Lord Bracknell
On fire
We do sing a rather fine song about Trumpton, home of a famous fire brigade.
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Who were the f***ing wankers......
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That'd be the Trumpton loyalists:
"Gusty Spence, Mad Dog Adair, Paisley, Irvine and Stone"
Lady Bracknell
Handbag at Dawn
I never fail to be amazed about just how very little people know about the Cliffe Bonfire Society!
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HellBilly
I always remember going up to brum to demonstrate against the IRA. We were in a convoy of cars and vans. One of our cars lagged behind. Behind them was a bunch of reds in a van, Who not realising there was over a hundred NF in front started giving it the large one to the NF in the car. Shame about the traffic jam. Lets say the van and the reds didn't make it
coventrygull do / did you know a geezer called del he was from london and did security for a certain band ! he moved up to wigan early 90s and did some door work and recruiting etc.
Hi Roz - why would people know about The Cliffe? They are well known as a society but there is no reason to publicise their raison d'etre and little reason for people to research them beyond knowing vaguely about the martyrs and Lewes.
Have I missed something? Do they do a lot of work telling people about themselves that I keep missing? I was a Lewes regular for years but never knew much more than what I'd gathered from snatches of conversations with the locals.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Indeed, TRHK. There are a lot of Cliffe chants. "Come and Join Us" isn't one of them.
Dandyman
In London village.
I broadly agree. Back in the 1970s I used to go to Brighton away games with a group of lads, two of whom were active NF members and one of whom I'd known from school. I knew they were NF and they knew I was ANL (or 'Anal' as they kept saying!), but we never discussed politics. At Brighton games we were Brighton. End of.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
coventrygull
the right one
Did anyone see Ann Widdecombe on Ch4 History Of Chrisitanity? She was most put out by the Lewes Bonfire parades
bullshit detector
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There was certainly opposition to the sales Cov but mainly from the non albion imported lollipop wavers (the majority of the trendy lefties hated football then, or paid lip service 'cos it was 'street' and didn't go) and a few of us Vaultage Albion types who got slapped occasionally by some of your bonehead mates. Most Albion fans didn't appear to give a shit what you were selling....but then that was the age of ape chants, sad to say. (I wish we could have the 70s atmosphere without some of the other bits. UK football today is sanitised beyond belief)
Both at the footie and at the gigs around then it must be said you had the upper hand, you caused some shit - I remember Smelly acting as a kind of intermediary sometimes, he got on well with you, and my mate Roy was friends with Beaky's girlfriend Caroline (I'm pretty sure that was her name) which was pretty weird! Most of the 'comrades' hated football and music, absolute idiots, they were more interested in sitting in the pub waffling on about Trotsky's Transitional Programme while we RAR/ANL punks got our heads kicked in... But things changed in the 80s and thereby hangs a tale which has nothing to do with the Albion. Let's all get behind the lads on Saturday.
SEAGULLS!!
Both at the footie and at the gigs around then it must be said you had the upper hand, you caused some shit - I remember Smelly acting as a kind of intermediary sometimes, he got on well with you, and my mate Roy was friends with Beaky's girlfriend Caroline (I'm pretty sure that was her name) which was pretty weird! Most of the 'comrades' hated football and music, absolute idiots, they were more interested in sitting in the pub waffling on about Trotsky's Transitional Programme while we RAR/ANL punks got our heads kicked in... But things changed in the 80s and thereby hangs a tale which has nothing to do with the Albion. Let's all get behind the lads on Saturday.
SEAGULLS!!
The Cardinal
Bishop of Withdean
No susprise - right-wing politics and Roman Catholicism are hardly strangers.
Pretty pink fairy
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seems odd that they want to burn a effigy of the pope
coventrygull
the right one
I think they also carry a banner with no Popery on it.
Pretty pink fairy
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errrrrrrrrrrr hypocrites??
coventrygull
the right one
As mentioned earlier Ann Widdicombe found the whole thing intimidating. I wouldn't be surprised if the Lewes Bonfire got banned in the end
Pretty pink fairy
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cant see that happening coventrygull ,i've got strong ties with lewes ,its nice to now your history
coventrygull
the right one
What with this government. They would ban it