From: pfjames2002@gmail.com
MB wrote:
> 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.
In 1986 I was working as a Salesman of Farm Machinery here in Cornwall
in the St Austell area.
I met a lady farmer aged 80, who in the whole of her life had been out
of the County once. And that to Plymouth before the war. She hadn't
been impressed and never repeated the performance.
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