Bonfire night

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Harry Handbag and Bernard. 2 of Leigh's most terrifying characters.

I think Harry Handbag (or bubblecoat man I think i knew him as) was once seen onanising himself in the window of a photographers show window (on the street) on Railway Road.

I do miss Greenalghes pasties though.....

who was the 'arl fella in the scouts uniform ?

i know of wally, shandy, handbag, but the most terrifying bloke in leigh was encountered when buying new jeans, timed to perfection Sexy Rexy would whip back the curtain to "see if they fit"

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

My former teacher played rugby for Leigh in the mid/ late 70's early 80's,Mr Collins.

Just thought i'd share that staggering fact.

he should be on here vim

was a member of the challenge cup winning team, i reckon back row on the right should be him.
alex murphy on the front row just has that 'i am the greatest rugby player in the world' look about him, and he was.
a twickenham groundsman when retiring was asked who the best rugby player he had seen play there was ?
"alex murphy without doubt" played 1 game of union in his life, for the raf at twickers, groundsman said noone else even comes close.
this was quite recently as well.

 

[heatmeiser]

Daz Lee was an interesting fella too.

I bought him a pint of milk once, he was well chuffed.

Bad smackhead though.

 

[Vim Fuego]

Brilliant research there Reidy, and yes, that's him on the back row.

He was our sports teacher, tough as they come, we never played rugby though for some obscure reason.

Cheers for that lid.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

this could well be the same guy as well vim
author Mick Collins - Books - Online Book Shop India - Infibeam.com

Mick Collins is a freelance sports writer, BBC radio host and author of the hugely popular All-Round Genius

 

[Vim Fuego]

Bloody hell, if that's him then he's done well for himself.

To be honest i 'd assumed he'd be dead now.

Nice work again mate, cheers.

 

[Bundy]

I am envious, fireworks are illegal here. I think it would bring the community together to have a good fireworks display.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Bloody hell, if that's him then he's done well for himself.

To be honest i 'd assumed he'd be dead now.

Nice work again mate, cheers.

it isn't, saw a pic of him on the bbc site, their guy is only about 40.

mine claimed to have played for Bolton, mmmmmmm no sign of his name online though, the lying tosser

 

[supersonic]

We are playing Benfica on that night

 

[Cahill's Metatarsal]

Brilliant research there Reidy, and yes, that's him on the back row.

He was our sports teacher, tough as they come, we never played rugby though for some obscure reason.

Cheers for that lid.

Wish I was that lucky, we did rugby all the time (I went to a school in Sin Telins) & I ******* hated it, at 1 point I remembering asking the teacher if I could just do laps instead

 

[steevie]

One question i wish to know, well two really, are fireworks getting louder each year or is it because i am getting older that they seem louder??

 

[Whitebootman]

One question i wish to know, well two really, are fireworks getting louder each year or is it because i am getting older that they seem louder??

I'm afraid it's yes on both mate.

Where I live the 'firework season' seems to go on longer each year as well, in part because of Diwali so I can't complain. Mrs Whitebootman however complains everytime a loud firework make her jump.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Wish I was that lucky, we did rugby all the time (I went to a school in Sin Telins) & I ******* hated it, at 1 point I remembering asking the teacher if I could just do laps instead

we were only allowed to play rugby league, had about 12 rugby pitches and not one football pitch, not even a goal painted on a wall.
the p.e. teacher reffed at wembley the 1st time i went, he's now the statistics bloke for graet britain...... pie-eater and total arshole.
we used to make guys that looked like both guy fawkes/ him/ peter sutcliffe.

 

[Goat]

Wish I was that lucky, we did rugby all the time (I went to a school in Sin Telins) & I ******* hated it, at 1 point I remembering asking the teacher if I could just do laps instead

We started off playing Rugby in the first year, but then they gave us the choice, football or rugby, after about the 2nd week of about 5 people picking rugby they binned it off and football only was played.