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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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This is a continuation of Steeplejack's Next Corner. Click on this link for the older topic:
Jacks Corner Part 3
Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 26/01/2009 : 18:16
Tom ,i wouldent know i was like Harry Holden. i never told anyone i worked on chimneys. hehe
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 26/01/2009 : 18:50
Tom, tonight at 7pm on channel five program about Drax power station, i'm not watching it i'm Scared. if your watching it just look with one eye.  hehe.
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 26/01/2009 : 18:59
I tell people iam a chimney sweep,they buy me beer because they think its lucky,hehe.....the mrs doesnt let me near the telly on Mondays,its soap night and iam not aloud my fags and beer upstairs, .....
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colsack
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Posted - 26/01/2009 : 23:43
Bob, when i show people the video me and Pete Harris made up a chimney it's funny to see them go from a relaxed position to sitting right on the edge of the sofa, hehe.
Tom, soap night upstairs with the missus sounds interesting, tell us more, Going back to full time "bubble blowing" again, this time on offshore windmills, i love diving, just ask my missus, hehe
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steeplejohn
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Posted - 27/01/2009 : 06:13
Great pics of John Gell, good friend of mine. Not seen each other for years, I know he's not been on this site for ages. We need to track him down before he becomes a normaly member of society, come on all you chimney watchers, find him, find him!!!!!
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blokman
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Posted - 27/01/2009 : 09:03
Gelly is knocking around somewhere, he is certainly keeping at least one eye on the site.....
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 27/01/2009 : 14:50
Hehe,Col ive just read what i wrote yesterday,my secret is out,the wife ties me up and whips me while the coronation st theme tune is playing,,,OUCH !!..
John,,,Gelly was last heard of hidding in Bomber Marshalls coal hole when he thought a hit squad from BEST was after him,he will never be a normal member of society,hes the only guy who drives round Urmston in a uni-mog with a snow plough on it in summer...hehe..
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 27/01/2009 : 16:29
Hasn't he downsized to a Haflinger yet? Better fuel consumption....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 27/01/2009 : 16:39
Bob,i dont think Gelly likes us anymore, ....Stanley,i think Mog enthusiasts are judged by the ammount of fule they can consume, hehe...
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bob hulin
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Posted - 27/01/2009 : 18:58
IM' GOING FOR A SWIFT HALF. BEFORE THEY CLOSE MY LOCAL FOR GOOD.
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 27/01/2009 : 19:02
Bob,you should go for a long 20 pints and help keep it open,hehe
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Stanley
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Posted - 28/01/2009 : 07:04
Bob puts his finger on a serious problem. I'm not a pub man but regret the decline, I think every pub in the country is under threat. It's the supermarkets that kill them, offers like 36 bottles of Becks for under £16 before Christmas. Crazy, how can prices like that help anyone?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 28/01/2009 : 07:51
Stanley ,i think the supermarkets have got the right idea,they can get people in there for cheap ale and a large percentage of them will buy something else when they are there,if pubs do any kind of promotion these days the do-gooders come down on them like a ton of bricks,plus theres the smoking ban,ive heard statistics saying the smoking ban has made no difference to the pub trade,absolute rubish.pubs have always been the heart of the community where people go for a smoke,drink and a chat(sometimes more),the do-gooders must have some kind of utopian idea that the world will be wonderful if we give up drinking and smoking,i bet these type of people dont even know who their neighbours are..
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Posted - 28/01/2009 : 11:55
The pub landlords got irate too because Wetherspoons have started their 99p a pint offer (and full meals for about £3). One said he couldn't even get the beer (Greene King IPA I think) direct from the brewery for that price. Perhaps the government will offer pubs a bail-out like the banks and car companies!!!
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steeplejohn
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Posted - 28/01/2009 : 14:27
It's not all ways the landlords, most are not owned freehold but are lease hold and owned by large corporations, These corporations charge the landlord rent, and extortional prices for his dray, which he legally tied to but off them. These corporations offer no help, no free of charge help to the landlords during these hard times, nor have they in the past they just keep taking the rent and seem blind that their own business is slipping away from beneath them. I think for landlords it is survial of the fittist
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
