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visited Olso over the summer: Does anyone know who panted the bunny-like creature with the hands reaching out(photo is not shown on this page) in the alley where the chandeleir is. Almost right across from that pink fish,on the......

in response to: Some Oslo Streetart by Osloman20plus

Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): Mr. AJ shure- you graduated from PS167 in 1958,the same year as I did. Sorry, I don't think that I remember you.What is/was yur first name? The name Joel Prussin rings a bell. Wasn't he......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Allan: If I recall correctly, and that's not likely, Judy O was a grade behind me and my brother a grade behind her. The building with the "courtyard" was down the block towards Utica. I lived......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Mitch Spector: Today was demolition day--Saturday, November 1st. I went by 8:30am this morning yet apart from more bricks removed, it was still standing. When I visited the site again, by late afternoon, they had torn down......

in response to: Ben\'s Deli by EvilGentleman

Alan Kupperberg: Eastern Parkway Memories By Alan Kupperberg Searching the Internet for information on Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Famous restaurant on Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, I discovered this wonderful site. It brought back many wonderful memories for......

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Arnie Blume: Hey Bob,Dick& Rick, I can't believe you can't recall the shop teacher from 241, Mr.Israel Broder. don't you remember shouting Mr.Broder's coming and everyone else would yell "Izzy ?".I lived in 35 Crown opposite 12 Crown......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Doc S.......: Yo, Mitch - I don't think my uncle owned the store - he was just employed there as a pharmacist. Did you go to 241 also??I'm trying to remember some of the other stores in......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Heather: I've thoroughly enjoyed the photos and information here. Fellow Barton and Trafford folk might like to know that the Grade 1 listed All Saint's Church (just over Barton Bridge, opposite B&Q) is trying to raise......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

LOOK CLOSER: Please tell me that I am not the only person that notices the frightened boy all the way to the right in the left section of the 2-piece mural. Everyone views the picture as traveling......

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New Jack Hater: But Bilrock, everyone knows who he is and has seen his stuff. Which is the exact opposite of you, which makes you a HATER. Hate, hate, hate. Thats all you do on here. None of......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Anne - Ontario: Sheila, Are you any relation to Alice, Thomas or Lesley Vaudrey? We lived in Prince's Avenue and they lived opposite us for years until they moved to Beech Avenue....

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi Sheila and rrrrr(?) We lived at no 20 Harewood Rd from 1983-1995. Mr & Mrs Iddon lived opposite, such a lovely couple. Jim passed away many years ago, but Edie still sent us......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Sheila Hilton: Gary Sparkes - re shopping centre: There was also a shoe shop opposite the entrance and a little to the right (not too far from the bank).I remember buying my son a pair of Doc Martens......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Chris Crozier: Hi Pat if you are the same pat brannan im thinking of i went to school (irlam high school)with your brother mark in the seventies and you were indirectly responsible for me meeting my first wife......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Jamie: Quite the opposite. I think Scott, with his photographs, has evoked a degree interest in something mundane....

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Gaynor Miller: I've just come back to this site after a year away and what a great load of memories. I used to live on Prospect Road just down from Lennie's. You all talk about the doctors......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Peter: it is indeed a good store. many of their products are a bit on the pricy side ($10 for two ounces of [[goo:krink]], etc), but in all cases, you get a very good product, and......

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

anon (d122-109-199-99.adl12.sa.optusnet.com.au): Hi Eric, Yes I do remember you and your Mum from when I was delivering greengrocery round Eldon road and Harewood road around 1950 just before I got married. It was Fred Wolfendon who had the old......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Joanne, Here is a photo of my old family home where I was taken to live after being born several months earlier in 1925 the one nicely painted in pink and nicely kept......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Joanne amorello-minor: Hi Guys... sorry i've not been on for a while..had my reasons!well with many thanks for their help which without I would still be lost to Alan Taylor and Marissa we pieced up a lot of......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Sheila Hilton: Hello Dean, I remember you and your brother Paul from Irlam Primary School. Your sister was in my eldest son's class. Yor Grandma and my mum were very good friends when we lived opposite each other......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

janet: Alma--Back to your memories of the old neighborhood. I remember the butcher shop, the one on Schenectady right near Lincoln Place (and next to a wonderful hardware store with long passage between loads of......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Peter (nsw) Small world isnt it? I had the greengrocery business opposite Boundary road on Fiddlers lane amd my Mum and Dad had the fish and chip shop next door until I opened the shop......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: St Helen's Church after the graveyard had been landscaped around 50 years ago = [[img:27337]] Originally built 1500 AD, rebuilt 1733, restored 1882. Who remembers the Coronation Tree? [[img:27338]] pre Great War. 1922 saw many local cenotaphs erected, Hollinfare replaced the......

