#cokeworth

[sneverussape]

no pram, no problem.

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draco staying with severus often was a winning situation for everyone: lucissa were able to get some downtime and could sneak in more date nights, severus would be forced to take care of himself and cook (and eat, if he wanted enough energy to chase after a hyperactive toddler) actual meals, and draco got exposed to people beyond the confines of wiltshire. severus’ neighbors didn’t even question the wee bairn’s visits and often came round to give him more choccy biccies than he deserved.

[casasupernovas]

so...snape fans have speculated where cokeworth is located in the england map or what it's equivalence would be. i've seen people speculate it's probably up north perhaps. maybe snape's a northerner.

however.

it's been stated multiple times that cokeworth is in the midlands. so we're thinking northampton, shropshire, stoke, birmingham.

but i prefer to think it's in the black country. mainly for these reasons:

1. cokeworth is an industrial town, even if spinner's end seems mainly abandoned, and the black country was the birth of the industrial revolution.

2. the black country was known for steelworks, glassworks and cokeworks which is maybe where the town got its title from.

3. the black country suffered from high unemployment due to the closing down of a lot of industrial sites in the 60s and 70s which ties into the idea of spinner's end being practically desolate now, and also the strain on the snape's household's economic position.

4. petunia met vernon dursley and marries him. his job was being the director of a firm that made drills. which are made of steel. steelworks anyone?

5. which leads to my last and favourite theory; petunia marrying vernon who perhaps also came from the black country then decided to name their child after something close to home. a nearby town perhaps - dudley.

[wookiecookiesfactory]

All grown up

[dadsnape]

So Cokeworth is apparently meant to be a midlands industrial town. Which means Snape probably had a black country accent and this amuses me only because it is such an unsnapelike accent.

He probably trained himself out of it but I headcanon it still slips through when he's drunk.

[seriousbrat]

Severus & Lily + growing up in Cokeworth from my series The Darkest Days on Ao3

They giggle. Lily hands him the can. He takes a swig, then looks mournfully down at the packet of crisps, which is substantially less heavy now. “Sorry, I ate most of them already.” “That’s alright,” Lily says unconcernedly. “Wasn’t really hungry, anyway.” They swing, and talk about Hogwarts, and how excited they are— regretfully, Sev swipes the bag of crisps with a sticky, salty finger, trying to collect every last flavourful crumb.

[momo-t-daye]

Combining Unofficial Snapetober 2023 Prompts "Home" and "Smoke"

The chimney at the mill, too long shuttered and silent, no longer billowed mysterious foul vapors over his hometown but Severus, well hidden on the rooftop, could smoke his stolen cigarettes and pretend for a moment that Tobias still had good reasons to leave Spinner's End for long hours on a regular schedule.

I tried to remake the jacket Sev had in this picture from the 2022 Hot Snape Summer event

[skeletonoli]

Severus Snape coming home from Hogwarts for the summer and working in the textile mill for some money

[thereaderarchive]

SNAPEDOM I NEED HELP.

Can someone please tag or link that post from an account here that had a lot of resources and explabations about the way Snape should speak/words and terminology he should use as someone from Cokeworth (and ofc how Lily and Petunia talked, too).

I'm writing this fic but I know young Snape was not using his Professor's voice when he's alone in Spinner's End or when he's grabbing toads and following foxes with Lily.

So yeah, it was a really cool post and I cannot find it for the life of me and it's been MONTHS if not a whole years since I've been looking.

PLEASE! Or reblog so maybe it reaches someone who knows?

And please excuse my English, i'm learning slowly!

EDIT: thanks for the help, in the reblogs you can find the post and some other resources that afe helpful as well! Thanks again.

[s1utforvampires]

snape being from a small working class midlands town is something that can be so personal

[ac1d6urn]

A couple of my favorite close-ups from The Bravest Man, Chapter 6 (ao3, tumblr). The backgrounds and the faces are way too inconsistent, but hey, I do love the way these two panels fit in with one another.

[snapeysister]

Severus and Harry in Cokeworth. Watercolours.

[sneverussape]

at the corner shop 🍬🍭

[postmariannizm]

snily fic for snolidays!

I'm late, but I'm here. I have a small snily self-indulgent delight.

[mothioso]

Grease & Lightning cover art

[junipersailor]

Thief AU

This is a Lily and Severus -centric Harry Potter AU (with Lupin the 3rd characters and references).

Cokeworth isn't a very safety place to grow up, but Lily and Severus had never had any other choice. And that was not bad! People don't mind if there's two children on the street without any adults, so they learnt how to steal from drunks, how to pick a lock etc. Actually, they have a good time.

At the age of 11 and 10, the best friends went to Hogwarts. The Wizarding World was not ready for this two gremlins...

[seriousbrat]

Pretty Girls Make Graves, S/L oneshot

A snippet of Severus and Lily's life in Cokeworth in the summer of 1975. 2,713 words. READ ON AO3

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August, 1975 – Cokeworth, East Midlands

Like so many polluted, dismal summer days in Cokeworth, this one seems to stretch endlessly on as Sev drags himself wearily up Dorlcote Close towards Lily’s

Severus stops before her door, and hastily tries to smooth the long curtains of hair from his face before ringing the doorbell.

In the green frosted glass of the door he can see a shape approaching— it’s a little too wide to be Lily, and sure enough when the door opens it’s Rosalind Evans smiling up at him.

“Hiya Severus, you alright?” she says kindly. Rosalind Evans is always kind to him, one of the very few people in this shithole of a town who ever are.

“Yeah, thanks Mrs Evans,” he says shyly.

“Lily’s upstairs,” she says, peering at him. “I expect she hasn’t heard the doorbell over that silly pop music of hers… give a shout if you’d like me to bring up a sarnie, or anything.”

“Thanks, Mrs Evans,” Sev says again, eagerly resolving to do so. He might try to hide it from Lily but Mrs Evans’s keen eye never fails to spot how thin he is, how underfed he starts to become as soon as he gets back from Hogwarts for the holidays....