The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52534 Message #886857
Posted By: bill\sables
10-Feb-03 - 12:26 PM
Thread Name: Add: Wee Willie's Lost His Marley/Geordie's Penker
Subject: RE: Add: Wee Willie's Lost His Marley/Geordie's Penker
A double row was indeed a double row of colliery houses with the back of the one street facing the back of the other. No one ever used the front doors except for carrying coffins out. The Cundy is a covered drain down the middle of the street. If you had a cundie in your street you were "Posh" as most of the older Durham colliery streets had no drainage whatsoever. Chers Bill