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Really interesting video, and kudos to @Graham for is outstanding work on the car! Glad to hear you're paying your road tax :D @theatrically_inclined also got a mention I see ! I'm guessing you were both involved in the making of...

Before I joined the fire service, I worked in the fire and ambulance workshops, at the time I had a tatty Ford Anglia that was handy for my wife to use for shopping and getting the children back and forth, so I obtained a cheap used...

I have had a couple of similar ‘peds. Currently looking for another doer upper. Originally available from Woolworths :)

Many of you will recall the little cobblers shop at the bottom of Rotcher Road in Holmfirth, here is a picture of the previous tenant

Just back from Malaga and their edible cousins are being roasted on every corner really popular with the Spanish . There is a myth that conkers if kept in the house they would repel flies and spiders but sadly there is no evidence that...

I agree I am often surprised to see conkers unclaimed. When I was a kid, they seemed to be a rare and valued find.

We attached our sticks to a rope if we had a good one so we wouldn’t lose it :)

I remember throwing sticks into trees to get a good sized conker down after all the fallen had been claimed.

Outstanding Ferret! to be fair I thought no one would ever get it from my vague clues. Yes but he's on the posters in the cafe if you look out for them. Perhaps a subject matter expert like @theatrically_inclined could elaborate on...

… lightbulb moment…Pat Roache, Bomber from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet??

Hmm, might need another clue. It was a coincidence that I watched an old World of Sport short the other day and the Porridge actor Brian Glover was wrestling under his moniker of Leon Arras( the man from Paris).

In the words of Roy Walker, good answer but not right! Another clue said comedy also spawned a singer of debatable talent ?

Brian Glover??

Adrian Street and Bobby Barnes , Jackie Pallo were perhaps the most theatrical of the wrestlers.

King Kong Kirk. BIG daddy. Pat Roach