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@7ZZ7 Ha! I get that every time I have to go through that part of town on the bus 🤢😂

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@7ZZ7 Ha! I get that every time I have to go through that part of town on the bus 🤢😂

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@DrC Yes I dug this out of an online local archive 🙂 A lot of the stuff I’ve been able to find so far has dealt with industrialisation, the name of the pub on the corner, and the post-WWI building of the next road down, but I’m keeping on looking as I would love to know!

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@DrC Yes I dug this out of an online local archive 🙂 A lot of the stuff I’ve been able to find so far has dealt with industrialisation, the name of the pub on the corner, and the post-WWI building of the next road down, but I’m keeping on looking as I would love to know!

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@7ZZ7 The shah is Nasir al-Din Shah (more in another reply here https://mastodon.world/@artmonogatari/109370686840552135) and I think Brown Bottom is *possibly* to do with a Saxon chieftain called Brūnoc, who gave his name to nearby Branksea (now Brownsea) Island and a wood a few miles away called Branksome Chine. Some of the ‘branks’ in place names here got kept, but most have been turned into ‘brown’ instead. Although it could be related to this area once being heathland scrub and bracken too.

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@7ZZ7 The shah is Nasir al-Din Shah (more in another reply here https://mastodon.world/@artmonogatari/109370686840552135) and I think Brown Bottom is *possibly* to do with a Saxon chieftain called Brūnoc, who gave his name to nearby Branksea (now Brownsea) Island and a wood a few miles away called Branksome Chine. Some of the ‘branks’ in place names here got kept, but most have been turned into ‘brown’ instead. Although it could be related to this area once being heathland scrub and bracken too.

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@vogelbeere The pub is still there and still called the Shah of Persia! Apparently it’s named for the 1873 visit of Naser al-Din Shah (here’s a painting of him by Iranian artist Kamal-ol-molk). He went on a grand tour of Europe and enjoyed himself thoroughly according to his diary, especially at parties, in pubs, and looking out of train windows.

Brown Bottom Corner is now called the Park Gates because the Victorians were easily embarrassed by Dorset’s place names

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@vogelbeere The pub is still there and still called the Shah of Persia! Apparently it’s named for the 1873 visit of Naser al-Din Shah (here’s a painting of him by Iranian artist Kamal-ol-molk). He went on a grand tour of Europe and enjoyed himself thoroughly according to his diary, especially at parties, in pubs, and looking out of train windows.

Brown Bottom Corner is now called the Park Gates because the Victorians were easily embarrassed by Dorset’s place names

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A dark Victorian painting of a serious, moustachioed Iranian gentleman in Western style dress uniform, heavily emblazoned with medals or decoration and gold buttons and wearing a large cylindrical hat with a spray of feathers set with a jewel. He carries a golden, jewel-encrusted scimitar dress sword.

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@curiousordinary It got a bit messy overnight while it was switching me between accounts – I think it’s all sorted now, it *says* you’re following me 🤞

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@curiousordinary It got a bit messy overnight while it was switching me between accounts – I think it’s all sorted now, it *says* you’re following me 🤞

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@thefolklorepodcast Guessing the house prices would double in Bird In Hand Lane… But then of course that’s expecting vernacular names to make sense and have internal logic, when they probably came from, like, that time in 1342 when Scabby Dave saw a weird crow while out of his mind on scrumpy getting pins stuck in his hand. Nobody remembers the actual story and it’d make no sense if they did, but the name sticks

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@thefolklorepodcast Guessing the house prices would double in Bird In Hand Lane… But then of course that’s expecting vernacular names to make sense and have internal logic, when they probably came from, like, that time in 1342 when Scabby Dave saw a weird crow while out of his mind on scrumpy getting pins stuck in his hand. Nobody remembers the actual story and it’d make no sense if they did, but the name sticks

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@thefolklorepodcast It is! In ‘The Wood That Built London’ by CJ Schüler the author talks about the Beating of the Bounds between parishes – roving bands of drunk old men and young boys in the springtime, the elders teaching the younger ones the layout of the parish boundaries using recognisable landmarks. So Sevenoaks in Kent, for example (makes sense), but also Bird In Bush Road in southeast London. What bird? What bush? Why was it so remarkable? I love that about place names 😂

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@thefolklorepodcast It is! In ‘The Wood That Built London’ by CJ Schüler the author talks about the Beating of the Bounds between parishes – roving bands of drunk old men and young boys in the springtime, the elders teaching the younger ones the layout of the parish boundaries using recognisable landmarks. So Sevenoaks in Kent, for example (makes sense), but also Bird In Bush Road in southeast London. What bird? What bush? Why was it so remarkable? I love that about place names 😂

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@ChefRonSullivan Cheese, Aleppo pepper flakes and spring onions (scallions). And toast, obvs

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@ChefRonSullivan Cheese, Aleppo pepper flakes and spring onions (scallions). And toast, obvs

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Okay I think I have got the migration thing working now (those poor put-upon servers; thank you admins!) so apologies in advance if any gremlins are caused by me manually following you while I was waiting for the thing to work; normal service will be resumed shortly!

