Seeing the language written down is so funny because I can hear my older brothers from witton park talking like that and they still do even tho some live as far away as Canada! (cushty la la the nars!)

Anyone have any historical titbits about the batts 1900's

Well Jasper did the old gaggy catcha youngan , Good to see your still alive

No he didn´t I was a nimble on my feet back then and yes still alive and kicking round in Germany, although not so nimble ,these days we're the old gadgys.Good to here from you.

why aye! give ower man!

Me gran who was born in one of the many "yards" in B/A and who never set foot out of B/A in all her years spoke,
belive it or not, with an Irish accent. She was a lovely lovely woman, and I never heard her swear or use slang apart from...If she was upset about anything she would start a sentence with "Bah"
If she ever told me off for anything, and belive me I was a right little sod, she'd give me a cuddle and a threepenny bit (thruppence) to make up. I lived with her untill she passed away at the grand old age of 62.
Mary's buried in B/A cemetary with her husband George. He was only 48 when he died.

Looking back thinking about it...Bah!...those cuddles were priceless.

What about:

Ya grannies palatic in the netty.
What fettle?
Dee yer gallasses up yerl loose yer troosers.

Hi everyone in this great forum.
I am eighty seven years old in June living now in Ramsgate Kent.should you care to visit my Web Site

www.bitshack.plus.com

You will note I spent my life travelling this world. Born in Leeholme and lived in Coundon until 1937. I flew to Johannesburg sitting beside talking to Mrs. George Marshall wife of the American secretary of State, of THE MARSHALL PLAN that rebuilt Germany. this lady said my accent was CUTE, she had never heard north country before.
I said she would not understand if I used my local slang, and as an example
givower dee en that orral chuck a clemmy at the
THE REPLY MAY BE
if the dis al oanny kep it an al chuck it strite back at thoo.
Many in this group may still yet use the word KEP IT knowing that it means CATCH IT.
BUT not knowing where it came from.
To explain should anyone not know.
A coal mine has a pit shaft and a pit head with a large wheel on the top which allows a cage to be lowered down into the shaft hanging on a cable.
This cable runs over the wheel coming from a large drum it is wound on to IN THE WINDING HOUSE.
The man WINDING can not see what is happening so a man controling the cage uses a system of electric bells between himself and the winder man.

However, it is possible by error to OVER WIND and AS the cage can not be pulled up OVER the WHEEL, the cable would snap, and the cage with men in it would crash back down the pit shaft.

To cater for this happening, on top of the cage, the cable hook is fixed to a thing called a butterfly. This is two metal bars with a spring holding them apart in the form of a CAPITAL LETTER A

Higher up the pit head there is a thick square plate fixed with a HOLE IN THE MIDDLE, and THE CAGE CABLE runs up and down through this hole. BUT the butterfly never goes high enough to reach this hole.

IF EVER ! THE CAGE WAS OVER WOUND IN ERROR, ONLY THEN THE BUTTERFLY WOULD PASS THROUGH THE HOLE BECAUSE THE LETTER A SPRING WOULD CLOSE ALLOWING IT TO PASS THROUGH THE HOLE.
ONCE THROUGH THE HOLE THE SPRING WOULD AGAIN OPEN MAKING A LETTER A AGAIN.

The cable would SNAP BUT BUT, THE CAGE WOULD BE LEFT HANGING FROM THE PLATE AND BUTTERFLY INSTEAD OF CRASHING BACK DOWN THE PIT SHAFT.

IE. THE OPEN LETTER A BUTTERFLY WOULD HAVE CAUGHT IT

THIS ARRANGMENT IS REFERRED TO AS THE KEP

So in ball games the slang is NOT TO CATCH IT BUT TO KEP IT

I found these on a website about FerryHill. Growing up in Cockton hill most of these words still mean something to me.

int or ahind - behind
Ailey sailey - any old how
Alleys - glass marbles
Butterfly alleys – marbles with traditional middle colourings
German alleys - very small marbles with neat markings
Anted, hanted – as in pigeon when it is trained to come back
Aye - yes

Backy-knacks – rebounds in a game of marbles
Baff - week with no pay
Bait - food
Banty - bantem hen
Bide the time son - wait a while
Blackclock – black beetle
To blare your eyes out - to cry
Blatherskite – someone who talks a lot
Bleb - blister
*Boiley - bread boiled with milk
Boody - broken cup, etc.
Booler and hook - ring of round steel
Getting brayed up – if you had a fight and lost
I brayed him up – if you won
Bray away - get moving
Brokken - no money
Bullets - sweets
*Bums – bailiffs
*Canch - underground stone
Canny - all right
*Cavils - lottery for work place
Clag - to stick
*Clagger - a right carry on
Claggum – wallpaper paste (per JM's granny)
Clarts - mud
Clemmie - stone to throw
Clippings, broddy, hookey - for mats
Clocker - hen waiting to sit on eggs
Clout - hit, or piece of cloth
I'm a bit cockly – sickly
Coin - to turn: you could coin round the corner on your bike
Cotty - hair needs cutting
Coup yor kreels - do somersault
*Cowped - overturned or exchanged
Crack - talk gossip
Cree - garden hut
Cuddy - donkey
Cuddy wifter - left hander
Cundy - channel or tunnel
Cut - lane (see gullet)

