Welcome to the Goldings Guest Book
** We APPROVE all messages before they are posted **
Add a message : back to Goldings.org : Search
There are now 5796 messages in our guestbook.
<<< 1 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 1160 >>>
Viewing messages 2506 to 2510.
bill roe@hotmail.co.uk
ref.dickies.dr thomas john barnardo.not john thomas.might be.
22 February 2012 - wiganbill
David Wheatley
I may be wrong, but I think the reference to "Dickie Boys" goes back to Dr. Barnardo, perhaps a shortening of his first name?
22 February 2012 - Witley, Surrey
Jean Clark
Hi Dave is a miss print or did Walsall really win 1-0 away. My beloved Blues won again 3-1 away we are now 3rd. Bluenose
21 February 2012 - Birmingham
Dave
Had a little story this weekend told to me by Neville Fletcher 1960-65.
"At Goldings just past the hatch were we used to get our pocket money was the Prefects Room! Walking past one day a Prefect shouted to me,Fletcher can you play Chess? (I was only a Junior)no but I can play draughts? (If you got in their bad books they gave you chores!) That will do! get in here and I'll give you a game! Well I beat him! at that he threw the board and draughts up in the air and made me scrub the passageway down to the Kitchen, so for my first few years after that I used skirt round the outside of the building to avoid The Prefects Room!"
19 February 2012 - Never did learn Chess
Dave
Bill,as far as I can make out "dickies boys" was the reference to Kingston home which was ran by the master who's first name was Richard...hence dickies boys! and a great deal of them came to Goldings.Like the rest of our strange language it was probably adopted by us,Grog,Topper,Trashy,Diggy Eye to name a few,they changed and modified down the years but they forever were "our slang" On the site go to Sports and Leisure,to the index at the bottom "Was it English" for further well used words at Goldings
19 February 2012 - Birmingham for the cup!
<<< 1 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 1160 >>>
You can search this guestbook by:
Message : - Name : - All :
Please type some text:

- Guest book sponsored by PC Home Help (01922) 626 366 - http://www.pchomehelp.net -