In answer to a question from our member ROY IN NORFOLK on our forum JENNI PEPPER a Ex Stacksteads Lass remembered the things she misses about LANCASHIRE . This is typical of the kind of things we talk about between ourselves so if you are looking at the site as a guest why now join up to join in . Here is what JENNI had to say
Now what do I miss, well first of all I grew up in the Valley (Rossendale Valley that is )and they say there that folk who move out of it even if just on the edges, find things different. So I miss that.
Yes, I miss the hills, to the point of getting tearful when we visited in '95, when, approaching the area on a busy motorway, I saw the hills and the thought went through my head instinctively, 'Those are my hills."
Our area here in Ontario is quite flat although at present we live at the foot of a huge bank running parallel to the lakeshore, which was originally an ancient sea shelf....we live on the seabed; up this bank above was the shallows and the shelf was where it got deep. But go up the hill and you see fairly flat lands.
When we first came to Canada we could not focus on the distant horizon...our eyes were not used to seeing that far, only to the sheltering hills either side of the Valley.
I miss steak pies, O Lord do I miss steak pies...and Holland's Pies too if truth be known. Summer Pudding and Jam Roly-Poly like they used to make at my school. Maids of Honour and Bakewell Tart, Vanilla slices.
My mother missed the sea terribly, although we live on the shores of Lake Huron, which for all intents and purposes is a freshwater sea - 200 miles long, about 50 miles wide. Very like the sea; but not.
I miss the philosophy and happy go lucky friendliness of Lanky folk....like when you start chatting at a bus stop or in a queue. I once overheard one woman say to another at a bus stop in Stacksteads, "...I've never seen that, seen a man cry," so they must have been having a heart to heart, and they didn't seem to know each other.
I miss the forthrightness as well, finding Canadians lovely people but very polite!! They'll skirt an issue where we would dive in.
I miss the moorlands, the rough country, and the stone farms and walls, and I miss buses as well!
Hi Jenni.
Thats life girl. We pack up and move , thats what we do its part of us. We like to travel but our heart remains with the things most precious to us.
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