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Originally Posted by cashman
It is Eric, used to go in the village way back, which i always regarded as behind the Forts.  By the way was Basils Lad "Alan"? |
No, it was Tony. I forget how many kids Basil and his old lady had ... but, they were Catholics
Basil was a real character. I remember him and his horse and cart ... and the stuff he had in his junk yard off Lower Barnes St. would be worth a fortune today. I remember that he had a whole bunch of those cast iron fire places ... that would be at the time when folks were tossing those in favour of those little tiled things
A great guy that Basil ... used to buy me the odd pint (good Dutton's ale) in the Village. Sometimes he smelled a little ripe, but that was only when he had been mucking out the pigs he used to keep on his allotment back of our place on Rishton Rd.