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My eldest son had the dubious pleasure of playing darts there last night and guess who came in after the game against Leicester? He described him simply as a tramp lol. There was also a poor impersonation of it there as well. Bell and bugle were also in attendance.

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me too, sort of.

 

Anyway, I walked past the house where someone very famous used to live today.

 

They are dead, had he been alive and drinking in one of the many pubs around here from which he had been barred repeatedly for outrageously gayish behaviour, most people over 30 would recognise him, not just his appearance but his unique voice and and manner.

 

Clue 1 - he was male

 

Clue 2 - he was gay

 

Clue 3 - he had a drink problem

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well done.

 

 

anther famous person from around here had his own column in a daily newspaper and many older ones on here would have taken one of his books with them on a long car journey. ....to keep them occupied. Who is he?

 

The man who invented the Road Atlas?

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Peter Glaze?

 

Nope, good answer though as PG is up there as one of the least funny people ever.

 

more clues:

other jobs he did were; cabinboy , a coal-miner, waiter, and pageboy, a drummer boy in the Army where he was the flyweight boxing champion.

 

He is a cult hero in Albania.

 

NB

It was not woolies that he worked for, just a local greengrocer, and he was just 13 yo at the time!

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Mr Kipling?

 

Nope, this person is real.

 

Shane Ritchie?

 

? indeed.

 

clue - his mistress (a noted operatic star) was murdered in the foyer of the royal opera house, covent garden.

 

Her murderer (a jealous admirer) was hung for the crime at Tyburn.

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