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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 16-11-2011, 18:00

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Jack hasn't worked for many years, he has some sort of Arthritis, whether he was ever a miner I don't know but he is 65, the same age as me and who he married I don't know

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 14-11-2011, 08:38

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Is it the same one Mog, his wife (in those days) was called Maureen

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-11-2011, 09:58

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Na don't know where Jimmy Gudgeon is and Jim Mclean will be about 69 or 70, I was his happyrentice when I first left school and worked at Townley's in Manor Street, went to his 21st at the Queens pub...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-11-2011, 18:35

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Gudgeon and Mclean, Jimmy Gudgeon and Jim Mclean, both worked at shopfitters before setting up on their own Jim Mac still lives in Ossy behind Rhyddings Park

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 24-09-2009, 09:13

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Don't remember that at all Rycroft, must have been on the one night I missed:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 23-09-2009, 15:48

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Still can't remember any fights though Rycroft, I went to the youth club from being twelve till they packed it in around Christmas 1964, those who attended just weren't into that fisticuffs

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 23-09-2009, 09:17

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... St Mart's Youth Club Dance on Havelock St.:confused: where on Havelock Street, there was never any sort of dance hall on Havelock Street. St Mary's Youth Club was held on a Thursday night In St....

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 27-08-2009, 16:13

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Thanks for that beechy couldn't remember Dougies last name, the reason I said the Britannia, is I think he used to go in there sometimes. Didn't know he was no longer here

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 27-08-2009, 10:15

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Taking about a horse drinking in a pub, I worked with a guy at Shopfitters called Doug (can't remember his last name) challenged a Thwaites dray horse to a drinking bout, think it was in the (or...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 26-08-2009, 09:29

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Thanks kate, can always remember it being cobbled, because my Dad had a garage at the bottom of the Straits next to the Nash Club, and the bone shaking ride I endured getting the car out for work

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 23-08-2009, 09:48

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Not a terrible lot of building in that neck of the woods, Cocker Lumb was very much the same the last time I ventured in that area, still plenty of open spaces all around Ossy

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 22-08-2009, 09:59

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... I've just been thinking about cobbled streets, I can't remember as I ain't been down for a while, but is the Straits in Ossy cobbled or is it tarmacked now, bet Gayle knows:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 21-08-2009, 16:16

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Can't think there is any in Ossy kate, Chapel St. Clayton I thought that was an unadopted road, its a one sided street If I remember rightly, facing some allotments or fields, not sure, have a...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 21-08-2009, 09:38

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Cobbled Streets gone, Bloody hell Eric you have been gone a long time:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 23-07-2009, 09:18

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Chapped bum in the winter then cashy:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-06-2009, 09:58

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... It was like a barley wine if I remember right beni, never really bothered with bottles, sometimes a pint glass wasn't big enough for me:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-06-2009, 16:25

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Old Tom was Lions Old Dan was Duttons I think

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-06-2009, 10:02

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Well Lions was definitely an acquired taste SJ, and I managed to acquire it at an early age:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-06-2009, 10:29

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Me too Tony, in the Heys Inn, I was always told if you can drink Lions you can tame um:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 03-06-2009, 10:27

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Richard is the only one of the Henry brothers still alive both Tom and John died a few years ago. John lived a few doors away from me for a while and often popped in for a chat, his son Jack(who I...

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 31-03-2009, 16:32

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Thats why everybody likes a Donar with plenty chilli sause on cashy:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 31-03-2009, 10:43

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... Remember the Polish Bakery on Catlow Hall Street, Ossy, it always smelt great when you were on he way home from the pub:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 30-03-2009, 16:21

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... 10 Hole Docks were better for that:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 30-03-2009, 09:54

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... So you had Brothel creepers too Wynonie:D

Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 28-03-2009, 13:59

Replies: 217 Who Remembers....... Views: 18,302 Posted By jaysay Re: Who Remembers....... That's okay so long as they put um back afterwards:D

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