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What is a Wurzzell

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Onwe

Onwe Report 3 Jun 2008 02:55

This will show how well read you all are?

Mick from the Bush

Mick from the Bush Report 3 Jun 2008 05:43

A vegetable?

A British folk band?

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 3 Jun 2008 05:50

OR HOW
WELL GOOGLED
YOU SPENT THE NIGHT

Researching:
FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 3 Jun 2008 05:56

TRY GOOGLE A USER NAME AND GR

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badger

badger Report 3 Jun 2008 06:01

a local country name for a turnip?Fred.

Researching:
Baird,Barnes,Sturgess,King,Bristow, Mead,Brooks,Lane,Bartlett, Tyneside Chesham, Bucks,London & home counties

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 3 Jun 2008 06:02

I DINNA KNOW TURNIPS ARE CALLED FRED

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FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735

badger

badger Report 3 Jun 2008 06:19

Think it's how the scarecrow got his name ,as he supposedly had a sweede[turnip] for his head.Fred.

Researching:
Baird,Barnes,Sturgess,King,Bristow, Mead,Brooks,Lane,Bartlett, Tyneside Chesham, Bucks,London & home counties

Mick from the Bush

Mick from the Bush Report 3 Jun 2008 06:23

Hi Gwen
I knew a Mangel-werzel was a vegetable,
I did Google the British band!
xxxx mick

Sally Moonchild

Sally Moonchild Report 3 Jun 2008 07:47

Hi Mick, I knew of mangelwurzel as a turnip........must be my ag.lab ancestors talking to me again.....

sally the peasant....

MrDaff

MrDaff Report 3 Jun 2008 09:48

Wurzel Gummidge was a real live tv star.... he dressed like a scarecrow, and had a sensible 'ed he could change into if he needed to...

I loved him!!

He morphed into a Time Lord at one stage too... very very gifted man, lolololol ;¬))

Love

Daff xxx

BrendafromWales

BrendafromWales Report 3 Jun 2008 09:56

When I was in my teens(an awful long time ago!)I went on a working holiday,earning 15/- a day in Witney,near Oxford,hoeing around the mangel wurzels,which I believe were to feed the animals.Never heard of them before that,but that was in the 50's.It was very hard work,and long hours.Wonder if they still do that,or these days probably have machines.

Brenda x

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 3 Jun 2008 10:21

BUT WAS THEY CALLED

FRED

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FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735

Taff

Taff Report 3 Jun 2008 10:28

umm, sorry i cheated and googled it, is a type of apple? as you get wurzzell cider!

badger

badger Report 3 Jun 2008 11:34

You call me what you like Dizzie.been called worse than a neep lol.
Asked an old friend of mine aboput the name,as he is a retired farmer.
Named mangel wurzells because they were put in a machine resembling a mangel,complete with a mangle wheel,.sweedes or turnip put in the top ,handle turned and chopped up turnips coming out of the chute on the bottom.
He tells me ,they are still in use today in Lincs but engine ,or electric driven.
Fred.

Researching:
Baird,Barnes,Sturgess,King,Bristow, Mead,Brooks,Lane,Bartlett, Tyneside Chesham, Bucks,London & home counties

Merlin38

Merlin38 Report 3 Jun 2008 13:01

Are you sure you don't mean a Woozle?

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Barratt, Brownhill - Nottinghamshire Brittain - Massachusetts and NY State

Eeyore13

Eeyore13 Report 3 Jun 2008 13:10

Major B,Thats what me Pooh & Friends hunt.lol

TinaElizabeth

TinaElizabeth Report 3 Jun 2008 13:34

Is it not the name of a cuddly toy from the 80's ?

Tina

Researching:
Ayres,Turner,Stockwell, Hampshire,Berks and Dorset. Stokes-Hitchin,Hertfordshire

Oddball2

Oddball2 Report 3 Jun 2008 13:52

The Mangol was grown for cattle food,it resembles a giant radish,sometimes 10 lbs in weight.It was grown in ordered rows and they were howed to keep them free of weeds,the large leaves were removed by flicking the mangol by hand never by cutting.Here in Somerset we made mangol chutney,wine and children hollowed them out for halloween
Steve

Sharron

Sharron Report 3 Jun 2008 14:22

When the swede was introduced to Britain in the Agricultural Revolution it was called the Swedish Turnip,hence swede.
Mangolds might make a fine wine or chutney with plenty of flavours to boost their own lack of it.I have heard them described as "lumpy water".One never came home under a coat,which is more than can be said for swedes and turnips.

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 3 Jun 2008 18:53

LOVE AN KISSES TO FRED

Researching:
FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735

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