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  • Harry Jarrett Number 50

    Harry Jarrett Number 50

  • Ivor Nicholas - photographer for Whitehaven News. Cleator Moor Sports ca 1975.

    Ivor Nicholas - photographer for Whitehaven News. Cleator Moor Sports ca 1975.

  • Man far right - Tommy Newall

    Man far right - Tommy Newall

  • L>R Neil Corkhill, John Flynn, Rill Ritson, (? Geoff Hamilton from Bowthorne)

    L>R Neil Corkhill, John Flynn, Rill Ritson, (? Geoff Hamilton from Bowthorne)

  • Billy Smith - left Bubbles aka Jeffrey Law with the hat.NO. It’s Martin Herald! ? One of the Shuts from Egremont. "The Smiths had some wonderful hunting terriers and lurchers" "Cleator Moor lurcher club badge. MOTTO was gentle when stroked fierce when provoked." acc Mick Pattinson

    Billy Smith - left Bubbles aka Jeffrey Law with the hat.NO. It’s Martin Herald! ? One of the Shuts from Egremont. "The Smiths had some wonderful hunting terriers and lurchers" "Cleator Moor lurcher club badge. MOTTO was gentle when stroked fierce when provoked." acc Mick Pattinson

  • Joe Mather- landlord at the Fox & Hounds, Ennerdale Bridge- walked with a limp- with his trail hound, (part shaved to avoid overheating during the trail).- Right. It was said that, after a successful fox hunt, (with all followers on foot, Lake District style), a hotpot would be made in the pub- and the fox's blood poured into it.

    Joe Mather- landlord at the Fox & Hounds, Ennerdale Bridge- walked with a limp- with his trail hound, (part shaved to avoid overheating during the trail).- Right. It was said that, after a successful fox hunt, (with all followers on foot, Lake District style), a hotpot would be made in the pub- and the fox's blood poured into it.

  • Grasstrack ravers- 2nd from L Gerald McKarten possibly Ivan Morris 2nd from R

    Grasstrack ravers- 2nd from L Gerald McKarten possibly Ivan Morris 2nd from R

  • Big Hill Adventure Playground was sited on a 5 acre,(2 hectares) old iron ore quarry. The land was gifted/sold cheaply to the parish by the R Catholic Church adjoining. The playground was always open and staffed on a Sunday, (by me). Folk would be seen walking down for morning Mass- dressed in their "Sunday best". After Mass, quite a few would go to the pub or Working Men's Club- maybe even the Knights of St Columba Club for a drink before dinner. No-one of the Catholic population would dream of entering the Freemason's Club- also on the main Square. In my first week I was shown the spot where, "We once shot a Protestant". It is thought that Orange marches are still not permitted by law to pass through C Moor. Women from the CDP offices- mostly locals- once invaded the Men Only bar at the W M Club- after which they were "allowed to join the menfolk there! The Club has ceased to operate- its site now a medical centre, (2016)

    Big Hill Adventure Playground was sited on a 5 acre,(2 hectares) old iron ore quarry. The land was gifted/sold cheaply to the parish by the R Catholic Church adjoining. The playground was always open and staffed on a Sunday, (by me). Folk would be seen walking down for morning Mass- dressed in their "Sunday best". After Mass, quite a few would go to the pub or Working Men's Club- maybe even the Knights of St Columba Club for a drink before dinner. No-one of the Catholic population would dream of entering the Freemason's Club- also on the main Square. In my first week I was shown the spot where, "We once shot a Protestant". It is thought that Orange marches are still not permitted by law to pass through C Moor. Women from the CDP offices- mostly locals- once invaded the Men Only bar at the W M Club- after which they were "allowed to join the menfolk there! The Club has ceased to operate- its site now a medical centre, (2016)

  • 7:84 a radical leftist theatre group, (name derived from the fact that 7% of the world own 84% of its wealth), wrote this play/theatrical experience based on the "demolition" of the CDP & its projects by the combined forces of the Conservative Party-dominated Cumbria County Council hand in hand with the Freemasons in the town. It was performed in the Civic Centre. To the right is Brian Hibbard, later to be front singer in The Flying Pickets and to star in the soap opera Coronation Street.

    7:84 a radical leftist theatre group, (name derived from the fact that 7% of the world own 84% of its wealth), wrote this play/theatrical experience based on the "demolition" of the CDP & its projects by the combined forces of the Conservative Party-dominated Cumbria County Council hand in hand with the Freemasons in the town. It was performed in the Civic Centre. To the right is Brian Hibbard, later to be front singer in The Flying Pickets and to star in the soap opera Coronation Street.

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