Tis Me,TMP!

[Turfmanphil]

Well you will have gathered from the name that there is footballing blood in my veins! I have supported The Clarets for as long as I can remember from the early 60s to present day. Although born&bred in the Rossendale Valley,Burnley is an important town to me and is where I spent most of my mispent youth in the 70s messing about in 'The Hop' and going to matches!

I have also formed by own chatclub&messageboard called 'Burnley Banter' .Its all things Burnley for people who are all things Burnley with topics related to the Town,including its people,culture and history with a healthy tribute to the 'Clarets' chucked in. Lots of photographs and nostalgia. Come and check it out!

http://uk.msnusers.com/BurnleyBanter

:iloveyou: :cheers:

I am now based in East Anglia having lived 20 odd years in Surrey so I feel a bit isolated. My mum still lives in Waterfoot though so I do get chance to come back up North now and again! :)

Merry Xmas to you all!

:santa:

[wayneyboy1942]

Hello TMP. I'm over in Cleveley's and know what it's like to be away from my home town.I've posted on your site,it's worth a look and you got a link to here so people can flit about the sites.Merry Christmas and see you around the site.

[Digsyboy]

How do matey
A claret since the sixties AND living in East Anglia - you poor sod, who did you murder in a past life??????
just been on the site - every credit
Welcome Aboard

[jaseyboy]

i agree, i cant get much worse, well it could, but well. im a member of ya group yay! up the clarets!!!!

[ollie]

up the clarets indeed, anyone going on Liverpool match? My brother offered to get a box in James Hargreaves, but already gone:( My dad lives in Cleveley very nice place, might retire there myself, Dad says nobody he has met, and he's been there 10 years is actually born there, what do the rest of you Cleveley think?

[grannyclaret]

we love cleveleys ,ollie , its lovely and flat ,too many hills in burnley .where abouts does your dad live ?

wonder if that match will be on tele ?

[wayneyboy1942]

Yes G.C the lads will be on the telly,it,s on sky on friday the 7th Jan,Ollie most peeps in Cleveleys come from all over,it's a great place to have banter with fans of other football teams,you do'nt half get some stick when we lose,but it's nice to give it em back as well,it's also festivetastic,we got the tree lit up this year,plus a string of lights,and father christmas's that light up!

[Turfmanphil]

Thanks for all your 'welcomes' lads&lasses! Cleveleys gets a mention a few times,funnily enough in the 60s/70s we used to visit an Uncle&Aunt of mine! He was a crusty owd bugger who used to hire out Deckchairs I think at Fleetwood whilst my aunt was a joy& used to do all those Aunty things with the cooking! I used to love going as a kid as it meant tram rides and tram spotting!

[grannyclaret]

hi t,m,f, Fleetwood is getting much better now ,they have a superb shopping outlet now called the freeport ,they sell famous names stuff at very competitive prlces,if your young and trendy you cant go wrong ,i used to like going because they had an Evans second,s store, and they sold biguns and whoppers there,but now its gone ,(all good things come to an end )lol,,and fishermans friend have spent a fortune doing the main streets up ,G.C. :)

[Turfmanphil]

Hell ,Granny* thats a nostalgia trip mentioning 'Fisherman's Friends', Id forgotten about the Fleetwood connection!

One of these days Im going to suss out Blackpool,Fleetwood,Cleveleys and Lytham St Annes again! Guess it wont be the same though..back seat of coach with the latest girlfriend,beer in hand,Chips,booze,candy floss..Blackpool Pleasure beach..wretch,puke..in that order! Heh them wert days!! Kiss me Quick,Granny!!


* oops nearly said Hells Granny there lol

[wayneyboy1942]

If you have'nt been to Blackpool TMP for a bit it might seem a bit seedy to you now.
The paper and the council are doing an anti sleaze campaign to try and clean the town up for family's,they wanted to make a a new lap dancing venue which most locals do'nt want. It's mostly stag and hen parties,drink yourself into next week with shots of booze before four in the afternoon.Best remember it as you did in your youth Phil.

[grannyclaret]

lol T,M.P.i remember many ,many moons ago, we would get a trip up from burnley on a saturday morning ,stop at the half way house and the five barred gate ,go on to ,blackpool and have a wonderful day ,then late at night we would get back on the
coach (i think we called it the passion waggon ) and sing all the way home ,they were good days .

[ollie]

He lives on Leith Avenue, wont put the number on here he's called Jack Harrison and his wifes called Ada, I know he is a regular down one of the working mens club, but dont know the name of it.

[grannyclaret]

dont know the names ,or the street ollie ,sorry ,there are 2 working mens clubs , very
popular but we havent been in for ages,we used to go to the i,c,i, club but that got pulled down recently for new houses