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We used the toothpaste all the time when we were kids, same germs an all, loved the taste,

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KAGOOLS....remember them in the 80's?
ya could fold em up and stick in in your bag:D
trouble with them was you still got ****ed wet through and the things stuck to ya!!!

do they still do them?

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We always had to take a kagoul onn school trips. We hated wearing them though. They looked horrible and had a plastic lining that made you all sweaty.:(

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yeh kagouls were cheap crap,ya couldn't beat a good gaberdine.;) that was in my Harry Lime days.:D

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I remember having a bright blue Pack-A-Mac which folded into a neat little square - how naff!

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When I was thirteen we were taking my school friend Widdup water ski-ing on Windermere, in the summer holidays.

My mum phoned his rather posh mum (they lived in Wiswell, and had a study, so they were posh to us,) and told her he would probably need a 'kag'.

Not knowing what a 'kag' was, they apparently drove all the way to Skipton, to a boating shop, thinking it was some specialist equipment, only to find out a kag was a nylon anorak, that folds up to a handy size, and is pefect if it starts to pour down in the rainy Lake District.:D

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I've got the giants causeway version of it hanging in my hallway. The only thing is it looks more like the plastic coats that were the fashion in the 80s.

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I remember when the Odeon Cinema had contiuous pictures. There used to be long queues. The old fish markets and tripe stalls. Joe Morts and Knowlemere Street. Winkle pickers and teddy boy's. I could go on forever.

Littlepom.

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Just thinking about shops in town I remember the blue dahlia cafe on Dutton St, Kenyons cafe on broadway, near to there I think there was something called the golden kitchen, Dellstar Travel agents on broadway next door to some kind of d i y shop, there was Boots on Blackburn road, which I can remember had kind of metal circles stick to its glass doors, EJ Rileys toy shop and Wardleworths on Little Blackburn road, Babyland top of Warner St on corner, Fowlers fabrics and a cafe which I cant remember the name of opposite town hall. Further up little blackburn road was Pendle travel agents and a fent shop with a very old man in it. There was the womble inn opposite yorkshire bank which sold chicken butties and stuff, Tiger lilies clothes shop in what is now Baileys on church st. Just above the bus station on the right hand side going up was a large ladies clothes shop but I've forgotten the name of it.

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Just remembered some more - Pauls for school uniforms on little blackburn road, classic cinema (which always seemed to smell of cats), Marys music opposite hope and anchor, record exchange at the top of little blackburn road, really good hot potatoes with butter on in little bags from a stall on the market, ali's stall which I think was clothes and Relayvision on the corner of broadway. I can remember the huge car park on what is now the arndale with the toilets in that space age building.

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When Broadway was a sunken garden, I used to sit with my mum and have an ice lollie from the cinema.
When the market was in Peel Street
The UCP Tripe shop on Blackburn Road
The New Era (when it first opened) and the dances
Holidays with the Youth Club (Austria)
Mods driving up and down Blackburn Road outside the Market hall
Sitting and listening to Radio Luxemburg on the bench at the bottom of Barnfield Street
Big Ben anyone know what that was??

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BIG Ben was a bottle of ale brewed by Thwaites.;) a damn good un.:D

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I remember a lot of the Accy stuff mentioned on here. I also used to sit on the 'big hill' on Barnfield st listening to radio Luxemburg. I also 'grew up' on number 1 stall and used to be one of the itinerants who frequented the copper kettle cafe I was 14 at the time. Lol

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ah ya missed me debbiej i was "Grand Master" of the No1 Stall.:D

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This Mod didnt have a car or a scooter in those days, spent too much money on clothes. It was always bus or train.

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quite a few Mods did though Al,remember wrapping one or two of the long mirrors over the handlebars.:D

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I remember meeting others at the No 1 stall, a lot of the lads used to play snooker at the Elite club? think it was that. Used to sit for hours in the Blue Dahlia much to parents alarm. Copper kettle another haunt.
The walled area in front of the market hall was the deck where everyone met up at the weekend.
Used to frequent the pub that was where the old cinema used to be on Broadway, packed to the doors most nights, then up to the pub on Church Street or I think one at the bottom near the viaduct?

