92 year old war vet

I gave a lift to a 92 year old war vet this morning and he told me he has just got an electric scooter,he said he went down Ashton on it yesterday but he didnt like going on the road so he drove on the para pit,Not heard that for over 30 years.

I don't think I've ever heard someone say the parapit rather than the pavement, Hughes the Booze.

It's 'parapet' not sure why he would call the pavement it though, but that's Ashton for ya!

I asumed he meant the kirb coz thats wot my dad used to call it.Do you know wot a parapet is? I dont,

Had a google and came up with this........

"The word comes ultimately from the Italian parapetto (parare = to cover/defend and petto =breast). The German term Brustwehr has the same significance.

Parapets may be plain, embattled, perforated or panelled, which are not mutually exclusive terms.

Plain parapets are upward extensions of the wall, sometimes with a coping at the top and corbel below.
Embattled parapets may be panelled, but are pierced, if not purely as stylistic device, for the discharge of defensive projectiles.
Perforated parapets are pierced in various designs such as circles, trefoils, quatrefoils.
Panelled parapets are ornamented by a series of panels, either oblong or square, and more or less enriched, but not perforated. These are common in the Decorated and Perpendicular periods."

Just as I thought.

Also. Frontline trenches were usually about seven feet deep and six feet wide. The front of the trench was known as the parapet.

Not round here ther not.I am not going to argue with a war vet.

In the days of the 92 year old Veteran, as in my young days, the pavement was referred to as the parapet. I don't know the spelling but it was a common expression.
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Aye, un PARAPET wuz on boath sides uft CARTROAD. E.T.

Parapets are a pain in the arse when it rains!

I bought a poppy of him in Golborne Asda tuther day

Pavements were always called Parapets when I was growing up in Downall Green... Now I have sidewalks lol..

htb I left a comment for you on the Park Hotel thread...

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Thank you htb.. Have a good weekend..

I work 7 days a week so they are all the same .
Thanks

You don't have any time off at all? That's not good..

all us owd uns used fot say parapet fot pavement, same as purrin things ont cornish.

And they claimed the earth was flat.

Don't stick your head over it though or you'll get it shot off......

hughesthebooze: u got any spare hours going? my daughter lives in Ashton and is looking for more hours work.

My daughter would kill me if I employed anyone other than her as she is at college and is in need of as many beer tokens as she can get.I admire your initiative in asking on WW.

parapet! my uncle used to say that he died 2 years ago that word brought bk lots of happy memories n a smile

hughes the booze: me mam allus said that if you don't ak, you don't get. Thought it was worth a try. Thanks for replying anyway. My daughter is at the job centre everyday in Ashton and she has applied for over 70 jobs in the last six weeks but the only thing that she has received so far are two interviews, one in Kendal and the other in Keswick. Both of which she attended I may add. They were both with accommodation. She's also just attended a half day induction with JD Weatherspoon at the Brocket Arms for Pub Managers. So hopeully she'll hear something from them this week. At the moment she works 2/3 nights per week at a night club in Wigan.

She sounds like she will do well in life.She should register with a couple of agency's.