Accy Characters
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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 clubquite correct beechy, it was a youth club, but doubt many patrons viewed it as such.
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 funnyI used to see Retta Garrity on my way home from school when I was at Paddock House. She always said hello to me, which was embarrassing to say the least, and I daren't ignore her because she had a violent temper if she was crossed, I heard her screaming and swearing at the top of her voice many a time. She was a scary woman.
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.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
My mum wouldn't let me go
he did n i didn't desire, they were bloody stone steps as well.or the kind gentlemen who helpfully
threw you down the stairs..(if you so desired)
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 nowand 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.
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?
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,
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
i only knew him from 64 ish onwards beechy.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
Were it knotted in each corner flashy
irish chappie called Jimmy lives on Plantation St
Was once in Majorca flashy, when the Brother-in-law turned up at our hotel, dressed in sandals with grey socks on, khaki shorts, string vest, and and a knotted hanky on the head, now that was a site to behold believe me