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Rob Tynan: Hi Norma, Yep I do but I carn't quite remember where, was it near the chippy opposite Bobs Lane? By the way, that last picture is of Cadishead band. Cheers Rob Rob...

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Sheila Hilton: Hello Sheila V Yes, the Hapgoods lived next door to us. Their son Arnold, later worked at Shell in Carrington with my husband. Still exchange Christmas cards every year. The Bromleys lived on the first corner......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Sheila Vaudrey: Hello Jenny and Janet(Sutton), I lived at No 42 Harewood Road and I do remember you living there also I remember the field that belonged to your granddad, it came at the side......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: On the Warrington side of the Cadishead bridges there was an old thatched cottage, almost opposite what was The Lombardian store near Fir St. Does it still exist,and has anyone had heard of the ghost......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Hi Cyril, and the second farm almost opposite on your left you got the best celery around, tall white stems, not green like now and insect nibbled or slug mess in between the stems, lovely clean......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

anon (host86-154-109-210.range86-154.btcentralplus.com): Hi Cyril, Was that farm the one we knew as Wash Farm? I remember there was a farm on the front of the road opposite Lathom Road or somewhere in that area. Shacklady - I remember a......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Peter: tom: i think its ludicrous to simply look at the "thousands of lives lost that day" without trying to dig deeper into the why and how of it. i think it disrespects both those who......

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Alan Taylor: James, I think you misunderstood David, think of a cartwheel and The Crescent would be the outer rim with Boundary Road being opposing spokes, Princes Ave being opposing spokes, Mond Rd being a spoke opposite......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

cyril bagshaw: Hi Sheila Yes, that was Lennies, There was also a furniture business near there called Motlers,who also had another shop in Eccles,but I dont know when they ceased trading along with The Lombardian store the other......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

cyril bagshaw: Hi Susan The bakery which you knew as Potter's Bakery for many years previous, was owned by James Goodier, brother of Joseph Goodier, who incidentally was the organist at St John's church in Vicar Lee's era,and......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Susan Taylor (nee O'Reilly): Hi Cyril The shop that was on the corner of Dixon Street was Potter's Bakery, what delicious cakes she produced, smell of her baking would waft down Dixon Street she made them in an outhouse at......

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Andrew Smith: Wendy I'm sure you'll get to meet people soon enough. The pictures of the two signs above were actually taken up the moss from Cadishead, not Irlam. If you drive/walk all the way up New Moss......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

dennis: please, if anybody has any photos of kings rd irlam, opposite royals, from years 60's to 70's please. dennis. ...

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Bob Salmon: A time or two, dances above the Co-Op near the nag have been mentioned. I remember evening Live Group dances being held there on a regular basis, they were organised by Maurice Johnstone, I sometimes......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Sheila hilton: Hi Sue, I well remember the jubbly works. It was down Delhi Road, wasn't it? The road by the side of Peg's (Peggy Britton) cafe. Delhi Road is opposite Lower Irlam Post Office. Jubbly's used......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Steve M: Hi Deb I was brought up in Collins Close during the 1970s. I remember the cat story. I can't confirm whether this was true or not, even though I worked at the pub briefly......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Deb Your aunt ( born 1929) can only identify her Mum and Aunt Edie,and the photo was probably taken in the garden of the newly built Princess avenue houses opposite the Margarine works entrance. The......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi Rob, There was Martins newsagents opposite the Wesleyan Church, then there was Hancocks newsagents further down near The Plough pub. Maddens (sp?) temperance bar was in the middle of these, next to the launderette,......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Sheila hilton: Hi Marissa, The shop you referred to opposite The Nag's Head called Pixies was actually the Temperance bar where the dandelion lollies were sold. 'Pixies'......

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Marissa Chaplin: haha, as if I would believe you anyway. The earliest I remember opposite the nags head was Pixies sweet shop, bookies, florist and a butchers....

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Sheila hilton: Hi to Deb, Just read your comments about Elsie Royale and a Mrs Pitt. When I was a little girl, there was a Miss royale who......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Kensington H.S. Vice President: Hello to all Kensingtonites.I lived at 5th & Leigh Ave and attended Kensington High School for Girls from 1958-1961. Even though I have not been to Philly for many years, does anyone have suggestions of......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, The doctors that I have known in Irlam....well our family doctor was a Dr. Walker who had the big house and surgery on the corner of Moorfield rd and Liverpool rd Then there was a......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Sheila Platt's brook as you refer to did make its way down to the Old River,two sources of run-off water from the Irlam moss met at Liverpool road between Wrenche's butchers and the last shop......

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Alan Taylor: Andrew, Sheila, Cyril et al, Platts Brook was a popular play area and it went underground through vertical iron bars and waterfalled about 10 feet under Liverpool Road opposite Ferry Road. The part that was from where......

