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moggie 939 | 14:52 Mon 05th Mar 2007 | Word Origins
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What is the origin of the saying (I think I remember it correctly when I lived there)

"There is more go in a Dawson's Square!"

Anyone heard of it?
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only a guess ... didn't Les Dawson do that celebrity squares as one time - and weren't they all not keen to be there!!?
19:15 Tue 31st Jul 2007
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No - it went back to the 50s. I am sure a dawson's square was some kinf of laxative!
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10:33 Fri 03rd Aug 2007
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I have found out from a Wigan history expert!
There was a chemist shop called Dawson's near the Baths in Wigan and the property was pulled down years ago to build the Baths. Dawson's produced their own laxatives! and they were a square shape - hence the saying ' there's more work in a Dawson's Square'

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09:01 Sun 05th Aug 2007

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