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Smithy said:
Good night all, it's only 10:04 PM but I am tired been up since 6 am. 😩
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Good night :) hopefully you get a good night sleep :)

Happy Tuesday all and happy evening :) I hope everyone is having a great week! :)
 
Yvonne Smith said:
My MIL was British, and she was from Lancashire. Is that anywhere close to where you live, @Smithy ? She was from Wigan, if I remember right.
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I am around 20 miles from Wigan.. 30 minutes drive on the motorway.
 
That is awesome , @Smithy ! She was a Thornton, from someplace called “Ashton-in-Makerfield” (or something similar to that). My FIL was in the USAF and met her there during WW2, and they got married, and she moved to the United States. Her sister also married a soldier and moved to the US.
This picture is my MIL on the right, and her sister on the left, probably early 50’s, out in Washington State, after church.

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She was born in the 1920’s, so would have been around 100 years or more by now, if she were still alive. She passed away in her late 70’s, if I remember correctly. She had the most amazing handwriting that i have ever seen !
It looked like elegant calligraphy, and it was the only way she ever wrote. The schools in England must have taught students to write that way back then, or maybe it was her French mother who taught her. Either way, it was very beautiful handwriting.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
I was thinking that this is where the famous cat comes from, too. @Smithy has not said if they all have the famous Cheshire Cat grin or not ? I guess I have not heard of Cheshire cheese.
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Wigan is known for Pies.

Wigan is famously known for pies, especially the "pie barm" (a pie in a barm cake), and the nickname "pie-eaters" is thought to stem from the 1926 General Strike when Wigan miners were forced back to work before others, essentially "eating humble pie".
- https://themanc.com/feature/the-land-of-the-pie-eaters-why-is-wigan-obsessed-with-pies/
 
North Carolinians made tar from pine trees before and during the War For Southern Independence (Civil War.) +
The NC soldiers fought so fiercely that the DamYankees said they "Stuck like they had tar on their heels". That's why we are the Tar Heel State.

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Sheryl said:
North Carolinians made tar from pine trees before and during the War For Southern Independence (Civil War.) +
The NC soldiers fought so fiercely that the DamYankees said they "Stuck tike they had tar on their heels". That's why we are the Tar Heel State.

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Awesome!
Learning something new everyday. :D
 
Every time I see a place ending with 'shire', I think of the book, "The Hobbit." One of my favorite books.
 
So early? It's only 5:43. :) Hope you get a good night's sleep.
 
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