David Hughes

David Hughes

@parkiebath.bsky.social

Trying to be a historian, suffering as a Blackburn Rovers supporter, failing cyclist but now only in the virtual world. Despairing of the future!!!

268 Followers 492 Following 189 Posts Joined Dec 2023
1 week ago

It's OK, I still haven't forgiven Wolves for 1960!

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1 week ago

Talk about cursing Wolves!!!!

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1 week ago

My thoughts exactly but with a shield!

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1 week ago

Aye, tha's reet!

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1 week ago

I remember you teaching me 20 years ago. You are still younger than I was when you taught me.

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1 week ago

And I remember you teaching me 20 years ago. You are still younger than I was when you taught me!

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1 week ago

In the powerplay?!!!

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1 week ago

Only 3 points behind now!

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1 week ago

Is he a Rapture guy?

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1 week ago

Proves what Sam Allardyce said was true. If he had been called Sam Allardichi he would have thought a tactical genius, or something to that effect.

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3 weeks ago

No, they were working class. Some of Blackburn's ex public school boys formed the Rovers.

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3 weeks ago

But it was Olympic not Rovers.

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3 weeks ago

Happy birthday, John. Day after mine! Nice of Rovers and the Dingles to give us birthday presents.

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3 weeks ago

Thank you Burnley for making my birthday even better. Come on you Blues!

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1 month ago

"All we are saying is..."

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1 month ago

Did he say "Me babber" or "me lover"?

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1 month ago

Excellent. A real timeline cleanser! More please.

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1 month ago

We need more Beryl Cook!

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1 month ago

And taking in scenic Whalley New Road and Livesey Branch Road!

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2 months ago

'Welsh hicks', chanted a drunken Rovers fan sometime in the early 70s when we played at the Racecourse ground!

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2 months ago

Have these been tested by Radcliffe and Maconie on their Radio 6 Music Crisps on the Radio?

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3 months ago

Somebody had to do it!

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3 months ago

But let's hope he isn't!

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4 months ago
Preview
ABOUT - BRFC Archive BRFC Archive is an independent project, built by fans, for fans, to document the history and statistics of Blackburn Rovers F.C., from the club’s creation through to the present day. The site is a fre...

Have you shared your research with Mary Painter? If so I might have seen some of it. Have you seen the BRFC Archive that I saw when I dipped a toe into the former Twitter?

brfc-archive.com/about/

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4 months ago
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To celebrate 1the 150th anniversary of the founding of Blackburn Rovers, here is the first match report I have found. It is from the Blackburn Standard on 18 December 1875. Is this the Rovers first match?

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4 months ago

Has he blamed postal votes yet? Or mysterious appearance of ballot boxes stuffed with votes for centrist parties? Or votes from illegal immigrants? Plenty of the Trump victim playbook to be used yet!

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4 months ago

I am pleased that someone has mentioned 1981 and the polling of SDP and Liberals and the ssumptions that were made then all of them to fade away by the time of the general election. Thatcher revived the fortunes of the Tories by her use of the Falklands war.

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4 months ago

It did come from House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online. It is at the bottom of the title page.

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4 months ago

I could send it to you. I was at university when I downloaded it. It might have come from a site that gave access to parliamentary papers. I can't remember what is called.

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4 months ago
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I have a pdf of the summaries of the 1841 census. I downloaded it probably about 15 years ago from either Internet Archive or Google Books.

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