Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

Abel Bywater. 1834. The Sheffield Dialect, in Conversations “uppa Are Hull Arston”. Sheffield: A. Whitaker and Co..

“Uppa are hull arston” is “at our hull hearthstone,” i.e. in a grinder’s workshop. See http://centre-for-english-traditional-heritage.org/TraditionToday8/1_Walker_Shevvildchap.pdf Get it: All sources.

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