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Drago
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raleighnut
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you try telling anyone from Rutland that and they'll be on ya, it might be in between 'me and thee' geographically but they're independent beggarsView: https://youtu.be/rGrjP8ltFgw
raleighnut
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But are you an Enderby? If not your foreigner at best an outsider!!
Any Enderbys still living there?
raleighnut
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No it's a Quarry* village or at least it was, I'm a 'Young' (or at least my mother was) they're the largest family there. my Great Grandfather was the 'Union Man' for the Quarry and an early member of the Labour Party and also prominent in 'The Cooperative Society' which had a large 'Boot & Shoe' factory in the village which led to a lot of housing being built around it on the outskirts of the old Village, turning it into a small town (with 7 pubs)
* back then the Quarry made stone 'Setts' (Cobbles) and Kerbstones
http://www.enderbyeye.co.uk/history/
Humphrey Littleton, on 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue', explained the derivation of Nottingham, and how it used to be called Snottingham. The people, fed up with being known as Snotts, dropped the leading 'S'. He noted the fierce resistance to a similar proposal for Scunthorpe.
raleighnut
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Whereas Leicester changed it's name completely from Ratae in Roman times.
Andy in Germany
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raleighnut
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Aye but 2 of my Uncles were on the Parish council and a third was Captain of the local Golf Club (despite being a lifetime Labour voter) and his wife's dad was a Magistrate.
Enderby was always a thorn in Blaby's side (our MP for years was Nigel Lawson)
London Bendy buses
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated_buses_in_London
A number of them have now been painted green and are doing service at Waddesdon Manor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulated_buses_in_London
A number of them have now been painted green and are doing service at Waddesdon Manor
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Andy in Germany
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In "entirely pointless connections" I remember in one of my coursework pieces for theatre school I used the name "Enderby": I needed a name for a generic accountancy partnership for my main character to work at; I'd decided on "Spratt" as the second name and used a random zoom on Google Earth to decide on the first name. The monotony at "Enderby and Spratt" became a major motivation for him to later join up with a secret agent and go on the run.
I told you it was pointless. I was mildly criticised for writing a comedy spy story but I'd been reading tthe "Great classics" for months and you can imagine how deadly that was...
Andy in Germany
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I haven't ever understood the dislike for Bendy Buses in London. Was it just that they were not double decker buses?
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The worst problem was that they made accordion noises when negotiating corners.
pawl
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I have lived close to Enderby for a good number of years I didn’t know it had a quarry or a latte shoe factory.Ibelieve it has or had a very good brass band.
As matter of interest were was the quarry situated?
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Drago
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Those bin bags the charities put through your door. Pure landfill fodder.
