Off Topic Wycliffe Hall near Barnard Castle

this, those Frenchies wouldn't stand a chance

 

from darlo mate but was always round that way with work the Morritt arms brownlow etc

 

Do you know Paul Barcus?

 

Barkes? Owns Thorpe Farm with the cafe and caravans by the 66?

 

Only the best hostelries for you I see !

 

Aye that’s the lad used to work for me and stay at mine when he was a youngan

 

That must have been a year or two since mind - I’d guess early/mid eighties. He’s doing well with his diversification it would seem and they have a decent restaurant/cafe that does a good pensioners 2 for 1 on Wednesdays(not that I think you’d qualify of course)

 

One of my favourite tracks at the time, also a B side for Marmalade and handy for getting to grips with a lass at the end of a dance night!

 

Gonna be a nice day for a look round tomorrow Smug or have you already been?

 

Ha ha I would qualify alright aye it was the early eighties down in Lincolnshire also my sister used to live in the first house across the a66 in that block of 3 to 4 and then she moved to brignal

 

Aah, Lincolnshire! Makes sense, didn’t have Barkley down as a devotee of the dark arts of Cumbrian sheep farming. Is your sister still in Brignall, I know a few folk from there.

 

No she moved up the Lakes near where I am barks came down to look into pig farming for his place

 

Cheers marra, I’ll stop stalking you and your family now

 

They opened there set at the Sunderland Empire with it, not that you heard much, as soon as the compere mentioned the first syllable of J.... mass hysteria ensued, never ever heard anything like it, before or since.