tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post7410751976133620194..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Chadlington, OxfordshirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-84880829228368978802011-05-21T20:30:45.456+01:002011-05-21T20:30:45.456+01:00Don't worry about the tone, Bucks.
Come to th...Don't worry about the tone, Bucks.<br /><br />Come to think of it, I've not done a (Flora) Post about a woodshed yet. It can only be a matter of time...Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-33353201838012827952011-05-21T19:49:09.127+01:002011-05-21T19:49:09.127+01:00Phew....That's all right then.
Sorry if I lowe...Phew....That's all right then.<br />Sorry if I lowered the tone Philip,but it is Saturday night after all<br />Must dash...there's Something Nasty In The Woodshed to be dealt with.Bucks Retronauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518558456508724139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-53021585094998882312011-05-21T19:21:25.259+01:002011-05-21T19:21:25.259+01:00Bucks: They would not have been amused, that much ...Bucks: They would not have been amused, that much I can tell you. (Eyes - but not other bits of the anatomy - sticking out like organ stops, on the other hand, might have been permitted.)Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-10990213333521560672011-05-21T19:09:17.826+01:002011-05-21T19:09:17.826+01:00What would they all have made of oblique reference...What would they all have made of oblique references to "Chapel Hat Pegs"then?<br />That's what I want to know !Bucks Retronauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518558456508724139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-66202251214858770262011-05-21T10:35:41.934+01:002011-05-21T10:35:41.934+01:00Peter: Going to chapel while on holiday always see...Peter: Going to chapel while on <i>holiday</i> always seemed to me like missing the point of what a holiday was supposed to be, but I was obliged to attend during vacation trips to visit my very religious maternal grandparents. And I can tell you that they would have been deeply shocked by mentions of matters of the kitchen during the sermon.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-22458883703814074052011-05-20T12:19:37.943+01:002011-05-20T12:19:37.943+01:00I love chapels, me. On a Norfolk holiday we were f...I love chapels, me. On a Norfolk holiday we were frog-marched one Sunday morning into a Primitive Methodist chapel in the middle of nowhere by my father. Halfway through his sermon the pastor turned to his wife, perched up at the organ, and said "You can go and put the oven on now".Peter Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027878122724846472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-39347387152318811822011-05-19T08:37:59.576+01:002011-05-19T08:37:59.576+01:00"Oh, she's not church, she's chapel.&..."Oh, she's not church, she's chapel." That's very much what I heard in Lincolnshire years ago. Most of my relations were chapel. It didn't much matter whether you went to the Methodists or the Baptists or some independent Mission. The thing was, you were chapel.Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-47646429545982161882011-05-19T05:02:32.502+01:002011-05-19T05:02:32.502+01:00When or, rather, IF I retire, I may come back home...When or, rather, IF I retire, I may come back home and search for one of these old chapels but somewhere on the Lancashire/Yorkshire moors.<br /><br />I remember as a child often hearing, usually of one of the women int' shed "Oh no, she's not church, she's chapel." <br /><br />Beautiful building and beautiful lettering, as you say. Got some life to it in a jam and jerusalem sort of way. <br /><br />Another memory just surfaced - when I was a teenager we held a dance in I think what had been the first Quaker meeting house in a place called Brierfield near Burnley in Lancashire - near Pendle Hill. It was still a Friends Meeting House in those years and in my mind's eye reminds me very much of the Shaker interiors here.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.com