The Shambles is a cobbled area of York - the name means a place where meat was sold and comes from Medieval times
Sorry - I'll go back to sleep Liz In a message dated 24/08/2003 00:02:26 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Subj: Re: [lace] Isn't this funny!!!?? > Date: 24/08/2003 00:02:26 GMT Daylight Time > From: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>, <A > HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > I have been thinking about this. It's a very long time since I went to > York - about 25 years, I think - so it's hard to remember. The > cobble-stoned street, I think, is called the Shambles, and is kept as a sort > of Open Air Museum. The shop may not have been a real, commercial shop at > all, rather it may have been laid out like an old-fashioned shop, with > bobbins, and maybe other things (you didn't mention if there was anything > else on sale) for sale for souvenir hunters. > > At another, similar place - and I can't remember where - there was an > old-fashioned toffee shop where one could buy loose toffee, and there was a > clogger working in another shop, making clogs. (Making clogs is a lost art > in this country, I think). > > Ann in Manchester, UK > Regards Liz Beecher - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
