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Thanks for input on thread 25.

time for a new one eh dav .

oh yes we have to keep them happy.

If threads are kept to a reasonable length then all Ex-DG Members will access it like Bentlegs who uses his phone. There are NO scroll buttons on his phone[ I was looking at the Golborne Colliery thread and there are over 1000 posts on that thread . I can scroll from top to the end in seconds but some one using a phone would give up

I understand that peterp, as soon as people struggle the thread is updated, i try to keep it as pleasant as possible.

Bambam you are doing a good job with DG26

Been told today by an ex greener that chowey's lad is not very well, don't know the circumstances but wish him well.

which one dav ? .

I think the name was Antony Bri.

he,s the eldest dav . wots up with him ? .

Thanks Dave, I recon that 50 to 60 would be ideal for such as me, as I've,e said before ,, I am not buying a new computer coming up to 88 would be throwing money away, tha doing a good job with EX,, Downallgreeners

Just for tanker

I morning's everyone I have no trouble with mob

Anyone heard that a HiltonHotel is to built in Wigan

yes

isnt there a hilton hotel near the M6 junction at haydock island ? .

No there is a Ramada Ibis hotel near the Lime Wood

isnt there some just the other side of haydock park bridge ? .

Holiday inn Bay horse Thistle is just under the M6bridge side of Boston two sheds

Hi all!

Isn’t the ‘Mercure Hotel’ near the shed place?

Anyway, your energy bills are coming down April 1st. I’m just wondering what you gonna spend your extra money on that you’ll have! …Aren’t they so kind! Standing charges are going up though!…Robbers, the lot of em!

On (St Pats Day), on listening ‘Dirty old town’ several times during the day on my travels, I learned that the ‘Dirty old Town’ referred to in the song is actually Salford!…is there only me who didn’t know that? …I presumed it was somewhere in Ireland, maybe Belfast or Dublin. I gather Kirsty McColl wrote it growing up in Salford…I never knew! …Great song!

Gustavus I was reading some features about the (Thistle) Mercure hotel and it stated it was 20 mins drive to Camelot. Camelot shut in 2012

Ha ha yes it did!…Went to Camelot a couple of times when my daughter was young. It was an ok place. Shame it closed. Wonder if it’s still all standing, albeit as a ghost town theme park.

Was reading on another social media site earlier about there being an unexploded bomb on Garswood Rec many years ago and 2 men living across from the rec got killed investigating it. Apparently crater still there. Never knew that if it is true.

Very interesting gusto, maybe bentlegs knows summat.

1st world war i think dav ? .

I think I can remember my father talking about it Bri, but don't know the full story, very interesting piece of history though.

From BILLINGE HISTORY .......

"The dangers encountered by the Home Guard even in quiet Northwest villages are apparent in an incident in Garswood, when an unexploded bomb landed in a playing field. Since the team required to defuse the bomb could not reach the village until the following day, the bomb had to be guarded overnight and two Home Guardsmen were posted there. Unfortunately, during the night the sentries apparently heard a disturbance close to the device, and when they went nearer to investigate, the bomb exploded, killing them both."

Another bit .....

" ...... knitting circles were formed to send clothing to servicemen. It was customary to post the name and address of the knitter in with these garments so that, if possible, the serviceman who received the parcel could one day thank the sender. A lady in Garswood was very surprised after the war to answer her door to a Frenchman who said he had received her knitted socks and wanted to thank her."

I seen that gustavos bottom of field on right you probably can't see it now on left of field it was know as Kevin Atherton s Hill

Didn’t know that Dag!…May have a walk over one sunny day soon and take a look!…Why Kevin Atherton Hill?

I’m gonna have a walk up towards the filled in pit entrance up Leyland Green Road and around the disused reservoir there in next couple of weeks. Just for nostalgia and old times sake.

May try and fight my way into the pop house too, to take a look!…See if I can find an old bottle!

…Great information Tonker!

What a great story about the knitters!

Willy Ryder found one old bottle where Owd Bill Jobe kept his Lorry on boothsbrew Rd where that telephone box is gustavos I have photos of iwill send them too you

because kevin always played on that wing geoff .

What about 2nd half Bri? …Or did he play better on that wing with the hill?