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anon (d58-106-117-137.adl2.sa.optusnet.com.au): Hi Anne I was brought up in one of those small cottages (Claybank Cottages) on Liverpool road opposite the old Twenty Row where your grandparents had their business. To go down to the Old River was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Elicar: EvilG, please explain why it would be a "destruction". Wouldn't be more appropriate to use "restoration", "resurrection". "refurbishment", etc.? In my mind, destruction is putting something out of commission, making something unusable. This is just......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

fctlmn: Used to work part time during high school, mostly summers, for a 'milkman' from Guaranteed. For me seeing that 'milk bottle' meant the long day was over. The milk part was on Aqueduct St (whatever......

in response to: Milk Bottle Water Tower by EvilGentleman

cyril bagshaw: Hi Norma, Very sorry to hear the loss of your husband...we hope you too have good family and friends around you. As for snow in Adelaide, the nearest we got to it was a few......

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Alex Price: Hi Everyone, I Just Remembered That Everyone Goes On The Disused Lorries And Jumps Across Them Lol, But No-one Really Goes On Them Coz Theres A Man That Is Opposite The Lorries In His Lorrie And......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Alan Taylor: Hi Rob, Yes I certainly remember that wilderness and the stories but my time period in there and along the River Glaze to the footbridge that connected Glazebrook to Cadishead over a big rough n wild......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: Does anyone from Cadishead remember the piece of land opposite Victory Road between Liverpool Road and the canal. It was owned by someone called Wilkie who it was said, used to chase kids off with......

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Paul Davis: Hello every one, i never knew there were so many like minded people, people who enjoy I@C for what it is. I have lived in irlam for just over ten years now and i think that......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Marje Givens-Eames: What a wonderful site for Irlam/Cadishead and what memories, many I had forgotten. I remember Goodiers living in the house on Ferry Road/Boat Lane. We lived in Gerrards Close and our house backed onto......

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Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Scratchings .. mmm ... (thought that was our local twang), we got them too from our chippy opposite the Cadishead Wesleyan Church - Fish and chips in OZ is not quite the same, you......

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steve kettle: bliney smithy, you have created something awesome. just reading through some of these names takes me straight back to my childhood. i remember living in the shop Joyces fabrics (mum jean kettle (nee dixon) never changed the......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: Anyone remember Len Jackson the milkman? He ran Jacksons Dairy from a shop opposite the Coach & horses with his wife. They both smoked like chimneys. They were both real characters. ......

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Graham Bate: Hi Andy, This thread is a real blast from the past! so many names I recall, Brian Bagshaw, Roy Bamber, Steve Weir and all the history that goes with the town. I come from Irlam myself......

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Rob Tynan: Actually I think Ive made a mistake, the Co-op building in the photo is the one opposite the Ship. My Great uncle was the manager of the Co-op at the side of Nuttall street in......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma The building at the junction of Ferry rd was James Goodier, wholesale potato and corn merchants.They supplied the area chip shop and greengrocery businesses with a very wide variety of potatoes from......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi everyone, I'm flitting between two sites here and loving all the reminiscing... I attended the Wesleyan Methodist Church as a kid (my parents married there and we were all christened there)and thought it was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: Found more pics. This is one of the cottage on the corner of Boat Lane and Ferry Road during demolition!! [[img:25512]] This one is of Hulme farm opposite taken from Ferry Road during demolition for the......

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janet: Hi Stan--You're probably close to my vintage. I'm trying without luck to call up a memory of Famous on Schenectady--I lived just around the corner and went to 167--so there it was during the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Janet .Witcomb(nee Sutton): To add to the info. from my sister Jenny Foster. .we lived at 48 Harewood Road. I went to Eccles Grammar School in 1952. I also attended St Johns Sunday School . Does anyone rember......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Stan: Graduated 167 in '43. Lived on Eastern Parkway then Albany between Lincoln Place and St. Johns. Mr. Lodato was principal, Ass't principal was Mrs. Cohen (with the red wig). Mr. Allen taught science and Mr.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Karl Daniels - any relation to Roland Daniels florist in cadishead? ... or Lesley Daniels, who used to work at St.Paul's Playgroup opposite Ferry Road, Irlam? I lived in Cadishead until married, then worked......

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Andrew Smith: Roy - it wasn't me, I'm afraid. I did know a few people who lived in the police houses on Fiddlers Lane and was friends with the Richardson's. My address was Fiddlers Lane but it was actually......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Rob Tynan: I think the old co-op building which used to be opposite Galliers was a youth club of some sort....

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Peter: thats an absurd generalization, george. i live in new york, and i dont live like an animal at all; quite the opposite, actually. where do you live?...

in response to: Garbage Cans: by Peter

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hey, Just wondering whether the Youth club (opposite Galliers Newsagency) on Liverpool rd is still operating? I remember going there as a teen. I remember when it was on the other side of the road......

