Walking through history

[John Arton]

JP
Hope you do not think I was disparaging Liverpool in any way in my original post.
I have a number of relatives who live in and around Liverpool and my father was actually born there.
I respect its proud Maritime heritage but unfortunately have a big bugbear with your football teams as they keep beating my favourite.
rgds
JA

[John Pruden]

not at all john.jp

[Red Lead Ted]

john how many have been or passed through LIVERPOOL to every part of the world it must be millions and yet the gutter press is always trying to have a go at us most that have never been here? I have had the offer of living anywhere on the planet but would never leave here?jp

John, School holiday,s in the summer would never have been the same without a daily dip in the cut. The gutter press have never lived mate, The thing about having a pop at Liverpool when any of those that do have the bottle to come and pitch a soap box in Liverpool City centre amongst us personally I would love to walk into one Kelvin McKenzie, I am sure him and a few of his waller,s would be made very welcome. Then we could show him a good time in the Leeds Liverpool canal. I can remember with fondness walking to school as a kid and watching the lift bridge that you had to cross lift open and shut as the barges from the said factory,s and tannery along the cut at Litherland where pulled along the canal. Happy days John welly,s over your kecks in winter under your kegs in summer. We where rough and ready guy,s but oh how we could harmonize. Terry.

[John Pruden]

terry younger days always kids lost in the canal and killed on the railway thank Christ they are rare nowadays? now its young lads with drugs killing themselves all over the country where the hell are we going to? times should change for the better not the other way around?jp

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI All.
I like Tony Robinson when he presents a program. he really takes you through it all, we saw that canal program and were waiting for more but it finished much to soon.
Jim as you said swimming in a canal full of god knows what, we used to swim in a small river with dead sheep floating past sometimes, The wife and I were only talking last night about a bit of dirt doing no harm, maybe it's why we are all living so long, nowadays the young ones fall prey to all kinds of diseases that they are not prepared for, kept wrapped in cotton wool. I think we had the better childhoods and the later teens, no drugs.

Cheers Des

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[j.sabourn]

Walking... Was that a song or a saying years ago... I'm walking backwards to Xmas across the Irish sea.... JS

[Keith Tindell]

Was that Spike Milligan, i can remember the songKT

[cappy]

##15 hello des ..like the bit about sheep dead in the canal .......we used to find them in the tyne after the winter floods washed them down from hexham......we would take them home ....some smelled a bit and were very fat ....granny used to skin them and sell them to the paki curry shop.......we used to get free curry ........but granny was sharp we only got the chicken curry

[j.sabourn]

Funny that Cappy knew someone who sold dead chickens to the same Paki shop that had died in mysterious circumstances. Cheers John S PS Think Rob was very partial to chicken curry as well JS

[cappy]

##19 I knew that bloke as well john he was a chief steward on runcimans......there was a rumour he ended up in a curry in ocean road after selling a skinned pig to them telling them it was a rare breed of north shields virgin lamb........I believe it all apart from the bit about a virgin of any sort coming out of north shields regards cappy