Aa dinnot naa (Ferryhill) / Aa divvent naa (Brandon)
Dike - hedge - also confusingly the ditch by the hedge
Dolly muck - wet coal dust (found in bottom of beck running out of the pit) - there was dolly muck in the sticky-beck at East Howle.
*Pit duds - pit clothes
Dumper, tab end - cigarette end
Dunsh - to bump
*Ettle - to arrange or organise
Fadge - flat loaf
Cannot be fashed - can't be bothered: 'divent fash thesell' - don't bother yourself.
Fast off – asleep
What fettle? / can you fettle this for me? (repair)
*Finence - opposite
Fliggied - flown, as in the chicks have fliggied - left the nest
Cheeky fond – very cheeky
Gadgie - chap, fellow
*Gaff – billiard room or cinema
Galawa - pony
Galluses - braces
Tha's maken gam - taking the mickey
Gansey - jersey or pullover
*Glaikey - slow to understand
Gleg - a look:'gies a gleg' - let me see
Gob - mouth
Goller - shout
Goosegobs - gooseberries
Gowk - apple core
Gullet - a passage way (snicket / ginnel / alley)
Gully – carving knife, bread knifeHacky-mucky – filthy dirty: He was hacky-mucky
Hap up - buried
Hinny - term of endearment, 'honey'
Hockle – to spit
Hogger – hose pipe
Hoggers – shorts
If you had a rose hip stuck up your nose the doctor would howk it out
Hoy us a one
*Hoyt – wrongdoer
Hunkers - haunches
Itchy dabbers - outdoor game
Jarp- to bump, as in egg jarping at Easter
*Jowl - to signal by knocking
*Kallussed - frozen rigid
Keen - chapped hands
*Kenna - end of shift
Kep - to catch
Give us a ket - sweets, but cheap ones
Kicky-the-can / kicky-the-cog - outdoor game with treacle tin
Kizzen - to over cook
He laced into him / Aarl lace your backside
*Linings - long johns
Loggerheed – any heavy moth
Lonnen - lane
Fit as a lop / A git big lop louped onto his lug
Lowp - to jump
Lowse – end of shift or time to go
Lug - ear
Marra - mate
Midden - rubbish dump
*Mizzelled - disappeared
Muffler - scarf
Muggles - marbles in general
Ne fullicks, ne backinacks - in marble games (backinack was when a marble rebounded off a wall)
Neb - nose: Keep yor neb out!
Netty - lavatory
Neuk - nook or corner
Nip - to pinch
Nithered - very cold
*Nooled - kept downPanackilty – supper dish (potato, onions, ?corned beef)
*Pancrack - social security
Don't be so parky - fussy about food
Paste-egg - hard boiled coloured egg
Penker – biggest marble, stone marble
Plodge - paddle
Poke - sack
Pop alleys - marbles (from the top of pop bottles)
Give someone a good possin - a hiding
*Raim - to moan
Rattle - a hiding: 'I'll give you a good rattling'
I've raxed me bike - broken it
Rive - to tear
Roundies – large coals
Rozzel - make hot
Ye sackless bugger! - you silly person
*Scoull - underhanded
*Scoury stone - for window sills or doorsteps
Scran - food
*Scranching - pork skin
Scrapings - batter at fish shop
Scrat - make ends meet
Scribbly-jack – yellow-hammer
Scrunch – crumple up: Scrunsh up a piece of paper
Scumfished - hot and bothered: I came across a report from East Hetton pit where the men were held in the cage over the upcast shaft to scumfish them
Set pot - steel pot with built in fire
Shive - a slice
Aarl skelp yor lug for you - flat hand clip
Slavver - back chat
*Slop - policeman
*Smatch - peculiar taste
Smit - contagious
Snagger – turnip
Snagging - taking tops off turnips
Sneck - fastener on door
*Sooker - shroud around fire for bleezer
Spelk - splinter
Spuggy - sparrow
Steep - to soak e.g. peas
Stinker – starling
Stott - to bounce
Stottiy cake
Stowed out - packed, very full
Stowed off – full up e.g. a pub
Tab - cigarette
Team – to pour
Therockly - directly
Tiggy - game of tag
Tommy-ackers - newts (Cassop)
Toppen - front fringe of hair
Twang - dialect
Always twistin on - moaning
Twitchy-bell – earwig
Up aheight - up high
Vare nigh - very nearly
*Vine - pencil
*Waarned - to warrant
*Wisht - hush, quiet
Worrit - worry (very widely used in Ferryhill)
Wot cheor - greeting
I'm gannin yam
*Yowl - to howl
*Yule do - Christmas gift
Oxters - armpits

What about "no jaggy backs" when swapping fag cards, alleys, Dinky cars etc ?

I lived in Bishop from 1947 until 1968 when I married and moved to the south.I do remember the phrases/words others have mentioned and a few more used were :_
Clarts == mud
Clemmies === stones
Up a height for something stored on a high shelf.
up the bank instead of up the hill
ist gannin yam -- i'm going home
marra -- friend

It would be awful if the dialect were to be lost .