Have you ever heard of a 'canting patch'?
Yampy was interested to receive the following email the other day from Terry Clark (Nobby) :
I'm 67 years old and in the 1950's I lived at Ocker Hill Tipton.
My best mate was Ray Jukes who was Black Country born & bred.
In his house ,which was a 2 up / 2 down Villa type house
on Ocker Hill, there was a dark brown patch of washable wallpaper about 5 feet high by two feet wide covering the
normal wallpaper and positioned immediately adjacent to
the entrance door.
As a immigrant from Hampshire, I had never seen anything like this before.
Ray said it was called a "canting patch",so named because the lady of the house would lean against it whilst "canting"
to the neighbours.
Has anybody else heard of this term?
I mentioned the subject to Dave Ellis, a Gornal friend, and
to my amazement he said " I've got one of them, but I day know it was a canting patch."
As he is a young bloke he had never heard of the term, but was pleased to have a piece of living history in his abode.
He presented me with the attached pic as proof. The colour is not what I remember but you can't win all the time.
What do you reckon, Yampy regulars? Is this a valid local expression, or was Ray Jukes pulling Nobby's leg all those
years ago?
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