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'Official' London Version on the left ........ DIY, provincial version on the right. I suppose the thing I remembered was that English Heritage (as was) do the ceramic versions in London and the provinces have to fend for themselves, sadly I suspect our local ones are more valuable as scrap.

There is (or was) one on a house on Dobbin Hill. I went across the road to read it. It said 'Nobody famous ever lived here'.

 

[XM657]

My recollection is a tallish slim man black overcoat, always collar, tie,3 piece suit though maybe a little threadbare and spats.

No, he lived with Russian Edna until she got murdered by a lorry driver.

This is Duke of Darnall (his real name is Harry Taylor) who was a deaf mute. He was very well known in the 1940s but the deaf community avoided him because of his eccentric ways

 

[bartman]

There were a lot of rumours around at the time.

Unfortunately there were. Good job there wasn't any form of social media then ( except Chinese Whispers !!! )

 

[Bert]

Exact year Silent Blade?

 

[Bert]

 

[Bert]

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Hagan and Joe Shaw on the same page.

 

[Sean Thornton]

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Hagan and Joe Shaw on the same page.

I got Jimmy Hagan, Joe Shaw and Tony Currie to autograph my programme/menu at an evening for JH at Abbeydale.

 

[Bert]

I got Jimmy Hagan, Joe Shaw and Tony Currie to autograph my programme/menu at an evening for JH at Abbeydale.

Just lacking Nudger then.

 

[Silent Blade]

My recollection is a tallish slim man black overcoat, always collar, tie,3 piece suit though maybe a little threadbare and spats.

Not sure if he was tall but from what I hear , the clothes he wore were similar to what you say. I was told that he would carry advertising boards for Tailors.

He once slapped my mum on the shoulder because he thought she was laughing at him

 

[Sean Thornton]

Just lacking Nudger then.

I stood there with it out. How they laughed.

 

[BushBlade]

Sunday lunchtime gig - straight after the stripper?

First tune; Get Your Rocks Off

 

[georgebernardshaw]

 

[Wapping Blade]

There is (or was) one on a house on Dobbin Hill. I went across the road to read it. It said 'Nobody famous ever lived here'.

Ooh, haven’t been up Dobbin Hill for years! There used to be a farm at it’s junction with Ringinglow Road when I was at Junior School.

 

[Silent Blade]

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Eddie Grant played 4 games for us in 1951

 

[Silent Blade]

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http://www.englandfootballonline.com/Seas1946-60/1949-50/M0252bSui1950.html

 

[Harrisblade]

Eddie Grant played 4 games for us in 1951

Was he the first Blade player to have dreadlocks?

 

[Robby Blade]

Was he the first Blade player to have dreadlocks?

Goin to rock down to Sheffield 2
Wilder I'll take you higher.

 

[Kentblade]

Do you remember the Duke of Darnall, who according to my auntie and uncle, often would try to direct the traffic in the city centre before being pulled away by the police

Heard the name but do not recall traffic duties.

 

[Trigger Blade]

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Anyone got one of these? Joe's first record, "Marjorine." on the A side and "New Age of the Lily" on the B side.

Yes, purchased from Lamb's Music Shop, Huntingdon and it had to be ordered and the bloke behind the counter had never heard of him. 6 months later Joe was at No 1 and on Top Of The Pops.

They do blue plaques and there is one on Crookes WMC to clebrate Def Lepppard's first ever gig. That can't be a quarter of a mile from Joe's house on Tasker Road.

I have an uncle from the dark side who used to knock about with Joe in the early sixties, he was the one who first got me interested in Joe. Him and his mates used to go and watch him at St Columba's Church hall on Manchester Road, when he was Vance Arnold.

Get a plaque up there as well.....

 

[georgebernardshaw]

 

[metalblade]

He directed traffic from the top of
Commercial Street , Fitzallan Square and Haymarket which is out of the picture.
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No,no, no that is what the little platform is for in the picture when it was busy a copper in a white coat would be stood on the platforn directing the traffic
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[HighfieldBlade]

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Before the flats were built...

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Tunstall Fred]

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I'm guessing with the stand in the background,that's taken at White Hart Lane

 

[BalancedBlade]

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Pretty close to where I now live (200 yds ish) and about where I stood and watched them blow the buggers up

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[Bert]

I'm guessing with the stand in the background,that's taken at White Hart Lane

Indeed, the Shelf behind Woody.

 

[vorpal blade]

is that us away at Sunland? East Saxon?

(Brentford, Exeter, Lincoln ?) I don't recognise the ground.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

is that us away at Sunland? East Saxon?

(Brentford, Exeter, Lincoln ?) I don't recognise the ground.

If you mean the one I put up with Tibbott and Speight, that's Brentford.