http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT Cundy/Koondy and lost marbles en Tue, 19 May 2026 00:33:20 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-374215 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:46:29 +0000 gembo 374215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The unmentionable just mentioned Cundy over on Twitter /X</p> <p>This is one of my favourite CCE threads and contains a modest amount of bicycle or less</p> <p>Jaurie/Penka/Liggie</p> <p>And </p> <p>Cundy/Stankie</p> <p>To you all </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-295222 Wed, 07 Nov 2018 22:22:38 +0000 gembo 295222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice lintel for the benefit of the Publick </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-295221 Wed, 07 Nov 2018 22:13:02 +0000 Arellcat 295221@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Just off Lamb's Conduit Street on Long Yard is an inscribed lintel, which is all that remains of the head of the conduit.</em></p> <p>And here is that lintel:</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/2bCvWn3"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4850/45045495204_1cbe25dde4_z.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2bCvWn3">The conduit of William Lambe</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293809 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:16:06 +0000 gembo 293809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Last night I put my version of my Jaurie - little moon rechargeable straight into USB without lead back light in my pocket as thought I won't put it on just to take it off when go into GP. When I went to put it on, it was not in my pocket. The opposite of Wee Johnnie where he thought his jaurie rolled down the cundy but found it later in his pocket.</p> <p>Road repair looks good and the bridge they fixed in the summer also good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293795 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:38:58 +0000 ejstubbs 293795@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In Cambridge there is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_Conduit">Hobson's Conduit</a>, the Trumpington Street branch of which has claimed many an unobservant pedestrianiser, bicycler and drivist over the years. Unlikely as it seems, this open channel by the side of a major road was designed to bring fresh water to the city. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293788 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:47:39 +0000 Cyclingmollie 293788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The repair seems to be complete and the road is open again. </p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/2c8sxbU"><img src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1916/45373010292_535d6538fc.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/2c8sxbU">20181018_133539</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44681630@N02/">Tom Orr</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293468 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:24:06 +0000 gembo 293468@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lamb's Conduit seems to be about bringing water to you whereas the stow coach road farmer's Cundy is about taking water away </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293467 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:47:50 +0000 Arellcat 293467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>*I'm sure that @Laidback and @arellcat will know of the latter London throughfare in which there is one of London's most curmudgeonly friendly bike shop proprietors, eager to help with a selection of high performance cycles ... and 8Freights</em></p> <p>No, curmudgeonly is about right. ;)</p> <p><em>"<br /> There lieth a street from Newgate west to the end of Turnagaine lane, and winding north to Oldborne conduit. This conduit by Oldborne cross was first built in 1498. Thomasin, widow to John Percival, mayor, gave to the second making thereof twenty marks, Richard Shore ten pounds. Thomas Knesworth and others also did give towards it.</p> <p>But of late a new conduit was there built in place of the old, namely, in the year 1577, by <a href="http://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/page4344.htm">William Lambe</a>, sometime a gentleman of the chapel to King Henry VIII., and afterward a citizen and clothworker of London; the water thereof he caused to be conveyed in lead, from divers to springs to one head, and from thence to the said conduit, and waste of one cock at Oldborne bridge, more than two thousand yards in length; all of which was by him performed at his own charges, amounting to the sum of fifteen hundred pounds.<br /> "</em></p> <p>Just off Lamb's Conduit Street on Long Yard is an <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.522906,-0.118955,3a,15y,7.48h,80.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shNSjp-zQSGHneI3N4hvZnQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">inscribed lintel</a>, which is all that remains of the head of the conduit.</p> <p><em>"<br /> Lamb's Conduit the Property of the City of London this Pump is Erected for the Benefit of the Publick<br /> "</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293465 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:49:06 +0000 gembo 293465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats, who can say, love you bringing in Poldy.</p> <p>The Lamb pub in Lamb's Conduit Street. Was a Young's pub, one would walk for miles to find a Young's pub in the day. Charles Wells of Bedford now own Young's.</p> <p>Snob screens abound in The Lamb, with etched glass. You can then travel up Holborn way and visit the mad sculpture amusement arcade that is an offshoot of the one on Southwold Pier. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293461 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 08:52:30 +0000 I were right about that saddle 293461@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wondered if comrade @gembo had achieved his ultimate aim here: a thread which is interesting yet impossible to reply to.</p> <p>Anyway, talk of lambs' conduits puts me in mind of Leopold Bloom's dinner;</p> <p>"Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293460 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 08:42:13 +0000 gembo 293460@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@tulyar, I think I have been in a pub in Lamb's Conduit Street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293457 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:10:47 +0000 Tulyar 293457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh &amp; @gembo my version was lost his liggie (a device with a flint and quantity of 'liggie jooce') which he lost alang the Scotswood Road.</p> <p>Said liggie is found in the next verse, and the final verse affirms that it was in his ***in pocket </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293456 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:05:16 +0000 Tulyar 293456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cundy = Northern appropriation of Conduit, As in Conduit Street/Lamb's Conduit Street* etc (street with river running beneath it).</p> <p>*I'm sure that @Laidback and @arellcat will know of the latter London throughfare in which there is one of London's most <strike>curmudgeonly</strike> friendly bike shop proprietors, eager to help with a selection of high performance cycles ... and 8Freights </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293329 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:53:17 +0000 Cyclingmollie 293329@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, cundy is a word I heard used when I was young.</p> <p>Earlier this week in a cafe in Edinburgh I was confused by the lack of a flush handle on the toilet until I realised it was a shunkie. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19179#post-293312 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 07:14:11 +0000 gembo 293312@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The other day chatting to the farmer on the coach road out of stow she mentioned the water board had damaged the Cundy eight years back and the road closure ( to cars) was to repair the culvert. Not a word I was familiar with although I have a vague memory of the ditty</p> <p>Wee johnny's lost his jaurie<br /> He lost it at the Broomielaw<br /> It rolled right down the Cundy.</p> <p>Which transpires is a variant of the Geordie song</p> <p>Wor Geordie's lost his Penka</p> <p>In Newcastle the drain is called The Koondy.</p> <p>Lest you be upset at this loss of a prize marble, fear not. Johnnie/Geordie finds it later in his pocket.</p> <p>No marbles are lost in any of the regional variations. </p>