History - can someone fill me in??

[Montreal Wanderer]

Anyone who hasn't been up to Chinese Gardens must do so at the next availability. One of my fave bits of the world.

Cheers Bill Lever.

my mate at work knows you, adam hiley - just saying he remebers you and him messing about up there when you were at school, or should have been...

You carried any more sheeps on sticks home latley?

funny how this thread was started on the exact anniversary of the disaster!

It wasnt. Keep up general.

bah, i threw that one in blind. should have known better. must read previous posts!

I only read the most recent and blithely repeated what I had said months before as if some new revelation. Oh well.

[David Lee's Hair]

my mate at work knows you, adam hiley - just saying he remebers you and him messing about up there when you were at school, or should have been...

You carried any more sheeps on sticks home latley?

funny how this thread was started on the exact anniversary of the disaster!

I know Hiley, used to come stay at mine in Leeds a fair bit when I was at uni.

[David Lee's Hair]

Kind of related and away from the thread-jaking, the other thing that surprised me when I found out recently was about the murder up there in 1838.

Maybe not a massive shock I gueszs, but I'd never heard of it until about 6 months ago.

[General Mannerheim]

my mate at work knows you, adam hiley - just saying he remebers you and him messing about up there when you were at school, or should have been...

You carried any more sheeps on sticks home latley?

funny how this thread was started on the exact anniversary of the disaster!

I know Hiley, used to come stay at mine in Leeds a fair bit when I was at uni.

Yeah just showed him your post, checked your email address (DC) he says hello.

[communistworkethic]

I can't believe that at no point did I respond to Gertie's titleof this thread, suggesting that I'd happily fill her "in" or her anything else for that matter.

[Hoboh]

I can't believe that at no point did I respond to Gertie's titleof this thread, suggesting that I'd happily fill her "in" or her anything else for that matter.

You Brian Clough you!

[David Lee's Hair]

I know Hiley, used to come stay at mine in Leeds a fair bit when I was at uni.

Yeah just showed him your post, checked your email address (DC) he says hello.[/quote]

Aye send my regards back!

[Bruce Rioja]

While we're on Bolton history, this is from the BBC WWII, The People's War. Might ring a bell with an odd one or two oldies:

WAR BABY

Not to be confused with Tom Robinson's finest hour.

War Baby

Only the very young and the very beautiful can be so aloof
Hanging out with the boys, all swagger and poise
I don't even care what other people are there
I just stare and stare and stare

I see your shadow in the swimming pool
I see your face in the shaving mirror
Time and time and time again
I follow your footsteps so quietly up the backstairs
And I hope and I pray you're never going to find me there

Smooth skin and tenderness long ago on a dark night
Wish I could see you once again just to remember it was true
I want to be still beside you - quiet and still beside you
Listening to your breathing and feeling your warmth again

War baby - you were a
War baby - this means
War baby - I'm scared, so scared
Of whatever it is you keep putting me through

I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting
All this stabbing and wounding - only getting my own back
I don't want to batter you to your feet and knees and elbows
When I'm kneeling like a candle at the foot of my own bed

Corresponding disasters every night on the TV
Sickening reality keeps gripping me in its guts
All my friends talk and joke and laugh about Armageddon
But like a nightmare it's still waiting there at the end of every day

War baby... etc.

I don't think I could stand another ten years of this fighting
All this stabbing and wounding - only getting my own back
But later that same evening we were out in the car talking
When I suddenly wondered who the hell it was we were trying to fool

Cos you were the first one that I ever wanted
And it's you I come home to at the end of every day
Like a mother-sucking baby, demanding and so helpless
A little old balding man, all wrinkles and bulging eyes

War baby...