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Re: Old local expressions
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
as for going to bed...at our house there were a variety of expressions used.
'Up the wooden hill (to bedlam)'
'going to the blanket fair'
'going up the dilly dancers to bedfordshire'
I have no idea where any of these came from.
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We usually left Bedlam in our wake, as we climbed the wooden hill to Bedfordshire.
Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
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