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I suspect that Mr Shiny will not be taking calls whilst the film is on.
'appens you're right. The neighbours had to come round to complain as I kept leaping off the settee shouting 'hang the bastard, hang him, hang him' and 'have some of that yer fecker' etc etc

Bring it back, let's have a couple a day.

 

The took my advice - they brought it back

National costume was all-over-black

There were corpses in the avenues and cul-de-sacs

Piled up neatly in six-man stacks

Hanging from the traffic lights and specially made racks

They'd hang you for incontinence and fiddling your tax

Failure to hang yourself justified the axe

A deedely dee, a deedely dum

Looks like they brought back hangin' for everyone

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The took my advice - they brought it back

National costume was all-over-black

There were corpses in the avenues and cul-de-sacs

Piled up neatly in six-man stacks

Hanging from the traffic lights and specially made racks

They'd hang you for incontinence and fiddling your tax

Failure to hang yourself justified the axe

A deedely dee, a deedely dum

Looks like they brought back hangin' for everyone

 

'Conditional Discharge' by the fine John Cooper Clarke. A cracking song.

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It's hard to imagine all the shops that were there along that stretch back then.

Motorbike shop, Glass shop, two Antique shops, another three pubs (Old Post, Hat & Feather and Kings), Furniture shop, Jeweller, Taxi office, Sewing shop amongst others.

HTPS was just lower than Baxter St.

 

I'll be 34 at the end of this year, and I remember the motorbike shop and the glass shop (I'd fotgotted until you reminded me - I recall going in with my old man when I was a real small nipper). I certainly don't recall the jewellers though (unless that was in the row up opposite the Bowling Green). Lots of the shops had gone by the time I got to drinking age when I'd occasionally go in the Old Post with my mate and his dad (who died earleir this year god rest his soul). I remember it having a door on Manchester Road and a door on Hollins Road, and then Tracey's ladieswear shop was perched right on the corner.

 

I've got a print by a local artist depicting the area at home. If I can get a decent photo/scan of it I'l post it up on here for the memories!

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