From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 21/04/2019 00:05, Richard Smith wrote:   
   >   
   > For the majority of people, I agree.  In 1890, my great great great   
   > grandfather, who by then was elderly and infirm, applied for a pension   
   > from a local charity.  The rector and a few other local worthies wrote   
   > in support of the application, and one said of my ancestor "A chill some   
   > years ago occasioned an affection of one leg which is now a bad state   
   > which prevents him from getting more than a few yards from his home.  As   
   > a matter of fact he has never been by land further than Sowley Pond   
   > about 3 miles distant."  He lived a couple of miles from Lymington, a   
   > small market town, and presumably that was sufficient for his needs.   
   > He'd been a fisherman for a while, which presumably explains the   
   > qualification "by land".   
   >   
   > Equally, a generation earlier, one of my ancestors was born in Worcester   
   > and moved to a village near Winchester; and her mother was born in   
   > Chapel Allerton near Leeds in Yorkshire to a family from Dewsbury,   
   > married in Kidderminster, and died in Worcester.  So far as I know,   
   > these were ordinary working class folk.   
      
   Still could happen much more recently.  I read a book by someone who   
   served in WWII at a radar station on Orkney.  They used to sometimes go   
   down to the local village where a couple of elderly ladies would do an   
   "Orkney Cream Tea" as they had done prewar for tourists.  The two ladies   
   had never left their village.   
      
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