What characters have you worked for?

[gand]

6 minutes ago, spuddog0507 said:

Worked for quit a few over the years in and around the fylde (Blaclpool lytham ) First one was Les Dawson and i dont need to say much about what he was like to work for, he just made a joke out of any thing we did or said, top bloke, second was Little Mo out of the Rolly pollys who was good friends with Les Dawson and again a total sream to work for , third was Sid Little again a good bloke to work for, all these 3 came from being recomended by Les Dawson, Forth was Brian London who has sadly just past away, Brian was a heavey weight boxer back in the 60s and vey interesting bloke, he used to bring us a bacon butty and a brew out every morning about 10,15am and sit with us telling us about some of the fights he had with some big names over his career, We did a a landscaping job in the early 80s for a developer that was a bit of a rush job but unknown to us this was to be the set for the chanel 4 soap Brookside, Then later on in the late 90s early 2000s we used to go in to a pub on a sat aft after shooting and some one moved in to the village and on a sat aft about 5 ish she would come in and hers was the only voice we could hear, so it was sup up n fook off for us and move on  and that was her who played Jannic Battersby in Coronation street, very loud,, 

We're you drinking in the pub on Waddington fell by any chance? 

[spuddog0507]

5 minutes ago, gand said:

We're you drinking in the pub on Waddington fell by any chance? 

Parkers arms at newton and then we went to the Higher buck and Lower buck at Waddington, if you are refaring to the Moorcock on the side of waddy fell it would of been shut or about shut at that time, 

Edited August 4, 2021 by spuddog0507

[gand]

6 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

Parkers arms at newton and then we went to the Higher buck and Lower buck at Waddington, if you are refaring to the Moorcock on the side of waddy fell it would of been shut or about shut at that time, 

I was. She used to drink in the Moorcock frequently, much to my annoyance. Luckily never bump into to her in Waddington itself 

[spuddog0507]

25 minutes ago, gand said:

I was. She used to drink in the Moorcock frequently, much to my annoyance. Luckily never bump into to her in Waddington itself 

I believe she has gone back Manchester way now ? so we could be safe once more 😂😂

[gand]

12 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

I believe she has gone back Manchester way now ? so we could be safe once more 😂😂

Probably can't afford the house prices round here. 

[spuddog0507]

2 hours ago, gand said:

Probably can't afford the house prices round here. 

Ye they have gone mad this last 18mth, got a property at Slaidburn thats going to be on the market shortly and had a call last wk from a estate agent begging for it to be put up for sale, as it was valued 10mth ago and now there saying at least 20% more that the original valuation, not bad that ,,

[gand]

1 hour ago, spuddog0507 said:

Ye they have gone mad this last 18mth, got a property at Slaidburn thats going to be on the market shortly and had a call last wk from a estate agent begging for it to be put up for sale, as it was valued 10mth ago and now there saying at least 20% more that the original valuation, not bad that ,,

It's daft really. Everyone saying we need affordable housing and everything that's being built is top money! I don't know if you've seen what's happening in Whalley and Barrow, but vast amounts of green space have been built on. If you've seen the houses in front of the shop it started from there for Barrow. I keep getting reminded at work that it was me that cut the trees for said development. Didn't realise I was going to work there at the time, I wouldn't of took it on if knew the hassle it caused. Although someone else would of done it

[spuddog0507]

5 hours ago, gand said:

It's daft really. Everyone saying we need affordable housing and everything that's being built is top money! I don't know if you've seen what's happening in Whalley and Barrow, but vast amounts of green space have been built on. If you've seen the houses in front of the shop it started from there for Barrow. I keep getting reminded at work that it was me that cut the trees for said development. Didn't realise I was going to work there at the time, I wouldn't of took it on if knew the hassle it caused. Although someone else would of done it

There is that on the Standing estate that was supposed to be about 800 houses, seen them in front of the shop and at first i thought Dick was having them built but nowt to do with him, its happening every where our doctors that was built in mid 90s was forcast to be good till 2055 but its maxed out now, Just heard of a proposed deveolpment that starts at Hampson green (junction where you come off the M6 for the uni at lancaster) and it goes all the way to the other M6 junction where the river Lune is it consists of 9185 houses a shopping presinct, doctors, dentist, social club , pubs ,resteraunts, gyme, and 2 schools etc, god knows where all the top water is going to go as there is only one small river the Conder and that floods the village of Galgate quit often, then where is the water supply to come from e as i dont know of any new ress,s being built, its getting to the stage where something is going to give and it will end up as another massive recession ?

[Stubby]

Several of the older ( 40s/50s ) houses with the exposed beams on the out side and the diamond leaded windows in a posher part of Chichester  leading out toward Lavant have been sold and knocked down and 3 or 4 new houses built on the same plot .

[doobin]

24 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Several of the older ( 40s/50s ) houses with the exposed beams on the out side and the diamond leaded windows in a posher part of Chichester  leading out toward Lavant have been sold and knocked down and 3 or 4 new houses built on the same plot .

Garden grabbing is old news mate. What about the thousands of shit new builds the other side of chi? Not to mention building on the village football field. Prices there will start at 700k, it’s a bloody joke. 

Edited August 6, 2021 by doobin