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18-04-15, 09:29
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My mother used to tell the story that when she was teaching she heared that a new teacher had been appointed for the next year, Miss Sidebottom. She thought it was an unsuitable name for a primary teacher but told her class that their new teacher was Miss Side bottom and that they were to laugh about it now so they would not laugh when they met her.
When she came she introduced herself as Miss Sideebothom and blamed my mum for the parents and children calling her Side Bottom. 
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18-04-15, 11:20
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23-04-15, 20:03
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My Uncle John's family started out in Throttlegoose Lane.
I rather like that.
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25-04-15, 11:32
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There's a place near Bolton called Nob End
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27-04-15, 08:27
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I have just corrected the 1911 transcript for what Ancestry thinks is Our Lady's Privy.
It is of course, Our Lady's Priory. There are a lot of Belgian nuns there with mistranscribed birthplaces (Bruges, Ireland; Brussels, Scotland) and several "coy sisters" instead of lay sisters. I feel a morning's work coming on.
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28-04-15, 20:52
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We have a place called soldiers bottom.
Near where we used to live there is a village called Nobottle I now live near Winkwell, which is quite sweet Just up over the hill is Piccotts ( pronounced 'Pickets') End
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