Go on then. I was about 12 when this went out. @Barry Haynes if you watch through long enough (about 8mins) you will see the state of the art gym I got barred from for breaking the weights locking collars . Brian went to school with my dad https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-its-no-joke-living-in-barnsley-1976-online fill yer boots edit: sorry the gym was about 13 mins. Tommy Taylors grave on 8
Unbelievably I have been there - to play cricket. (Have I written about this already? Sorry if so. Memory y’know.) My old editor on the Western Daily Press lives there and the newspaper team played the locals. I think we won. It’s beautiful!
I went to school with a girl who ended up on the game, Linda R***. She was a little cracker at school but got a habit once she had left. A mate of mine went with her one time & said " you don't kiss* Linda she kisses you!" I once saw her in the town centre (now a city centre) wearing just a peanut on her top head... it was winter! What a gal
Canterbury. Which is what Trevor MC Donald was talking about when he spoonerised the ‘Kent Countryside’. A properly interesting underground museum showing the real streets that were there in Roman times; huge flint city walls; a few cobbled streets, great art gallery, an interesting old place where knackered pilgrims came to eat and sleep and the Goods Shed - hipster organic market, restaurant, foody stalls and cocktail bar. But most of all my second fave cathedral in the uk. Where Thomas a Becket met his end, with the most gobsmacking rose window, a choir that will wobble the firmest lower lip and an amazing medieval painted crypt with a figure made of nails by Antony Gormley. And me up t’road!
I thought they were being friendly, only today one of my customers said “ Haynes you’re a Kent” I replied na I’m from Sarf lundon
We've got a Toxic Terry, our current alchoholic & used to have Dublin Dennis & Docker Joe, both expired tramps, Joe got his name for constantly picking up fag butts from the bus station floor
