HSR

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  1. On 6/16/2023 at 12:58 PM, DJ360 said:

    That is of course undeniable. My issue is with the implication that immigrants in general are somehow more likely to commit violent crime than the indigenous population.  The evidence I posted in the Politics thread throws that notion into doubt.

     

    I appreciate that, by your own admission you are naively happy with watching only the BBC.

     

    Please check out History Debunked on utube.

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  2. 17 hours ago, DJ360 said:

     

    You are free to post,  comment, agree, disagree or add whatever images you wish, within the general limits of the site.

    You are also free to ignore it.

     

    Well, that's very soapbox..clearly as a pleb, without even moderator rights, you are being given a free reign to spout your opinions.. Why? 

     

    I know the Political thread was originally buried..why tell lies.

     

    DJ..it's obviously clear you are the dominant political force.

    When I asked you a genuine question, why did you spit your dummy out..?

     

     

     

     

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  3. I always thought that you had to post 200 or over 250 posts before you could read, the formally hidden Political thread.

    I assume this site is now under new ownership?

     

    No pics, maps etc.

    Is this due to copyright?

    Very uninspiring ...

  4. On 5/11/2023 at 12:38 AM, DJ360 said:

    . 'Bread and Circuses'  springs to mind.

     

    Hear we go again.. buzz phases..

    What next .. optics? 

     

    I agree with some of your sentiments, but I wouldn't call them a republic protest...

     

    I consider the extended Royals 'liggers on'..

    There's one,  I have only heard once, in 1973._

     

     

  5. On 4/26/2023 at 3:26 AM, HSR said:

    While "Died of wounds' generally appear to have a grave and deservedly so. The disparity between Officers and the general ranks that died and are individually buried is somewhat enlightening

     

    I Wasn't very clear, I was talking about people who died in the field, it is a very small sample, maybe not typical, under 70 men (64) if I remember.

     

    I have read, due to 'time' soldiers were placed in mass graves.

    I know many people were reinturned after the war, was this from recognised graves? from what I have read the majority were from previously 'established' nearby staging posts.

     

     Does anybody know if soldiers buried in mass graves, were documented? and the Graves charted?

     

    I appreciate that there is no definitive answer...

     

     

     

     

  6. My Great uncle died 13 July, Somme, known as the second push.  7th division.

    Joined the Scottish Fusiliers, a Meadows lad, may well have been recruited on Bridlesmith Gate.

     

    His older brother by 11 months (My GF) joined the Sherwood Foresters in 1907 aged 17, previously employed at Clifton Colliery..he was still in the army or claimed to be on the 1921 census..He.. to the family is the true Mr Elusive..

     

    I apologise for waffling

     

    Back to the Fusiliers, they were going into a salient, the Somme offensive was 'successful' in the south, very few trenches..but lots of barbed wire. As division reserve..they went in with a mills

    bomb attack....

     

    He had 15 month old baby, his Widow kept his Surname after remarriage..to a Miner at Mansfied Woodhouse.

     

    While "Died of wounds' generally appear to have a grave and deservedly so. The disparity between Officers and the general ranks that died and are individually buried is somewhat enlightening.

     

  7. 4 hours ago, Oztalgian said:

    YMMV, what's that all about? Surely YEMD (Your experience may differ

     

    I detest this terminology, recall asking  Young chap at my 'local' 

    What doe's FYI mean? 

     

    He explained it, he was a nice chap, educated me on how working for the minimum wage was superior to a 'Zero Hours' contract which he defined as "Hell on Earth"..

    He was sacked..I few months later,...

     

    As for YMMV...?

    You make me vomit?

     

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  8. Never heard of that before Jill, 

    Jimi Hendrix makes more than once, a similar reference, one on video..he's thinking here..

    Suggests a thinking mind, are you musical??

    Congrats on your self-diagnosis in your twenties,

     

    Age 59.. diagnosed with Autism..

    My best mates 'got it' also by my secondary observation, iv'e always found myself drawn to these sought of people..

    The old man who gave me Grubby apples, he would have been born about 1870 !

  9. On 3/8/2023 at 8:23 AM, Cliff Ton said:

    Somewhere up here ? 

    Correct,  thanks CT, 100 percent 3 Broadway, now appears to be called Distinction.

    For me, Dreadful place, 30 years plus ago, house music ain't my thing.. but now I might be able to solve my spiral staircase 'fantasy' :Shock:

     

     

     

  10. Thanks for link CT...

    Nice to know the Sandpiper was a gatehoused venue..

    From the picture do a 180, short walk and turn left, what was this prior to being a club?

    I only went twice, a Friday, the neon lighting mounted in plastic tables upstairs..Hmm 

     

    This is a stretch, it maybe had a spiral staircase?

    Definitely wooden floored, had a row of tatty leather sofas on the left, lovely long bar on the right.

     

    Like to know more about it's previous history.

     

     

     

  11. Would that be the place, with the tiny bar, and seating upstairs, had a circular tiny dancefloor section, but had two sets of stairs.

    First or second left on the right after the "old Angel".

    Recall nearby a venue I think called the Monastery, always had an expansive guess list.

    I'm not familiar, Sandpiper?.. where was this ?also Pharaoh's?

  12. 1 hour ago, David sheridan said:

    Hate when you have a mouthful of lovely grub,  and then the waitress comes over to your table and says....is everything alright for you ?

    Or when you smile and say 'fine thanks' before asking the person next to you, 'whats yours like?':Shock:

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    • On 2/20/2023 at 8:49 AM, Stuart.C said:

      Is that the door to Intercon, Tiffanys, Zhivagos to the left of the newsagent window?

       

     
    • Yes, that's it, Stuart
    • how I remember, go downstairs, an alcove with an L shaped bar on the right, on the left a wooden dancefloor, with a small balcony, slightly above this, the toilets.
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    • The bands I saw played the length of the room, if there was a stage, it was a temporary low addition. 

    They were nowhere of the calibre of Thin Lizzy

    Yes all bands play fleapits's, but the room wasn't being utiized as a band venue.

    Makes you wonder if it had been knocked about by 'Tiffanys'.

     

    These 'rock nights' didn't last long and on reflection, it was definitely a Tuesday..

    Metal Mickey down the Palais on a Monday! 

     

     

     
     
  14. 19 hours ago, Cliff Ton said:

    The nearest pub to Intercon/Tiffanys/Zhivagos was just to the left, and is still a pub today

    Recall seeing a pub on old photos..

    Can't place it, did it have a main St presence?

    I'd of been making a b line for the Yorker!

     

    Glad to see the Peacock reopening, hope it gets the original signage back.:angry:

     

     

  15. 15 hours ago, Stuart.C said:

    This is plan of the shops in 1973

     

    Thank You Stuart

    Thought I was about to find the name of a toy shop, thats bugged me for ages, but alas no..

    Located where Samuel Pepys is on the map.

     

    So many unfamiliar names for me, did Zodiac become nonsuch?

     

    I notice there's a Stuart's on there?

    Thanks again

     

     

     

     

  16. 18 hours ago, Cliff Ton said:

     

    I don't think there was anything in particular. It was a boring, solid concrete wall around the outside of the building, and the nightclub was behind that wall.

     

    In fact if you look at the 3rd photo down in this link - from the mid -70s - there doesn't seem to be anything in that location. Looks like the nightclub was added later.

     

    https://westbridgfordwire.com/pictures-victoria-centre-team-unearths-50-years-of-memories/

     

    That makes sense, remember having to go upstairs, that's where the toilets were located.

     

    Can't access link.. regarding 3rd photo, wasn't there a pub here at one time?