Sandro
Rochester in Kent ??????
Squid Portsmouth,his place of birth
Mighty
Brads moved about a bit hasnt he ????
South London and Lancs ????
Owain Glyndwr
England/South Wales Borders ???? Or did I dream that
Sandro ...Ah yep he was born there but he did live in Rochester as well , I worked there and they named the Shopping centre after him
Talking of Portsmouth didn't Conan Doyle have an affiliation with them and I believe he played as a keeper for them for a short while
Squid
Wiggo is now in eccleston, lancs, just down the road from me
Everyone and his brother claim to be a descendant of our Owain where I was born . Welsh borders south of Wrexham
I don,t know about that Squid but the church I went to as a Kid had a bloke there called that.
I'm from same town, same school and member of same golf club as Rory McIlroy, double Major winner.
Norn Iron is the current capital of world golf!
Daniel Craig lived in Hoylake on the Wirral and don't get better than James Bond!
JPB,
His brother Alois did actually live in that Toxteth flat with his family before WW1. He settled here for a few years with his family.
The Adolf tale is probably a load of codswallop to be frank but it's mad to consider Hitler drinking on the docks with a load of Scousers coming from the artistic world of Vienna. Wow.
Apparantley it comes from the memoirs of his sister-in-law who says that he came to stay with them in 1912 to avoid enlisting in the Habsburg army. Most historians deny he came here sayinh he was in Austria at the time.
It's true though the Hitlers have a heritage here. There's actually a book on the subject.
squid,
I'm keeping stum.
Hmmm. George Foster and Phil Gee used to live near me when I lived in Derby?
Tell you what gents there's some bloody good storys on here today.....Who'd of thought we'd end up talking Hitler
BTW I actually lived in E.17 and the group used to drink in the Dog and Duck about a mile from me
His brother Alois
=============
Is that how Allo Allo got it's name ?
Oh, and saw Martin Kuhl in the Stenson Bubble a few times? No sightings of Hitler since I moved to Germany, but there was one guy who could have been him in the snooker club..........
the Hitler place I went to was called The Eagle's Nest. I was in Salzburg and saw a flier for a daytrip there over the border, so I thought what the fk, might as well. Evidently it was like their command and control centre during the war (as well as the richstadt in berlin). You can go up in this old luxurious lift to his mountain top chalet.
There's also a war museum there (which shows you what a bunch of s him and his crew were). the underground bunkers are particularly creepy.
Evidenty the yanks took the whole area after the war and only gave it back to them about 10 years ago when they turned it into a tourist attraction.
squid,
Cracking article by the way. I know when my old man was lagging a pub in Garston or Toxteth one afternoon he seen The Beatles before they where famous talking to the manager, he had no idea who they were...
JPB,
I wouldn't of thought so. Ironically Alois' flat was destroyed by the Luftwaffe. Small world.
Tommy Simpson....the original mod road racer
Major Glad you enjoyed it
Like the Beatles story .......Is it a bit like the Blind Beggar story for us Londoners
The Blind Beggar is the biggest pub in the world because there are 30,000 cockneys who were in there the night that Mad Franky Fraser shot Jack the Hat Mcvitie
It's a shame that no-one had the foresite to give Jack Mcvitie the nickname "the Biscuit" instead of "the Hat".
Um... Torquay has probably only really got Chris Read, the England cricketer and NCC captain. Oh, and Agatha Christie.
I guess Tom Daley is just down the road in Plymouth, so that could count?
Igor Isn't whatsername from Torquay or is she the only plastic Torquay fan in the world
and don't forget Fawlty Towers possibly the greatest ever TV Comedy was based on a Torquay B&B
squid,
Great stuff. We all need our claim to fame, somehow! Where you from those parts?
Lets not forget Spring Heeled Jack who popped up everywhere. He apparently was sighted on top of St Francis Xaviers Church at the end of Salisbury St where Charlie Chaplin lived, only a decade earlier. Like I say, small world.
Interesting story that Squid, Fawlty Towers that is, not Helen Chamberlaine. Fawlty Towers was based on the Hotel Gleneagles which is in Torquay, but there's a lot of disappointment from tourists when they discover that it wasn't actually filmed in Torquay, the hotel used was actually somewhere in Buckighamshire.
For the record though, my dad used to be a delivery driver and the Gleneagles was on his route, and apparently John Cleese does a perfect impression of the bloke who used to own the place.
Wasnt Spring Heeled Jack something to do with Jack the Ripper
Born in North London then moved Eastward and finally moved up to the East Midlands
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posted on 22/8/12
Sandro
Rochester in Kent ??????
posted on 22/8/12
Was he home?
posted on 22/8/12
Squid Portsmouth,his place of birth
posted on 22/8/12
Mighty
Brads moved about a bit hasnt he ????
South London and Lancs ????
