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quite correct beechy, it was a youth club, but doubt many patrons viewed it as such.:D

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Oh I don't know cashy it was very recreational, bit of lively dance, the odd bit of boxing, and the occassional wrestling bout, what more could you ask for at a youth club:hitting8:

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Just having a trawl through back post, I can remember Retta Garrity, or to give her her full title Henretta Garrity, In the early 70 I worked at Pilckington Brothers at the bottom of Gordon street, thats where she lived, although she didn't live there then, the house was boarded up, but a lot of the lads who worked there told some tales about her and her antics, some of them rather saucey but funny

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and the rather large dog, that used to lie by the table were mary sat at the top of the stairs,were you paid yer enterance fee, summat else i dont remember.:D;)

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or the kind gentlemen who helpfully
threw you down the stairs..(if you so desired) :mosher:

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:bleedht:My mum wouldn't let me go:bleedht:

because you lot were bad lads :mad:

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he did n i didn't desire, they were bloody stone steps as well.:D

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Cashy don't let it worry mate, you've only just joined the over sixties club, you have to get used to no remembering things now:rolleyes::D But I have to say I'd forgot about the dog as well

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anyone remember a guy must have died in 70s or late 60s was known as "Tommy Two Guns"? i used to see him occasionally in the St Leger on plantation street, he was apparently named cos he was n old gangster in the states, actually worked with "Legs Diamonds" mob, many used to laugh at the guy n think bull, but it was fact, which he once proved to me. no-one seems to know of him, but was in a conversation with our own Bob Dobson, last summer n he certainly knew him, or of him, heard some fascinating storys off the owd guy, n always used to buy him a beer fer telling em, maybe some of our older members knew him or of him?

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There was a Sharon McKenna in my class at Holy Family, I think her brother was Colin, but they lived on Whalley Rd , in Clayton, she was a good looker too,

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i seem to remember a character called Tommy Two Guns
had a farm set back of the Whinney Hill road at bottom of Bolton Rd
im going back to when we were kids cashy early sixties
you might not have been a lanesider in them days :mosher:

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i only knew him from 64 ish onwards beechy.

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anyone seen that bloke who walks around with a hanky on his head?

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It may be part of the Festival of Culture if they are here

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lol, i was amazed the first time i saw him with it on, it was raining, i thought that fashion went out in the 70s