[BITList] les andy capp

[CT's]

very funny, hugh

dockside pub at lunchtime in hull - watch with mother!
why were you in a dockside pub at lunch time?
I think most docks in britain were hang outs for andy capp et cie

ct

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From: "HUGH" <chakdara at btinternet.com>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 2:19 AM
To: <bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com>
Subject: Re: [BITList] hooligans

> Colin,
>
> It was said by someone that one can't step into the same river twice. 
> Plus
> ca change, plus c'est a different place.  Of Hull, all I recall is a
> dockside pub at lunchtime, full of workmen watching Watch With Mother on a
> black and white TV.  "Are you sitting comfortably?" asked the lady on the
> screen.  "Yes," came a chorus from the punters.  That was Nowshera, 1958.
> If I went back, I'd remember it all, and it wouldn't be there.  Same with
> Middlesbrough, which is frozen forever in my mind as the background to the
> Andy Capp cartoons.
>
> I recall a bar in Port Talbot where the lunchtime clientele sang in 4-part
> harmony - no doubt it was flattened years ago (not a pun).  Nothing 
> remains
> of the Glasgow dockside where I joined the Clan Maclay as Junior 2nd, but
> all the docks in Greenock are still as they were, though I only ever left
> them on sea trials.
>
> Hugh.
>
>
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