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Ocker Hill is a residential area of Tipton in the West Midlands of England.It is situated in the northern part of the town, on the main A461 road between Dudley and Wednesbury.St Mark's parish church was built in 1849 to serve the newly developed area.The most famous landmark in Ocker Hill is the electric power station off Leabrook Road, which included two cooling towers.The cooling towers were recognisable for miles around, but they were levelled in 1985.The power station itself remained open until 1996.The town received a railway station in 1864, serving the short line between the Bloomfield area of Tipton and the township of Wednesbury.The final stub of the line, connecting Wednesbury to Ocker Hill Power Station, remained open until February 1991.Ocker Hill has been served by a primary school since the 1850s, though the original buildings were replaced during the 1970s.This page was last modified on 25 January 2008, at 10:35.Same egg hunt, just a month later ...Since Easter is just around the corner I thought I'd better give everyone an update on our annual Easter Egg Hunt.Since Easter is just around the corner I thought I'd better give everyone an update on our annual Easter Egg Hunt.Our popular summer program, Stories on the Porch, began on Thursday, June 21, with Sue Jorstad kicking off with "Native Americans" as the theme for...Is Poconos being bypassed as a priority?Same egg hunt, just a month later ...See our list of recalls.Here you will find information and news about our services.We offer consulting for Media and Telecom worldwide.From content creation and distribution to strategic support.ONLINE TRIBUTESWe are pleased to provide this service to you and the families we serve.You can also place a memorial donation, send a floral tribute or be reminded of the anniversary of a death.WELCOME MESSAGEThank you for taking the time to visit our web site.We are here to continue to provide the highest standards for our community and to the families that we serve.Ocker Funeral Home of Alma','.Ms Marden asking about Old Blighty.Of course that prompted me to wonder about Ocker.An Ocker is certainly an Australian, but one of a particular type: a rough and uncultivated working man.Think of the Australian characters in the Crocodile Dundee films, especially the Paul Hogan one, all stereotypical Ockers.An Ocker can be boorish and aggressive, blinkered, often strongly nationalistic in speech and outlook, though my impression is that tolerance and good humour are as common.He will certainly be speaking in a characteristically slurred and mangled Australian accent with lots of slang, a lingo parodied as Strine, from an Ocker way of saying Australian.The word Strine, incidentally, was invented by Alistair Morrison in 1964.He used it the following year in the title of his book, Let Stalk Strine, under the pseudonym of Afferbeck Lauder, whose name needs to be said with a Strine accent to fully savour its flavour.The Mavis Bramston Show aired between 1965 and 1968.The name is a variant on Oscar.Australia with the first names of Harold or Oscar might in earlier times have been nicknamed Ocker, for no very obvious reason that I can discover.In the 1920s, a cartoon called Ginger Meggs included a character called Ocker Stevens, so anyone with the surname Stevens was also likely to be called Ocker.Martin Mullin for his help with this answer.Contact the author if you want to reproduce this piece, but first see our advice page, which also has notes about linking.Till the fat lady sings
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