Today in pictures - Page 13

davemac · 06-06-2012, 22:44

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

heres tonites sunset ...

Thanks for joining in, you have to tell us how you managed to get the colours, I've tried it and got mixed results.

shillelagh · 06-06-2012, 22:48

thanks dave .. its actually what was up there ... i just pointed the camera and prayed that theyd come out right ... did stick em thro photoshop to focus and resize em and that was that .. tho they were took on the bright sun and snow mode on the camera ... oh and no flash ...

davemac · 06-06-2012, 22:55

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

thanks dave .. its actually what was up there ... i just pointed the camera and prayed that theyd come out right ... did stick em thro photoshop to focus and resize em and that was that .. tho they were took on the bright sun and snow mode on the camera ... oh and no flash ...

Very interesting, will have to check were that is on my camera, rather than auto mode.

Eric · 06-06-2012, 23:53

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Originally Posted by davemac

I wonder which bog was the one being pointed to, you cant find them anymore, they have all been knocked down.

Probably the one at the bus stop by the Forts, if it's still there ... the bus stop that is, not the Forts. That was one disgusting bog. Worse even than the bogs at Accy Grammar.

Eric · 07-06-2012, 03:44

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Originally Posted by susie123

I do, Cashy I do. Just waiting for the right answer to the top/bottom ender debate to surface - if there is one! Eric, where are you?

Hey ... what's happnin'? I really don't know the answer. I'm def. a bottom ender ... but one theory has it that the Load was the dividing line. And another, the bridge over the cut on Whalley Rd. ... that would be the Albion/Con Club line. One thing that confuses me though is that there might have been a "middle" .... I know there was a Middle Club, and I hear that there is still a Bottom Club.

There may have been a Top Club ... but I neither know, nor do I care. Top Enders are way beyond the pale.

Margaret Pilkington · 07-06-2012, 07:25

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Originally Posted by davemac

an attempt to look "Windswept and Interesting, but just managing "Bedraggled and Gormless.

That describes me to a T.......but I have got to the point in my life where it really doesn't matter that much anymore.......dogs, cats and animals in general don't really care what you look like - they appreciate your kindness.
It is only some humans who measure you by how you look.

Margaret Pilkington · 07-06-2012, 07:27

Great shots Jen. We had a colourful sunset here as well, but the only way I would be able to get it....... was out of the bedroom window.(was in my PJ's when I spotted it).

cashman · 07-06-2012, 11:13

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Originally Posted by Eric

Hey ... what's happnin'? I really don't know the answer. I'm def. a bottom ender ... but one theory has it that the Load was the dividing line. And another, the bridge over the cut on Whalley Rd. ... that would be the Albion/Con Club line. One thing that confuses me though is that there might have been a "middle" .... I know there was a Middle Club, and I hear that there is still a Bottom Club.

There may have been a Top Club ... but I neither know, nor do I care. Top Enders are way beyond the pale.

The Top club was just before Traffic lights at the Greyhound,opposite side Dave, The Middle Club was the Come @ Welcome, Bottom Club behind the Forts Arms.

Eric · 07-06-2012, 12:21

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Originally Posted by cashman

The Top club was just before Traffic lights at the Greyhound,opposite side Dave, The Middle Club was the Come @ Welcome, Bottom Club behind the Forts Arms.

Are you sure about the Bottom Club? ... I seem to remember its being on Bayley St., just down from the Village Blacksmith. Was in there a couple of times with Basil Brierly and his lad. I know the Middle Club ... used to go on their annual outing to Blackpool.

cashman · 07-06-2012, 12:45

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Originally Posted by Eric

Are you sure about the Bottom Club? ... I seem to remember its being on Bayley St., just down from the Village Blacksmith. Was in there a couple of times with Basil Brierly and his lad. I know the Middle Club ... used to go on their annual outing to Blackpool.

It is Eric, used to go in the village way back, which i always regarded as behind the Forts.

By the way was Basils Lad "Alan"?

susie123 · 07-06-2012, 12:47

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Originally Posted by cashman

The Top club was just before Traffic lights at the Greyhound,opposite side Dave, The Middle Club was the Come @ Welcome, Bottom Club behind the Forts Arms.

I remember the Top club opposite the Greyhound.When I was very young we used to go and visit my aged great great uncle who lived in the row of houses joined on to it. We used to wait for the bus outside the club and I remember the bronze bust of Edward VII in the front garden of the club.

cashman · 07-06-2012, 12:50

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Originally Posted by susie123

I remember the Top club opposite the Greyhound.When I was very young we used to go and visit my aged great great uncle who lived in the row of houses joined on to it. We used to wait for the bus outside the club and I remember the bronze bust of Edward VII in the front garden of the club.

One of me mates lived on that row also,

used to go n stand yon to watch the "Whit Walks"

susie123 · 07-06-2012, 12:56

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Originally Posted by cashman

One of me mates lived on that row also,

used to go n stand yon to watch the "Whit Walks"

Me too Cashy! My Uncle Ted lived at number 14, between the chippy and the greengrocer. He died in 1957 and I remember watching Six Five Special in the greengrocers with the boy who lived there. That prog started Feb 1957 - I was ten at the time.

Eric · 07-06-2012, 13:09

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Originally Posted by cashman

It is Eric, used to go in the village way back, which i always regarded as behind the Forts.

By the way was Basils Lad "Alan"?

No, it was Tony. I forget how many kids Basil and his old lady had ... but, they were Catholics

Basil was a real character. I remember him and his horse and cart ... and the stuff he had in his junk yard off Lower Barnes St. would be worth a fortune today. I remember that he had a whole bunch of those cast iron fire places ... that would be at the time when folks were tossing those in favour of those little tiled things

A great guy that Basil ... used to buy me the odd pint (good Dutton's ale) in the Village. Sometimes he smelled a little ripe, but that was only when he had been mucking out the pigs he used to keep on his allotment back of our place on Rishton Rd.

shillelagh · 07-06-2012, 13:45

rising bridge bout half an hour ago ...