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No sorry, who is he?

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yes i can re-call little Jimmy Clitheroe :)

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That name rings a bell, but at the moment can't think why.

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I can remember him vaguely from when I was a lad. :)
I think his next door neighbour was called Mister Wilson.

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Ah,yes.
Little Jimmy Clitheroe.
He was so funny.

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Jimmy Clitheroe, Shows like The Clitheroe Kid and Just Jimmy, with Mollie Sugden, Ken Dodd, Hilda Baker, Jimmy Edwards. I think he had some conection with Clitheroe.

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Thankyou people.I was starting to feel old until this thread.Jimmy who???????lol.Looks more like the Krankies to me(and very bad they were)

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Little Jimmy Clitheroe,lived in Preston.
Not far from Mick's Dad.
Hee Hee suppose thats Mick's claim to fame.
My Dad knew Little Jimmy Clitheroe.

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He used to be on the radio, and if my memory serves me, looked a bit like Jimmy Krankie, the ageless schoolboy.

I remember that he was opening something at Oswaldtwistle Townhall in 1968, when I was three. I found him so scary at the time that I cried.:(

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i think your thinking of dennis the menace len..
i remember jimmy clitheroe on the radio..and archie andrews,though why they had a ventrioquists dummy on the radio beats me,,,,lol

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I used to watch him on tv in the 60's.I thought he was funny.

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Do you mean this Jimmy Clitheroe ?

http://www.jimmyclitheroe.co.uk/

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he used to live in clitheroe then moved to blacko nr gisburn

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thats the chappy

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do,s anyone know where i could get some tv footage of jimmy clitheroe

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Hehe …. I think you may be right grannyclaret, I was getting a little mixed up as I was only about 7 or 8 years old at the time ... But I vaguely remember watching Jimmy Clitheroe on tv in the mid 60’s.
:p

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Thanks for the link yerself.

Thats the lil man that made me cry.

More nightmares tonight, cheers.;)

Jeanette Krankie defintely nicked his act don't you think?

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she was once being interviewed and she said thats where the idea came from.. now it would be claims are us...
there s someone getting sued by burberry for making clothes for ferrets in a a SIMMILER tartan .:nono8: :nono8:

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I saw that.:)


I think I'd only dress my ferret up if they sold Jimmy Krankie outfits.

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I don't remember Jimmy Clitheroe being on TV, but was an avid listener to his radio shows in the 50s, and saw him at Blackpool once. I think he was actually a midget, but made a good living out of it.

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I don’t believe how many people over forty don’t remember him. We grew up with him, he was both on the radio and later on the telly……The only time I cried was with laughter of which I have very fond memories. Some of his last TV work was on the Charlie Drake show.

Now then, Can anyone remember Old Mother Riley.....

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And when did she make an apprearenc 1957.

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i have 10hrs of him on disc

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oh i remember old mother rily but mutch of her

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Well this is one time I can claim I aint old enough to remember these kind of programs etc. Oh the joys of youth. ;)

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think jimmy clitheroe was on granada t.v. but remember owd mother riley was that arther lucan?

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"The Clithroe Kid" used to be on the radio, Sunday lunchtimes, in the 50s and 60s. His next-door neighbour was Mr Higginbottom who had a son called Ossy. I always found Jimmy Clitheroe a bit - disturbing. :eek:

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Old Mother Riley.
I used to love watching that Doug.
I would laugh till the tears flowed and everything ached.
Brilliant!

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It was good clean fun that we could understand. I loved the Saturday mornings at my nans down Canal St. She had a bigger telly; Old Mother Riley was a staple of our early Childhood. I can also remember watching Voyage the Bottom of the Sea and flash Gordon all in glorious Black and White. I’m a little sad really when it comes to the old telly. I had tears in my eyes watching “Reach for the Stars” an old Romantic war film on More 4 this afternoon.

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hey! wern't they good all of them...... better days by far i would say.

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I have heard of him, but don't remember him. However at Lancaster we had two players there with the surname Clitheroe, one Stewart (don't know where he is now), and the other was Lee, he's now turning out for Bamber Bridge.

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I've got Old Mother Riley's autograph (Arthur Lucan) - and his "beautiful daughter" Kitty, (Kitty McShane - God, that woman was ugly). They were husband and wife and she was, by all accounts, a right bitch - she certainly looked it. :D

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Those were the days, we didn't need things that cost the earth to entertain us.
Even the adds seemed more interesting back then.