Bill What were the Romans doing in Tasmania? P perplexed
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So Tooting means Roman, L? I did wonder. We have Launceston in northern
Tasmania.
B
On 12/06/2014, at 7:53 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Do.
> It's "always" been there. (They used to think the Romans founded
> London but keep finding quite large structures from way back. TG is on
> a Roman road and that, it's said, is what Tooting means via a lost
> item of the a-s vocab. Graveney is a Norman family name, and the
> Normans still run the country. There's a Graveney near Faversham in
> Kent (a one time major port)... that I can only explain by reference
> to the creation of myself and a friend in yoof, the Royal Society of
> Transportation of Towns, which builds duplicates nationally and
internationally as part of job creation.
> There's a Streatham, where I used to live, next to TG, somewhere in
> East Anglia I believe + of course London Ontario and Launcester in
> your own sunburnt country etc et cetera
>
> L
>
>
> On 12 June 2014 07:27, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I'll add Tooting Graveney to Wandle as another t'riffic name. L, P.
>>
>> B
>>
>> On 12/06/2014, at 1:19 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>
>>> He was, the sad creature. The Graveney is a tributary of the Wandle
>>> and
>> you
>>> could see it about to go underground a mile or so south of my
>>> parents
>> house
>>> in Tooting Graveney. That house had a coal cellar. In the winter it
>>> was inches deep in water. There were something like 40 houses along
>>> one side
>> of
>>> our road where there had been 4 in the days that Johnson went
>>> sniffing after the scent of Mrs Thrale - you could spit at Thrale Rd
>>> from where I was teenaged, and sometimes I did. Presumably the
>>> forces of Edwardian capitalism decided there was no need to allow a
>>> space to the ghost of a river.
>>>
>>> Anyway, dear boy, do show respect to our natural powers. Let's live
>>> by British values.
>>>
>>> pip pip
>>>
>>> L
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 June 2014 16:13, Patrick McManus
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> William Morris was the man picked the Wandle and inspired -News
From
>>>> Nowhere
>>>> P
>>>> Ps sorry L to offend your mighty river
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
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>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>>>> Sent: 11 June 2014 12:41
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>>>> Subject: Re: pat snap 630 !"!"!"
>>>>
>>>> Pat as a citizen once of and now near the Wandle I take issue with
>>>> your description of its being piddling. Too much re and
>>>> misdirection; but in
>> its
>>>> unaltered state it was a substantial Thames tributary and a major
>> centre of
>>>> early industrialisation
>>>>
>>>> L
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11 June 2014 12:35, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Pat, I laughed. Like the local content too. But you might consider
>>>>> butting out one of your buts. Two buts throws readers out. Line 4
>>>>> could simply begin, 'It was' for instance without disarming your flow.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11 Jun 2014, at 6:39 pm, Patrick McManus <
>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> RIVER
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not
>>>>>> criticising
>>>>>> she said
>>>>>> but it was
>>>>>> all very well
>>>>>> naming our son
>>>>>> Moses
>>>>>> but isn't it
>>>>>> a bit much
>>>>>> to make a cradle
>>>>>> to tar it
>>>>>> to float it
>>>>>> in the river
>>>>>> after all
>>>>>> the Wandle
>>>>>> is hardly
>>>>>> the Nile
>>>>>> and as far
>>>>>> as I know
>>>>>> there are no
>>>>>> Pharaoh's Daughters
>>>>>> living in
>>>>>> Earlsfield
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> pmcmanus
>>>>>> r573
>>>>>> some here will know this but
>>>>>>
>>>>>> River Wandle is a local piddling River Earlsfied -is a
>>>>>> sub-suburbia nearby This inspired by partner suddenly taking up a
>>>>>> writing course -subject
>>>>> 'River
>>>>>> Wandle'
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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