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Nurse Batty on hand :)

Tulip?

It does to be honest Barry but I could repair most things on the t3 engine but not so sure I’ll be as proficient on that front with this one. We have just got back from the Dickensian market at Ulverston.

It’s gone :( .. we’ve bought a t5. We had reached the point of wanting something that did more than 20 miles to the gallon and it was going to need a bit of work to keep it in good nick so I sold it to a younger man whose going to do just that. We had some great times in it over the years and...

I’m currently in Cartmel and popping over to Ulverston in the morning. Looking forwards to revisiting the L&H museum.

That’s what I was thinking. Wether the rest will be stored or sold on would be interesting.

… and the Robin Hood series with Richard Greene.

RIP Mani. We got to see the Stone Roses a few times early on in their career at small gigs in Manchester and got to see his first gig with the band in Manchester in ‘87.

Went The Day Well, any Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles with Peter Cushing. I remember as a rowdy youth walking out of the cinema when Manhattan came on as it was in black and white :)

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

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

… 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).

Brian Glover??