Lancashire

Other times Lancashire came up

1. Debate. Off with his head. Oh, no. It's a job of the heads of people in Lancashire, wasn't it? It was called the Halifax Chibbit, but it was a mechanism for doing the same kind of thing. Daniel Defoe wrote about it, and he said there was this rule, right, that if you could pull your head, so there was a pin that got pulled and that dropped the chopper.

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2. They were sniffers, yeah, they could smell them. Yeah, there were three, initially just three sent over, Brian, Monty and René. René, I think, was the only female parachutist in the British Army during the war. They were sent in with the 13th Lancashireas. One of the articles I read it said they were called Paradox, brackets, short for parachuting dogs. Which I love. The War Office had made radio appeals in 1941 for people to give up their dogs for the war movement.

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3. It was known as parring, or, like you say, wig and fashion fighting. They thought that it was, like, really turn of the 20th century, and then it happened and then it died out. A friend of mine called Anna F.C. Smith, who's an artist in Lancashire, she managed to find evidence of it up until the 50s. People were still doing it in the 50s. Wow.

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4. Purring, it was known as, or paring, or like you say, Wigan fashion fighting. They thought that it was like really turn of the 20th century that it happened and then it died out. A friend of mine called Anna F.C. Smith, who's an artist in Lancashire. She managed to find evidence of it up until the 50s. People were still doing it in the 50s. Wow.

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