Where is this..?

Winner gets a Slavery Duck... loser gets three Slavery Ducks.......!!!!

Guessed right.

So good, they had to make another,

is it in wigan Fred ?

Ahhh. I could be wong.

its wider now

North or South of Wigan?

s/w if you want to know, hint, join the que

Loks like the Thelwall Viaduct.

Or another one. N

Gathurst motorway bridge, send mi mi slavery duck wrapped in a sheet of honeycombe tripe.

Deffo Gathurst motorway bridge. 1960/1.

I thought slavery had been abolished!!

aitch.. watch for the postman with ye Slavery Duck, I'll think abaht the tripe...!!! I see others may have already known??...

Taken in around 1960, I think. That's my father on the right. I was about 14.

Well done.

Its one place Ive only ever seen from the top while driving over it Fred, Ive never been to that spot in my life, It was a complete guess, but it did look a bit familiar from one or two pics Ive seen

Forgive my ignorance, but, what is a slavery duck?

Its a bit like an haggis,, otherwise called dawn sawf a Faggot

Real name is a Savoury Duck...delicious.. but after seeing them made in the sixties tend to stay away..

Thankyou for both replies, you will laugh when I tell you, I googled 'slavery duck' and the pages that cropped up were of male prostitution.

Thanks V-G. Wigan slang is great isn't it!

I googled 'slavery duck' and the pages that cropped up were of male prostitution



There are some dodgy dictionaries out there, Veg Grower. As Jo Anne will tell you.

'Wigan slang'

Expect complaints, Fred.

Faggots, then?

No thanks, Kenee. Am busy tonight.

Savoury(slavvery)Ducks-Faggots-Babbys Yeds, were once known as the sweepings off the butchers floor, wrapped in a pigs caul...



Some confuse a steak pudding with a "Babbys Yed".
Some Babbys are born with the caul over their head.

Never heard of a steak born with one

'Some confuse a steak pudding with a "Babbys Yed".
Some Babbys are born with the caul over their head.

Never heard of a steak born with one'



Brilliant, ©art©.

The logic is obvious.

I often wondered about the origin of a 'Wiganism' that never was.

Yes, nice one, art. Sweepings???? Close.They are the leftovers, definitely, that cannot go into anything else.

The term 'babby's yed' for a steak pudding was told to me by someone from outside Wigan.

He was surprised when I said I hadn't heard of it.