Groucho's Fact Hunt

[PhilM]

The bank is the Lloyds one on the corner of Church Road and Smithdown Place.

Artistic licence though mate.

They've actually had to paint the Penny Lane onto the wall where it means Greenbank Road as it was consistently being pinched by tourists.

With regards to poetic license, the Fire Station is much further along as well almost at the beginning of Mather Avenue.

The bus station which is mentioned is the incredibly small Smithdown Place as well. To me it's just the place where I used to jump the 62.

 

[Groucho]

They've actually had to paint the Penny Lane onto the wall where it means Greenbank Road as it was consistently being pinched by tourists.

With regards to poetic license, the Fire Station is much further along as well almost at the beginning of Mather Avenue.

The bus station which is mentioned is the incredibly small Smithdown Place as well. To me it's just the place where I used to jump the 62.

Should be called "Smithdown Place" really lol

 

[Jamo Martinez]

They've actually had to paint the Penny Lane onto the wall where it means Greenbank Road as it was consistently being pinched by tourists.

With regards to poetic license, the Fire Station is much further along as well almost at the beginning of Mather Avenue.

The bus station which is mentioned is the incredibly small Smithdown Place as well. To me it's just the place where I used to jump the 62.

Can't remember a firestation or a bus station being mentioned.

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

They've actually had to paint the Penny Lane onto the wall where it means Greenbank Road as it was consistently being pinched by tourists.

With regards to poetic license, the Fire Station is much further along as well almost at the beginning of Mather Avenue.

The bus station which is mentioned is the incredibly small Smithdown Place as well. To me it's just the place where I used to jump the 62.

It is painted on at Greenbank Road but there is a proper one there too, as there is at the end with Smithdown Place.

 

[Bluesoulrebel]

It is painted on at Greenbank Road but there is a proper one there too, as there is at the end with Smithdown Place.

No there ain't....I've just made off with it and flogged it to some thicko yank....Money, that's what I want

 

[Bluesoulrebel]

.....every race horse has the same birthday, 1st January. Not many people know that. Happy birthday to all the race horses.

I did... Cos I've lost money on virtually all of the 4 legged feckers

 

[Bluesoulrebel]

There are 4 states in the US that allow necrophilia but ban oral sex.

Not sure about oral necrophilia.

Now I know where I'm off to this summer!

 

[The Cowboy]

Can't remember a firestation or a bus station being mentioned.

There's the 'fireman with an hourglass', but the only reference to a bus station is maybe 'the shelter in the middle of the roundabout'.

 

[DualityNSNO]

.....every race horse has the same birthday, 1st January. Not many people know that. Happy birthday to all the race horses.

Partial fact - it's only to do with thoroughbred/registered horses, and it's to do with them moving up in the same age group - to avoid confusion and stuff, they are listed as the 1st of January. Apparently a record of the horses actual birthdays is kept.

And as an added fact, this applies only to Northern hemisphere-born horses. Southern hemisphere lists the birthday as 1st of August.

I feel like a massive nerd actually researching that, to be honest.

 

[Eggs]

Partial fact - it's only to do with thoroughbred/registered horses, and it's to do with them moving up in the same age group - to avoid confusion and stuff, they are listed as the 1st of January. Apparently a record of the horses actual birthdays is kept.

And as an added fact, this applies only to Northern hemisphere-born horses. Southern hemisphere lists the birthday as 1st of August.

I feel like a massive nerd actually researching that, to be honest.

....sadly I know that. Generally it only matters when they first race as 2 year olds when the month of actual birth can make a big difference for obvious reasons.

 

[PhilM]

Can't remember a firestation or a bus station being mentioned.

There's the 'fireman with an hourglass', but the only reference to a bus station is maybe 'the shelter in the middle of the roundabout'.

@The Cowboy has mentioned both. Slightly ambiguous but if you know the area (more so at the time) then it's clear what they're referring to.

The Fireman and his 'clean machine' I'd presume is Allerton Fire Station, and the shelter in the roundabout is the bus terminus / public toilets.

The photo is not from the 60s but it shows the shelter in the middle of the roundabout. To get to town from Menlove, John would have changed here.

 

[COYBL25]

Dartmoor is the only place in the UK where camping without permission is allowed for a max of two days.

There are however minor restrictions - small tent, no fire, not in enclosed areas by livestock or near roads etc.

 

[Mo' Better Blues]

The Canary is named after the islands which in turn derives it's name from dogs, as in the latin Canine, so the bird is named after dogs... kind of

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Dartmoor is the only place in the UK where camping without permission is allowed for a max of two days.

There are however minor restrictions - small tent, no fire, not in enclosed areas by livestock or near roads etc.

I'm pretty certain you can camp in most places in Scotland without permission, through the land reform (Scotland) act (2003)

 

[summerisle]

Else Kruger, Martin Boorman's secretary, typed one of Hitler's last wills and testament, fled the Fuhrer bunker on 1-5-1945, was captured by the British, interrogated, married her interrogator, moved to England in 1947 to live in Wallasey.
Bet you didn't know that. Deserves a thread on the Wirral.