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    Ring any bells (us oldies)

    Nurse Batty on hand :)
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    Compos names for Foggy.

    Tulip?
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    Laurel & Hardy

    It does to be honest Barry but I could repair most things on the t3 engine but not so sure I’ll be as proficient on that front with this one. We have just got back from the Dickensian market at Ulverston.
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    Laurel & Hardy

    It’s gone :( .. we’ve bought a t5. We had reached the point of wanting something that did more than 20 miles to the gallon and it was going to need a bit of work to keep it in good nick so I sold it to a younger man whose going to do just that. We had some great times in it over the years and...
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    Laurel & Hardy

    I’m currently in Cartmel and popping over to Ulverston in the morning. Looking forwards to revisiting the L&H museum.
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    The Wrinkled Stocking.

    That’s what I was thinking. Wether the rest will be stored or sold on would be interesting.
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    The Wrinkled Stocking.

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    Black and White Movies

    … and the Robin Hood series with Richard Greene.
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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    RIP Mani. We got to see the Stone Roses a few times early on in their career at small gigs in Manchester and got to see his first gig with the band in Manchester in ‘87.
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    Black and White Movies

    Went The Day Well, any Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles with Peter Cushing. I remember as a rowdy youth walking out of the cinema when Manhattan came on as it was in black and white :)
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    A true tale from 1973

    I have had a couple of similar ‘peds. Currently looking for another doer upper. Originally available from Woolworths :)
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    Conkers

    We attached our sticks to a rope if we had a good one so we wouldn’t lose it :)
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    Hey Grapple Fans

    … lightbulb moment…Pat Roache, Bomber from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet??
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    Hey Grapple Fans

    Hmm, might need another clue. It was a coincidence that I watched an old World of Sport short the other day and the Porridge actor Brian Glover was wrestling under his moniker of Leon Arras( the man from Paris).
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    Hey Grapple Fans

    Brian Glover??
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    Tesco Joys

    I’ll second Ian Dury and also throw in John Cooper Clarke especially his work with the Invisible Girls especially 36 Hours and Beasley Street.
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    Hey Grapple Fans

    Kendo Nagasaki, Mick Mc Manus, Catweazle, Rollerball Rocco and Les Kellet.
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    What would you pay

    One near a business I sometimes visit near us in Cheshire.
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    A Different type of Picture Quiz #4

    The Mysterious Feet Of Nora Batty, step ladders in the river.
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    Conkers

    We would ride miles to get to a good tree. I walk past trees with hundreds of big beautiful conkers on the floor and I think back to those times knowing that we would have scooped up the lot. We need to get the kids conkering again. Then we can bring back clackers!!
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