THE FLATLEY DRYER

[plaques]

what we need is..

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[Stanley]

I remember it well Ken, my favourite drink in the Craven Heifer, a Massey's pub, was a Black and Tan with Milk Stout and bitter. Massey's Milk Stout was very smooth, much smoother than the leading bottled stout Mackeson's.
But there was a problem, I started getting carbuncles and Mother Hanson at Moorcock Farm cured me eventually but told me that the cause was too much stout and advised me to have a King's Ale with my bitter instead of the stout. Here's a bit from me memoirs about it. Flatley Dryer country!
"I'm sure a modern doctor will read this with horror, what Mother Hanson had used was actually Diatherm, made by Day and Sons at Crewe it was a well known treatment for lesions on horses legs. Driffield Oils was an old remedy made by Charles Marginson Ltd. I don't argue with doctors but all I can say is that Mrs Hanson prevailed when all the antibiotics and modern treatments had failed. Do you see now why I can identify a link between her and the medieval healers who were the victims of the Witch Craze of the 17th century?"

[Stanley]

Two things about this old Atco advertisement.... Lawn mowing has changed completely. The old Atco is definitely Flatley Dryer and would we really have such a sexist advert?

[Tizer]

I can hear Eric Morecambe saying `Hey Ernie, why's that funny fella wearing strange overalls?'

[Stanley]

I did a search for modern sexist advertisements and guess what I found....



I was wrong, sexist advertisements are alive and well.

[Wendyf]

That's quite disturbing but from the 1970s surely?

[Tizer]

Yes, it does look 70s-ish, but a couple of years ago we saw one, I think it was for the Peloton exercise bike...here's a Guardian article about it: `Peloton loses $1.5bn in value over 'dystopian, sexist' exercise bike ad' LINK

[Stanley]

They're still about. Here's one the government posted and was forced to take down as it was dxeemed sexist.

[Tizer]

Strange. Not only sexist (wife having to do all the work in the house) but it seems to miss the point if the husband isn't shown staying home too.

[Whyperion]

In the modern day the wives work in the office, the men on the roads and building sites and drive the buses ?

[plaques]

Here is a page from a 1890's Burnley church monthly magazine. Actually the Holy Trinity (now closed) at the Mitre, Padiham Rd.
some interesting things for sale. I'll bet I know which wil attract the most attention from you morbid lot.

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[Stanley]

Obviously Holland's Tripe....
But you are referring to the shroud maker aren't you. Interesting because this was in the days of the family laying the body out at home, funeral directors were only just being invented so there would be a local demand for shrouds.
Notice 'patent and German yeast merchant'... I'll bet there's an interesting story behind that trade.

[Tizer]

I had to look up bassinette.

[PanBiker]

I had to look up bassinette.

None of that fancy nonsense for me. I was in the bottom drawer of a chest of drawers in Mum and Dads bedroom.

[Stanley]

You live and learn... After Ian's remark I looked it up and found I have been mistaken all my adult life. I thought it was a posh name for a pram!

[Tripps]

I thought it was a posh name for a pram!

So did I. Still not 100 % convinced that it isn't.

Brought to mind the use Tan Sad of as a name for a pram. heard it spoken once in Wigan, in the 1970's.

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We just called it a pram, then on to the trolley, which became a buggy, or perhaps a stroller.

[Cathy]

The old style bassinets were just like Moses baskets really, and to think that parents would just pop them on the back of the car.
This is without seat belts and before we had today’s connected baby capsules in cars.

[plaques]

This was a 1890s advert before cars were invented but long after babies came on the scene. I've seen rocking cradles being used but surprised to see such a bespoke item being advertised in such a poor area as Padiham Rd / Whittlefield

[Stanley]

A very early folding Victorian travel cot with rockers. Well in front of its time but even so, Flatley Dryer country.

[Tizer]

When there were no babies you could keep your newspapers and magazines in it!

[Tripps]

Then it would be a Canterbury, which is what I thought it was at first.

[Stanley]

I had a furtle for vintage prams and found this, the Osnath, made in Warrington. This is an early model, c.1930. Later models post war were very similar to Silver Cross and Pedigree and very high quality. Funny thing is I had never heard of them.

[Stanley]

In 1983 we had a shop on Rainhall Road dedicated to prams and associated items. 40 years later this is such a quaint old fashioned idea when everyone automatically goes to the internet.

[MickBrett]

I believe there was a pram shop at 27 Church St in the 1970's

[Stanley]

I can't remember Mick.....



I was looking for No. 27 but the nearest I got was No. 29 Church Street. This was Burton's tailors at one time. A few years since it was this and I would have to go and look to see what is there now. Shops slip into Flatley Dryer country quite quickly these days.