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Thread #84451 Message #1558866
Posted By: Paul Burke
08-Sep-05 - 05:47 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: When First I Came to Caledonia
Subject: RE: lyric req;when first I came to caledonia
What's wrong with a pound of soap and a cake of tea? Soap was sold by the pound in Salford when I were a lad. Tea in cakes was fashionable again a couple of years ago, I got given about half a dozen of them. Impossible to brew with, make a horrible mess, the tea's weak and tasteless, but that's fashion for you.
For train buffs: the caledonia collieries were interesting as one of the last places to operate Hackworth style engines. The great rival to George Stephenson before the Rainhill Trials, his powerful locomotives retained adherents in the coal industry for many years after the Stephenson pattern became the standard.
Here's a rather bad picture of one..