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John Pitchford

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I’m a retired railway signaller & RAF veteran who is left leaning, loves classic films both horror & comedy, I’m happily married with two great sons and try to look on the light side of life….i also support Derby County.

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This young actor went on to play Stan Ogden in Coronation Street. Bernard Youens (1914-1984) suffered a shrapnel wound to the leg during the battle of Anzio in 1944.

17.09.2025 04:33 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

You too mate

16.09.2025 09:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hope you’re ok mate, I’m fine, just not posted much on here lately, will try to post more👍

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I am ok mate, hope you are too, post most stuff on the other place

16.09.2025 01:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😃👍

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Even with 20 or 30 MPs they will still get less media coverage than Reform’s 5.

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My Grandma worked hard all her long life, in service from the age of 13 as a maid of all work (basically she did everything) & washing the pots, dusting & cleaning until she passed away aged 95 & she never had more than a few quid all her but then, she gave away money to anyone who had less than her

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I hope you can cope with the loss of your follower Reece, our thoughts are with you at this terrible time 😂

22.05.2025 08:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“The way to control people is to frighten them, and to divide them. Divide them by race, by religion, by nationality, by class. And if you can set them against one another, you can control them.”
Tony Benn.

18.05.2025 09:03 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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“I am not prepared to stand aside and see this country engulfed by the racial conflict which calculating orators or ignorant prejudice can create.
(Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s response to Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers Of Blood’ speech 1966)

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On this day in 1945

07.05.2025 10:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’m doing the same now I’ve retired…brilliant isn’t it👍

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Afternoon Carol, all well thanks, enjoying the sunshine, hope you’re all well too😃👍

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On this day on TV & Radio in 1972

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“Beethoven was so deaf he thought he was a painter”

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This is from Revenge Of The Pink Panther made in 1978

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