keith lockey
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That's just a nasty rumour spread by Delia the Dominatrix - anyway, she tells me to give you her regards, she hasn't seen you for a while.
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OKAY MUSIC FANS - WHICH 1987 SONG CONNECTS ALL THESE?
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That's the point I am trying to make, Maggie, and jumping in front of a horse is crazy - especially when people can get killed or seriuosly injured because of that act.
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It was that or being strung up to the nearest lampost. But don't worry lads, the deal was just for one year of darkness - no probs to Bedlingtonians who have been kept in the dark for yonks.
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Maggie, you talk about We would all fight against injustice and Social responsibility means standing up and being counted. Then you say my Arriiva bus example is crazy. Well I knew people whose very livelihoods were put at risk through bus changes - they could no longer get to work. I think that comes under injustice and social responsibility. But let's look at scenarios. What if someone had ran out to try to stop Emily Davison that fatal day - and in doing so got killed. What if that jockey had died - and left a wife and children. Now that latter scenario would have been ironic. A widowed woman bringing up children in those days - because another woman jumped in front of her husbands horse because of women's rights!!! Excuse the pun, but people want to take the blinkers off. It was an irresponsible act. So many things could have happened due to her action. She came out a hero; a martyr, but it would have been different if that jockey had died and left a grieving family. As I said above, she could have protested quite effectively in a number of ways. You talk of crazy. well walking in front of a horse to prove a point is crazy, but history has seen it otherwise and Emily Davison has her martydom.
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Footage of the incident that I saw online said that there was no way she could have seen if it was the King's horse she was jumping in front of. (Because of the bend and crowd.) The footage is grainy and not very good so I don't know about that. I am not demeaning the whole affair; my argument is there was tons of other alternative gestures she could have made. She and her friends could have ran across the track with a banner and stopped the whole race; they could have paraded down the track like they do at Ascot (?) To me the Emily Davison incident is like jumping in front of a bus because Arriva is going to change the route and not go by your street anymore - yes you might make a point but if it is going to kill you its a bit of a Pyrrhic victory.
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Sorry lads, it was the deal I made with Powergrid. I said they should put Terrier Close's lights back on but black out everyone else. I was under pressure from the residents of TC...for the people by the people.
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Okay, look at it this way. What was she trying to do that day? Draw attention to the plight of females and the fact that they wanted the vote. (I'm simplifying things here.) Would it not have been better if Em and her cohorts had obtained a horse. (Don't say security would have stopped her because she managed to just walk onto the track.) So she obtains a horse and rides it in the race. 1) She shows the capability and resourcefulness of women in doing so. 2) She become a figurehead and highlights the Sufragette's cause. 3) She makes all the newspapers who take up the plight of women. 4) No one gets hurt! 5) Hollywood makes a film of the event years later with Meryl Streep as Emily Davison. And no, I'm not being flipant. There are martyrs who die for a cause and earnest believers who make a point and carry on promoting it. (There is no evidence that says Em planned on suicide is there?)
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The jury is out with me and Emily Davison. I mean how can anyone inspire people by jumping in front of a horse!!! I would have been more inspired if she had become the first female jockey and rode Anmer to victory. Now that would have been one in the cap for the sufragettes!
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I bumped into Alan Routledge the other day in Tescos. I was telling him about the shops. One of the other shops I remember was Mick's Video shop in the first row - where the Co-op shop was. But am I right in thinking the Perry's had a greengrocers in that row. Keith was in my class at school but I never see him or Dave now.
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Good Jokes: Not For The Faint-Hearted (Adult content)
keith lockey replied to a topic in Chat Central
I see the Kaiser Chiefs are number one in India with their hit Rupee Rupee Rupee Rupee. -
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I was in the back yard when my mate passed. He said "Have you heard about princess Diana..." I thought it was the start of a joke, then I saw he was serious so I turned the goggle box on. I must admit I was shocked.
