Balan great, you’re definitely a man for the birds.:D
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Balan great, you’re definitely a man for the birds.:D
oldcolner: By saying that, you open the infinite mind of past adventures. But its a shameful past, meaning i knew many girls, but then I started on apprentice wages ,not much from Romers T V's from Rishton! So just knew them but could not keep up on the cash flow.Plus if I invite a woman I always pay for her! Even when the lads used to go drinking weekdays I had to make some excuse ,that I could not go.
I met a girl ,who worked at Blackburn Post Office so about lunch time she would go to Mecca dancing.The B Rover's lads also used to go there,and she was talking with some tall, blond goalkeeper, so I also caught an opportunity too,But she lived in Clitheroe,how could I do that it meant (in those days ) travelling to Clayton-le-Moors ,then Whalley and on to Clitheroe, or Rishton ,Blackburn ,etc etc.I had to drop that.
Travelling to Poland from the south part of Europe,I was to catch a train to Poland at Berlin Train station when I saw this blond girl in one of the seats, when I passed and was about to climb on the train the conductor asked for my ticket I said I did not have one .....and if he could give me a seat next to the girl,so there I was asking for the seat number .....and nicely she said its here ! She ended up inviting me to stay with her family in Liptovský Mikuláš about a week super! That mind? Better close it eh?
Blimey, Balan, Romers TV rings a bell from when I worked at District Bank in Rishton --that is a long time ago now! Your suggested bus journeys also brings back memories of when I used to travel from the top end of Oswaldtwistle to get to work in Whalley after I had moved to that branch. No wonder I left and joined the RAF.Quote:
Originally Posted by Balanbam00
Sub: About Banks !I used the Midland bank in Rishton ,and as a child about 15 I used to pop in and place a certain amout in that Bank. When I went to live in Germany about age 26? I left a certain amount in the bank ,(that's 50 years ago or more so i can not remember what amount now. Well I left it inside until about 20 -30 years ago ?
When I last went back to see my brother in Little Leaver in Bolton,I went with my Bank book to Blackburn to withdraw what I had there,In short as my father has the same name and died 50 years ago ,they told me but we have nobody with that name he died,and I am here now to claim it!I suppose you know what happened ? The Duchy of Lancaster took it,could they not check it? Well, I had short of 2 weeks to write and claim it (and to pay a solicitor to get it, Phuckin thieves!!!!) To me that's stealing!!!
(note: as you may know. ''The Duchy of Lancaster is the private estate of the British sovereign as Duke of Lancaster. The principal purpose of the estate is to provide a source of independent income to the sovereign. So do I hate royalty ,you have guessed! )
The District Bank ,that's where one morning a truck full of eggs over turned and splashed the Midland bank, its a curve there,and where many Rishtoner's received a gift from upstairs.
....and across the road a haircut from George Bentley? ;-)
Balan the birds seem to have got the memory cell firing, I can see a Confessions book forming. Keep going, birds better than banks commercially.Quote:
Originally Posted by Balanbam00
My friend lived in Brierfield, met a girl from Colne, took her to the Imperial at Nelson then had to walk her home as we did than with no buses running then, then back through Nelson to home. Was love and they eventually married.
I just had to walk 4 miles home from the Imp. He must have had 8 to walk. Happy Days.
My interest in Banks came from the District Bank.They had a sub branch in Edenfield and I used to go and pay in from my Dad's business.Only one customer allowed in at a time,you had to wait in the corridor until it was your turn.They also were the only ones who had a key to my little tin savings box and they used to unlock it,count the money and then enter it into my little book and put their ink stamp on it.I thought I fancied doing that and ended up doing 36 years in Midland/HSBC.Unfortunately Midland's version of the little tins became obsolete after I had done about 2 years,I should have left.
Yes, oldcolner, the memory cell firing,each one of us can say those were the days. When going out with the lads we used hit the Mecca dancing,then sometimes the Burnley Mecca. Scrambling after new talent. Boozing on what was known as the 'Barbery coast', couple of streets away.But somehow I realised I was getting the 'lasses' ,so to go drinking, then chat up the women, acquiring 'the gift of the gab'! I thought I did not enjoy that? What if I did not drink could I still operate? So I decided to drink an orange juice,so that's it,we would hit a pub and 4-5 pints ,and an orange drink, please. When I saw that that simple task was a little uneasy for the lads I thought, Ok, now no drinking, I will hit the dance hall.....and so many girls to choose from, paradise!!!
.....and all the lads sat in pubs!! In those days I had an agreement ,that if I saw a 'bird' I really fancied,this girl from Rishton would come dancing with me,so that I would dance very near to were, my new attraction was. After that it was so simple to go and ask that 'lady' to dance.
This thread is about nature ,isn't it.
Good tactics Balam. My uncle took up ballroom dancing in the 30s for the same reason.
I wasn’t great at dancing or picking up birds and went to the Imp to see the amazing musical talent, you couldn’t hear them due to the screams, sometimes I took a girl.
Now oldcolner this ballroom dancing ,I would not touch i a touch of 'unnatural' to me in it.My rule is just how you feel the music -walla! I met a girl from Colne, a blond angel ,plus she had done something maybe taught dancing in London and now was back home. But she had a child and being so young I was not 'mature' enough, too young, to take anything serious so that fell through. Today I have no problem.That mate of yours must have stole another! Really Colne! Did I need skis to get there in winter?