Tilly's almanac

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Transcription Um, uh, Luke Tilly and Sons, have you heard of Luke Tilly? They've got the print, they have the printing works up, and it's still there now, the printing works. It's owned by, um, a lad who did his apprenticeship with, with my dad. Uh, my dad worked there for 42 years. He, he, yes, um, he, um, he only had, he was out for a couple of years with the RAF for the Second World War, and he worked there until 1970.

And they used to have the um Tilly's almanack. Have you heard of the Tilly's almanack? Oh, that's a, that's, that's lovely, that is. Well, it was. And um of course, they used to put in the back. Little things that had happened the previous year, out of the library porter, you see, well, my dad used to to do that, he used to edit all that.

And um and then when my dad retired, they still did this um because it used to show you who lived in Ledbury, all the streets in Ledbury, it was brilliant, it was, you, you, you, 00 well we've got to have an address and the telephone number and there was like adverts as well in there, all different things. It used to be, oh, everybody still says it's a shame it's gone now. And um my dad used to go through that book and, and ring all the mistakes. It's not to sit in bed and oh much more, much more. Yes, my mom, as soon as she was out, my mom had to go and get him a copy of the new almanack.

Gossel.

I, yes, yes.

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