Quote Originally Posted by Sloop_Jon_Bee View Post
My interpretation is Maccums comes from the shipbuilding era/culture: Maccum and Takum (Sp): building ships on the River Wear and launching them down the river. Make them and take them in other words, I am 100% confident on this one 35 years a seaman.

Spedger
Agree, I lived there ( for my sins) and they call themselves mackems. We mak 'em here and we tak 'em there. Quite right