Owain Glyndwr
England/South Wales Borders ???? Or did I dream that
posted on 22/8/12
Sandro ...Ah yep he was born there but he did live in Rochester as well , I worked there and they named the Shopping centre after him
Talking of Portsmouth didn't Conan Doyle have an affiliation with them and I believe he played as a keeper for them for a short while
posted on 22/8/12
Squid
Wiggo is now in eccleston, lancs, just down the road from me
Everyone and his brother claim to be a descendant of our Owain where I was born . Welsh borders south of Wrexham
posted on 22/8/12
I don,t know about that Squid but the church I went to as a Kid had a bloke there called that.
posted on 22/8/12
I'm from same town, same school and member of same golf club as Rory McIlroy, double Major winner.
Norn Iron is the current capital of world golf!
posted on 22/8/12
Daniel Craig lived in Hoylake on the Wirral and don't get better than James Bond!
posted on 22/8/12
JPB,
His brother Alois did actually live in that Toxteth flat with his family before WW1. He settled here for a few years with his family.
The Adolf tale is probably a load of codswallop to be frank but it's mad to consider Hitler drinking on the docks with a load of Scousers coming from the artistic world of Vienna. Wow.
Apparantley it comes from the memoirs of his sister-in-law who says that he came to stay with them in 1912 to avoid enlisting in the Habsburg army. Most historians deny he came here sayinh he was in Austria at the time.
It's true though the Hitlers have a heritage here. There's actually a book on the subject.
squid,
I'm keeping stum.
posted on 22/8/12
Hmmm. George Foster and Phil Gee used to live near me when I lived in Derby?
posted on 22/8/12
Tell you what gents there's some bloody good storys on here today.....Who'd of thought we'd end up talking Hitler
BTW I actually lived in E.17 and the group used to drink in the Dog and Duck about a mile from me
posted on 22/8/12
His brother Alois
=============
Is that how Allo Allo got it's name ?
posted on 22/8/12
* its *
posted on 22/8/12
Oh, and saw Martin Kuhl in the Stenson Bubble a few times? No sightings of Hitler since I moved to Germany, but there was one guy who could have been him in the snooker club..........
posted on 22/8/12
the Hitler place I went to was called The Eagle's Nest. I was in Salzburg and saw a flier for a daytrip there over the border, so I thought what the fk, might as well. Evidently it was like their command and control centre during the war (as well as the richstadt in berlin). You can go up in this old luxurious lift to his mountain top chalet.
There's also a war museum there (which shows you what a bunch of s him and his crew were). the underground bunkers are particularly creepy.
Evidenty the yanks took the whole area after the war and only gave it back to them about 10 years ago when they turned it into a tourist attraction.
posted on 22/8/12
squid,
Cracking article by the way. I know when my old man was lagging a pub in Garston or Toxteth one afternoon he seen The Beatles before they where famous talking to the manager, he had no idea who they were...
JPB,
I wouldn't of thought so. Ironically Alois' flat was destroyed by the Luftwaffe. Small world.
posted on 22/8/12
Tommy Simpson....the original mod road racer
posted on 22/8/12
Major Glad you enjoyed it
Like the Beatles story .......Is it a bit like the Blind Beggar story for us Londoners
The Blind Beggar is the biggest pub in the world because there are 30,000 cockneys who were in there the night that Mad Franky Fraser shot Jack the Hat Mcvitie
posted on 22/8/12
It's a shame that no-one had the foresite to give Jack Mcvitie the nickname "the Biscuit" instead of "the Hat".
posted on 22/8/12
Um... Torquay has probably only really got Chris Read, the England cricketer and NCC captain. Oh, and Agatha Christie.
I guess Tom Daley is just down the road in Plymouth, so that could count?
posted on 22/8/12
Igor Isn't whatsername from Torquay or is she the only plastic Torquay fan in the world
and don't forget Fawlty Towers possibly the greatest ever TV Comedy was based on a Torquay B&B
posted on 22/8/12
squid,
Great stuff. We all need our claim to fame, somehow! Where you from those parts?
Lets not forget Spring Heeled Jack who popped up everywhere. He apparently was sighted on top of St Francis Xaviers Church at the end of Salisbury St where Charlie Chaplin lived, only a decade earlier. Like I say, small world.
posted on 22/8/12
Interesting story that Squid, Fawlty Towers that is, not Helen Chamberlaine. Fawlty Towers was based on the Hotel Gleneagles which is in Torquay, but there's a lot of disappointment from tourists when they discover that it wasn't actually filmed in Torquay, the hotel used was actually somewhere in Buckighamshire.
For the record though, my dad used to be a delivery driver and the Gleneagles was on his route, and apparently John Cleese does a perfect impression of the bloke who used to own the place.
posted on 22/8/12
Wasnt Spring Heeled Jack something to do with Jack the Ripper
Born in North London then moved Eastward and finally moved up to the East Midlands
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