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    Quote Originally Posted by Crackles View Post
    Southall to Torquay. Now there's a culture shock

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    I really can't remember now, it was the seventies. I remember being disappointed with the view from the bedroom window - no Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and no herds of Wildebeest sweeping majestically past
    No Sydney opera house either !. As a boy saw the kinks there in 64 whilst on holiday, they were under carding Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers believe it or not. Anyone remember them ? NO

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    Quote Originally Posted by tapid View Post
    No Sydney opera house either !. As a boy saw the kinks there in 64 whilst on holiday, they were under carding Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers believe it or not. Anyone remember them ? NO
    The Kinks played Sydney Opera House in 1964?

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    Yup they were quite big in the 60s. Instrumental tho. Don't recall a singer Kinks and later mungo jerry were 2 of my fav bands
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Yup they were quite big in the 60s. Instrumental tho. Don't recall a singer Kinks and later mungo jerry were 2 of my fav bands
    Loved Mungo Jerry in my younger years, always feel-good music. Had a few of their singles - Long Legged Woman Dressed in Black, Lady Rose, All Right, In The Summertime. I should look out for a Best Of.
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    Quote Originally Posted by southall-1998_mk2 View Post
    Not really. Plenty enough decent takeaway shops locally. The Cod & Chips is marvelous! But Hi-Fi shop options here is awful....extinct! Years ago Torquay would had some lovely Hi-Fi shops.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hifinutt View Post
    shall we set one up shane

    Just imagine the arguments!



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    I went to Torquay once must have been about 1993. All I remember is there are palm trees and lots of roundabouts.

    It was out of season so the Hanging Gardens of Babylon was closed.
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    Sounds just like Chorley, apart from the palm trees and the Hanging Gardens. Some of the women are hanging though.
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    Went to Torquay about 3 years ago. The area around the front and harbour have obviously had a laaaaarge injection of cash and is a nice area to walk around. However when you venture into the town and around the back streets it is a very different story, a bit like Battersea in the early 70's where I was brunged up.
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