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"Space the final frontier"

Didn't know Billy cotton's band had ever recorded it but 1931 is a bit early even for me

Wasn't that "the billy cotton band show" remember the singer from that was Alan Breeze it was a joy when he belted out "Bandit of Brazil".

"The immortal pen of James Fenimore Cooper brings you thrilling tales of excitement, blazing action on the early American frontier, stirring adventures filled with the daring and courage of Hawkeye, the first of the long rifles, and his blood brother Chingachgook, last of the Mohicans!" Only the older ones will remember this!

200 lines "my name is ***** ********* just for having Elvis written on your school bag, how they got away with pink floyd and the like on the books is beyond me. I left in 63.

It has provided thousands of people with a secure living for many years,sadly lacking nowadays Strongly agree! and thats what they should be remembered for more than anything else.

It was the same at morning assembly if you remember Braddy, the whole school which was all boys in my day would stand while all the teachers filed in and took their place on the stage. it was a rarely old fashioned style of education, Effective though!!

Back in the mid to late sixties The Hearty Goodfellow was a Mod hang out, downstairs was called "The Dive Bar". They were always scrapping in there, mind they were always scrapping in a lot of other places, usualy never much more than a smack in the mouth, unlike todays culture.

Remember some of the novels we had to read and study in English lit. three that come to mind are "The Kontiki expedition", "A kid for two Farthings" and "Treasure Island" they covered three terms, wonder if they get an airing nowadays.

At the back of my memory somewhere I am recalling plastic covers that you just slipped on to the front an back pages, can't remember when though except that they must have been cheap. Might have been my trainspotting combine rarther than school books,

Amazing record! we once were tempted by a touring holiday there but finished up on another beach somewhere. Our loss!!

Remember doing it but for the life of me don't know why. You forgot the "blackboard eraser" being thrown at you and the slipper.

"Bullroarin" is one I remember, stuffing newspaper into the old cast iron down pipes and lighting it.

Will be in East Devon ourselves quite soon! not to live just to holiday. will definately be having a pint or two of "Branocs" in the pub I portrayed on pictures to cheer us all up

Unfortunately Mick a lot of people from that generation are mistrustful of the web and pc's, and I agree completeley with you as they are a MINE of information as well as being great company

Rufford abbey is nice! we often go there and mid week it's usually free parking , weekends it's £3. Try a large sausage roll and a pot of tea in the cafe.

I completly agree! they try to make the masses feel guilty but have scant regard for their own globetrotting. personaly I would sooner have a government that stays home and does its job, looking after the UK!, sod being a world power. Roll on next years caribean holiday.

Gee ore Compo!

Someone once said many years ago "It won't be long before they tax the air we breathe" how right they were http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coalition-plans-tax-on-fresh-air-177406

As a kid a gadder or galley was a type of catapult but around this area "Gadders" are ladies stockings and suspenders.

It would be interesting to see if you could do John o' Groats to Lands End, might need a flask and a few sandwich's though

That Bike looks sinister like something out of "Christine"

With the price of booze and tobacco being mention in other threads and the illicit Factories for making black market substitutes being found all over the country I wonder how long it will be before we start seeing the violence that goes along with it, or are we seeing it already!.

He also knew a lot about the family that owned most of the local mines before British coal name of Oates! one bit of interest is that they had two identical clocks made, one is on Underwood church to commemorate those that died in WW1 the other was at Pye Hill and when it closed went to the market place at Stoke On Trent. He also said that the stretch of canal between Jacksdale and Langley Mill long ago filled in was done so by the local mines when they no longer required the use of it, Where as locals have long been told it was filled in by the local farmers.

Saw Ron today and asked him again about the beam engines. Ron was one of the men that were responsible for closing the shafts in fact he was one of four men who were the last to ride up from Underwood closing the louvers as they came. It was when they closed Pye Hill that they found the old beam pump although the steam power plant had long gone the beam, all the pipework, the leather bag at the bottom and the concrete basin at the top where they pumped out to were still there, he says they were donated to Butterley midland railway centre as a display item. Also told me that somewhere in Riddin