Notable Obituaries.

[conny]

Gerry Marsden. RIP

One of the most loved and respected guys from my home city. Far more than Cilla, Doddy or Tarbuck.

 

[Bodd]

One of the most loved and respected guys from my home city. Far more than Cilla, Doddy or Tarbuck.

Or the cast of Brookside

 

[^woody^]

Not more than Ga, Ba and Te.

Calm down.

 

[conny]

Or the cast of Brookside

I take it this sarcasm. Most people in Liverpool hate most of the main characters in that programme, especially Ricky Tomlinson.

 

[Bodd]

I take it this sarcasm. Most people in Liverpool hate most of the main characters in that programme, especially Ricky Tomlinson.

AKA a British sense of humour.

I did like the you blonde girl with the Bob.
I had a friend from thd Wirral that looked just like her....

 

[Ihavenojob]

Tarbuck.

I thought he had popped his clogs as there were a few programmes on the telly about him over the last day or two.

 

[Mottie]

Tanya Roberts. Bond girl and Charlie’s angel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55528352

 

[durhamplumber]

I take it this sarcasm. Most people in Liverpool hate most of the main characters in that programme, especially Ricky Tomlinson.

Is that because he made unkind comments about Cilla?

 

[durhamplumber]

Gerry Marsden. RIP

Did not realise "" you will never walk alone" was from R&H Carousel.

 

[durhamplumber]

One of the most loved and respected guys from my home city. Far more than Cilla, Doddy or Tarbuck.

Tarby always seems a ""normal"" chap.

She is great on R2.

 

[fillyboy]

Most people in Liverpool hate most of the main characters in that programme, especially Ricky Tomlinson.

I know he spent some time behind bars for his flying picket activities during the coal miners strike, and was a member of the National Front.

 

[durhamplumber]

I know he spent some time behind bars for his flying picket activities during the coal miners strike,

Makes him a hero around here.

 

[crystal ball]

I know he spent some time behind bars for his flying picket activities during the coal miners strike, and was a member of the National Front.

Building workers strike surely

 

[conny]

Shipbuilders strike. He worked at Cammel Laird in Birkenhead and was good mates with a guy known as Red Robbo. Both of them were high up in the union hierarchy and thought they could control everyone including the bosses. When the shipbuilders were denied a larger than average pay rise because they were losing contracts the union called them out on strike. Neither side would back down and it had a similar effect on peoples relationships as the miners strikes did only on a smaller local scale. Our union at the time, the EETPU, demanded we paid a weekly contribution of £3 to the strike fund with the promise we would get it back when the strike was over. We never got it back and the vast majority of workers were eventually made redundant. The ship yard was bought out by a consortium but struggled for years to regain ground by building wind turbine structures. I think they are still going but not on the scale they used to be. In the meantime Tomlinson and the other union heads were still getting full pay while their members were struggling to put a loaf of bread on the table. The strike decimated a once close knit community and it never recovered.

 

[fillyboy]

Building workers strike surely

Apologies, miners strike was 70's,, Tomlinsons arrest was 80's.