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Old 21-10-2007, 12:07   #106
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I remember the Michael Jackson impersonator I remember him walking through marks and spencers when I was a kid doing his stuff...

There's a great guy who I always say hello too when I see him, an old fella with white hair. Has/had a dog called max, lives up hodder street way I think, he's often seen around town playing his harmonica, I've got a video of him on my other computer playing his harmonica and pointing his walking stick at my camera What a guy!
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Old 21-10-2007, 12:28   #107
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haha yeah thats me
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Old 10-11-2007, 15:15   #108
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RE- Reta, Hope her sons not a member???
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Old 15-11-2007, 16:19   #109
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He must be in his 70s now. I can't remember his Christian name but I remember seeing him around Ossy in the 50s.
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Old 15-11-2007, 20:08   #110
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Old 22-01-2008, 03:06   #111
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Hi, sorry been away for a long time due to ill health in family, good to hear what you all have to say, been catching up on all the chat. Anyone remember Tommy Mckenna used to hang out at Joe Morts in the early 60s?
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Old 22-01-2008, 06:10   #112
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Hi, sorry been away for a long time due to ill health in family, good to hear what you all have to say, been catching up on all the chat. Anyone remember Tommy Mckenna used to hang out at Joe Morts in the early 60s?
i remember a colin mckenna orked at the brick yard in the 60s
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Old 22-01-2008, 07:02   #113
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Colin McKenna rings a bell with me, was he a bit of a hard man?. a few of them up the Arcs like that, I used to keep out of there way.
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Old 22-01-2008, 11:36   #114
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knew a Bill McKenna way back, was he a relative?
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Old 22-01-2008, 20:19   #115
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last time i spoke to colin he was in accy rockers
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Old 13-03-2008, 11:34   #116
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Uncle Dick, who had a stall at the fornt of Accy market.
Always a huge crowd round his stall.
What about his wife Sadie always a smart lady.
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Anyone remember Redmans across from the market hall, used to love the smell in there, coffee i think it was.
I remember the lovely smokey bacon smell. We used to buy a little hovis loaf from there on our way back to school after swimming.
Do you remember the swimming baths and the pit at the top.
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Yes, I remember trying to get there before 7pm. You'd get a "stamp" on the back of you're hand, if you wanted to go out again.
If my memory serves me correctly, when I first went there (1959?) there was no men's toilets, they had to go across the road to public ones. I was there the night they announced that Big Bopper etc had died in a plane crash.
Hi I was at Morts from 56 on. My dad used to say stay away. Of course it made me go all the more. The sweat box it was called. The teddy boys with brothel creepers and long jackets. But some great jivers went there.
Have many great memories but I wouldn't share them with my grandchildren I don't think they would believe me anyway.

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Old 13-03-2008, 12:31   #119
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