Boatchaser:
Someone mentioned Mike Sweeny which takes me back to good old Radio Piccadilly ( 261 ) whatever happened to Umberto and Phil Wood ( The Wood ,The Wireless, The World ) Just Asking
Yep it was very much of it’s time.How well I remember those tacky 261 stickers that seemed to occupy every available window in Manchester.Mike Shaft seemed to think of himself as the great soul/funk potentate,kind of the Craig Charles of his day and let’s not forget it was the station that foisted Chris Evans snd Gary Davies on us.Its crimes are vast.I’m amazed Mike Sweenies still knocking around,I well remember his early shows when travelling with my dad delivering foodstuffs around Lancashire,how he’d wince when the opening “Sweeney” intro rent the airwaves and we’d fight over his attempts to tune into the Jimmy young show for some strange reason I found the late Phil Sayers show quite engaging,strange how his voice was only recently the one you’d hear as the voiceover in the nations train stations.Very corporatey and characterless a voice you could ever imagine.
Those stickers were everywhere. I remember going up to the old station building in Piccadilly plaza to get them. There are probably still some around cemented onto bedroom windows.
My dad used to inflict Sarah Kennedy and the Jamieson’s on me when out with him as a kid
Lol,forgotten about the horror show of the Jamiesons,you have my sympathies there,my dad wouldn’t have appreciated his cockney patois,ditto that boreathon Gloria Hunniford droning for decades in those excruciating afternoon slots.Sarah Kennedy was too posh for him I suspect,but I came t love her years later,dotty,and immensely gorgeous in her prime.Her replacement,Vanessa Feltz wouldn’t have been well received I’m sure.
Boatchaser:
Someone mentioned Mike Sweeny which takes me back to good old Radio Piccadilly ( 261 ) whatever happened to Umberto and Phil Wood ( The Wood ,The Wireless, The World ) Just Asking
Yep it was very much of it’s time.How well I remember those tacky 261 stickers that seemed to occupy every available window in Manchester.Mike Shaft seemed to think of himself as the great soul/funk potentate,kind of the Craig Charles of his day and let’s not forget it was the station that foisted Chris Evans snd Gary Davies on us.Its crimes are vast.I’m amazed Mike Sweenies still knocking around,I well remember his early shows when travelling with my dad delivering foodstuffs around Lancashire,how he’d wince when the opening “Sweeney” intro rent the airwaves and we’d fight over his attempts to tune into the Jimmy young show for some strange reason I found the late Phil Sayers show quite engaging,strange how his voice was only recently the one you’d hear as the voiceover in the nations train stations.Very corporatey and characterless a voice you could ever imagine.
Those stickers were everywhere. I remember going up to the old station building in Piccadilly plaza to get them. There are probably still some around cemented onto bedroom windows.
My dad used to inflict Sarah Kennedy and the Jamieson’s on me when out with him as a kid
Lol,forgotten about the horror show of the Jamiesons,you have my sympathies there,my dad wouldn’t have appreciated his cockney patois,ditto that boreathon Gloria Hunniford droning for decades in those excruciating afternoon slots.Sarah Kennedy was too posh for him I suspect,but I came t love her years later,dotty,and immensely gorgeous in her prime.Her replacement,Vanessa Feltz wouldn’t have been well received I’m sure.
Yep it was radio 2 all day, Sarah Kennedy, Terry Wogan, Jimmy young, Huniford, Jonny Walker, Humphrey Littleton, The Jamiesons.
I don’t know why as he would spend most of the time slagging them of and shouting that they were all ■■■■■■ as newts
I think it was because he didn’t know how to tune the radio as I remember him getting angry at it stabbing at the buttons then shouting at me to “turn that ■■■■■■■ thing off!”
nomiS36:
Even if he was determined he was going to take the street he tried (but failed) to get up there’s so much space for him to take the street before then reverse round on his good side then go straight at it.
Given the level of stupidity I’m assuming he’s never seen the inside of a dcpc classroom. This invaluable certificate of professional competence [emoji23] would have prevented this, surely? Therefore, his employer is at fault for not checking his ‘qualifications’. [emoji57]
Totally agree with the stupidity observations but struggling to understand how a DCPC course would help? All the ones Ive been on have been clasroom based and pretty crap, I ve never seen an option for practical training.
Turns out he was a Polish driver based at MRCT’s Flixton depot in Suffolk the following morning on returning to the depot he was sacked on the spot. In mitigation he said he was only following his sat/nav, but where to god only knows.
Nows your chance to get in there from the MRCT website…
Flixton (Bungay, Suffolk)
01986 896999
We are currently looking to recruit HGV drivers (LGV C+E) on various shift patterns.
We are also looking for HGV drivers (LGV C+E) on flexible Part time contracts.
If you are a newly qualified HGV Driver please see our New Drivers driving scheme.
moomooland:
0That monument has stood in the centre of Dobcross since 1908, until last week of course.
Just shows what a great combination of payload and manoeuvrability that the rigid 8 wheeler was for general use around the country.Then if you’ve got the space where you’re going you could put a trailer on it.That’s progress.
Boatchaser:
Someone mentioned Mike Sweeny which takes me back to good old Radio Piccadilly ( 261 ) whatever happened to Umberto and Phil Wood ( The Wood ,The Wireless, The World ) Just Asking
Yep it was very much of it’s time.How well I remember those tacky 261 stickers that seemed to occupy every available window in Manchester.Mike Shaft seemed to think of himself as the great soul/funk potentate,kind of the Craig Charles of his day and let’s not forget it was the station that foisted Chris Evans snd Gary Davies on us.Its crimes are vast.I’m amazed Mike Sweenies still knocking around,I well remember his early shows when travelling with my dad delivering foodstuffs around Lancashire,how he’d wince when the opening “Sweeney” intro rent the airwaves and we’d fight over his attempts to tune into the Jimmy young show for some strange reason I found the late Phil Sayers show quite engaging,strange how his voice was only recently the one you’d hear as the voiceover in the nations train stations.Very corporatey and characterless a voice you could ever imagine.
Those stickers were everywhere. I remember going up to the old station building in Piccadilly plaza to get them. There are probably still some around cemented onto bedroom windows.
My dad used to inflict Sarah Kennedy and the Jamieson’s on me when out with him as a kid
Lol,forgotten about the horror show of the Jamiesons,you have my sympathies there,my dad wouldn’t have appreciated his cockney patois,ditto that boreathon Gloria Hunniford droning for decades in those excruciating afternoon slots.Sarah Kennedy was too posh for him I suspect,but I came t love her years later,dotty,and immensely gorgeous in her prime.Her replacement,Vanessa Feltz wouldn’t have been well received I’m sure.
Should be shot, Off button when I hear her bucking voice.
and let’s not forget it was the station that foisted Chris Evans snd Gary Davies on us.Its crimes are vast.I’m amazed Mike Sweenies still knocking around,I well remember his early shows when travelling with my dad delivering foodstuffs around Lancashire,how he’d wince when the opening “Sweeney” intro rent the airwaves and we’d fight over his attempts to tune into the Jimmy young show
for some strange reason I found the late Phil Sayers show quite engaging,strange how his voice was only recently the one you’d hear as the voiceover in the nations train stations.Very corporatey and characterless a voice you could ever imagine.
That monument has stood in the centre of Dobcross since 1908, until last week of course. 