A note from the administrator.

I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.

You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.

I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.

But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.

E. Selwood

Old George

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Marlborough_Nan
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Old George

#1 Post by Marlborough_Nan »

Some of you will have seen Janet's notice on the other board. I wanted to say my own piece here, in the Snug, where George and I did most of our nattering. He went peaceful in the end, his daughter wrote to me, in his own bed with the down out the window. Ninety-one. We never did meet, in all the years, two old fools three mile apart who found each other on a machine neither of us trusted. But he gave me back the names my gran half remembered, and I gave him somebody to give them to, and I do not think either of us was lonely quite the same way after. I shall miss him more than I can rightly say for a man I never shook by the hand. Light a candle for old George if you light them. He'd have laughed at the fuss.
just an old woman who remembers when the green had three shops.
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Avebury_Janet
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#2 Post by Avebury_Janet »

He mattered, Nan, more than he ever once believed. His drove names are in the society record now, every one of them, attributed to George exactly as I promised him. They will outlast all of us. That is not nothing, and it is largely down to you for badgering him into writing them down. He would never have, otherwise.
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#3 Post by Boater_Pat »

I am sorry, Nan. I only knew him through here, but the Snug is a smaller room tonight. Candle lit on the boat for him. The water will carry it.
Liveaboard on the K and A. Kettle's on if youre passing
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Marlborough_Nan
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#4 Post by Marlborough_Nan »

Thank you both. Pat that is a lovely thing to think, the candle going off down the water. He would have liked that, being seen off by a boat. I keep going to tell him something and then remembering. I expect that will ease. It is just very quiet on the down without knowing he is over the other side of it, typing away at his old machine and getting cross with it. Right. I shall stop before I set myself off again. Thank you for letting me say it here.
just an old woman who remembers when the green had three shops.
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