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old p*ss in boots

There was a chap called Seth Martin who lived top o`town for many years and who was noted chiefly for the fact that he seemed content to clatter about town in a pair of clogs too big for him and no socks...

 

 

hunch back of padiham

Elija Poole was another old codger who lived in a cottage adjacent to the "Hand and Shuttle" inn, and he had a remarkable deformity. Those were the days when deformities were referred to quite freely...

 

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smokes like a chimney

Then there was "Woodbine Willy", who also lived top o` town, in a house all the rooms of which he had...

 

 

the great button theft

In all the Lancashire cotton towns before and after the Great War, there was always a "dummy" to be found...

 

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bat out of hell at leonards

Another with a large head and a small brain rattling around inside it, was a chap who rejoiced in the name of Percy Adolphus Maximilian Higginbottom, and who, because life is short, was known locally as just "Percy"...

 

 

being a padiham pensioner

You think you`ll never be one when you are younger, but hopefully you will live to see the day. You have no wage now, just a State Pension and if you are lucky, a small company pension like me. Enough to keep the...

 

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