15-01-2016, 17:48
I heard these are your new 'local' shopkeepers
"Amelia & Snoots"
15-01-2016, 18:25
I was beginning to think you'd moved into a canal boat and been swept off downstream to some far off land with no known working communication systems ....... like Hull.
A guide to cask ale.
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“In the best pubs, you can spend entire afternoons deep in refreshment without a care in the world.”
“In the best pubs, you can spend entire afternoons deep in refreshment without a care in the world.”
15-01-2016, 22:31
I've been to Batley Variety Club twice at least. I applauded Bobby Crush. Laughed at Charlie Williams. I'm that old.
Both Batley and Dewsbury were better than Rotherham, or Staveley, or Ilkeston. But then I spent a year in Stoke - Jimmy Savile would have got off with less than that .....
Good Luck!
Both Batley and Dewsbury were better than Rotherham, or Staveley, or Ilkeston. But then I spent a year in Stoke - Jimmy Savile would have got off with less than that .....
Good Luck!
15-01-2016, 23:59
Bobby Crush. Wow, there's somebody you don't hear of anymore.
And as for Charlie Williams, we're now living in his home town.
Batley and Dewsbury were bloody great places when I were a kid. They are now total shitholes!
And as for Charlie Williams, we're now living in his home town.
Batley and Dewsbury were bloody great places when I were a kid. They are now total shitholes!
16-01-2016, 00:23
Royston were in t'old West Riding. He died a death in Barnsley. Don't tell me they moved Royston darn sarth 
A guide to cask ale.
“In the best pubs, you can spend entire afternoons deep in refreshment without a care in the world.”
“In the best pubs, you can spend entire afternoons deep in refreshment without a care in the world.”
16-01-2016, 03:09
I saw Marti Caine at Batley. I went to school with her son Max and after he asked if I wanted to see her perform she turned up in her Rolls Royce to pick me up and then drove us up to her gig.
16-01-2016, 13:40
I can't remember anybody having a bad word to say about Marti Caine.
Charlie Williams was a better Centre Back than a comic me owd flower.
It is a long time since I was in Batley or Dewsbury ........ Never been to Royston, thought it was just a pit ...... but then I've not been back to lots of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire pit villages where I used to play football. People deliberately go to Poolsbrook these days - when I knew it you were either born there, or a council tenant who'd been thrown out of properties everywhere else ...... and if you went there to play football it was fight or die.
Charlie Williams was a better Centre Back than a comic me owd flower.
It is a long time since I was in Batley or Dewsbury ........ Never been to Royston, thought it was just a pit ...... but then I've not been back to lots of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire pit villages where I used to play football. People deliberately go to Poolsbrook these days - when I knew it you were either born there, or a council tenant who'd been thrown out of properties everywhere else ...... and if you went there to play football it was fight or die.
16-01-2016, 15:08
Marti Caine were brilliant. Not much talked about these days, but a proper comedian and in the days when female comedians were thin on the ground.
16-01-2016, 16:48
(16-01-2016, 15:08)Lord Snooty Wrote: Marti Caine were brilliant. Not much talked about these days, but a proper comedian and in the days when female comedians were thin on the ground.
To be honest I cannot remember her performance at all!!! Its been 20 years now since she died and I suppose thats why she has been pretty much forgotten. The statue in Sheffield erected in her memory is still there I believe.
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