Nightsoil feeding the land

[alldigging]

Thought this was interesting!

Forgotten Fields - Night-Soil - Remembering a Food Cycle on Vimeo
Lovely video explaining about Manchester's night soil and how it was taken out to the growing fields.

How the Ox noble pub got it's name.

English Potatoes - varieties available, 1847 - DIVERSITY

[Mr Bones]

Just the reason I find so much broken glass and crockery on the lotty. Also find earthenware marbles, snobs and other bits too.

[Two_Sheds]

Snobs?

*puzzled: does you mean Hyacinth Bucket type snobs?*

[Mr Bones]

Snobs?

*puzzled: does you mean Hyacinth Bucket type snobs?*

Don't know why they were called snobs, just guggled it and it also comes up as fivestones, jacks or knucklebones.

[DannyRam]

I used to love playing snobs.


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