{"id":4952,"date":"2018-08-07T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T05:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2018-08-07T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T05:52:40","slug":"five-ways-to-remember-church-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=4952","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways to Remember: Church Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember standing outside the fence in Duxford Lane near my Grandfather\u2019s house and it was under the peppercorn tree that spread over the lane and to where I was hearing from. I remember hearing inside the Churchyard or more, precisely the men\u2019s Thing inside the Churchyard, many things that should never have been said \u2013 at least, in That place &#8211; if you didn\u2019t want to be struck by lightning, or possibly by a great enormous fireball.<\/p>\n<p>But I suppose a well-directed shaft of lightning would have to be more just, if it has to come, than a fireball, because Goodness knows what a decent sized fire-ball would have done to the innocent as well as the wicked around those parts.<\/p>\n<p>In the twilight you could see clearly through the cracks between the palings and the air was warm enough to encourage the dawdling over the relievings and speakings that went on in that unholy place. But, now I come to remember I didn\u2019t hear anything that provoked the lightning when I was a boy. Perhaps it was the hot early evening that made me think of thunderbolts and hellfire \u2013 I have forgotten what the sweaty grown-up choir boys said that night. If it was bold I don\u2019t suppose it matters much now.<\/p>\n<p>I tell you what I do remember, and what is more, never expected to tell of to a small boy of my own, is that I was about your age, and if I can carry on with a sentence which is about what I am trying to remember so long ago it is that, that night, after I had heard my big brother in the church thing, when he shouldn\u2019t have been there and was supposed to be at home looking after me who shouldn\u2019t have been there listening either, is that I remember standing on a chair and big woman was sticking all of the top part of her body in front of my face, and on it, it had a piece of string with a cardboard C on it.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t ask me how it happened. But somehow or other brother Jack and I were all dollied up and were back in the Church hall. It was guessing night of the suburbs and was a very social do. Well, I didn\u2019t know what the old suburb was and before I could think it up my brother Jack started playing the piano bang in the middle of the stage. \u201cRachmaninoff\u2019s Prelude\u201d (I always played the first two chords better myself). Anyway he finished it and got a lot of claps. I was proud of Jack but he looked silly shy in his great celluloid collar and Grandfather was shoving him behind the lousy old tinkly piano past the ferns and aspidistras and off to the stage into the wings which led to the Thing.<\/p>\n<p>I was waiting for Jack outside the Gents and we both went up to the cake and sandwich department. This cake and sandwich place was way back in the Hall and was pretty dim under the forest of paper Easter daisies and Xmas bells and concertina-ed what-nots and long coloured streamers like we used to send our soldiers off to the war with. The cake and sandwich Mecca was guarded by a very fierce churchwoman, who stood us in a corner.<\/p>\n<p>Ettie Rudd, a powerfully built friend of my mother\u2019s, sang a very strong song. I think it was a female Invercargill March. My mother smiled and kept on talking to the fellows who worked in the saddle factory underneath Bull\u2019s the grocer\u2019s shop. I didn\u2019t like these characters, I suppose I was jealous, and I am glad that horses were dying out in Paddington, although I had nothing against horses, or lampposts either, because they were to die out too. I liked them both really well, and Sharkey\u2019s old dog \u201cBarker\u201d who used to inconvenience the people who leaned on lamp posts. Gas lamp posts were a joy for the young. We climbed up them in the daytime and put them on \u2026 in the evening we climbed up and pulled them off. Professor Brennan, who lived opposite our place in Glenmore Road liked that. Not that he was ever capable of doing it himself, but he liked us doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was supposed to be telling you about the woman with the big C on a string on her bosom. Well, the bosom, though ample, had nothing to do with it. C on cord\u2026 CONCORD! Real clever.<\/p>\n<p>After that I don\u2019t remember much. It was an awful party for boys, even if it was held in St George\u2019s Hall, Five Ways, Paddington, about 1917.<\/p>\n<p><em>[W.E. Pidgeon]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Notes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Duxford Lane, now known as White Lane after Wep&#8217;s grandfather, runs from Duxford Street, immediately behind John White&#8217;s property (Bill&#8217;s grandfather) through to Broughton Street past the rear of St George&#8217;s Church.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ethel Stewart (Ettie) Rudd (1878-1953) of 32 Ormond Street. Ettie Rudd was the daughter of a well-known contractor of 32 Ormond Street, Mr Henry Rudd. Ettie never married and lived her entire life in the same home.\u00a0 Presumably her father, Henry Rudd and Wep&#8217;s grandfather, John White did business together at times. (1898 &#8216;SOCIAL ITEMS.&#8217;,\u00a0Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 &#8211; 1931), 15 April, p. 3. , viewed 07 Aug 2018, http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article109650568)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ettie may well have proven an inspiration for Wep&#8217;s propensity to draw large women in his satirical cartoon strip &#8220;In and Out of Society&#8221;, which he drew weekly from 1933-1949. A faint pencil sketch on one of his drafts for this story shows a small Wep standing on a chair in front of large\u00a0 Ettie Rudd.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4967 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BX01F8_024-21-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BX01F8_024-21-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BX01F8_024-21.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4969\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4969 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BX59_166-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BX59_166-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BX59_166-2-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IN AND OUT OF SOCIETY . . 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Well, I didn\u2019t know what the old suburb was and before I could think it up my brother Jack started playing the piano bang in the middle of the stage. \u201cRachmaninoff\u2019s Prelude\u201d (I always played the first two chords better myself).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2015],"tags":[2090,2085,2088,2089,2016,2086,401,2080,737,30,2087,2091,2056,2023,2092,2084],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-ways-to-remember","tag-bulls-grocery","tag-duxford-lane","tag-ethel-stewart-rudd","tag-ettie-rudd","tag-five-ways","tag-gurner-street","tag-in-and-out-of-society","tag-john-frederick-jack-pidgeon","tag-john-white","tag-paddington","tag-professor-brennan","tag-saddle-maker","tag-sharkey","tag-st-georges-church","tag-st-georges-hall","tag-white-lane"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Five Ways to Remember: Church Hall - Pidgeon Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=4952\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five Ways to Remember: Church Hall - Pidgeon Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Don\u2019t ask me how it happened. 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