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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 15, 2023 7:43:36 GMT
We have a cracking canal system that would benefit from some kind of commercial / entertainment hub sitting on it The proposed refilling of the Burslem branch of the Trent and Mersey has that potential.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 14, 2023 7:49:49 GMT
I saw a rare sojourn north by Atomic Rooster at the Flowerpot in Derby. Rooster, of course, are missing the late Vincent Crane, but they are an excellent ‘continuation band’ with two original members. Rooster’s raw and improvisational studio sound lends itself to live performance and the current line up belt out the old rockers brilliantly. There’s just something wonderful to me about bands with a Hammond Organ/electric piano as a lead instrument. The venue itself is an old school room attached to the pub next door. It put me in mind of the Wheatsheaf, Talbot, Newcastle Arts Centre with its intimate and pillar obscuring atmosphere. Cost £1.50 to park around the corner and is a quick drive from the Potteries (naturally). A quick glance at their schedule makes it look similar in tone to the The Robin in Bilston. Rooster still have it and it’s worth taking a look at the Flowerpot too.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 13, 2023 8:35:06 GMT
Oh no, sad news. The Isley’s were one of a number of great Soul acts in the 60s, who, when the 70s arrrived ‘Rocked up’ their sound and effectively became a different act. Wonderful, spine tingling vocals from the brothers. RIP.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 10, 2023 6:46:23 GMT
I’ve read Michael Bilton’s book that this programme is partially informed by. It’s the best book on Sutcliffe by a considerable distance and threw new light on the subject and uncovered new evidence. Sutcliffe may well have attacked many, many more women and in one known instance a man. Going back to the programme, ITV have been mining this ‘real life drama’ seam for a while and it was starting to get boring and tedious. Not so, with ‘The Long Shadow’. Aside from it working brilliantly as a subtle, not sensationalist drama, is its attention to detail. The senior police detectives are in some cases close look a likes, and details like using a blue commer van as did one of the victims show the level of research. It’s also interesting to see the Police baffled because the murders are not committed by a friend, family member or acquaintance like most murders were (still are?). The police in the series have no sense of a sexual component in the murder sequence it’s just a ‘mission against prostitutes’ or ‘good time girls’. Exactly how it was. ‘The Long Shadow’ also portrays something that is little remembered, the sense that Sutcliffe was this unseen ‘ghost’ who moved and murdered with impunity and kept women off the streets after dark, and dominated talk in works canteens, the pub or wherever people gathered in the North. I’m glad too it portrays the human tragedy of this case, instead of some crass sensationalism. Great stuff.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 9, 2023 8:15:35 GMT
Marty Hopkirk. Saw the very first episode of "Randall and Hopkirk deceased" a few months ago and he said he had to wait 100 years before returning to the grave. The programme went out in 1968, 55 years ago... Randall and Hopkirk was one of a number of ITC serials in the 1960s. Most of them a bit daft, but never not watchable and entertaining for it. They also looked expensively made in colour(!) with well known casts, and flash locations. A era where TV took a few risks. Compare and contrast with the BBC who had no answer to this kind of thing.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 8, 2023 14:58:56 GMT
I was offered on by a bunch of munchkin Stoke fans who thought I was a Leicester fan. This despite getting on a Stoke coach. When I told them what to do in a broad potteries accent, and that I was a Stoke fan, I got a volley of abuse. Un-fucking-believable.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 4, 2023 21:26:45 GMT
You’re going to get your fucking heads kicked in.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 4, 2023 17:51:37 GMT
Well the western side of Staffordshire won’t now be ripped up for this monstrosity. Happy to see it gone. Sorry for sticking up for the countryside etc.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 2, 2023 18:01:48 GMT
Leek have been drawn at AFC Fylde in the FA Cup 4th qualifying round. No Stoke game, so a banging ground hop and an intriguing tie. Well worth it this one.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 2, 2023 18:00:10 GMT
Staff at the club told me this. That’s fantastic to know, a piece of the Vic living on. I moved down here a couple of years ago but haven’t ventured to a game or anything, I should go tbh to support the area. Excellent set up there and nice people.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 1, 2023 5:59:59 GMT
I really enjoyed visiting Hednesford for the first time last week against Kidsgrove. Excellent set up there and will definitely come back. Very nice to go through those turnstiles from the Victoria Ground. Turnstiles from the Victoria Ground?? I live in Hednesford and never knew this Staff at the club told me this.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 29, 2023 12:38:22 GMT
Jan De Koning
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 29, 2023 7:15:35 GMT
This just seems to be a symbol of the moral disintegration of this country. Never can I remember a time where utterly pointless acts like this are committed for what? Expect more of this as this ‘child’ will not be punished in any way, shape or form.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 25, 2023 20:30:58 GMT
My favourite film of all time, Saturday Night Fever. Based on the Lifestyle of English Mods.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 25, 2023 20:30:16 GMT
The day the earth caught fire That's a great film Can't remember the gal in it but think she died quite young. One of my fave all time films, that and When Worlds Collide. I think she was an alcoholic as was her co-star Edward Judd. What luvvies did before cocaine. Great film.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 24, 2023 16:24:53 GMT
We need to get outside the main entrance and let our feelings known. Eloquence social media posts are one thing and can be ignored. Belligerent action with real people that can be seen and heard by the hierarchy is something else. Mills Out!
