Who is going to pay there respects? I'm in.

Who is going to pay there respects? I'm in.

 

I will be travelling up to be there.

fester has got plans in place to attend,

MickyD will be working but plans to nip out to do a bit of training with Simon Snorkel. Problem will be where to park the bloody thing!

minibus goin from this pub, maybe more

Yep. I'm (not) "Working From Home" that day...

MickyD will be working but plans to nip out to do a bit of training with Simon Snorkel. Problem will be where to park the bloody thing!

 

You can give me that go in it that you promised me

I am in..Are we having a gay pile on after?

the k.d.s will be in attendance .

 

what time are they advising people to be on churchgate ?

We'll be there ...... make way for the wheelchair.

Iamout.

 

Each to their own and all that stuff, but I believe the best way of paying your respect is to go to the ground and sign the book. If there's a published route for the cortege, then maybe the route could be lined with well-wishers, but I personally think Churchgate should be left clear for the invited guests only and Overdale would be a definite no-go area.

 

Pay your respects, but let the family deal with this in private.

 

Whilst I'm at it (and risking being called a bigger cunt than usual), don't leave all that stuff at the ground either like old shirts and scarves etc: it's only stuff that some other person has to throw away later: I doubt the family would want all that stuff. We're not Scousers, you know.

but I personally think Churchgate should be left clear for the invited guests only and Overdale would be a definite no-go area.

 

Pay your respects, but let the family deal with this in private.

I wouldn't have thought the family have been railroaded into the whole "civic send-off" business, so I can't agree with that.

 

I don't have a huge issue with the shirts and scarves at the Reebok either, but bell cheddars who've dropped off their 188 Bet foam fingers should be asking themselves some serious questions.

 

Oh, and you're a bigger cunt that usual!

I never suggested any railroading at all. Nor do I have a huge issue with the tat left at the ground: I just don't get it tbh. A handwritten message that the club/family could keep would suffice and be better IMO: that's all.

The big wigs are in our meeting room finalising the details as I type. I hope to be able to get out there if I can.

 

As a Freeman of the borough he's entitled a civic funeral.

I think the flowers, scarves etc. left at the Reebok are left as a tribute rather than an outpouring of grief. If nothing had been left it would be a poor show. Same with funeral procession in town. I would rather thousands turned up than have the streets empty as Nat makes his final journey.

I will be there to pay my respects.

Spot on, I hope thousand of fans line the street to pay tribute to the great man.

Some fans will be allowed inside the Parish Church- according to the BN. I'm sure if the family wasn't happy with this it wouldn't happen.

Get there early- no parking on Churchbank, and you can bet your bottom dollar the Parking ninjas will be out in force.

I'm in

I'm in .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

..the Midlands, so Iamout

Iamin.

 

 

I am in

unfortunately in chester

 

next funeral i go to will be my own

Spot on, I hope thousand of fans line the street to pay tribute to the great man.

 

Me too. Well said Mounts

the k.d.s will be in attendance .

 

what time are they advising people to be on churchgate ?

 

I am guessing 11am onwards.

 

This from the council:

 

The funeral cortege will travel up Bank Street and into Bradshawgate before turning into Silverwell Street and into the Parish Church for the start of the service at 12.30pm on Wednesday 26th January.

 

Once the service has finished the cortege will head off for a private committal.

 

Church Bank will be closed to normal traffic and there will be no parking on the church car park

To anyone in two minds about going on wednesday ask yourself this - how would you feel if fewer people turned out for Nat than for fred Dibnah ?

 

"Fred Dibnah?s funeral procession was one of the biggest events that the people of Bolton and Lancashire have ever seen. The town centre streets were lined three and four deep as this ?Son of Bolton?, with his oily cap set proudly on top of his coffin, made its way through the streets, being pulled by his own treasured steam tractor and well decorated trailer."

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4015223.stm

Im in skwl ffs