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[denislawsbackheel]

In the Middle Ages, no minstrel or musician could ply his trade in the County Palatine of Chester without a licence from the Dutton family. A special licensing court was held in Chester each year on the Feast of St John the Baptist. The last such court was held in 1756.

(A County Palatine was, in effect, a separate state from England with its own local courts and customs. There were no extradition treaties, so if you committed a crime in (say) Staffordshire and fled into Cheshire, the Staffordshire people could not touch you. Medieval Cheshire was a bit like the Wild West.)

Tried Bollington lately?
Not much change since then.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

There's a tv series about him starring Timothy Spall.

If you mean Mrs Lowry and Son it’s a movie, not a tv series.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

The Granny Smith apple was named as such because the tree from which the apples came was above Granny Smith's grave.

 

[Bill Walker]

Estimated 5 million vapes are discarded every week in the UK.

 

[Lavinda Past]

If you mean Mrs Lowry and Son it’s a movie, not a tv series.

Barry Norman is in da house....

;-)

 

[kaz7]

Estimated 5 million vapes are discarded every week in the UK.

it is a dirty habit but people just see the fashion element and the colours are nice

 

[kaz7]

Totally aimed at kids Kaz.
It breaks my heart to see my teenage son has taken it up.

Sorry he has started on it , probably wont be able to get off it now but you cant tell them

 

[kaz7]

My mum died aged 40 with Lung Cancer through smoking. I have hammered it home to both my kids how much I despise that habit. Not stopped him though.

My brother recently died of lung cancer and my mum is terminal with the same , both were heavy , prolonged smokers, couldnt tell them either

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

It takes 5 cans of Stella to top up one’s pissed up state after a serious night camping with the lads in Killin, Scotland. Up the fuckin Blues!
Glazers staying ten more years…

 

[bluebaja]

A quick scam warning, one I wasn't aware of. I went into my e mail account earlier on (talktalk) and I had almost 2000 (two thousand) e mails. All responses from companies that I had apparently requested information from. Couldn't think of anything else to do but delete them. I can only delete 50 at a time so it took a while to do. When I got to the last 50 I looked at them just so I didn't delete the ones that were genuine. Lo and behold there was an e mail from my credit card company asking me to call them as I had allegedly changed my mobile number and log in details. I called them and it appears some scammer had changed my details on my credit card and had attempted to transfer my CC balance to a bank account. Having looked into it in the last half hour, it appears that what the scammers do is flood your e mail account hoping that you will delete ALL e mails so not see the one from your credit card company until it is too late. As I say, this is a new one to me so heads up Blues...

Update...have now had to abandon the email address I have had for 15 years. Total number of emails received in less than 24 hours now stands at over 13,000 !