In a sense I was born there, but only lived there briefly when I worked at Brown's Amusements in '63? Lost my viginity with a lass from Rawmarsh (Rotherham) which is Wessie ain't it ? So born and died in Heaven. so to speak. Rotherham & district was hell I found out after the summer waned into oblivion. 4 brothers older than me she had. zoom!
Rotherham is now in South Yorkshire, but would have been West Riding in1963, so Wessie is correct for that time.
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/navy-acoustic-hailing-and-disruption-system/ Interestingly Hullcitytigersleisureandproperty.con have been trialling the 'EHAB' device, unfortunately this renders the senders speech against them soon as they open their mouth...
I saw that, and wondered why it was news, as I'd seen Lisa Tarbuck and other panelists playing with something very similar on a show, possibly QI, some years ago.
Still Wessies to me. As I tell a Fowls fan I know who gets indignant when you call him a Wessie, there are three ridings, North, East and West. We are standing in the East Riding. Just up the road is the North Riding. That only leaves one. Ergo Sheffield is in the West Riding. It makes him incandescent to be bracketed with people from Leeds.
It was originally a book written by Winifred Holtby, published posthumously in 1936. As Riding means 3 it was obviously a fictitious name.
Nice bloke, played cricket with him at Ferriby. I was but a mere whippersnapper in those days when he played for City.
When a grieving family saw an unknown mourner at the funeral home in northern France where their relative was lying at rest, they thought nothing of it. The woman, in her sixties, said she was a friend of the deceased, so they left her to pay her respects at the open coffin - or so they thought. But when they came back later, the deceased had been stripped of her jewellery: her necklace, ring and earrings had all vanished, French media report. The family raised the alarm with the police, who investigated and soon identified a suspect: a woman living not far from the funeral home, in the town of Liévin. They detained her and found the missing jewellery in her possession. But that was not all. They were soon able to link her with the theft of a wallet from the body of a man at the same funeral home, earlier on the same day, Tuesday 24 August. When the suspect's home was searched, police also found a stack of recent death notices. Included in the notices were the access codes for family members to enter the individual rooms where the coffins of their relatives were reposing. The woman will appear in court in 2022. ............. BBC
