1856…
They were the worst of times…
(…& sometimes Ladies & Gentlemen, they were even worse than that…)
(…Before the Beginning…)
Saturday Afternoons would come & go with nothing more for grown men to do but stand around pretending to be chimneys…
…a Mid-Week Fixture consisted of simply sitting about on rickety gates, talking a load of old turnips & hoping to avoid being struck by lightning…
Wet & Windy Wednesdays in Workington, Wednesbury, or Wigan held even less appeal back then, than they hold, now…
…& another thing…
Maybe a little light Cricket would help while away the idle hours…
The Ballad of tragic Tom Box…coming soon…
(…as long as it was the height of summer & it wasn’t raining, that is…)
…With the calamitous conflict in the Crimea finallyover (…for the time being, at least…) somewhere in the region of Britain’s Middle, the smell of peaceful revolution hangs heavy in the air…
…well, MOSTLY peaceful, that is…
Is it 1857 yet…?
“…& another & another & another &…”
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…In the Beginning…
Credit, where Credit’s due, Brian…
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