Good old Days.

[Tenchman]

Doing some research for an article i'm writing on restoration tiling etc, came across this info, to help the tile makers & staff at the potteries in stoke, who were dying young because of the fumes from tons of coal , lead arsenic etc etc.

Minton Hollins kindly had especially made a beer for these poor souls, how nice you may think they could die drunk :hurray: no this beer was even better than that it was brewed with a base of sulphuric acid :yikes::yikes::yikes:

How weird were those people?????

 

[doug boardley]

I did pottery A level Steve, and part of the syllabus was all the history surrounding The Potteries, some great eye-opening stuff

 

[kilty55]

:coolgleamA:most stokies are a bit odd tenchman

 

[mikethetile]

they are odd up there tenchman LOL

 

[Tenchman]

True me Duck !

 

[Deleted member 9966]

cheers boys :coolgleamA:

 

[Tenchman]

I did a Degree course late on 30ish studied in a few countries visited Pompei for my mosaic section but spent a long time with Les at the encaustic unit at jono's in stoke. blimey there wereso characters there. plus everyone was called " me Duck" god know's why. Any stokies out there to explain ? ha ha

 

[Deleted member 9966]

it's a colloqualism Tench. not sure why the words Me and Duck were adopted, but everybody in Stoke and surrounding areas are referred to as Duck.

according to wikipedia
It is believed to be derived from the Saxon word ‘ducas’ used to indicate respect, which in Middle English became "duc" or "duk" which denotes a leader, which in turn, became the title Duke and the Old French word "ducheé" which indicates the territory ruled by a Duke

 

[DHTiling]

:coolgleamA:most stokies are a bit odd tenchman

Must be why Dan started this fantastic forum coz he is odd..?...and a stokie..

 

[Tenchman]

Ta GRR, glad it wasn't anything to do with mallards then lol,

 

[kilty55]

Must be why Dan started this fantastic forum coz he is odd..?...and a stokie..

was a joke dave directed at grr so she would bite

 

[Deleted member 9966]

was a joke dave directed at grr so she would bite

Of course I bite Jamie :lol:

 

[user123]

Fascinating stuff, will have a good look round at the Gladstone Pottery museum when Saad and I do a course there, really looking forward to it! Hope not to be sniffing any arsenic though... :lol:

 

[mikethetile]

you will enjoy it G , its a lovely centre

 

[user123]

Yes, I think I will, Mike, we'll get there the day before, obviously, a bit of a treck from Scarborough, but that means being able to have a good look round the museum, and there is a nice cafe, too, so all good. The people there who I talked to about booking the rooms have been absolutely lovely, as yet we still have the option of a smaller or larger room, to seat 10 or 15 people, I couldn't have asked for more flexibility or a friendlier enthusiastic attitude from them, I think they are quite excited about the class there. Phew, exciting and a bit nerve wrecking at the same time