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[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, DeeCee said:

Guy Martin's Spitfire U&Yesterday 

Only just seen this - Amazing! 

Remember mother telling me how she worked at Howard and Bulloughs in Accy assembling part of "Tail-End Charlie for the Lancaster bombers as a girl of about 18 when WW11 started

 

I used to work with a bloke who’d been a tail gunner on Lancasters. He could tell some stories ! The one about how they got attacked by an ME 163 rocket fighter was really funny. He saw the speck in the distance and thought it was an ordinary prop powered aircraft so he just kept scanning for other aircraft. When he finally looked back again the ME was right on top of them. Luckily the German pilot didn’t fire, maybe his guns jammed. He was shaking for the rest of the day.

 

Howard & Bulloughs we’re in a large conglomerant with Tweedale & Smalley of Rochdale and Platt Brothers of Oldham. When times got bad in the textile engineering game in early 1960’s one of them had to go and it was Tweedales. About 1,500 people lost their jobs. The other two followed them eventually.

I played as a young player on Tweedale’s pitch. It was brilliant, they had first class facilities. 

[arbitro]

For any Rugby League aficionados there is an excellent three part documentary currently on Sky Sports Action called We are Wigan Warriors. It covers last season when they win four trophies and gives a great insight into how a successful sports club runs efficiently.

The psychology used to motivate the players is so innovative.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

3 hours ago, arbitro said:

For any Rugby League aficionados there is an excellent three part documentary currently on Sky Sports Action called We are Wigan Warriors. It covers last season when they win four trophies and gives a great insight into how a successful sports club runs efficiently.

The psychology used to motivate the players is so innovative.

I haven’t seen the programme because I haven’t got Sky but Rugby League has always been forwards thinking and innovative. The treatment of the match officials is just one area we could learn from.

[Gav]

The Mrs watched Adolescence on Netflix last night with Stephen Graham.

Her words, ‘Amazing Tv Gav, Stephen Graham is unbelievable in his role’

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

24 minutes ago, Gav said:

The Mrs watched Adolescence on Netflix last night with Stephen Graham.

Her words, ‘Amazing Tv Gav, Stephen Graham is unbelievable in his role’

 

It had outstanding reviews in your favourite newspaper the other day.

[K-Hod]

1 hour ago, Gav said:

The Mrs watched Adolescence on Netflix last night with Stephen Graham.

Her words, ‘Amazing Tv Gav, Stephen Graham is unbelievable in his role’

 

Yep, this is on my watch list- only hearing good things about this one!

[Darrenbot]

Netflix seem to have started commissioning some good British Drama recently,Toxic Town is another good one put on there in the last month.

[K-Hod]

Watched the first 2 episodes of Adolescence.

Quality. Can't wait to finish it now!

[RoverDom]

Good series adolescence. The fact that each episode is a single shot adds to the brilliance of it. I found myself watching it marvelling at the choreography of it all as well as the story line. 

Especially the second episode, set in a school with hundreds of child extras and done all in a single take is crazy. 

[chaddyrovers]

Anyone watch Mobland? Is it worth watching?.

[arbitro]

I watched the BBC documentary on the Bradford City fire last night in 1985 when 56 people lost their lives. I was a great piece of television and included lots of interviews from supporters who were there and families who lost loved ones.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r8r1408jro

[Gav]

13 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Anyone watch Mobland? Is it worth watching?.

Its on my list, I hear its very good, but not seen it yet chaddy.

1 hour ago, arbitro said:

I watched the BBC documentary on the Bradford City fire last night in 1985 when 56 people lost their lives. I was a great piece of television and included lots of interviews from supporters who were there and families who lost loved ones.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r8r1408jro

I recorded it Tony, I'll be watching it later.

[arbitro]

I watched the excellent Cause of Death yesterday (recorded from Sunday) and it featured four people killed by being run over (one casualty was from Langho). What was alarming was that the three drivers who were responsible all failed basic eyesight tests carried out by the police and when the police obtained their medical records it was recorded and they had been told. One of them could only see a number plate clearly from 2.5 metres away.

The real worry was that there is no mechanism to stop them - essentially they have to self report themselves to the DVLA and have their licence revoked.

The Coroner has written to the Minister of Transport to highlight the anomaly and hopefully something is out in place to prevent and other unnecessary deaths.