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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    Hi Steve, you saw the pic on the first post of this thread, that's dementia that is mate
    Really? I thought it was sleeping sickness Nah,I did spot a couple of similar pic's somewhere,possibly from the same group,which led me to asking the question!(errrm,what question)
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    The last but one pic says Eccleston Street on the wall, where was it?
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    Hi Ged,
    Eccleston St is in Prescot, if i remember correctly they had a custom of throwing hot coins for the children to collect

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    Quote Originally Posted by dot View Post
    Hi Ged,
    Eccleston St is in Prescot, if i remember correctly they had a custom of throwing hot coins for the children to collect
    Who did this Dot?

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    Hi Pabs,
    Not too sure, i remember seeing the picture years ago, it was an annual tradition that faded out after the war, i,m one of those people who store unimportant trivia

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    I'm guessing someone is throwing money to the ground from a window? judging by the looks and actions of the kids in this photo? see the hand in the top left...
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    Quote Originally Posted by dot View Post
    Hi Pabs,
    Not too sure, i remember seeing the picture years ago, it was an annual tradition that faded out after the war, i,m one of those people who store unimportant trivia
    So kids would pick up the hot money? Ha, funny old world...

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    Chances are if someone was to throw pennys out the window these days the kids wouldn't even consider bending down to pick em up...modern times..

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    What a great picture.. Lots of people young and old for the coin toss...

    They toss candy in the streets or beads during the parades here.. and the kids go wild... I still pick up a coin ... I was always told it was lucky... I once found a $20.00 note.. Now, that was super...all for looking down on the pavement....Always room for one more coin..

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    Apparentlly it is an ancient custom called perrying, ie throwing heated coins to the crowd by actors in Elizabethian times, that particular picture was taken in the 1930,s outside the Town Hall.


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    So to confirm. That is Prescot town hall then?
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    Ha, who'da guessed..

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    Hi Ged,
    Apparently so, demolished 1962, i used to live about a mile away and never knew they had a Town Hall, probably because it never looked like one in comparison to Liverpool Town Hall.

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