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By *tella Heels OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Well?

What do you know that’s interesting and will make us go ahhhhh or ooooooohhhh?

I hope I can start with...

My grandfather ran a brewery in Canada during prohibition, he refused to sell to the mob, and basically had to flee Canada with his family or the mob would have had him executed..

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Aaaarrrggghhh!!

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By *tella Heels OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"Aaaarrrggghhh!! "
???

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

ooooooohhhh

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port

My grandfather was once part of the mob during prohibition and once had to run a bar owner out of town as he refused to sell their moonshine.

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

my grandfather nearly died of thirst..couldn't get moonshine anywhere

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By *tella Heels OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"My grandfather was once part of the mob during prohibition and once had to run a bar owner out of town as he refused to sell their moonshine. "

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Except my story is true..lol

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"Aaaarrrggghhh!! ???"
sorry, ooooh!

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port


"My grandfather was once part of the mob during prohibition and once had to run a bar owner out of town as he refused to sell their moonshine.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Except my story is true..lol"

I may have exaggerated mine slightly

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By *tella Heels OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"Aaaarrrggghhh!! ??? sorry, ooooh! "

It’s ok I’m cool

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My grandfather was a Mountie. He was about to rest a guy breaking prohibition but he disappeared before they could find him.

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By *ocusMan
over a year ago

Cambridge

You know the old story of the sailors shipwrecked and adrift and they draw lots to see who gets eaten? That actually happened and the remains of the cabin boy, Richard Parker, who lost and was eaten are buried in a little church just down the road from where I grew up.

But there’s more; Around 50 years earlier Edgar Allen Poe wrote of a similar occurrence in his novel the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Sailors are adrift and starving and draw lots...guess who loses? A sailor called...Richard Parker.

Btw Yann Martel who wrote Life of Pi and featuring a shipwrecked tiger called Richard Parker claims he’d never heard of both of these stories.

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

The first modern day bra was fashioned from two hankerchiefs and ribbon and the first sports bra was fashioned from two jock straps .

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By *tella Heels OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"You know the old story of the sailors shipwrecked and adrift and they draw lots to see who gets eaten? That actually happened and the remains of the cabin boy, Richard Parker, who lost and was eaten are buried in a little church just down the road from where I grew up.

But there’s more; Around 50 years earlier Edgar Allen Poe wrote of a similar occurrence in his novel the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Sailors are adrift and starving and draw lots...guess who loses? A sailor called...Richard Parker.

Btw Yann Martel who wrote Life of Pi and featuring a shipwrecked tiger called Richard Parker claims he’d never heard of both of these stories."

That’s more like it really interesting

Anyone know about the headstone of the virgin in sleigh on Sea churchyard, apparently smugglers used to sharpen their sabres on it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In World War 2 the allies found out the the Nazis were using the Leaning Tower Of Piza as an observation post. They send a sergeant over to investigate and when he got there he was staggered by the towers beauty. So he never called in a strike so as to preserve this piece of art and history.

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By *tella Heels OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"In World War 2 the allies found out the the Nazis were using the Leaning Tower Of Piza as an observation post. They send a sergeant over to investigate and when he got there he was staggered by the towers beauty. So he never called in a strike so as to preserve this piece of art and history."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My grandad came back from Dunkirk a sociapath, one day he accompanied his wife to the dentist, to get a bad tooth removed. whilst unconscious, he told the dentist "take em all out, I'm not coming back in here".... She woke up to no teeth.

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon


"Well?

What do you know that’s interesting and will make us go ahhhhh or ooooooohhhh?

I hope I can start with...

My grandfather ran a brewery in Canada during prohibition, he refused to sell to the mob, and basically had to flee Canada with his family or the mob would have had him executed..

How can anyone compete with that? I can!

My grandfather was a mobster responsible for alcoholic drink procurement during prohibition. He was very strict.

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By *ocusMan
over a year ago

Cambridge


"My grandad came back from Dunkirk a sociapath, one day he accompanied his wife to the dentist, to get a bad tooth removed. whilst unconscious, he told the dentist "take em all out, I'm not coming back in here".... She woke up to no teeth. "

Apparently having all your teeth out was popular in the 30s and 40s as dentures were seen as quite classy and a lot less trouble than having your own teeth. A popular wedding present was a paid up dentist visit to have them all removed and replaced with dentures.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

John Lennon once helped my mum climb a fence....any good??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My great uncle died in the battle of Jutland when he was only 17.

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By *tella Heels OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"My great uncle died in the battle of Jutland when he was only 17."

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By *tella Heels OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

I am Spartacus!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm closely, genealogically, if not in time, related to the Walthamstow murderer of the late 19th century.

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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago

Near Wells

My great uncle used to hate anything Japanese. When I bought my first motorbike he was very disappointed that I bought a Suzuki, I was upset because it was my pride and joy and that I'd upset him. He was always good to me.

After he died it turns out he was a Japanese POW on the Burma railway and he never ever mentioned it or the war to anyone.

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By *hloevtTV/TS
over a year ago

norwich

Nothing exciting..

But I do know that 73% of all statistics are made up xx

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