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January 8th, 2014, 11:58 AM | #511 |
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Boxing Day is traditionally the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers
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Another tradition is for the master to treat the servants at Christmas time. This dates back to Tudor times when servants who had worked so hard the whole year were treated to lunch or some other treat by their master(s)
On the subject of 'boxes', milkmen, refuse collectors and postman amongst others regularly received christmas boxes or gifts of money for services rendered throughout the year. When I was a milkman's helper in my teens, one Christmas we were invited in for a cup of tea and I received £2 for a christmas box - a lot back then, and some other gratutites from customers. I suppose it shows you did a good jiob the rest of the year. I remember, before it was given out to private companies, the dustbin men used to send someone round in the evening near to Christmas (usually the burliest and scariest) to collect their Christmas 'box' and god help you if you didn't give them something Doesn't happen nowadays, at least not round our way.
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In the British armed forces the officers and senior NCOs traditonally serve the troops with their dinner on xmas day.
By the way metrication is not all the fault of Brussels. Brussels have said that trade within the EU must be in metric, but internal trade is nothing to do with them. And as for football the pitch measurements are in Imperial and in metric countries they just change them to metric. Youll notice the ref in european countries pacing out 10 paces for the wall at a free kick.
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Take as a snapshot the 1904-05 season average gates: Newcastle 21,605 Woolwich Arsenal 19,980 Everton 19,155 Man City 18,715 Villa 18,390 Man Utd 15,205 Small Heath 14,540 Sunderland 14,510 Sheff Utd 14,450 Liverpool 14,315 Sheff Wed 12,880 No cricket club or Rugby club would have competed with that week in week out. The 1919-20 season (first after WWI) saw 15 clubs average over 20,000 with 3 averaging over 30,000. 35 averaged at least 10,000. Two seasons later Div 3 N & S were introduced and gates never looked back until the 60's and the hooligan impact of the 70s and 80s. You only have to look at our major football grounds pre-Hillsborough to see most were laid out between 1890 and 1910 with most taking the form they found themselves in in 1989 by the time WWII came along. This was for the simple reason the booming gates resulted in ever increasing grounds. Yes football's real boom gates occurred in the few years after WWII, but it had been building to that for almost 40 years. As for schools playing rugby, that was probably down to your school and 'class' - certainly not the case for inner city working class schools where the simplicity of football in the playground was never going to be challenged by the more complex rules of rugby.
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Just on a final point about football, and forgive me if I am wrong about the date, but I am pretty sure that I read that they intend to recreate, possibly this Christmas Day 2014, the football match between German and British/Allied Troops played in No Man's Land during the First World War, where soldiers also exchanged photographs and reportedly sang Christmas carols. I can't remember if it was last year or this year but I would hope it would be shown on television. Of course Paul McCartney made that his central theme in the video for his Christmas song 'Pipes of Peace back in 1983 where he played both a British and German soldier.
And finally final it was also used on Blackadder Goes Forth when Captain Edmund Blackadder(Rowan Aktinson) and Baldrick (Tony Robinson) recalls the football match. "Remember it? - how could I forget it - I was never offside! I could not believe that decision."
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But is a metric pace the same length as an imperial pace?
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The word Mile comes from the Roman for one thousand 'millia' and is based on the Roman 1000 paces or 'mille passum'.
So paces are both Imperial and metric. Doubtless they are different if one is paced out by a greasey little French type referee and one is paced out by an upstanding referee of good British stock. |
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