a stagnant pool of bile contains as much interest...
...as the bible
and is much less harmful
and is much more helpful
and is much more reverened
and is much more irreverent
30 seconds of pure greatness
great knowledge.
if we are name-dropping tv duos and public houses,
my grandfather's local was called the wheatsheaf, in a small place called newhey, between oldham and rochdale.
it was half owned by bobby ball
(who co-incidentally was in the same junior class at school as my mother)
from the...
the bourne arms!
that was the name of the pub in knott end we used to eat at and have a pint of proper ale when i used to drive my grandfather over for the day in his later years.
maybe it's still around and an excuse for you to jump on the ferry.
mostly that's good news, nice one.
i had no idea syd little was a local,
but you have reminded me that the fella who started the fisherman's friend company was from there (and maybe the factory was there too?)
plus, that the town was named after a rich bloke with a double-barreled name ending...
ah, fleetwood.
spent many a week there in my youth in the 1970s.
my grandfather was originally from across the water, knott end.
he moved to manchester as a young child with 8 brothers and 1 sister into a 2 bedroomed house. imagine that.
when we visited family we always took the ferry over the...