The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime

stonerblue said:
Not sure how but i found myself in Blackley after a game one sunday evening.
Spotted a boozer with a big sign on it advertising Curry goat. Gagging for another pint and being hank marvin i went in. Empty in one bar, gang of scrotes in the other. Ordered a pint and sat down in the empty bar. After a stream of friendly locals had asked what i was doing in there or if i was 'looking for business' i thought i better get my food and fuck off. Asked the lovely landlady for a taxi number only to be informed taxis won't pick anyone up from there.
I set off walking, clueless as to where i was, and a car pulled up and told me to get in. The landlady had sent her son to pick me up before her 'regulars' got hold of me.
Pebble-dashed, flat roof Holts' boozer (i think).
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Did it have a white front? If so that'll I'll be The Flying Horse on Crab Lane
 
kippaxwarrior said:
Did it have a white front? If so that'll I'll be The Flying Horse on Crab Lane
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Er.....? could've been. nearer town than the market and set back off main road, edge of an estate. I was a bit leathered.

just googled it and no, not that one

edit 2; I've had a good look and tried to re-trace my steps and i don't think i would've got to Blackley from Eastlands on foot.. More likely to be Harpurhey. Can't even remember what game it was...I'm fucking useless.
 
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stonerblue said:
Er.....? could've been. nearer town than the market and set back off main road, edge of an estate. I was a bit leathered.

just googled it and no, not that one
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Could be the Alliance but I don't think it has a flat roof. Played a pool match there a couple of years ago and nearly everyone in there seemed like they'd been in there all day. Plenty of "characters"
 
bluwes said:
Its not that long ago he would have been eating his own teeth.
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Exactly. Just watched this. What a prime example of the society we now live in. Two generation have evolved and the production is a mix of police not able to do what they would have a couple of decades ago, and someone like this taking all the power. A bully. A gobshite. I hope the boys inside are putting him in his place.
The ultimate coward.
 
oldhamblue said:
Could be the Alliance but I don't think it has a flat roof. Played a pool match there a couple of years ago and nearly everyone in there seemed like they'd been in there all day. Plenty of "characters"
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Alliance is a community pub. Infact it's one of the pubs to avoid these days. Stuck in the past. Serves its purpose I suppose.
 
stonerblue said:
Er.....? could've been. nearer town than the market and set back off main road, edge of an estate. I was a bit leathered.

just googled it and no, not that one

edit 2; I've had a good look and tried to re-trace my steps and i don't think i would've got to Blackley from Eastlands on foot.. More likely to be Harpurhey. Can't even remember what game it was...I'm fucking useless.
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My guess is you might have been in The Clarendon, Monsall/Harpurhey/Collyhurst borders. Vile shithole, its where Paddy Doherty brought Danny Dyer on that Britain’s hardest Men show

 
LongsightM13 said:
My guess is you might have been in The Clarendon, Monsall/Harpurhey/Collyhurst borders. Vile shithole, its where Paddy Doherty brought Danny Dyer on that Britain’s hardest Men show

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Looks like the one off Shameless. I've always thought these cast concrete/prefab pubs are shit. They usually seem to be where terraces were cleared in the 60's - probably replaced 2 or three really nice traditional boozers.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
Exactly. Just watched this. What a prime example of the society we now live in. Two generation have evolved and the production is a mix of police not able to do what they would have a couple of decades ago, and someone like this taking all the power. A bully. A gobshite. I hope the boys inside are putting him in his place.
The ultimate coward.
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Moved from Collyhurst to Langley with the slum clearance in the late 60's, joined the cops mid 70's. Did 30 years. I can tell you lots about how society has changed..................
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Most of the gangs who get jailed in Warrington for drug related crime still live in the poorest areas. I’m not sure why they take the risk when the money they make doesn’t actually bring them a much better life that they would have had anyway! Imagine looking over your shoulder all the time. Wondering who is knocking on your door. Grim.
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I spent a short time living in the flats on Blenheim Close in Padgate (knocked down a few years ago). We had a small time heroin dealer/addict living next door. He got raided by the police one day and they found a hefty stash that he'd attempted to hide in a secret compartment that he'd chiselled out of the concrete floor in his living room and covered over with wood and carpet.

He was arrested, but he was out on bail within 24 hours. He got battered to within in inch of his life not long after and we never saw him again. No idea what happened to him.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
I spent a short time living in the flats on Blenheim Close in Padgate (knocked down a few years ago). We had a small time heroin dealer/addict living next door. He got raided by the police one day and they found a hefty stash that he'd attempted to hide in a secret compartment that he'd chiselled out of the concrete floor in his living room and covered over with wood and carpet.

He was arrested, but he was out on bail within 24 hours. He got battered to within in inch of his life not long after and we never saw him again. No idea what happened to him.
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Yes know that area well. A lot of the lads from my school lived over there.
 
Not related to this TV show or case but if you found this interesting this guy is an ex prison officer who does podcasts. This is part one of three so far with a bent screw who got caught and banged up himself.

 
bluwes said:
Moved from Collyhurst to Langley with the slum clearance in the late 60's, joined the cops mid 70's. Did 30 years. I can tell you lots about how society has changed..................
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My old man used to be in the job as they say, always remember him saying that he wouldn't have lasted five minutes in today's world.
One other point it's a good job that they closed all the old stations as most of them had stairs that needed replacing.
 
bluwes said:
Moved from Collyhurst to Langley with the slum clearance in the late 60's, joined the cops mid 70's. Did 30 years. I can tell you lots about how society has changed..................
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No wonder you are still policing the stewards in the 93:20 Bar lol.
 
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