Saw that picture of the bottle Dag you sent to our Mal Nice un that!
Wonder if Bill Jobe haulaged for Morgan’s maybe sometime then. Would have been handy for Morgan’s being either at the pop house or Bryn.

I wouldn't have thought so gus but there used to be houses along there so perhaps from one of those dwelling s or chippy that was there I don't remember them really but Dicky heks mam ran chippy it's all good history tho gustavos

well geoff he was the only winger to run up that hill if he played hence it was called "kevins hill" .

I see Bri
I may be wrong about some of this, but I vaguely remember watching the games on there and for some reason remember John Sheridan breaking his leg. And another time seeing the goalie break his leg, it was possibly either Tuck or Jackie Cunliffe? I’m very unsure.

Yeh Dag, there were houses and a chippy there I believe. Could possibly be from them, that bottle!

i remember the chippy very well & those houses david houghton lived in one of them .

Garswood history about the bomb that exploded on Gaswood , Jack Adamson and Jimmy Davis took a spade with the intension of digging the bomb out, Jimmy Davis was home on leave and Jack Adamson was his mate, the people watching said they only put the spade in once when the bomb blew up, regarding the crater it is not still there,

Thanks for that Bentlegs!
Not the most sensible thing to do!

I remember as a young lad going bird nesting in the small woodland at the back of where Slaters pen/land was. At the bottom of the large field facing the back gate of the graveyard. I came across a largish crater in the middle of the trees. At the time I found it unusual and wondered what this big crater shape was doing there. I had no idea bombs had been dropped in the area then, being so young. So looking back I think it could well have been a bomb crater. It’s probably well overgrown now.

I think Bells bin it wi Bomb gustavos

…Yeh, I’ve heard it’s like a bomb site!

Talking of bomb site, what’s happening with Village Club area? Are there any plans for it?

ask those who sold it geoff ? .

You won't get any information of that lot, they sold the place robbing members of their share, all that was done with a dirty underhanded deal, but there are a few people who know who these lot are, even though they think nobody knows, they should be named and shamed so the whole estate knows what they did.

i believe they got £48 grand to split between them ? .

Club

Ah, I see!… So it looks like it’s making money for whoever bought it without doing anything with it. So could be as it is now for many years!…So whoever owned it got £48k.

those who were left with the club geoff . they were the ones who got any payout .

So who actually owned it?…Was it owned by whoever was on the ‘committee’?

…I guess the S and S was sold off in a similar way?…who pocketed the sale of that land?…was that the ‘committee’?

i guess so .

Morning That's why you got keep your membership going at all costs I remember old Nev saying this don't let let your membership go even if you don't go in pay your subs thems rules ney iam not defending anyone but if those are rules David should know he was on committee way back

did,nt they sting jeff k with the membership ? .

Ha failed pay on time I think Brian

Does a committee have to register with the council/licencing dept who is on the committee and who is the bar steward .And if there is a separate owner of the building/land would they not have to be registered through company house or the land registry. Someone must have pocketed the money
Brian have you seen the thread about parking restrictions on yellow lines using a blue badge over on general

yes i have peter thanx . malc they gave grace to all the members upto a week , but not in this case . they got rid of as many members as they could .

Was searching the internet a few weeks ago and managed to come across a William Morgan ‘pop bottle’. It’s clear glass, thicker glass than normal pop bottles. It stands at 8 inches tall. On it, wrote in moulded glass, is WILLIAM MORGAN, in a curved frown shape. And below, in a curved smile shape it says BRYN NEAR WIGAN. In the middle of those two curves it says, also in moulded glass, XXXX
Does anyone know what XXXX could be? I’ve searched for XXXX pop online but no results. Anyone any idea?

the Xs are for the alcoholic content in them geoff .

Good morning I would have thought if your on time with paying your subs then they can't refuse that's my thoughts

Dagutd27 Usually most clubs have a paying in period for subs and then may extent this time by a set period . The NAVC committee set a strict time limit due to what was going to happen to the club and turned late membership down for lapsed members not just Jeff.Less amount of members less alleged pay out to said members The only time during the set time period the committee could refuse membership is if some one was barred from the club and then they do not need to renew that persons membership.

they made sure they paid theirs malc without telling anyone they were due ? .