OneGuyFromBarlick

Nice.....

Surprised I'd never come across this handsome cat. . .

Streetcat Bob

Willie Thorne - Snooker player aged 66.

Tripps wrote: ↑17 Jun 2020, 12:27 Surprised I'd never come across this handsome cat. . .

Streetcat Bob

Mum has the books, and the DVD, though Bob had gone some time ago though,

I heard that he was in dock Ian. Sorry to hear he's dead, a good man and a fine snooker player.

he had been diagnosed with leukaemia Stanley, bloody cancer!

Dame Vera Lynn, forces sweetheart has died aged 103. RIP

I noted that Ian about Willy. I share your anger of course.

One of my friends has lost another friend (the 4th this year), we into hospital with shingles, left with covid-19 ,

See THIS BBC obit for Ian Holm, died aged 88.

See THIS Obituary for Ennio Morricone: Oscar-winning Italian film composer who has died aged 91. Good age, I liked his music especially (but not exclusively) his connections with spaghetti westerns.

Played one of his big hits just last night. The Good the bad and the ugly. This is one of the bigger orchestra pieces. The good the bad...

I went one further Ken and watched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly one more time.

Jack Charlton - 85 - RIP

Just heard the news Ian. 773 playing appearances for Leeds United. Doubtful if anyone will ever beat that.

In the 60s he lived a few doors down from some friends of ours in Leeds, just an ordinary semi on an ordinary suburban street. A different world.

Wendyf wrote: ↑11 Jul 2020, 09:12 In the 60s he lived a few doors down from some friends of ours in Leeds, just an ordinary semi on an ordinary suburban street. A different world.

A lot of them did Wendy, even though their earnings were relatively high most did not seek or play at the world of fame like now. Except perhaps George Best.

Footballers in those days were capped at £20 a week, Bob Lord the Burnley football chairman was instrumental in getting it removed. It's been 55 years since Football League clubs abolished the £20 maximum wage cap.

55 years, that would be 1965. I remember the year we married, 1971, we were at Harry Potts seniors house in Burnley, visiting, and he and my Dad and I think Harry junior was there too, were discussing the pay of one of their players as £40 per week and how high it was. In those days I earned £10 per week as a Medical Laboratory technician at the bacteriology lab of Withington Hospital in S Manchester. We had just had a pay rise to bring us in line with nurses!

I started teaching in 1971 on a salary of £1000 a year.

1971 second year of my apprenticeship into electronics servicing I was on about £9 a week.

I was still at primary school...

Big Kev wrote: ↑11 Jul 2020, 18:20 I was still at primary school...

There's always one

I was still in primary school too...

In 1953 I was doing a farming apprenticeship on £1 a week, all found. (And I had to put 10/- a week in the POSB.)