Accy Characters

[cashman]

quite correct beechy, it was a youth club, but doubt many patrons viewed it as such.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

quite correct beechy, it was a youth club, but doubt many patrons viewed it as such.

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

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by West Ender

I 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.

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 funny

[cashman]

Originally Posted by jaysay

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

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.

[beechy]

or the kind gentlemen who helpfully
threw you down the stairs..(if you so desired)

[MargaretR]

My mum wouldn't let me go

because you lot were bad lads

[cashman]

Originally Posted by beechy

or the kind gentlemen who helpfully
threw you down the stairs..(if you so desired)

he did n i didn't desire, they were bloody stone steps as well.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

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.

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 now But I have to say I'd forgot about the dog as well

[cashman]

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?

[Alan Gilmartin]

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,

[beechy]

Originally Posted by cashman

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?

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

[cashman]

Originally Posted by 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

i only knew him from 64 ish onwards beechy.

[flashy]

anyone seen that bloke who walks around with a hanky on his head?

[MargaretR]

It may be part of the Festival of Culture if they are here

[flashy]

lol, i was amazed the first time i saw him with it on, it was raining, i thought that fashion went out in the 70s