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MH, there's a whole thread on this...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f80/deck-5355.html

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OK then lets all met on the Deck. Another Saturday Night and I aint got nobody, got some money cause I just got paid, how I wish I had someone to talk to Im in an awful way.

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Anticipation of who you would see, hoping that it would not rain, making plans, new friends then new places a long way from home and very young, it seems like only yesterday.

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yeh just made me dig me sam cooke single out Al.:);)

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I used to mate out with the guy who ran the Dahlia, Jovani he was called, but everbody called him John, he actually took out British citezenship back in the seventes, haven't seen him for years now. The Pub on Church street was the Bridge is still there and the one near the viaduck was the Blockade it was a, either Sam or John Smiths house

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Blockade was John Smiths, only Sam Smiths in Accy Centre was the Big Crown, Eddie n Joyce had the Blockade for many years 60s/70s the back room was well known for getting stoned in,.................... so they say:D;)

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dont know if anyones mentioned it but do you remember what was Glynwebbs being asda ?
My mum used to say it was really small and packed and seemingly cheap at the time

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i sort of remember when it was asda, you had to go up a slope to get into the actual shopping bit....i think :confused:

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I worked there after school and Saturdays.

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wow! well you made my mum a happy bunny - she always says she enjoyed shopping there

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ya sure did, was great crack hurtling down with a full trolley, :D didn't half make the old dears move.;)

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where Glynwebb or adsa?:confused:

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Asda silly:p

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The burnt down Glynn Webbs was once Asda (opened 1961) but before that it was Nightingales car showroom - hence the ramp for getting the car to the display area.
See the Cinema thread for more details about the original use of the buildings in that area
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...s-31961-5.html

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Was it called the Queens after it was Nightingales I seemed to remember when the grocery store first opened people where still calling it the Queens or am I confused as usual
thanks
Tony

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You are confused - the Queens is the bingo hall on the other corner at the top of Oxford St -- which used to be the coop --alll will be clear if you read that 'Cinema' thread

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Thanks for that Margaret but was there nothing after Nightingales before Asda
Tony

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That bingo hall was also owned by Fred Skinner, who also had bingo places in Great Harwood, Clayton, Padiham, and Bury

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remember this?http://www.virginmedia.com/images/atari-4x3.jpg:mosher:atari 2600..1977

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I've still got one of those in a box in my wardrobes. There are about a dozen games too. :)

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you little hoarder.:D;)

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One day, when I pluck up the courage to empty the bottom of those wardrobes, I may well come up with much more than the Atari. I have a feeling Lord Lucan may have been in there at some time. :D

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Does anyone used to remember them fur thingys ya used to have on a piece of string and you used to put the string up ya arm and pull so it looked like ya had a furry pet?

you understand what I mean dont ya?....lol

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Yep...got my face smacked when I tried to catch one :hothothot

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Here you go.:D

Magic Twisty Wigglee Magic Worm - Putfile.com

Though in the U.K. I think it was marketed as Mr. Squirbles, or something similar.

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No he's hiding in the Burnley throphy room West Ender, hope Dave and GC dont see this:rolleyes:

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Peter Wyngarde as Jason King :jimbo:

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Now I've just got to say -ssshhh! - Gareth Hunt. :D

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It was known as Asda Queens Supermarket when I worked there.

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'Big Ben' was the area around the back of the college on Sandy Lane was. Near the running track.

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we had some good nights at nelson imp. dont know if its still there or not, most likley a supermarket now.

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; i used to hang around with the dancers at new era; they were good times back then ; theres nothin now for kids these days ; every wed night i;d be at new era ; anyone else go back in the day ; when nipper and start and lee went ;

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Just looking through an old magazine.Back to 1966. I was 18 at the time. No 1,record, Four Tops, Reach out, I'll be there. No 2, Stop, stop, stop. The Hollies. The Hollies walk out of a Ready, Steady, Go telerecording session after discovering that the Dave Clark Five are to top the bill. Alma Cogan dies from cancer. John Maus of the Walker Brothers describes Scott as moody, irresponsible and a pain in the neck. Denny Lane, leaves the Moody Blues. Mick Jagger arrives at a Pink Floyd Concert, with new girlfriend Marianne Faithfull,though he's supposedly living with Crissie Shrimpton,( some things never change ). Movies of that year, Bonnie & Clyde, Georgy Girl . same Year , Aberfan Disaster, and lastly. Johnny Kidd dies in a car crash. Hard to believe it was all over 40 yrs ago.

