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Post by Admin on Nov 27, 2008 23:47:23 GMT
Lets hear from you all.................make it our Christmas Present.................................
If you all do a small item, we will have almost 200 to chew over................membership has flourished............
PLEASE add something to the Forum
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Post by lawkholmelaner on Dec 6, 2008 19:22:59 GMT
One summer Sunday evening in the late '50s, we (an older and wiser friend and I) arrived very early for a Methodist Youth Rally in Cliffe Castle. There was no-one around but we could hear in the evening air the strains of a competent band playing the style of music I liked. We were near a back entrance to Cliffe Castle off Spring Gardens Lane. I dragged my friend up a rubble road across from Spring Gardens until we came to a gateway leant against which was a chalkboard which read "Polish Garden Party ( and the rest)" My friend (senior etc) read the board thus "Polish (as in Cherry Blossom) Garden Party". Unchallenged we went in and stood watching couples dancing to a very rhythmical quintet which drew my attention and admiration. My friend suddenly made a stunning observation .. "Hey, Lawkholmelaner, have you noticed they're all foreigners"
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Post by fsharpminor on Dec 8, 2008 8:55:34 GMT
Yes, I seem to recall thare was a large hostel up there for what we called 'D.P's. (Displaced Persons), which were mainly Poles. The rubble road was called Mayfield road.
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Post by lawkholmelaner on Jan 3, 2009 18:20:10 GMT
I didn't witness this but it was told to me on good authority.........
Keighley Lifts' annual trip to the seaside was a spanking good excuse for downing bottles of ale -which were paid for out of the "trip money" - some crates stuffed into the coach boot and others laid out at intervals down the aisle of the bus. They started early (departure and drinking). One chap who had had a few was sleeping it off when the coach turned into the bus park. The fellow behind him, with a desperate mission, rose to his feet, took not another stride and threw up all down the chap dozing in the seat in front. He didn't wake. But when he did they told him he'd vomited in his sleep.
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