hiya,
Once saw Barbara Dickson after she’d hit the bigtime for 20 pence cover charge at the Caterpillar Tractors private club south of Glasgow she was just fulfilling her obligations of the bookings she’d accepted prior to hitting the big time, i’m not into music but i enjoyed that evening.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
I like music,all sorts,organised Country & Western dances for the last 27 years,like rock,sixties anything really. Used to play on the linoleum,also a certain organ on the floor. 
Cheers Dave
hiya,
Dave a bit useless when it comes to the music scene know nowt about bands, singers or what they sang, and if i had to try to dance i would be the bloke with two left feet, guess i spent too much time playing snooker and giving the boozer a bit of welly but did enjoy a good stand-up comedian and could always escape too the bar when the music started up, boring old git or what??.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry I love my snooker, play with my mate John, every Sunday when not away, but still used to go to the Irish dances, which was the floor above the snooker hall at Burtons, that where my misses tapped me on my shoulder in 1960, and said hello 
, that was the slippery road to marriage two years later, I was only 23 when we met, a mere lad.
hiya,
Used to enjoy a game of snooker Norm, but there isn’t a table in my area and my hands don’t work very well anymore,there are tables but only for club members and i’m not into club membership i find them all one clique or is it me becoming anti-social in my old age.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, I could say yes, and your a grumpy old sod , but would I do that to you 
, no never to a old red & rust driver 
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hiya,
Norm, i was a grumpy old git even when i was a young red and rust driver, my old lady says i’m not happy unless i’m miserable.
thanks harry long retired.
Just remembered a hotel at Kennelworth where I used to go and see shows, the Ivyleaugue, black abbots, Freddy and the Dreamers, it seems to pop into my head. 
hiya,
Norm unable to do a lot of drinking now but still enjoy half of Carlsberg and a drop of Bells the only trouble i’ve got to walk quite a way to a different pub now the one i’ve used for twenty years has started putting live bands on and i can’t be doing with all that din, pubs and clubs are or should be where you can go for a quiet drink not have your brain destroyed with all that rubbish blasting out, bah humbug.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry you old scrooge, you must have been young once, but I must admitt I do not like having my ears blown off, but enjoy it if moderate played, but then you are a lot older? , but never mind, because you can always turn your earing aid down
hiya,
You what eh.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry I would have loved to have met you when you was young, for now, you can not drink much, eat much, bald as a badger, deaf as a post, false teeth, eye sight dubious, your adonis good looks faded away, I think you should start up as a ■■■■■■ business, you would not see if they was ugly, or ear if they talked too much, you would not tear out your air, if they stood you up, and they could not drive you to drink! , you would be perfect for the job.
hiya,
Don’t qualify Norm, just yesterday had my annual sight test and wait for it vision spot on, but your exactly correct about the remainder, you’ve got me depressed now i’m going to put all the mirrors in the shed. and to add to my depression my little car has failed the MOT so will need to look out for another one, oh woah is me, the last one cost me the princely sum of £300 and it lasted me four years but it did cost me two tyres and a new battery, so i’m looking for a benefactor who’ll give me an old banger with a years MOT cos the old lady won’t lend me hers.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
I bet a shrewd old driver,which you are,will soon sort another car for yourself. £300 that car did you well to last four years,cheap motering. Get on the scrappage scheme and take some out of the mattress and treat yourself.
Cheers Dave.
Anyone remember the Sunnyside club i think it was called in Northampton used to be the place on a Friday night in the early 80s, Lots of us drivers from the Wigan area use to be there till all hours, we use to park round the back of the Welcome pub in the street when it was terraced houses and later on the industry units that replaced them.There was a Daf 2800 there that didnt move for ages always wonderd why, all those yrs parking there usually 5 or 6 of us ,roped and sheeted loads Heinz usually never anything went missing , couldnt do that now eh.
Marmon the Sunnyside hotel or now pub is still there, but no shows, I saw Billy Fury, and Frank Carson there, it was taken over and more of a place for students, they eat & drink there, because the university is a cross the road. Up your area, Bolton was my favourite place, used to go to a lot of mills which catalogue firms were, even in Wigan.
Hello we used to stop at a cafe on the way in off the M1think it was called the sausage, or park up first in the town centre and walk down the hill to another cafe which had its own lorry park think that was also called th sausage as well. Then into town at night for afew beers in the Bear pub or the Welcome.
hiya,
The only thing you’ll find in my mattress is bed bugs Norm, do you know i’m not bothered about another car i’ts just that my old lady says “i need one” i very rarely use a car costs nowt on the bus and no problems getting parked, but what she says goes so i suppose i’d better do as i’m told, a little banger with a years MOT will do for me, we have a quite up to date car for distance work, i only did 600 miles in my old motor last year, i’ll find something it is a buyers market just now.
thanks harry long retired.
Marmon, the one off j15 and down the hill on the LOndon road,was the “Giggling sausage” the other one near the railway station, was the " Super Sausage", both were only 15 mins from town centre.
Hi all,
here’s an advert for sausages from the 80s.
Ray