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« Reply #4755 on: Friday, June 23, 2023, 17:03:46 » |
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RIP Helen
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A Bastard apparently
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« Reply #4756 on: Monday, June 26, 2023, 13:03:36 » |
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« Reply #4757 on: Friday, June 30, 2023, 15:19:05 » |
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Alan Arkin, actor, 89.
Worth a mention for Inspector Clouseau & John Yossarian in Catch-22.
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My mind it ain't so open
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« Reply #4758 on: Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 22:04:26 » |
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One of my favourite authors who I wrote my dissertation about, Milan Kundera, dies aged 94. Mainly of being old.
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #4759 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 13:06:06 » |
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George Armstrong aged 60, was an actor best known for playing Alan Humphries in Grange Hill and also acted in the Bill after a battle with Leukemia. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/grange-hill-star-george-armstrong-dies-aged-60/ |
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
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« Reply #4760 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 13:20:34 » |
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Bloody hell, he popped up in a Wikipedia rabbit hole I found myself in the other day! |
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That was definately my last game, honest
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« Reply #4761 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 13:31:27 » |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #4762 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 13:42:05 » |
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Bloody hell, he popped up in a Wikipedia rabbit hole I found myself in the other day!
I was at school with a couple of actors from Grange Hill (Gripper Stebson, Helen Kelly & Trevor Cleaver) and have kept in touch with them via the socials and I also speak to Paula Ann Bland (Claire Scott) often and she has cancer too but currently in remission, and it was her told me about his passing yesterday. BTW I love Wiki wormholes too  |
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR
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« Reply #4763 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 14:57:45 » |
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Is 'Gripper' from Swindon then? I saw him once back in the 80's walking down Milton Road and thought it was incredibly random. Not so much if he's from the town...
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #4764 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 15:01:58 » |
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Is 'Gripper' from Swindon then? I saw him once back in the 80's walking down Milton Road and thought it was incredibly random. Not so much if he's from the town...
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR
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« Reply #4765 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 15:19:22 » |
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Maybe I knew that and just forgot (happens more and more these days!) That's a great one to add to the Swindon Celebrity A List (as well as the other GH actors) along side Diana Dors, Billy Piper, Andy Partridge and all the other usual suspects. I remember spotting Pogo Patterson (realise that's not his real name) walking down Leyton High Road towards Brisbane Road when we played them in the Cup in the early 90's... assumed he was an O's fan  |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #4766 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 15:29:31 » |
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I remember spotting Pogo Patterson (realise that's not his real name) walking down Leyton High Road towards Brisbane Road when we played them in the Cup in the early 90's... assumed he was an O's fan Peter Moran. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/18016335/grange-hill-stewpot-pogo-now-unrecognisable/ |
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR
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« Reply #4767 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 15:32:04 » |
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Just read that funnily enough. He is indeed unrecognisable...
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« Reply #4768 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 15:40:45 » |
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They are all way beyond my time, Helen Kelly & Trevor Cleaver is more my era! I never knew that Swindon had been such a hotbed of Grange Hill talent!
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #4769 on: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 15:43:47 » |
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They are all way beyond my time, Helen Kelly & Trevor Cleaver is more my era! I never knew that Swindon had been such a hotbed of Grange Hill talent!
Grange Hill writer Phil Redmond held auditions at Hreod Burna 4 years in a row in the late 70s early 80s. No I did not audition myself. |
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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