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tony, the queens bingo was at the top of oswald st, church blackburn rd nr oaktree pub it used to be the tudor cinema then it was a nightclub (saw frank ifield there mm) the building is still there but is a snooker place now,

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There were TWO Queens bingo halls - Church and Accrington - the Accrington one still operates (was owned by Skinner) - I was a regular at both until I overcame the addiction :D

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who rememers Moseleys Bread bakery on jacob st :(

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I remember it, but it was run by Warburtons then . Used to smell lovely when you walked past in the morning.mmmmm

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goin back to 64, was living at Black Annies n a couple of guys used to work on nights at moseleys, never had as many Manchester Tarts in me life.:D;)

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My gran used to send me there for bread and barms before school, and to Feathers butchers in the market hall, where I still buy my meat.
We used to get freshly ground coffee at Redmans, ( now Brighthouse) and also butter patted into a block and wrapped in greaseproof paper.

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Yes! we had some fun down there, and also in Broad Oak works, there was a slab of pavement halfway up that used to get really hot in the winter, we used to meet there as well.
Fond memories of really good times

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Freddy and the Dreamers came to the New Era.
Leaders were I think Mary, Jack and Sheila

Loved the dancing downstairs.
Played Netball for the club, went to Austria with them, that was great

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Panther, it was built in the early 1980's (Gateway).

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Err...Bee..where have you dug this one up from? What exactly are you referring to?

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Remember;

EMC Health Foods & the "Olympus" cafe being before Shaw's Amusements on Union St.
Poundshrinker being on Broadway.
JJB Sports being where Costa Coffee is now.
Our Price being in the Arndale.
Stuart Frazer Kitchen Showroom being on Union St.
Volvo showroom in Accrington, owned by Walker Farrimond & Stratstone.
CBS on Eastgate.
Birthdays being where 02 phone shop is now.
etc

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Do you remember the Pickwick pub?

It was Accy's 1970's answer to today's Wetherspoons.

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it was better --paid fer very few pints in yon.;):D

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I paid for a few that I never got to drink...now I know why!

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Aint life a bitch?:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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And yet another question, Bee.

Do you remember, if you left the Pickwick, turned right, and then walked diagonally across the carpark to come out on it's middle entrance on Union St, you came up right against the Accy Superloo? That was the thing that looked like the top half of a boiled egg, again sliced in half.

Well, I've been having an argument with a mate of mine. I say those loos were fitted out with Carrara Marble; he says Portland stone. Which one of us is right?

Please let Bee answer before anyone else jumps in.

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The loos in question, for anyone too young to remember them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/cont...et_470x470.jpg

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I remember them but did not live over ere at the time. Must have been on shopping trips as a kid.

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Late wife left her handbag in those bogs, as she left a rather overweight skanker was goin in, she crossed the road n then realised n ran back..........No bag.........No skanker, her unopened wage was in it,as well as her purse.:eek:

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Same, and like me you were probably warned to stay away from them.

Apparently always old men hanging about in there.

Running their hands on the walls.

Discussing their hardness.

Asking people if they knew what it was, and if they wanted to touch it.

:eek::D:eek:

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Where did I get my half boiled egg from?

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Mecca?

Fabergé?

Huncoat power station?

:rolleyes::D

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Yo Cashy....thread diversion...why don't me and you get into Wetherspoons one saturday afternoon and see how much we can drink for nowt? After all, no one would suspect two respectable looking gentlemen such as ourselves.

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A fine excuse.

Everyone knows you're just itching to go in, and have a shufty.

