Wee can mind the poor kid's lolly, a stick of rhubarb and a bowl o' sugar? 

I still like that combination rhubarb and sugar.

Ay

We were poor but we were happy

Loved it! Still love anything made with rhubarb. Rhubarb crumble, rhubarb fool, rhubarb and ginger jam .....

The sugar in newspaper resembling a small hat

Sugar was served in a cup at our house, sometimes one cup between two Children.

I vaguely remember when I very young there used to be a farm in the free woods opposite deanview west I think the guy was called

Hunter. I remember the house as a derelict house.I think the council took it down,anyway he grew lots of fruit & rhubarb was in

Abundance I remember my mother asking us to go & pick some so she could make her pies.it costs a fortune now,some of the older

Members might recollect the farm & the guys name

Tony, there was Pringle's Farm at the top of the woods on the Blyth side. Is that the one you mean?

Kieth no it wasn't Pringles I'll try & get the geography right,beside what you call monkey islands which went across to the hapenny woods there was an area we used to call the little woods it was about 1-2 acres & stank of wild garlic.if you past them woods you would come onto grassland if you went back onto the main path & walked about 50 yards down the house was on the left side of the road I

Even think bedlington council took it down before they started to clear the shrubs etc..

I vaguely remember when I very young there used to be a farm in the free woods opposite deanview west I think the guy was called

Hunter. I remember the house as a derelict house.I think the council took it down,anyway he grew lots of fruit & rhubarb was in

Abundance I remember my mother asking us to go & pick some so she could make her pies.it costs a fortune now,some of the older

Members might recollect the farm & the guys name

Tony - I think I can remember the farm you are on about, especially the fruit trees. Unfortunately can't remember any names but I seem to recall the people in the farm/house were the grand parents of a female member of this site. I joined the site in May 2013 so it wasn't that long ago but I can't remember any other details. 

 

 

Getting back to the topic - Rhubarb - yes I remember been told to pick a stick out of our garden and go and play. Me dad grew it in the ground, inside a metal bucket with the bottom cut out to stop the plant spreading.

 

But to think that we survived the threat of no more imported rhubarb, from China, and 90% of the worlds winter rhubarb is forced to grow in the Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle.

Queen Victoria did not tell her subjects that the Chinese were to retaliate us causing the Opium war, by stopping the rhubarb export to us and we would be in danger of mass constipation and death.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBF40bQCd_4

 

Unlike the rest of you, I STILL HATE RHUBARB, even with loads of sugar.

Edited July 3, 201412 yr by Eggy1948