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  1. Matthew Bound Still Lurks

    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    MND claimed the life of my much loved brother in law recently , what an insidious disease robbing you of all hope for the future.
     
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    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    This week marks the 80th Anniversary since the start of the Battle of Britain, where the RAF defended the nation against the German airforce, the Luftwaffe. It was the first major battle fought entirely in the air
     
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    I read a book on the Battle of Britain two or three years ago on holiday. It was a day by day account.

    Whilst not the most ‘riveting’ book I’ve read on WW2 - and I’ve lost count of how many - it was a fascinating account of what took place.
     
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  4. Matthew Bound Still Lurks

    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    Like you I've read many , one of the better ones along with anything that James Holland produces is Joshua Levine's Forgotten voices of the Blitz and the Battle Of Britain . As a kid I was taken many a year to St Athan in my friends' Black Vanguard six to spend the day commemorating Battle Of Britain day . It always an aspect of the second world war that if I could go back in time it would be to that period.
     
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    On this day in 1940 Ringo Starr was born

    Happy 80th birthday Ringo <cheers>
     
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    Nosey and noisy bugger
     
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    It’s a terrible disease. My mates mother died of it, it was tragic with the way she went from a bubbly person having a pint with you in the pub, to a shell of a person.
     
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    15 years since the London bombings, remember it so well. I was in Austria for a works conference, all the joys of summer with us getting the Olympics the day before, we break for coffee and news flash popped up with news of the bombings.
     
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    I was in a meeting in Germany - flying back that evening to Birmingham from Stuttgart....
     
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    I was due to have a meeting in Westminster but it was called off the day before!
     
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    On this day 67 years ago, arguably the best left back to play for the Swans was born ...

    Džemal" Hadžiabdić
     
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    Absolutely, he was class along with Ante.
     
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    and he could still do a job for us
     
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    5 years ago today, Chris Marustik died aged 54 years old.

    I was there when he made his debut for the Swans.

    RIP <rose>
     
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    Good player Chris. RIP!!
     
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    On this day Richard Lewis (1807/8 – 13 August 1831), known as Dic Penderyn died. He was a Welsh labourer and coal miner who lived in Merthyr Tydfil who was involved with the Merthyr Rising of 3 June 1831. In the course of the riot he was arrested alongside Lewis Lewis, one of the primary figures in the uprising, and charged with stabbing a soldier with a bayonet. The people of Merthyr Tydfil doubted his guilt, and signed a petition for his release. However, he was found guilty and hanged on 13 August. After his death he was treated as a martyr in Merthyr and across Wales.
     
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    75th anniversary of VJ Day....

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    Lest we forget <rose>
     
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