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Old 16-05-2012, 19:19   #530
davemac
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Re: Old local expressions

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post
If I went to my grandparents house(Higher Antley Street) that is the way we went to Bullough Park...but if we were at home we used to cut up the side of Highams big house(the one that is now a probation hostel) and go past Rose Place....we always called them the sharp bonks though....never heard them called the donkey steps.
I don't remember them called the sharp bonks, although I've heard "going up the bonks" as going upstairs, so perhaps there was a connection locally.
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