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IT may be thought that England’s ability to produce drunken idiots dates back to the football hooliganism of the 1970s, when alcohol-fuelled fans… ....
THOSE who adopt the rather cynical view that anyone who stands for public office does so firstly for their own benefit and secondly for everyone else’s, would have had a field day with the goings-on in Worcester in the early 1800s. Because before the Municipal Reform Act of 1835, the city was run by a closed shop Corporation and when the system was finally overhauled this self-important body was found to be as bent as a nine bob note. It had been an entirely self-elected group with vacancies being filled at the will of the surviving members. When mapping was in its infancy, one of the Corporation’s duties was to maintain parish boundaries. This was done by “beating the bounds” to mark the limits. In St Helen’s a choirboy was “bumped” at the parish corners i ....
I HAD better point out straight away this week’s piece comes with a public health warning. So if you are of tender disposition you’d better waft a perfumed lace hankie under your nose and pass swiftly on to the public announcements or the letters page. Because it’s all about the origin of the word “bog”. As in: “Where’s Dad?” Response: “He’s on the bog.” In other words the slang term for the toilet, lavatory, dunny, crapper or privy. For the answer to this troublesome question, come with me back to the Worcester of the early 19th century. A time when the city’s population was starting to explode – and any other double entendre Carry On scriptwriters might come up with. ....