'Tayger' at the brikkil"

Standard Brick and Pipe Works, Drury

1900

"Tayger" is a Buckley dialect word for idleness.

"Lassicking" means larking about.

"TAYGER AT THE BRIKKIL"

Idleness or avoidance of work was not tolerated by the management. The owner of some works constructed secret cat walks, or spy windows, to observe their men at work.

Here the stalking "master" has surprised a group of men surreptitiously "lassicking" behind an empty kiln.

OLD BUCKLEY DAYS AND WAYS

PICTURE NUMBER 42

see entry 1.51

Author: Bentley, James

'Tayger' at the brikkil"

Standard Brick and Pipe Works, Drury

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