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Post by aubrey on Oct 7, 2016 9:15:41 GMT
Brian Francis Connolly. Born 5 October 1945, Died 9 February 1997 (aged 51)
Lead singer with the glam rock group The Sweet who were apparently anything but sweet
Brother to Mark Mcmanus, the original and best actor to play Taggart
Richard Herring says his first sexual feelings were over Brian Connolly. He's not gay, just too young to have known the difference. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 15:55:43 GMT
Billy Murray (born 6 October 1941) is an English actor, best known for playing Don Beech in The Bill from 1995 to 2004, Johnny Allen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2005 to 2006, Captain John Price in the video games Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Murray was born in East London and knew the gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray.  I am often amused by the number of people who 'Knew Ronnie and Reggie Kray'. It seems to extend to just about anyone who lived roughly in that area at about that time. I could say that I 'knew' Ronnie Biggs. Not true. I did not know him but I met him about four or five times as he was dating a friend of my sister. Had I known him he might have told me where he buried part of the loot! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 20:37:05 GMT
Billy Murray (born 6 October 1941) is an English actor, best known for playing Don Beech in The Bill from 1995 to 2004, Johnny Allen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2005 to 2006, Captain John Price in the video games Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Murray was born in East London and knew the gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray. I am often amused by the number of people who 'Knew Ronnie and Reggie Kray'. It seems to extend to just about anyone who lived roughly in that area at about that time. I could say that I 'knew' Ronnie Biggs. Not true. I did not know him but I met him about four or five times as he was dating a friend of my sister. Had I known him he might have told me where he buried part of the loot! Watching the drama Mrs Biggs it looked as if Ronnie dated everybody's sister |
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Post by ARENA on Oct 8, 2016 8:53:20 GMT
Bill Maynard is 88 today, Happy Birthday Bill!  |
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Post by aubrey on Oct 8, 2016 9:55:54 GMT
I am often amused by the number of people who 'Knew Ronnie and Reggie Kray'. It seems to extend to just about anyone who lived roughly in that area at about that time. I could say that I 'knew' Ronnie Biggs. Not true. I did not know him but I met him about four or five times as he was dating a friend of my sister. Had I known him he might have told me where he buried part of the loot! Watching the drama Mrs Biggs it looked as if Ronnie dated everybody's sister I once asked a bloke from Bermondsey exactly where Bermondsey: we were looking north along the south of the river from a window on the 5th floor of St Thomas's at the time. Instead of answering he said, with a good deal of pride, There's more criminals per square foot in Bermondsey than anywhere else in the country.Later I related this to a nurse, also from Bermondsey, and she said, Yes, and most of them are from my family. She said they all turned up for her father's funeral - those who were out, and still alive anyway. She said she was going, Is that...? Is that...? and her mother: Yes, yes, it is - Yes, it is. The nurse had got out of it, though. I liked her. She was a big fan of Rumpole. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2016 11:14:52 GMT
Bill Maynard is 88 today, Happy Birthday Bill! When I lived in the Midlands I was not too far away from where he lived. I was then connected to Barnardos, and approached him about doing a charity event on their behalf. He was then quite a big star but the fee he demanded was ridiculous. Funnily enough Geoffrey Hughes who sort of succeeded him in Heartbeat also moved in nearby, he too was approached but declined saying "I don't do charity" You never see them in the same light after these sort of experiences
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Post by althea on Oct 8, 2016 15:29:59 GMT
Ian Rush,the ex-footballer was born in Flint in Flintshire.
When the local council refurbished The Cornist Hall,they asked Ian Rush to come and re-open it.
He asked an exorbitant fee and we were told,he asks so much money because he doesn't want to do personal appearances.
You're right Gus,it does alter the way you see people.
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Post by ARENA on Oct 9, 2016 8:22:27 GMT
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music.  |
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Post by aubrey on Oct 9, 2016 9:16:22 GMT
A day too late: ohn Cowper Powys (8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was a British novelist, lecturer, philosopher, literary critic, and poet. Although Powys published a collection of poems in 1896 and his first novel in 1915, he did not gain success as a writer until he published the novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He was influenced by many writers, but he has been particularly seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance (1932), along with Weymouth Sands (1934) and Maiden Castle (1936), are often referred to as his Wessex novels.   SOME years ago, in the slate-quarrying village of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, I visited Phyllis Playter, the longtime companion of the writer John Cowper Powys. She was a tiny, ancient woman whose skin was stretched like parchment over her bones. I asked her how she had met Powys. She said, "It was in Joplin, Missouri, in 1921, and Mr. Powys was lecturing on Dostoevski. The lecture was so powerful that three people in the audience fainted. I knew he was the man for me." Read on... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2016 9:13:13 GMT
Winston Churchill. Lived: 10 Oct 1940 - 02 Mar 2010 (age 69)
Grandson of his famous same named grandfather
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Post by ARENA on Oct 11, 2016 8:59:47 GMT
John Nettles is 73 today, Happy Birthday John!  |
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Post by lana on Oct 11, 2016 10:31:05 GMT
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To be seen every Sunday in Poldark.
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Post by lana on Oct 11, 2016 10:50:13 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Oct 11, 2016 10:56:09 GMT
A charming, quiet gent ,a role model indeed. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 11:27:14 GMT
A charming, quiet gent ,a role model indeed. Will they be saying such things in 40/50 years about Capn Rooney - doubt it |
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