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As it's his thread so to speak here are my thoughts on our Cyril. He was never always in charge in fact on occasion Clegg took the lead in this era and so you might think it was a more equal trio. However, this was was not the case as...

For me Seymour was pretty much the definitive third man. On the authoritive side he had all the bad traits built up of his time as head of the Utterthwaite academy. The glimpses we get here are of an instution as much falling apart...

Tramp in 'Big Day at Dream Acres'

"It's my round...what are you avin' ?".... "Ooooohh...I will 'av a nice large Whiskey !!"... "No you won't...you are driving....YOU WILL 'AV A SMALL BEER !!!!"... "I will 'av a small beer".... And if it was not for them damaging...

Before his passing Alan Bell was kind enough to send me some of his own pictures, this one was taken with his Nikon D70 camera on the 6th September 2004

Sounds like they wanted her to pay the import duty

Similar thing happened to my fiancé and I where she wanted to buy a coat from UGG in America but the UK for some reason don't allow it. So I had her buy it and send it to my house here in America and I shipped it to her. I was told...

32 Tonner (rubber car mats) in trailer of arctic, travelling down into Italy on the Mont-Cenis pass in late summer 1974, driver behind started blowing his air-horns and flashing like hell at me, looked in wing mirrors and realised I...

I used to have a Luton bodied van - don't ask! - basically an oblong box with doors, stuck on a long wheel-base van chassis. There's a roundabout junction on the dual carriageway just off the M25 near Watford, I was coming down a...

Took members of the family to a wedding Down Sowf' in a transit mini bus never driven one . Got them used to the change in language by playing Chas n Dave's greatest hits so they had a few phrases and could understand what people were...

The only situations that I remember vividly are the two farms I had to reverse up their drive to collect the potatoes. These two farms were in Norfolk (near Dereham) and didn't have enough room for an arctic to turn round. The shortest...

I remember driving along these quite narrow lanes near Castleton, possibly Bakewell in the Peak District and suddenly there's a huge truck with trailer was stuck in a compromising position and road totally blocked. The driver was AWOL...

Can't argue with that. How dare you have a reasoned intelligent position. Stand in the corner and don't speak until you're spoken to. :29: :29: :29: I thought Seymour was brilliant. I absolutely loved his character.

There were plenty of episodes in the late 70s and early 80s that would have worked for Blamire. We know Series Three was written with Blamire in mind. In Series Four, Who Made a Bit of a Splash in Wales, we have Foggy pursuing a welsh...

It'd have gone for a fair longer I suspect with a slightly rejigged back to originally intended series 3. Thereafter he'd have gradually mellowed a bit as the series opened up more and the northern grime got replaced with rolling hills...