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From: "Norman Lee" <>
Subject: Re: Crooked Billets - consensus interpretation
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:04:48 +0100
References: <104.185fb2e.2802f578@aol.com>


If it is a bent piece of wood, it could refer to the method construction of
the building, possibly a cruck construction.

Audrey Lee (Stockport UK)

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Sent: 09 April 2001 12:22
Subject: Crooked Billets - consensus interpretation


> A couple of contributors to this debate have mentioned men with choppers -
> but what were the signs outside the other Crooked Billets wihch have been
> sighted?
>
> Perhaps if any one picture is in the majority it might suggest the real
> meaning of the term.
>
> If its really is a bent piece of wood, I fancy the pub name must be
reference
> - now forgotten - to a particular crooked billet: why else would it be so
> popular?
>
> Regards
>
> Philip Heath
>
>

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