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The Romany Language
The Romany language first appeared in Northern India and is sometimes called Romanes or Romani, which is the language of the European gypsy. It took about five hundred year to reach the shores of Britain as a Romany language. Romany is a spoken language so you will often find multiple spellings of the same word…
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The Bigamist’s Wedding
On the left of the photo is Butty Lamb’s wife, old Mary Lamb, my mother’s mother. Next to her is Charlie Baker, known as the ‘jaw bone breaker’. He liked to coor (fight). He has just married my mother’s sister Milly. While on the far right is my father, Edgie, who was best man at…
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Ikey Wright
Ikey was a livestock dealer, and had a few bits of land around here, which he farmed. However on Spa Common near Bacton Wood Mill was a round concrete pillbox; it’s still there. Ikey used to keep ferrets in the old dark pillbox. It was dark as a grave. One day someone gave Ikey a…