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Evinrude: Hutchinson is truly a trash heap. However Kansas as a whole really sucks. People are are ass backward. Whatever the rest of the country is doing, Kansans do the opposite. This state as a whole......

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Rob Tynan: Natalie Waterworth My great grandfather John Tynan, ran School Farm which was on the corner of Springfield Lane,opposite the endowed school. It was demolished approx. 1918??. He also used to drive the coach for......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Bob: I have lived in Lawrence, KS as well. I have traveled this great land of ours extensively (Driven through every state east of the rockies and south of New York) I am not saying all......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Mitch: I believe there was a bar on the corner of Franklin and Carroll with the entrance on Franklin (the southeast corner of Franklin & Carroll). I used to live @ 969 Carroll and it was......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Mark Whitfield: Great photos Myke. Good that you got a blue sky day. I work in Salford Quays and trip to the War Museum regularly to observe the latest developments with the MediaCity:UK build which will be......

in response to: Imperial War Museum North by Myke

Andrew Smith: Shops in Irlam that no longer exist, but will stay part of my memory of growing up in the 80's. On Fiddlers Lane - Joyce's Fabrics, Bambers newsagents, King's sweetshop, Bates's hardware store, plus the Greengrocers......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

John Cooper - john.cooper@airspaceinfo.com.au: Whoops, That's not Prospect road, it is New Moss Road opposite the George. I have been away too long. John....

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

ladyGal: I saw that too. For your information that is the place the used to be "auto select" another defunct Hutchinson business. Who ever took over this sure has a lot a trash on this carlot.......

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cyril bagshaw: Hello Les, As the ex greengrocer in Fiddlers lane that you remembered, I was very interested to hear that your mother had worked in the council offices opposite the old Palace cinema.My wife Ellen......

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jack: thanks little ukraine, would like to know your first name, but i informed my son who lives on the street where that drug bust took place. i'm generally down there every so often and......

in response to: Your House Is Mine - Return of a Legend by little ukraine

joey: yes. we would not want to miss the waves sculpture. the one above is the opposite of the waves....

in response to: Opposing Viewpoint, by joey

Eileen Banks: I used to live in New Cross - opposite the Laurie Grove Baths. I liked it then but expect it has changed....

in response to: bleak day, new cross by elaine

cyril bagshaw: Hi Natalie,I was just reading your post going back to June 29 06 and the ferryman who powered that heavy boat across the canal with a single oar.I am pretty sure it would have......

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Kiminbushwick: Hi, new to the site, but have been following along in more ways than one. I am 7 years proud in bushwick, and just wanted to say, that I think ALL of this conjecture and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Paul Ellington: Andrew - Thanks for the info. A friend of mine who grew up on Roscoe Road in Irlam thinks (but isn't sure) that the site opposite irlam locks used to house a large soda......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith: Paul - the area opposite Irlam Locks was a bit of green land between the canal and the 'old river' (the River Irwell old course - the Ship Canal swallowed the Irwell). I have always......

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Paul Ellington: Hello everyone - Some great photos of Irlam on this site. I am researching the history of the area opposite Irlam Locks (where Cadishead Way and a new housing development is). Does anyone......

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fedup: Hello, I'm back for another season. Re-reading my previous posts, it seems like I might have been somewhat deranged back then. I am much more calm now. In fact, only last week, I came......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

serlingrod: I studied abroad in Tokyo last year while wrapping up my urban studies undergrad. Jeff, do yourself the favor and start planning now to study there. For those interested in urban development within a global......

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Silo: Hey Mookie, by the way I think you are wrong about the worst projects in Paterson a.k.a P:town the worst and im sure other people can agree with me on this one was C.C.P- Christopher......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

upfromflames: Sorry, Armstrong. Its not dramatic as all that. I found out the other day that its going to be used as an MTA office, for local workers. Its MTA property, so no hot market to......

in response to: Bushwick: You Could Cut Yourself on That Thing by upfromflames

david kean: in lambhill st there was a chip shop opposite my dad's shop and there was a canine beauticians... i remember the factory where they made creamola foam just up from the subway station....

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pierre: i lived on the corner of Evergreen and Dekalb in the mid 70's. i remember a fire on the opposite corner that took down the whole Dekalb side of the block, something like 10......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Fallout shelter!!! At my primary school in a small village in England, they would run us through emergency procedures in the above ground reenforced huts that they used during WW2. Sadly, I knew enough......

in response to: The End of the Brotherhood Winery Collection by jack

Anthony: I live near Denver International Airport and have been there many, many times and have seeked out and found everything mentioned here and then some. I first heard about the DIA conspiracies a few......

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natalie brophy: hi natalie remember me ,,,amanda fouracre i used to live down the same drive as you in irlam ,my brother and i henry fouracre .we used to have a fox called vicky i......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith