A relatively modern music reference to " Darby and Joan " is found in the 1969 pop release of the same name, written and performed by Lyn " Twinkle " Ripley, an English singer-songwriter.
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The largest building on the high street is the village's one pub, The Pig and Abbott, an early-18th century inn which was known as the Darby and Joan from the early 19th century until the 1980s.
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This autumn and winter were to be devoted to the cultivation of proper relations between him and his wife . " Does that mean Darby and Joan ? " his wife had asked him, when the proposition was made to her.
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The organisation of large areas ( usually comprising several counties ) and the services within them were taken on by members of staff and local services ( such as Meals on Wheels, Darby and Joan clubs or Hospital Shops ) were managed independently.
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Their very silence might have been the mark of something grave their silence eked out for her by his giving her his arm and their then crawling up their steps quite mildly and unitedly together, like some old Darby and Joan who have had a disappointment.
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A reference to Darby and Joan appears in " The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson " ( 1825 ), the well-known courtesan whom the Duke of Wellington famously told to " publish and be damned ! " Speaking of her tempestuous love hate relationship with the " little sugar baker " Richard Meyler, she writes wryly:
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Woodfall's grandfather Henry Woodfall ( " c . " 1686 1747 ), was the author of the ballad " Darby and Joan ", for which John Darby and his wife were the originals; The elder Woodfall had been apprenticed in 1701 to Darby, a printer in Bartholomew Close in the Little Britain area of London, who died in 1730.
