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This is the Briar and Lilac mills in Shaw near Oldham, now part of warehouse and distribution for catalogue company JD Williams. Where the chimney was is now a bridge that joins the two buildings. The 'Lilac' on the tower is now gone as it has been reduced in height. Briar Mill is adjacent to the Manchester Metrolink stop for Shaw and Crompton, between Oldham and Rochdale, and is behind the camera and to the left of the opening shot, and to the right of Fred as he eats his cheese butty 8:26 (in the background can be seen (above Fred’s Land Rover) the tower of Holy Trinity Parish Church Shaw. In the centre is Duke Mill, which still stands, minus its chimney. To the extreme left is Cape Mill, demolished in 1993. Fred took down the chimney).
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Henry Cooper 1934 - 2011
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Fred has a statue in Bolton. Is English your second language, or are you American?
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Was his flat there?
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£7K then would be getting on for £43K now.
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7:13 We seem to be the helpless victims of minorities today, as though the majority didn't have rights too. Poor old inarticulate majority. The people who never write to their MPs, or the papers, who don't attend political or trades union branch meetings, who don't take part in demos, who probably couldn't even list the 'isms' on the political lunatic fringe
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@bartez111 Thanks for the appreciation. I'd forgotten I made this comment until I watched the two americans watch Fred Dibnah video a couple of days ago.
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@TheIceyeddy Yes.
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@tt-ew7rx Very good - that explains it. Fred's way of speech, if you cut out the unnecessary terms ('bloody'), is quite intelligible, as he is precise and his Lancashire is not too broad - It's not dense like a Newcastle speaker - but he does say 'whole' as 'wole', and 'work' as 'wohk' which confused me at first and I don't come that far from him.
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Didn't get the feeling he had seen it. Just a 'why its been a success' 'analysis'. I'd like ti hear what he actually thought about it.
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@bartez111 👍
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