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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

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1 hour ago, royal white said:

https://astreetnearyou.org/

 

This is a good link.

That’s brilliant.

astonishing the numbers on there, which we all know and been told, but it’s only when you see it in real terms you can comprehend how it touched everywhere.

ive just gone down Bury Rd from Tonge fold to Breightmet ( my neck of the woods) and the numbers on just that bit quite humbling considering most of the streets now weren’t there then 

also checked my dad’s village in Ireland, loads from there too, including some with same surname as me so I’ll be looking into that a bit more closely so cheers for the link.

 

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On 10/11/2018 at 00:54, Casino said:

The film I mentioned is on about 9 on Sunday

A must watch, I think

Fucking Hell!!!! Recorded it last night and just watched it. Absolutely incredible in the saddest way possible. The way that they slowed the old footage down, colourised it, and voiced it via lip-readers was amazing. So much stuff that I never knew like the shrapnel shells that burst in the air. That’s the most moving thing I’ve ever seen about WW1

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27 minutes ago, fatolive said:

That’s brilliant.

astonishing the numbers on there, which we all know and been told, but it’s only when you see it in real terms you can comprehend how it touched everywhere.

ive just gone down Bury Rd from Tonge fold to Breightmet ( my neck of the woods) and the numbers on just that bit quite humbling considering most of the streets now weren’t there then 

also checked my dad’s village in Ireland, loads from there too, including some with same surname as me so I’ll be looking into that a bit more closely so cheers for the link.

 

Did similar- was focusing on Darcy Lever, as much of the current housing is indeed far too new.

Two lads lost from hacken lane, a few doors apart, several from Radcliffe road amongst others.

Many of these will have grown up together- shows just what an effect it would have had on a community. Shocking.

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9 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Did similar- was focusing on Darcy Lever, as much of the current housing is indeed far too new.

Two lads lost from hacken lane, a few doors apart, several from Radcliffe road amongst others.

Many of these will have grown up together- shows just what an effect it would have had on a community. Shocking.

10 lads between The Hare and Hounds and the Bulls head. Staggering really. 

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'They Shall Not Grow Old' was possibly the greatest hour of film I've ever seen. Apparently there's another 100 hours of footage that has been given the same treatment by Peter Jackson's team, and handed back to The British War Museum, all free of charge and freely available to anyone who wants to use it.  The guy deserves massive plaudits.

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I’ve had the the good fortune to work on The Wipers Times this year, with the Mercian regiment, the latter day Sherwood Forresters.

Throughout this there is nothing nationalism, or rather thub thumping. There is fear, and slaughter of young men. 

If folk want to travel to Europe and shout about their own fearfulness, enjoy it. You don’t represent us, you don’t represent our town, you certainly are not one of us.  

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