Blast from the past - remind us of a thing
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Yertis said:
Purosangue said:
"Poole" ............ you mean like Friday night at the ....Mariner , Fight in the Jolly Miller ..........burger at the hole in the wall ,..miss the mail train , and walk down the railway line to Wareham .
Was more of a Bunnies Takeaway kebab lad than Hole in the Wall ?? Summer 1983. That bloody train. I’d had a massive row with a a girl who was a friend, in the Miller. We both stormed off but at the end of the evening I was wracked with guilt and worried about how she’d get home. Train being the only option to Wareham I legged it from quay to station just before the train departed (23.10 IIRC) Searched packed train from end to end. No sign. Snotty phone call the next day (she had caught the train somehow) followed by a big parcel containing all my Pink Floyd albums she’d borrowed, sarcastically and excessively over-packaged in bubble wrap.
Anyway, blah-blah, we’ve been married for more than thirty years
guessing similar age I've more than likely bumped into you at some stage there was a few of us all had 3 litre Capris ERU 845L in the 80s
remember the wareham riot
nismocat said:
I think Corry was banned in many southern houses. I lived in the Shires and we never watched it as kids, as soon as the music came on "Turn that rubbish off" my mum would shout. Never watched an episode.
Oddly, looking back I found Eastenders to be grey and miserable, unlike Home and Away and Neighbours, which was party why I moved to Oz!
All UK soaps are miserable. Basically just thick people shouting at each other, nothing ever goes well, and anyone who tries to make an effort to get somewhere in life is portrayed as some kind of grasping villain. Horrible shows.Oddly, looking back I found Eastenders to be grey and miserable, unlike Home and Away and Neighbours, which was party why I moved to Oz!
mikey_b said:
All UK soaps are miserable. Basically just thick people shouting at each other, nothing ever goes well, and anyone who tries to make an effort to get somewhere in life is portrayed as some kind of grasping villain. Horrible shows.
So ultra-realistic then. That'll be why I never watch any of them.I think the last soap that I watched was The Sullivans when I used to visit my grandmother in my lunch breaks in about 1980.
mikey_b said:
All UK soaps are miserable. Basically just thick people shouting at each other, nothing ever goes well, and anyone who tries to make an effort to get somewhere in life is portrayed as some kind of grasping villain. Horrible shows.
Don't most PH users imagine they are living in the wonderful Howards' Way world, the aspirational posh soap?Yertis said:
Purosangue said:
remember the wareham riot
No, but I do remember heading in to the Miller one Friday or Saturday when there was much talk of a riot happening… in Poole 
Of course nothing did happen, at all.
Wareham and Swanage both had a rep for ‘drugs’ and getting a bit tasty.
Edited by Purosangue on Sunday 3rd March 21:49
Purosangue said:
was around 1987 etc
My wife worked at the Horse and Groom for a while and also at Sibley Pottery, but three of four years before your riot. She's just dropped a few names from her mates on the quay which I'm sure you'd know. Apparently you could buy a ready-made joint for £1. I've always found Wareham a friendly place but I do have a lot of relatives there, and also school friends who baled from Purbeck for one reason or another and washed up at my school, for their sins.
Yertis said:
Purosangue said:
was around 1987 etc
My wife worked at the Horse and Groom for a while and also at Sibley Pottery, but three of four years before your riot. She's just dropped a few names from her mates on the quay which I'm sure you'd know. Apparently you could buy a ready-made joint for £1. I've always found Wareham a friendly place but I do have a lot of relatives there, and also school friends who baled from Purbeck for one reason or another and washed up at my school, for their sins.
was never into drugs ,
Your Wife probably knew the Letts ....I was at school with Roger Letts / Jeff Letts who ran Wareham Chjipperie ( next to Lloyds bank ) his Claim to fame was boasting he could get from Wareham south Bridge 30mph sign to Swanage in under 8 mins this was on the the old rd around 1986 , he had a V6 peugeot 604 , so on a damp road 2am on a sunday morning , I sat in the back seat with a crash helmet and stop watch , my mate followed in a 2.8i Capri
he wound it up to a ton and never backed off ,,,, Stoborough was bloody scary , as was Corfe , but Harmans cross as you approach the tight left hand bend he had full lock with both wheels on the verge , when we hit the 30mph sign at swanage I stopped the watch ... 6mins 56 seconds ,to cover the 10 miles my mate was 2 mins behind in the Capri .......... I never ever got in a car with him again !!
When I was at college Bournemouth. I was working part time in the wines and spirits in Wareham around 1984 ... served Edward Fox several times, and met one of the Grocery delivery boys who was in his 70s and was one of the pair of cyclists that caused Lawrence of Arabia's fatal motorbike crash . Effigy in saint Martins saxon Church ......... parents lived in Wareham from 1960 -2018 ,
I moved away working overseas from 2000 -2023 , came back in 2007 to get married in Lady St Marys
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