The OED has theories on the word gremlin’s origins. Tag yourself:

From Irish gruaimín (“gloomy little person”); or from Dutch gremmelen (“to soil, stain; to spoil”), or griemelen, grimmelen (“(obsolete) to abound, teem; to swarm”)

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Okay I think I have got the migration thing working now (those poor put-upon servers; thank you admins!) so apologies in advance if any gremlins are caused by me manually following you while I was waiting for the thing to work; normal service will be resumed shortly!

The OED has theories on the word gremlin’s origins. Tag yourself:

From Irish gruaimín (“gloomy little person”); or from Dutch gremmelen (“to soil, stain; to spoil”), or griemelen, grimmelen (“(obsolete) to abound, teem; to swarm”)

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@northfolk Oh I have seriously considered it! My other thought was, I have a thing for creating sweet pea crossbreeds, and my last strain was named Blue Lagoon after a sea area near my old house. Maybe I could get the wind and the earth and the bees to help create Faerie Knowe sweet peas this time around?

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@northfolk Oh I have seriously considered it! My other thought was, I have a thing for creating sweet pea crossbreeds, and my last strain was named Blue Lagoon after a sea area near my old house. Maybe I could get the wind and the earth and the bees to help create Faerie Knowe sweet peas this time around?

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@TarkabarkaHolgy Hello! I was @/artmonogatari in the Other Place too, nice to see you here! :blobcataww:

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@TarkabarkaHolgy Hello! I was @/artmonogatari in the Other Place too, nice to see you here! :blobcataww:

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This whole business with trying to migrate my account has got me thinking about place names and our inner geography. I’ve recently moved house, and the hill I live on once gloried in the name of Faerie Knowe. That place is gone now, swallowed up by change; it has a much more prosaic street name today. But I wonder what it was named for? The ancient and fey oak tree in my garden? The whimsy of a Victorian gentleman? The in-jokes of 18th century potters? Here it is on a map #folklore #faeries

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This whole business with trying to migrate my account has got me thinking about place names and our inner geography. I’ve recently moved house, and the hill I live on once gloried in the name of Faerie Knowe. That place is gone now, swallowed up by change; it has a much more prosaic street name today. But I wonder what it was named for? The ancient and fey oak tree in my garden? The whimsy of a Victorian gentleman? The in-jokes of 18th century potters? Here it is on a map #folklore #faeries

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A crumpled and faded Victorian Ordnance survey map of a geography that no longer exists. A small section of the map is labelled Faerie Knowe, featuring a line of trees and what could be some farm or pottery buildings near a reservoir and some allotments.

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@NancyNilgen Bubble and squeak (fried cabbage and potato patties, can optionally include egg, bacon or sausage). Or roast chicken, broccoli and mashed potatoes, one of my favourite comfort foods. Or a Caesar salad with parmentier potatoes (fried potato cubes) instead of croutons – in my house we call that Caligula Salad because it’s so cruelly decadent!

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@NancyNilgen Bubble and squeak (fried cabbage and potato patties, can optionally include egg, bacon or sausage). Or roast chicken, broccoli and mashed potatoes, one of my favourite comfort foods. Or a Caesar salad with parmentier potatoes (fried potato cubes) instead of croutons – in my house we call that Caligula Salad because it’s so cruelly decadent!

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Hello (again) world! Another #introduction – I’m April, I escaped from The Other Place a week or so ago, and I’m migrating from @artmonogatari@mas.to to this instance so I can see more of you lovely people in my timelines. I like reading/posting about #folklore #mythology #witchcraft #cooking #gardening #art #history #books #writing and waffling nonsense about my favourite bands. By day I’m a non-fiction editor and writer, by night I’m currently creating gothic fantasy. Come and say hi (again) ❤️

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Hello (again) world! Another #introduction – I’m April, I escaped from The Other Place a week or so ago, and I’m migrating from @artmonogatari@mas.to to this instance so I can see more of you lovely people in my timelines. I like reading/posting about #folklore #mythology #witchcraft #cooking #gardening #art #history #books #writing and waffling nonsense about my favourite bands. By day I’m a non-fiction editor and writer, by night I’m currently creating gothic fantasy. Come and say hi (again) ❤️