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hehe. thanks.
I was actually just making a couple of bad musical puns, but I appreciate the lessons, both historical and topographical!
however, one word stuck out for me: unmetalled. what does that mean?
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I hope people won't exploit me for my OBE. Just treat me like a regular user, colleagues. I love synonyms just like you.
Luncheon meat goes down very well with cherryade.
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In Welwyn Garden City we have a saying - a biography needn't be selfish - just self-centred.
Luncheon meat goes down very well with cherryade.
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Thank you for the kind words of welcome. Will post as often as I can within the constrains of time, work and syciatica.
Luncheon meat goes down very well with cherryade.
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unmetalled
- unsurfaced
- a muddy track without a top layer of stones.
(It is the stones which are the "metal" - not quite sure how they derived that term.)
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Maurice - I omitted my own words of welcome, having been carried away into providing corroborative detail for your otherwise - um, er - I mean your excellent narrative, by the foul implication by certain Chicago gansters that your story was less than veracious! So let me extend it to you now, having sampled your posts, which are as nutritious as Wheat and, whilst they maintain such quality, need have no fear of being Shredded.  
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Whilst I maintain that my reference to the Broad Barringtons was made with the upmost integrity, I would like to stress with some caution that some of the finer details may not of the sharpest accuracy.
Thank you for the welcome. My entries are more like Pop-Tarts if you ask me - so hot, they're cool as you youngters might say. Did you like that? Although, I did appreciate the Shredded Wheat analogy. I like to keep it wholegrain at all times.
Luncheon meat goes down very well with cherryade.
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... caution that some of the finer details may not of the sharpest accuracy.'Twas always the way, dear Maurice - the finest details are frequently the least accurate! [/voice of bitter experience] 
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The awful Management Consultants have taken up the expression pushing the envelope lately, along with raising the bar and thinking out of the box.
Maurice, welcome, experts in sacred matters are rare these days. Thinking of which, I note that you were born in Chesterfield - have they straightened up that spire yet?
What's the story behind your sign-off line? I seriously doubt that luncheon meat could be made in any way palatable even with the addition of the equally awful cherryade. Does Welwyn Garden City produce both these items? Wasn't it the first New Town? Leading on to greater things like Milton Keynes. Hmmm...Milton Keynes, luncheon meat and cherryade...well...
Welgar Shredded Wheat was a joy of my youth, I am sure the current product is not as good - is it still made in WGC?
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Letchworth, in Hertfordshire, pre-dated WGC by a few years.
However, you could cite Saltaire (Titus Salt, 1856), near Bradford as the earliest example of a town laid out on rational lines, with wide (for the times) streets, green space to hand and facilities such as public baths (for personal ablutions, rather than for swimming) libraries and schools.
Bourneville (Cadbury) and Port Sunlight (Leverhulme) are later C19 examples of the same idea.
To look back to the beginning of the C19, to New Lanark Mills (Owen - c.1810 - cain't remember the exact date) is probably stretching the connection too far - although the idea of employee welfare is common to all of these schemes.
Letchworth and Welwyn Garden certainly took the whole idea up to a new level, though. The major dofference was that this was municipally led, for all citizens no matter where they worked, rather than a company led thing, which owed a fair amount to the perceived need of employers to control their work-force.
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