The Forgotten Pilots of WW 2.

[Fouro]

Re # 40.
What you suggest is beyond my abilities nowadays Brian.

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[Captain Kong]

Have a few nice neat Rums and you can do anything you want. even fall asleep in your favourite arm chair, much easier.
Brian

[gray_marian]

#38, Enjoy
Ken Mackintosh - The Creep ( 1954 ) - YouTube
Video for "The Creep" by Yorkshire Big Band leader, Ken Mackintosh.▶ 3:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM2n-bxh2JM

[John F Collier]

The dress then may have been a bit 'different', I was still in drain pipes in the 60's, but it was clean cut and smart.
Today, thongs , tee shirt, shorts and no hair cut. And that is just to go to a wedding.

John If you had come to one of my shops and watched the window you would have been sorted for 50 shillings or else
you could have have gone for a Burton. JOHN COLLIER "Tailor to the People", personally I used a proper Tailor .
Cheers JC

[John F Collier]

In B.A. in 1958, our crowd off the URMSTON GRANGE , in the Bars in Viente Cinco de Mayo started the "B,A, Rock".
We clenched our fists, waist high, and swinging as we stamped our feet in time to the music. as iof marching on the spot.
Try it.
I still do it now even tho` I get abuse off HER.
Cheers
Brian

My son did something similar Brian when he was about 3 years old and couldn't get his own way while in Woolworths,
sadly it didn't work for me either , cheers JC

[John F Collier]

Re # 37.
It was all side partings, no DA's in those days JC.

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The last time I can remember having a proper parting Fouro was when still at school and I left school in 1954, but
what about those one's in the roaring 20s right through the middle and with lashings of grease !! eurgh, JC

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#38, Enjoy
Ken Mackintosh - The Creep ( 1954 ) - YouTube
Video for "The Creep" by Yorkshire Big Band leader, Ken Mackintosh.▶ 3:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM2n-bxh2JM

I enjoyed looking at the old videos Marian, it really doesn't seem that long ago, thanks. JC

[Fouro]

#38, Enjoy
Ken Mackintosh - The Creep ( 1954 ) - YouTubek
Video for "The Creep" by Yorkshire Big Band leader, Ken Mackintosh.▶ 3:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM2n-bxh2JM

Thankyou Marian,
All the Big Bands came to the Falkirk Ice Rink in the 1950's. They always performed on Friday nights. For us lads in the village it was only a half hour journey on the number 31Alexander's bus. We used to go into the Commercial Bar in Falkirk before making for the ice rink. It was good being able to see and dance to the music of these famous bands such as Ken Mackintosh, Johnny Dankworth, Ted Heath and many others. I have no doubts many members on the site did likewise when the Bands visited their locality.

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[John F Collier]

I really liked the big bands and Glen Miller's music was right up there at the top, I used to go to a dance hall in Tottenham north London, they had big bands and a singer, a great bar and generally a good atmosphere I had some
good times there. Another one I went to was the Athenaeum at Muswell Hill this one was for rock n Roll groups,it was
a former music hall and the bar was situated in the "Gods" upstairs, it was always 3-4 deep at the bar and a struggle to get a drink, one time when we were down stairs I looked up and saw a bloke with 3 pint glasses in his hands and
his mates were below waiting to catch the glasses, they were all half cut we just stood clear and watched, needless
to say they all got soaked and turfed out of the building, here was always fights there and the funniest thing I saw
was a very short bloke picked up a chair and went behind a bouncer who was sorting out some lads, he jumped up
with the chair and and hit the bouncer on the shoulder, he glared at shorty who left the building at the speed of sound
there was always a black Maria parked outside on a Saturday night. A while ago my mate came for a visit, he said
the old place is now a supermarket and he couldn't help thinking that the old girls pushing their trolleys around could
be the very ones we danced with in our youth. Cheers JC

[Fouro]

Nothing like that ever happened at Falkirk. How could it?, as we Scots are a very timid and well behaved race of people.

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