Hay time near the smelt"

Bull's Foot, Knowl Hill, Buckley

1920

see 1.92 and 1.562 for paintings on the same subject!!

HAYTIME NEAR THE SMELT or "WHEREVER IS THAT LAD?"

CAPTION ONE

The tang of drying hay and the scorching rays of the noontide sun created a ravenous appetite. When the farmer's daughter shared in the "afters", it was worth feeling the wrath of her irate father.

The Bull's Foot is where Dukesfield Drive is now situated.

CAPTION TWO

Between the Mountain Colliery and the Tivoli was a wide field. Here pit ponies congregated and in summer hay was moved. Hot, strenuous work was invariably a temptation to sit down and rest, until the "norrie awd mon" came along.

Norrie - impatient, short-tempered.

OLD BUCKLEY DAYS AND WAYS

PICTURE NUMBER 27

see entry number 1.51

see entry 1.92 for another version of this subject.

Author: Bentley, James

Hay time near the smelt"

Bull's Foot, Knowl Hill, Buckley

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