the Bobbin Up "Wind the Bobbin Up" is an English language children's nursery rhyme and singing game. Among modern lyrics is: Wind the bobbin up, Wind...
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Bobbin Up was the first novel by the author Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002). It is set in 1957 in a spinning mill in Alexandria, an industrial suburb of inner...
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A bobbin or spool is a spindle or cylinder, with or without flanges, on which yarn, thread, wire, tape or film is wound. Bobbins are typically found in...
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Bobbin lace is a lace textile made by braiding and twisting lengths of thread, which are wound on bobbins to manage them. As the work progresses, the...
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mentions of the Eternity graffito in culture are in Dorothy Hewett's novel Bobbin Up (1958) and again in her play The Chapel Perilous (1971). After Stace's...
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the cookie from the cookie jar?', 'Cookie jar song' England Wind the Bobbin Up England 1890s Wynken, Blynken, and Nod USA 1889 Yankee Doodle USA 1780s...
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(2001–04), Cutting It (2005), and House of Saddam (2008). Stephen-Daly grew up in Melbourne with her father Paul, an entrepreneur and owner of a restaurant;...
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cotton spinning mill, which gave her the material for her first novel, Bobbin Up. The climatic moment is a strike by the women workers against poor working...
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we’re bobbin' up and down like this. Over the ocean, when we’re bobbin' up and down like this. You can build a ship, my friend, when we’re bobbin' up and...
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1886. She is buried at Camperdown cemetery. Dorothy Hewett's 1959 novel Bobbin' Up includes a description of the dance halls and night life of King Street...
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