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 12, 2023 9:34:18 GMT
I believe the aircraft was an Avro Anson. just had a look at a picture of that plane and it does look like the same one. Cheers for that. It was mentioned on a heritage aircraft facebook group I’m on, and identified on there. Apparently it fly’s from an airfield in North Shropshire.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 12, 2023 7:52:07 GMT
I believe the aircraft was an Avro Anson.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 9, 2023 5:18:32 GMT
I went Arbroath last Easter Saturday for a local Derby against Dundee. Worst game of football I’d seen for awhile but more than made up for by the stadium, location, sense of occasion etc. one of the classic ground hops without shadow of a doubt. Took my girlfriend who’s not into footie and she loved it too. Loved it so much, as Arnie said ‘I’ll be back’ 😁
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 29, 2023 11:48:37 GMT
I was at Hednesford v chasetown derby yesterday.went to the game at widnes on Saturday played at a soulless stadium the rugby team use aswel an we got a real battering so was expecting the worst against chasetown who had won 3 an drawn 1 so far but we put in a really improved performance an managed to get a point in a 1-1 draw.a fantastic crowd of 1486 there to go with the 700 and 600 so far at home this season and both the away games at Newcastle and widnes we have outnumbered the home fans so it's great to see the fans getting behind the club in our current situation. I really enjoyed visiting Hednesford for the first time last week against Kidsgrove. Excellent set up there and will definitely come back. Very nice to go through those turnstiles from the Victoria Ground.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 29, 2023 0:37:15 GMT
Unemployment in some places was beginning to bite hard , especially up here , but FV was also at or approaching its peak .. hugely impacting on attendances .. as FV bit many family orientated supporters and indeed many fans in general turned their back on the game , meaning grounds were even more dangerous to visit resulting in a downward spiral effect on gates Grim times for those that stuck with the game and their clubs , especially if you went away regularly rather than just the one or two decent turnouts .. fans in general were hated and despised by just about everyone and everything admitting to being a football fan wasn’t always a wise move career wise Even the shit had many sub 40k gates , including some low 30s ..though not unless you speak to their genuine lot Historian Dominic Sandbrook thinks that the prosperity of the 1960s/70s had an effect on the low crowds. Older fans had money to do different things with their spare time, maybe even listen to their wife and indulge family life more. Once there was a working class hierarchy of males- Dads, Uncles, older brothers, at some point there was young white working class males making up a lot of support, well into the 1990s. The older guys had disappeared into their sheds or were taking the family out in their cortina’s.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 25, 2023 9:52:52 GMT
So fucked off I can’t go,to make matters worse I’m sure I’ll see hoards of fervent Stokies around London Bridge as I trudge off down the road for a fucking rehearsal. You’re not the rear end of a horse at the National Theatre are you? 😁
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 21, 2023 14:36:33 GMT
I’ve just read the victim impact statements. Just absolutely shattering stuff.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 20, 2023 19:30:12 GMT
Can any local military history buffs help with this one..? My lad is war history crazy and is reading about a gang of kids hiding in a disused pillbox. Wants to visit one. Is there something high up near Chesterton/ Bignall End? Or elsewhere? Google search unproductive... There’s also the remains of a WW2 artillery piece in Keele Woods if that would interest your lad too.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 20, 2023 19:24:06 GMT
There’s a machine gun pill box by the Shropshire Union canal in woodseaves. The canal was supposed to be a defensive in case of a German invasion in 1940. Further along the canal in Market Drayton is this grade 2 listed pill box historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1393697. They’re generally not worth entering as they’re filthy and used as toilets.
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road rage
Aug 17, 2023 14:22:05 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 17, 2023 14:22:05 GMT
I had a minor incident an hour ago at the notoriously wank section of princes road where the road narrows to a bottleneck as a result of resident parking areas; but the road is curved so it’s often a split second to decide whether to go or not. Right of way is given to the cars travelling towards hartshill. Sometimes people without right of way will see an oncoming car but go anyway. When that happens I don’t react. They’ll often thank me for stopping and I passive-aggressively ignore them. Today I was travelling towards penkhull and was already halfway through the first, trickier part of the bottleneck when an oncoming car came speeding towards me (prob going at least 35 if not 40, way too quick for that section) the car needed to slow down slightly to allow me to exit the bottle neck but SPED UP and forced me to stop; as if I was in the wrong for already being halfway through before they appeared. It then mounted the pavement. I eyeballed the driver; it was a young bloke and he didn’t even look at me or have any aggressive energy aside from their retardedly inappropriate driving. Anyway, to cut a long story short and answer the OP; I called him a cunt. I nearly came a cropper in exactly the same spot as I was close to exiting the bottleneck on my motorcycle. He had the nerve to wind his window down and start giving it the big one. After a quick analysis of his height, build, offensive capabilities weren’t to my disadvantage, I told him I’m just off to fuck his mother and zoomed off to frustrate a response.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 17, 2023 9:19:37 GMT
A great chronicler of the greatest era in popular culture. RIP Michael.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 15, 2023 7:47:22 GMT
I live in cannock an me an my lad are season ticket holders at Hednesford.we will be at Newcastle on Tuesday with my dad aswel.clubs been in a right mess recently but things slightly turned for the better recently ,fella with vale links,danny glover now player manager aswel.over 700 at the opening game on sat which is superb for step 4. I’m dropping by for the Kidsgrove game next week. My first visit and looking forward to the game and the stadium itself. Glad to see the Pitmen getting on their feet. I think being in the northern part of the pyramid must help attendances.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 12, 2023 16:45:28 GMT
what are the attendances like for Sandbach? 130 odd today. And that’s about standard. They got 1300 for the play off final last season. Really good set up though and nice club house and cheap to get in (6quid) and the food and drink is cheap too. Careful dude, hopping gets addictive. Happiness at football matches has a lot going for it…….
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Post by Dutchpeter on Aug 11, 2023 5:47:02 GMT
I can’t help but think about the Titanic submersible when I read this.
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