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...
"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
"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...
I'm not sure I understand this line of reasoning; surely NW merely played the role that RC/AJWB gave him to perform. I can't believe anyone would be allowed to "take over" by RC/AJWB.
I wasn't keen on the character of Hobbo Hobdyke, but...
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