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This is one for the Old Farts ... and Fartesses, can't forget the ladies.;) Someone once said that all the world's a stage ... no, that's Elvis ... let's start again.:D Someone once said that most folks ... that's those who were alive at the time and out of diapers ... can remember what they were doing when they heard that JFK had been assasinated. I remember fairly clearly ... only "fairly" 'cause I was drinking at the time, go figure, eh ... I was in the Con Club playing snooker, very badly as usual, on the table nearest the bar of course. And that was 50 bloody years ago,:eek: how tempus fugits. Anyone else remember?

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I was in Homo Deans papershop in Ormerod Street

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Yep, I remember, I was at home primping and pampering, getting ready to go to Whalley Road Cong Youth Club, across the road from our house. Heady days... or maybe that was only my perfume, or scent as we probably called it in those days.

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Have little idea what i was doing last week Eric.Can remember what i regard as good things from the 60s,70s, but most of the bad have vanished into the abyss.:D;)

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I was at the pictures with my new beau(I'm married to him now).....can't really remember what we saw.

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Himself thinks it was a bond film...which is probably why I can't remember it

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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Was that a Thwaites house, or a Duttons?;)

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Hey...what you laughin' at? We weren't on the back row...it was already full...and anyway I was a shy girl (I didn't do hanky panky) :)

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I had recently married and my husband had written a play for the Whalley Road Methodist A.D.S. in which I took the lead and we were at Jim Bowen's house in Burnley Road (of Bullseye fame) He was directing the play - but I think he was called Jim Whittaker then.

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I was at home alone - (1st husband worked shifts and played golf and football)

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Yes, he was....I know this because his wife was our games teacher and she was Mrs Whittaker.

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It was a Friday night,orders night at my dad`s grocers shop in Haslingden.Regular customers used to leave a list at the shop earlier in the day.Dad would pack the groceries into boxes and my job was to load them into dad`s Standard Vanguard car and then carry the boxes into the customers house.Two bob at Grandma`s made it worth it!
When we went into Mrs Warburton`s on Maple Avenue that`s when we heard the news..

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He sat in the next desk to me at AGS - I often wonder if he remembers the day when his desk top was glued down:D

I was in a pub on the Woodhead Pass, getting cigarettes and a swift half, heading for Accrington for a weekend at home:)

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Nope, tried very hard, well, thought about it for a milli second can't remember.
More importantly I probably won't remember where I was when I died, 50 years later.

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I was at a school fair at St Mary's Clayton, befor going for a pint in the Load of Mischief, didn't take long to get around, no mobiles then, we didn't even have a phone, just bush telegraph.

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Was in the Odeon with a former miss Accrington. And was on the back row.

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Was that at St Augustine's ,Margaret

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As a bond aficionado Margaret you were watching Dr. No:D

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I was just going into St. Mary's Youth Club on Sun Street Ossy.

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No, Frank, it was at Woodnook County Secondary Modern, up there on Hudson St.

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In the 6th form common room having a fag .

Yes in those days if you were in the 6th form you could smoke in the common room . :cool:

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I was nine years old at the time and can remember being at my grandma's with my parents. I can remember them saying he was only young. I didn't really take it in who he was.

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I know he taught Christine my missus at St. Augustine's in Billington

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It was his wife who taught us.
She was the games mistress - I hated sport of every description. I was particularly bad at netball. I told her I would rather do double maths than play sport. I got my wish. I was sent straightaway to see Milton Suthers - from then on when my class did sports, I did maths. I was still pretty useless even with extra lessons.

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John, I never did like the bond films so I can't say if it was Dr No or not.

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I wasn't even a twinkle in my daddys eyes .... I wasn't born till 67 ... lol

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Jen, I could be your mother.....my daughter was born in 68.

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is that an offer ... :p:p:p yes please ... :p

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Jen, I am not a very good mother.....very strict, shouts a lot.....I think you would be getting a raw deal with me as your mother.

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Do you charge by the hour or the night?

You naughty, naughty girl!
;)

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Less, I will let you guess :)

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nowt new to be getting shouted at ..... ask mick, ask less, ask spugster ...... :p:p:p

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Yes.....but when I shout, all the trams on Blackpool front stop :)

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It had to be Margaret it was the only Bond film out at the time:D

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i was on a grassy knoll minding my own buisness.I remeber it well because i was carrying a rifle and tripped accidently discharging the round i had left in the chamber

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Wasn't From Russia With Love released in 1963?

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I recall that was more likely to be 1964.
I went to see it at the cinema on 11/10/64 - and gave birth 8,1/2 months later - that made it memorable:D

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Was released on the 10th of October 1963 so it could easily have been that Michael although not sure it was on general release on the day of the assassination

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id only be worried if the irish sea ferries stopped running mummy .... :p:p:p

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In the yard at primary school.