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The worst experience we ever had was when a brick worked loose in the chimney. (It might have been the chimney sweep's brush that did it.) Anyway, every time we lit the fire a bank of smoke would billow back into the room so we couldn't have a fire on - and it was in the middle of winter. The council workman turned up the next day and said he wasn't allowed to go on the roof on his own - carrying bucket of cement, trowel etc etc. I told him in no uncertain terms that we were'nt going another night without a fire, so he bent the rules and allowed me to go on the roof with him. The term brass monkeys applies. We got the work done and had a fire on that night. BUT - I would never never never never have a coal fire again. All the heat went up the chimney and you had to be sitting practically on it before you could get warm. Me and my bro argue about this - he would have one tomorrow. But anyway, back to chimney sweeps, can you remember them burying the soot in the garden!!! You would be putting plants in the next month and hit a soot spot.
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Might be, but I remember one was on the corner of the first row. I recall that because my mam sent be to get some brussel sprouts there and i got the amount mixed up. The guy sent me back home to bring a note!!!
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PS. If you look at this photo you will see a bloke in a red car glaring at me. I didn't notice him when I took the photo - not until he drove passed me and gave me the evil eye. I thought he was going to get out of the car!! But the barbers was in one of those green door shops.
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That's right, Tonyg. It was the two with the blue shutters on the end of first row. The guy used to wear a brown 'Awkright' work coat.
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The wool shop was Doreen's - Mr Blythman took over when his wife, Doreen, died. My bro says there was a drapers but I can't remember. He also mentioned a chemist but I can't recall that either. He did say one of the shops had a weighing machine out front where you could get yourself weighed. Here's another shot of the first row - with the gable ends out of shot.
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I remember the bleeza, the rake, the claise horse, and the fire guard. My granny used to put turps on the coal to help get the fire started!!!! She had a kettle that she used to rest on the coals and it was caked in soot . Then she would get a flimsy hanky and lift it off to pour water into the tea pot. How we survived our youth is beyond me. Sparks would fly from the fire due to dodgy coal and they would land everywhere. We had a crescent shaped brown hearth rug that had more burn marks on it than a blacksmith's apron.
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Here are some photos of the oval shops in front of Kelso gardens - opposite Foundry House. (Which stands on our old playing field) The shops in photo 3 are going to be pulled down soon - so we have heard. Can anyone remember the shops from the sixties and seventies? There was Strakers on the corner...further down a barbers, Doreen's wool shop, a co-op!!!. Then across that gap was Dennis's, Christines chiropodists....Routledge the butchers, the newspaper shop, last owned by Colin Mole and the rest is lost to history. During the course of time there have been a green grocers, video shop, pet shop, fish and chip shop and who knows what else. Please help lads and lasses, cos I've got a bad doze of nostalgia.
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The Wallaw, Bedlington - Jason and the Argonauts & Zulu. Then straight to Wales's chip shop for some fish and chips.
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I reported hearing a noise end of last year if you recall - 10th October. Brett said his wife had heard it too. Something is going on and they ain't telling us about it. I posted it as a new topic in - CHAT CENTRAL - STRANGE SOUNDS.
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Good Jokes: Not For The Faint-Hearted (Adult content)
keith lockey replied to a topic in Chat Central
I've just passed my exams at shampoo college! The tutors said I was Head and Shoulders above the rest. -
Sorry, Maggie, I know this is going to look as if we are locking horns again but did you know the jockey of the horse, Anmer, that hit Emily Davison committed suicide after suffering nightmares. SEE ARTICLE BELOW. She died four days later in Epsom Cottage Hospital, due to a fractured skull and internal injuries caused by the incident. Herbert Jones, the jockey who was riding the horse, suffered a mild concussion in the incident, but was "haunted by that poor woman's face" for much longer. In 1928, at the funeral of Emmeline Pankhurst, Jones laid a wreath "to do honour to the memory of Mrs Pankhurst and Miss Emily Davison". In 1951, his son found Herbert Jones dead in a gas-filled kitchen, having committed suicide.[11] The horse, Anmer, having gone over, got to his feet and completed the race minus his jockey.
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Good Jokes: Not For The Faint-Hearted (Adult content)
keith lockey replied to a topic in Chat Central
I've not been well and went to the doctors today. He prescribed me a Dyson vacuum cleaner. He said that should pick me up.
