its amazing how so many people gathered in Hyde park

That's impressive. It really stands out on that wall

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

yes

Or very bad wig in her case😂