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I meant to post this at the weekend but the site was downhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/dec/14/ ... tue-morley

thats great news Trojan i bet the Morley Murals Committee are buzzin

They deserve a statue of him in MorleyHe'll still move faster than half of the population.

martino wrote: They deserve a statue of him in MorleyHe'll still move faster than half of the population. Look North said he was from Ardsley in Wakefield.

cnosni wrote: martino wrote: They deserve a statue of him in MorleyHe'll still move faster than half of the population. Look North said he was from Ardsley in Wakefield. Ardsley's postcode may be WF but it's been part of Morley (and therefore now part of Leeds) for about 75 years. Anyway his first performances were around the clubs of Morley and on the stage of the Pavilion when it was a proper theatre. And it's outside the Pavilion where the statue will be.

There's no such place as 'Ardsley'... there's 'West Ardsley' and 'East Ardsley' but not 'Ardsley' (or North and South neither!!)

I agree with David Mitchell's comment in the Grauniad. A statue of the two of them should have been cast. After all, they were a DOUBLE act! I know it's an obvious thing to say, but whenever I see the Morecambe statue, something's missing! If their respective home towns must claim them as their own, they should each have a statue of the pair of them. It's like siblings being given one each of a matching pair of Ming vases in a will- splitting them far reduces their value!    

I agree,but theres already a statue of just Eric Morecambe,in Morecambe!!

Wasn't Ernie Wise the first person to send a text message or use a cash point card???

Oh, I've just checked, he was the first person to make a mobile phone call in the UK on Jan 1 1985. He rang Vodaphones offices. I wonder what he said!!