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Thread #81292   Message #3689337
Posted By: Steve Shaw
24-Feb-15 - 06:16 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: 'Going a bit Bodmin'
Subject: RE: Folklore: 'Going a bit Bodmin'
Here in Cornwall you occasionally hear "calm down or you'll end up in Bodmin" or words to that effect. Up north it was "you're mad, you are, you'll end up in Prestwich." Prestwich hospital, or, as it was affectionately known, Prestwich lunatic asylum, was at Besses o' th' Barn. The site is now occupied by an enormous Tesco. No progress then!