Bellingham’s Noble Street Kids: Rolling wor Girds
Northumberland farming history. A village childhood remembered. By Clive Dalton Some of us Noble Street kids were wealthy enough to own a hoop or ‘gird’ – pronounce ‘gurd’. They came with a thick wire hook to direct it. They must have been made by Burnie the blacksmith. There wasn’t a great knowhow needed to get … Read more