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« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2008, 08:54:38 pm » |
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thanks for the welcome yetion1 in the picture above you say you think boozer is the one with the ring on well i can confirm this as boozer is my uncle and yes he did live in the club and the sun inn, his son is the 1st left sitting down sorry don't know any of the others.
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« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2008, 08:13:54 pm » |
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When I was a young kid I used to go all over with Bill Mosley on his horse and cart, collecting rags, scrap, all sorts of stuff, then it was back to Ossie Wilks yard, sort it all out, I would be black brite and me Auntie Dot in Top House would play hell with Bill, but I would be up and ready to go the next morning, bloody great days them.
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« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2008, 08:54:37 pm » |
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Good bloke was bill, he was my godfather  |
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« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2008, 10:10:48 pm » |
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I can beat that forkhandles ....... he was my grandad,
everything i ever learned about featherstone and all around here came from him, he worked the horse and cart after a shift at the pit then "waited on" in the top house, he only had a half share in the horse and cart, the other half was harold hinchcliffes, and the last job he ever did with it was to move him my gran and auntie ann out of Kimberly street to woodcorner, he was the one that sat me down as a bairn and told me the story of John Gully and only once gave me a pearl of wisdom which was "if tha buys it for a quid and sells it for 21 bob, thas in profit" ...... i was 6
An old bugger most of the time, but loved him none the less
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« Reply #24 on: December 10, 2008, 08:59:52 am » |
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Nice one fevlad, they were very big friends with my family |
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« Reply #25 on: December 11, 2008, 08:53:15 pm » |
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F.H. Bill was an old bugger and a rogue (in the nicest way) but I learnt more about life out on the cart with him, Harold and Ossie than I could ever learn at school, great blokes.
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« Reply #26 on: December 11, 2008, 08:57:45 pm » |
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F.H. Bill was an old bugger and a rogue (in the nicest way) but I learnt more about life out on the cart with him, Harold and Ossie than I could ever learn at school, great blokes.
Your right there victor, feath is all the poorer whithout them |
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« Reply #27 on: December 12, 2008, 04:29:52 pm » |
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I can beat that forkhandles ....... he was my grandad,
everything i ever learned about featherstone and all around here came from him, he worked the horse and cart after a shift at the pit then "waited on" in the top house, he only had a half share in the horse and cart, the other half was harold hinchcliffes, and the last job he ever did with it was to move him my gran and auntie ann out of Kimberly street to woodcorner, he was the one that sat me down as a bairn and told me the story of John Gully and only once gave me a pearl of wisdom which was "if tha buys it for a quid and sells it for 21 bob, thas in profit" ...... i was 6
An old bugger most of the time, but loved him none the less
Hey fevlad if you are bills grandson and he shared half the horse and cart with harold HOW come i had to go for the god damn oats on a saturday morning to taylors shop LOL... i had to push a battered old pushchair so i could manage bet i was only 7/8years old at the time but i used to get aride on the cart sometimes and as for your grandad making a profit when he moved to wood corner i used to go up with my dad and he would try and sell me some apples said i couldn't have one without money but your gran always gave me one loved them two they were great. |
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« Reply #28 on: December 12, 2008, 06:49:54 pm » |
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Do you remember the aviary he had floss |
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« Reply #29 on: December 12, 2008, 08:15:34 pm » |
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I do ..... he used to feed the canarys carrots about two weeks before he sold em, so they were bright orange.... heres one then, where did he keep his pet eels ? |
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ABBOO
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« Reply #30 on: December 12, 2008, 08:18:45 pm » |
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« Reply #31 on: December 12, 2008, 09:00:57 pm » |
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I would give anything for a photo of him on the cart though
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« Reply #32 on: December 12, 2008, 09:30:17 pm » |
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fevlad i will ask harolds daughter if she has one ok
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« Reply #33 on: December 12, 2008, 11:22:10 pm » |
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Cheers floss, in all the family photos we had there wasn't one at all
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« Reply #34 on: April 04, 2010, 11:38:16 am » |
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Jud mahon is the one sat down on the right in the picture, a poacher, fighter and boozer, a very likeable rogue |
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« Reply #35 on: April 04, 2010, 05:05:47 pm » |
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Is that Sooner, sat at back with cap and glasses on?
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SMOKE ALARMS SAVE LIVES
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« Reply #36 on: April 04, 2010, 06:26:06 pm » |
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Is that Sooner, sat at back with cap and glasses on?
Thats the one i thought was jud mahon firebasher, but i could be wrong, its how i seem to remember him. |
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« Reply #37 on: April 05, 2010, 08:59:01 am » |
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Is that Sooner, sat at back with cap and glasses on?
Thats jud mahon firebasher, had it confirmed by his grandson, the one with the bald head is harold h.a.w.k.i.n.s. |
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« Reply #38 on: April 05, 2010, 09:11:38 am » |
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I've had to spell h.a.w.k.i.n.s. like this because it refused to accept the name written the conventional way, whats all that about then  |
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san!
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« Reply #39 on: April 06, 2010, 07:56:17 am » |
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I remember Harold Hawkins, he was the MAN, great laugh...shame not too many like Harold around these days.
He was a good un!
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