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Old 01-02-2010, 11:34   #2
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Re: Accrington's 'Little Italy?'

Very interesting rindy, I especially liked,

Quote:
Horace was only two generations
removed from Genoa.
"Good God Sir! what can we expect? This tyke comes from a background of culture that conquered the known world while we were still living in the historical equivalent of bicycle sheds, make an example of him immediately or next thing you know we'll have hoards of his kind and perhaps worse coming over and stealing our jobs".

Quote:
Charged on 23
January 1934 with riding his bicycle in Oswaldtwistle without a “red rear lamp or light”. His excuse? “It had broken off a short time ago”. PC Moore had spotted him at 6.50 pm and brought him before the 3 magistrates specially assembled for the purpose:
We should have more of this swift Justice.
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