It was known as that for years due to the fact you stuck to the carpets whenever you tried to walk to the bar.Mr Smith wrote:Someone told me yesterday that they called the "La Strada" the "claggy mat"
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My one and only visit to the Hedworth Hall i leaned over the balcony in order to gaze down some nice cleavage,when due to the effect of several pints i over balanced and landed on a table ,lucky no one was hurt,cost me replacement pints tho.
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..Eeeeeh rusty, you dirty bug*er..
My mate reckons he's going to a convention for retired shoe repairers today.
Load of old cobblers if you ask me.
Load of old cobblers if you ask me.
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remember Alf Josephs the manager is he still alive used to go there saturday and sunday nights and parked my lambretta in the work shop where i worked accross the road in the mecca bingo car park for Walter May as a apprentice joiner my grandmother lived at 96 dean road family name Gunn
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Did they specialise in building bodies for lorries? Can remember passing a joiners shop on the way into the drill ground of Londonderry Hall when in the cadets.callummal wrote:remember Alf Josephs the manager is he still alive used to go there saturday and sunday nights and parked my lambretta in the work shop where i worked accross the road in the mecca bingo car park for Walter May as a apprentice joiner my grandmother lived at 96 dean road family name Gunn my great grand father lived at 66 1/2 regent street in 1901 Frederick James Gunn was his name
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yes jarrow pete yous`t to do work for SICO [SPD [REMEMBER THE BIG FIRE] AND ALSO WARDLES timber merchants also shop fronts in dean rd
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Watched the SPD fire flames from Marsden Quarry,biggest fire since the war it was said.callummal wrote:yes jarrow pete yous`t to do work for SICO [SPD [REMEMBER THE BIG FIRE] AND ALSO WARDLES timber merchants also shop fronts in dean rd
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a lot of people in sima ate cooked fishfingers for a few days after that nightJarrow Pete wrote:Watched the SPD fire flames from Marsden Quarry,biggest fire since the war it was said.callummal wrote:yes jarrow pete yous`t to do work for SICO [SPD [REMEMBER THE BIG FIRE] AND ALSO WARDLES timber merchants also shop fronts in dean rd