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Old 07-06-2012, 13:47   #196
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rising bridge bout half an hour ago ...
Not a hot curry at the Spice Room then? BTW those sunset pics were stunning - thanks.
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Old 07-06-2012, 14:08   #197
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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.
I always thought that the top end finished at the canal bridge, the middle went down to the Forts and that is where the bottom started.
At Mount Pleasant the school was divided into two houses Enfield which finished at the canal bridge,and Hyndburn which covered all below.
Does anyone remember going on trips with the clubs if your dad was a member usually Southport.
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Old 07-06-2012, 14:13   #198
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I thought about you yesterday Eric....as I was walking past the houses on Charles St......and down the fields towards Rishton bottoms.
I wondered what you would make of it now.
Glad to hear that you are enjoying Davemacs ramblings(I mean the walks) and pictorial evidence.
Great pics Dave...again!
You know, hon, I don't think I would like it now. I believe that I prefer the memories to the realities. Just took a walk thru Mercer Park with Mr. Google ... and those swings How can the kids of fun on tame things like they have now? In my day (ok., I'm getting a little Old Fartish, I know) they had real things for us to play on. And I still have a scar between my eyes to prove it. And I got my arse tanned for getting hurt Some of the things we did (I think I mentioned waxing the slide in another thread) would have the health and safety nazis soiling their gotchies

Used to walk those fields all the time ... they still had a stile at the end of Rishton Rd. so that folks wouldn't have to open the gate. In my day, there was still a working farm there ... Ringstonhalgh ... maybe it's still there. There used to be wild blackberries to pick, and the birds nesting was fun ... and there was another danger waiting down by the Stink: an old frayed rope you could swing on out over the toxic waste.
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Old 07-06-2012, 14:26   #199
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Not a hot curry at the Spice Room then? BTW those sunset pics were stunning - thanks.

nope .. the way the firemen were nosying round the engine would say it had caught fire .. theyd kicked everyone off the bus ..

thanks susie and margaret ...
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Old 07-06-2012, 14:28   #200
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I always thought that the top end finished at the canal bridge, the middle went down to the Forts and that is where the bottom started.
At Mount Pleasant the school was divided into two houses Enfield which finished at the canal bridge,and Hyndburn which covered all below.
Does anyone remember going on trips with the clubs if your dad was a member usually Southport.
Middle Club went to Blackpool ... a ride up the Tower, and the Circus with Charlie Cairoli and Paul ... and a quick tour of the zoo. And on the way there ... 2/6d for the first kid to spot the Tower. Two and a kick went a long ways back then. Only went one year to Mount Pleasant ... my mom took me out and sent me to All Sinners ... I think it had something to do with her belting a teacher who made me eat figs, which I promptly threw up all over the lunch table.
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Old 07-06-2012, 14:32   #201
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Middle Club went to Blackpool ... a ride up the Tower, and the Circus with Charlie Cairoli and Paul ... and a quick tour of the zoo. And on the way there ... 2/6d for the first kid to spot the Tower. Two and a kick went a long ways back then. Only went one year to Mount Pleasant ... my mom took me out and sent me to All Sinners ... I think it had something to do with her belting a teacher who made me eat figs, which I promptly threw up all over the lunch table.
You don't like figs then.
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Old 07-06-2012, 14:57   #202
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You don't like figs then.
Back then I guess I didn't ... Now? I can handle the odd fig newton
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Old 07-06-2012, 15:25   #203
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Middle Club went to Blackpool ... a ride up the Tower, and the Circus with Charlie Cairoli and Paul ... and a quick tour of the zoo.
Now that brought back memories - I had forgotten about Paul till you mentioned him, but the image sprang to mind immediately - pointed hat, white face, baggy pants and all. Can't find a non-copyright pic on google otherwise I would have posted one.

We used to go to the Tower aquarium as well... but I've never been up the Tower.
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Old 07-06-2012, 15:26   #204
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... and there was another danger waiting down by the Stink: an old frayed rope you could swing on out over the toxic waste.
You mean one like this(yes I know there are two of them)?
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Old 07-06-2012, 16:37   #205
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You mean one like this(yes I know there are two of them)?
Yup ... that's it Glad to see that there are still kids with an imagination, and the willingness to risk life and limb.
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Old 07-06-2012, 16:40   #206
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Now that brought back memories - I had forgotten about Paul till you mentioned him, but the image sprang to mind immediately - pointed hat, white face, baggy pants and all. Can't find a non-copyright pic on google otherwise I would have posted one.

We used to go to the Tower aquarium as well... but I've never been up the Tower.
Try this:
http://physicalcomedy.blogspot.ca/20...e-footage.html

And I can't believe you never went up the tower.
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Old 07-06-2012, 17:03   #207
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Try this:
All Fall Down: The Craft & Art of Physical Comedy: Charlie Cairoli — Rare Footage

And I can't believe you never went up the tower.
Or this...

The Fylde and Wyre Antiquarian: The Life and Times of Charlie Cairoli…an extremely potted biography

Still got the delight of the top of the tower to come...
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Old 07-06-2012, 17:42   #208
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Or this...

The Fylde and Wyre Antiquarian: The Life and Times of Charlie Cairoli…an extremely potted biography

Still got the delight of the top of the tower to come...
Take something to stand on so that you can look over the railings

Oh, and it's fun to spit off the top of the Tower; but don't throw any pennies ....
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Old 07-06-2012, 18:20   #209
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Part 1.On a wet day, with a smile on my face, and a song in my heart, I ventured forth, and came fifth. Anyway here is Today in Pictures.
1. Up Burnley Road, past the Industrial Estate.
2. Past the colliery memorial.
3. Never knew where this was now I do, just short of Martholme Grange(as was)
4. Turning Left down Martholme Lane.
5. Through a small Hamlet.
6. Quick look at the "jam jar window"
7. A right turn down towards the waste water center.
8. Through another cluster of converted farms.
9. The lofty spires of the water treatment site.
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Old 07-06-2012, 18:29   #210
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Part 2. Today in Pictures, a study in moistness.

10. I really am getting fed up now.
11. Up past the golf course, towards sunnybank, (thats a joke).
12. Left turn to the Hyndburn pub, you can tell by the speed I am "fair legging it".
13. Down to the dip.
14. Up towards the Sparth.
15. Through the Woodlands.
16. Up the canal brew.

I was glad to get home today.
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