;)

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I don't need to go in,Rindy....I've been in about 30 or 40 of the damm places. They're all the same, barring a few piccys of what are the local celebs on the wall. Characterless and sterile, drinking in one of these holes is like drinking in a morgue. But if that's what you like, then good luck.

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Personally not somewhere I'd choose to drink in either.

There was one in Tooting.

The only boozer we never went in.

Come to think of it, I think they might have done a bit of undertaking in there as a side-line.

The Accy one?

I'm just pleased, with so many pubs closing down, someone's using this town centre building, and spent money on it.

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Certainly was wi thee about:D:D:D:D

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No doubt as usual you didn't do as you were told, I bet you told your mum you were going to a youth club.
:eek:

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:Do leave it out:D

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Mirror mirror on the wall:rolleyes::rolleyes::D

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Being a quiet, shy little mouse of a person, I always do what I'm told to do.

:D

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Ya reight:D

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Also I remember Music Zone being in Accy Town Centre, as well as "The Good Warehouse" being in Accy Town Centre.

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Does anyone remember my Grandad and Nanna's Confectioner's/Bakers on Haywood Road (near Accy Vic. Hospital) - half-way down on a corner on the right? They closed down in the 1980's when they retired and the shop became a house -they were well-known for their Pie and Peas. They made all kinds of bread but i especially remember the cream cakes....didn't get to eat too many though!

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in the 60s Paris (the Boss) used to go in at dinners from hambledon mill fer pie n cakes etc, if its the same one, was yer nan n attractive woman wi black hair back then?:) she can't remember the name but Mr @ Mrs Clark seems to ring a bell.

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Do you remember Marys Music was sat outside it today in the car thinking what a dump it looks, me auntie doreen worked there for a long time.

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Marys n Marshalls on same block,both great record shops.;)

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They were called Chaffer -my Nan always had beautiful thick dark hair as a young woman, so it could be them. They had 6 children but she was always very slender! I know a lot of the local work places had fixed orders with them for lunchtime...Just checked on a map and think it was the corner with Ramsbottom Street.

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thats probably the one, was it next too or near the papershop? she thinks that was Ducketts, was yer nan european ? :) cos me lass said she was a beautiful european looking lady.

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She was dark with dark eyes -don't know about european looking though -not dark skinned -my grandad was tall with thick wavy hair -he was called Wilf and my nan was Ethel. Afraid i don't remember a paper shop - i was little in the 60's -could ask my dad though!

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Who can forget Mary's music -bought my first record there in the mid-70's -David Essex on blue vinyl "Hold me Close" !! Thought he was really cute then...:theband:

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To be fair Mary had a head start oer the other record shops in accy, after her n joe had run the best dance hall in accy.;)

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...and there was a fair bit of competition back then - Bandbox opposite the Town Hall, the Golden Disc Bar on Broadway, Tony's on Blackburn Road and Marshall's. But Mary's was the best - I was always going in asking for the most obscure American records that no one had ever heard of and she always got 'em for me in days! :)

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thats me point,mary knew the score which gave her a good advantage, in fact the other lass that was also on the ball,was on the same block "Marshalls" both shops lost the town centre wallahs.;)Mary also had the loyalty of many of the older record buyers which gave her a big edge.

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My first record from Mary's was Duane Eddy's "Shazam" .... :theband: I'm still a fan, and one of my favorite tracks stolen from the internet in the good old free days is "Pipeline": Duane Eddy and Hank Marvin.:D

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You couldn't go wrong in those days Wyn, if they hadn't got the record or album you wanted they'd have it for you within days

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Apparently a lot of these old records on vinyl can be worth a fortune - my son has friends who do DJ sets and they use them to create new music live....
Digital music is a wonderful thing but it doesn't have the same atmosphere as a record.

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Hit the nail right on the head, have countless records on vinyl,was offered £200 fer one small box,back in the early 80s, the guy came in the boozer n slapped the dosh on the box, told him he had more chance of being struck by lightening.:D

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Quite right, the EP (remember them?) shown in my signature is worth upto £100 these days. But like, Mr C, I'm not selling! ;)

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I have no singles or EPs now but still have quite a few albums