The Sunday Post · 25th October 1953

Eiho Maru · Solution to No. 1

        25 October 2026

The Sunday Post · 25th October 1953

    Dobcross, Saddleworth.

Sunday, 25th October 1953.
Barometer 30.0, and the first frost of the back-end on the top field this morning, white to the wall and gone by ten. Charlie went out in it and came back offended.
St Luke took his summer back on Wednesday, as Ned's knee said he would. Before that, fog: the valley full to the brim every morning and the mill chimneys standing up out of it. After it, two days of wind and rain from the west, and the sycamore bare by Friday teatime.
Mother, told about the fog, sent me the Harrop boggart by return of post. Four sides of it, which I shall spare you, except that it has a particular dislike of engineers. Yesterday the clag came down on Harrop Edge while Penny and I were up there after a boundary stone, and we came off it on a compass bearing, the dog at heel, and arrived at the right wall. I put it down to the compass. Mother will put it down to the boggart being out of practice. Penny found her stone, fifty-two yards from where either map has it, and is pleased with nobody.
At the works there has been no talk since Wednesday but Wembley: four goals each with the Rest of the World, and Ramsey's penalty in the last minute. Two of ours were Blackpool men, which settles it, as far as the works is concerned. One or two of the older hands were quieter. They said the visitors passed the ball like men who had been practising.
A cutting from yesterday's paper is enclosed, and last week's answers. Nobody has written to say they finished it. I take that to mean everybody did.
R.A.B.

Enclosed: a cutting from yesterday's paper
THE SADDLEWORTH & TAME VALLEY COURIER
Saturday, 24th October 1953 · Late Edition · Price 2d.
Wembley: a draw to remember
England 4, Rest of the World 4. Before 96,000 at Wembley on Wednesday, in the match marking the Football Association's ninetieth year, England saved the game in the last minute, when Ramsey (Tottenham Hotspur) scored from the penalty spot. Mullen (2) and Mortensen also scored for England; Kubala and Boniperti had two apiece for the visitors. Matthews and Mortensen of Blackpool were in the England side, and Lofthouse of Bolton led the attack.
Nobel prize for the Prime Minister
Sir Winston Churchill has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, for his historical and biographical writings and for his oratory.
Tanker in trouble on the Mersey
The Japanese tanker Eiho Maru went aground three times in twenty-four hours in the Mersey this week before she was got off.
Crew safe at Archangel
The crew of the steamer Beckenham, which broke in two in the Kara Sea, are reported safe at Archangel.
Fog on Standedge
Fog lay thick over Standedge on three mornings this week, and buses on the Huddersfield road ran late on all three. Drivers are asked to keep to dipped lights, and to their tempers.
Sheep on the Delph road
Several complaints have been received of sheep straying on the Delph road after dark. Owners are reminded that a gap in a wall is their concern, and not the motorist's.
Band practice
Dobcross Band resumes its winter practices on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, at half past seven. Players of any instrument made of brass will be made welcome.
Late football
Division I. Manchester United 1, Aston Villa 0. Middlesbrough 0, Blackpool 1. Bolton Wanderers 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Tottenham Hotspur 3, Manchester City 0.
Division II. Leicester City 1, Oldham Athletic 0.
District weather
Fog on the tops on Tuesday. Wind backing south-west on Wednesday, and rain from the west on Thursday and Friday, the barometer falling to 29.5. Showers today, bright between. A cold night to follow, with frost likely on high ground.
Small advertisements
WIRELESS SET, mains, walnut cabinet, good order, £4 10s. Apply Box 17.
LOST, near the Square, Dobcross, a child's red woollen mitten, on a string. Reward.
ROOMS to let, Uppermill, suit business gentleman, terms moderate. Apply Box 21.

The Countryman's Crossword
Solution to No. 1
S T O A T P E E W I T 
C V C
G R O U S E J A Y U
T R T D R
W R E N A M E L L
I R I E
T F I E L D F A R E W
E I A 
N H O L L Y 
C L O U G H W I 
O A L O N K 
P W G 
G E E S E S L O E 
Across: 1 STOAT, 3 PEEWIT, 6 GROUSE, 8 JAY, 11 WREN, 12 MELL, 13 FIELDFARE, 14 HOLLY, 17 CLOUGH, 19 LONK, 20 GEESE, 21 SLOE.

Down: 2 ACORN, 4 IVY, 5 CURLEW, 7 STARLING, 9 ADMIRAL, 10 TWITE, 15 OWL, 16 LING, 17 COPE, 18 HAWS.
No. 2 · Sunday, 25th October 1953
1 2
3 4 
5 
6 7 
8 9 
10 
11 
12 13 
14 
15 16 

Across

1 The Alderman's kind of owl, pressed against the trunk by day (5)

5 Ned's barometer, and he says a good one (4)

7 Carried in the jacket pocket from habit, and needed after all (7)

10 Stripped bare on Friday, with a 1 Across still in it (8)

12 The fieldfares had it bare inside a week (5)

13 —— map: wrong about the stone, but less wrong than the Ordnance sheet (5)

15 Came up out of the fog a yard to the left of where it was aimed for (5)

16 Mother's, on Harrop Edge, has a particular dislike of engineers (7)
Down

1 Carried up the edge so there could be tea at the stone (7)

2 A moorland bog, in these parts (4)

3 Geese in a line overhead, going over to the coast (5)

4 Black ground of the moor; the clag smells of it (4)

6 Beaten flat by two days of rain, the colour of an old penny (7)

7 The mill's stands up out of the valley fog of a morning (7)

8 Winter thrush with a pale eyebrow, first into the holly (7)

9 Lines the lane, and keeps its haws for the thrushes (8)

11 White on the top field this morning, and gone by ten (5)

14 Every one in October means a snow in winter, by Mother's tally (3)
Set by R. A. B. The solution will follow next Sunday.

The barometer this week
Mon 19th · 30.2 · still warm; mist in the valley till ten

Tue 20th · 30.1 · fog on the tops all day

Wed 21st · 29.9, falling · wind backing south-west; the little summer done

Thu 22nd · 29.6 · rain from the west by noon

Fri 23rd · 29.5 · wind and rain; the sycamore stripped

Sat 24th · 29.8, rising · showers, bright between; clag on the edge at three

Sun 25th · 30.0 · fair and cold; first frost on the top field

The week's pages
· The Journal: 20th and 24th October

· Poetry: The Boggart o' Harrop Edge, 21st October

· Before the Frost: Clag, 24th October

· On the wireless, from Monday 26th: Before the Frost, read by R. A. Bramble, Mondays at ten and at five

· Write Rufus a letter

                                Don't miss what's next. Subscribe to The Sunday Post:

                        Email
                        *

                    ← Newer

                The Sunday Post · 8th November 1953

                    Older →

                The Sunday Post · 18th October 1953