Brendan Janus
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"Planet Claire" was a 1979 hit for The B52's !!
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Groucho's Fact Hunt
- Thread starter Groucho
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Knocker-up of work people isn't that puzzling.
Before clocks or pocket watches were common for the working man to own, factories would often employ a 'knocker-upper' whose job it was to go around the workers houses with a long stick and knock on their bedroom window to make sure they were up on time for their shift.
Yeah, that was still common in mining villages in the 30s.
'Fish bender', 'Proprietor of midgets' and 'Turnip shepherd' however..... lol
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
The fastest air-to-air combat kill during the Battle of Britain occurred over Speke airport in 1940.
www.forgottenairfields.com
Forgotten airfields europe
Directory of abandoned, forgotten and little known airfiels in europe
Are you telling us that it happens every 100 years? Never have guessed.
Not sure about your spelling of 'sure'.
Excellent work mate, THIS is what the thread is about. The arl lady, left school at 14 and went straight into Speke on the Halifax line.The fastest air-to-air combat kill during the Battle of Britain occurred over Speke airport in 1940.
Forgotten airfields europe
Directory of abandoned, forgotten and little known airfiels in europe
And there's this pic of mustangs going from the docks to speke along Allerton Rd
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
It's funny how these things coming about. I was talking to my mother last week and she'd just watched the film Battle of Britain. She remembered dogfights over the Mersey and wondered where our aircraft was based. I also found out that there was an RAF base located near West Kirby.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
And now you know.
Socrates
Player Valuation: £6m
I'm a bit of a number nerd and set up a digital clock and calendar on 7th August 1990.
Around lunchtime, the time and date read 12:34:56 7/8/90.
I won't be around the next time that happens, either.
There's a very apt inscription on Stanley Unwins gravestone -
"Reunited in the heavenly-bode, deep joy"
Around 900 years ago, it was 11:11:11 11/11/1111 (unless of course they didn’t have the gregorian calendar back then?)
Don’t think I’ll be around for the 2222 version
2222 doesn't work..