Not LEEDS on Screen. This is SECRET LEEDS on screen!

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Thu 01 Aug, 2013 9:59 pm

Thought someone might have beaten me to this.Tonight on Look North - I watch it more now she's gone - there was a news article about power cable theft which had drastically interrupted goings-on at a dairy farm. I think it was down near Rotherham somewhere.Anyway, they wheeled on a spokesman from whatever the power company is called these days. Just in passing, wasn't it easy when we called it the YEB? The name that came up on the screen was - I think (*) - Mick Hickling.So come on then. Am I just putting two and two together and getting it wrong? Or was it really hicklingmick?(*) The link to the online item is here......http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-so ... 915However! In the online item the Beeb have changed the name of the power guy to Mark Hickling. Well one of them is wrong.If I misread the name as Mick (old age, poor eyesight etc) then this has been a colossal waste of time.

kango · Post by **kango** » Thu 01 Aug, 2013 10:04 pm

I believe Mick lives at Hickling Broad in Norfolk hence His moniker.Kango.

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Thu 01 Aug, 2013 10:09 pm

kango wrote: I believe Mick lives at Hickling Broad in Norfolk hence His moniker.Kango. Like I said Kango. Colossal.Would never have made it as a CPO, never mind a detective.Never mind. It passed five minutes on.....born in cas brought up in hunslet now in norfolk

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Fri 02 Aug, 2013 2:08 pm

salt 'n pepper wrote: kango wrote: I believe Mick lives at Hickling Broad in Norfolk hence His moniker.Kango. Like I said Kango. Colossal.Would never have made it as a CPO, never mind a detective.Never mind. It passed five minutes on.....born in cas brought up in hunslet now in norfolk Hi salt n pepper You could not have been brought up in a better place.

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Fri 02 Aug, 2013 2:45 pm

Sorry to disappoint you Tilly but I was not brought up in Hunslet. I just included that as damning evidence of my total lack of detection skills.It is actually HicklingMick's byeline on Secret Leeds. So he's the one etc etc.Having said that I spent some of my boyhood and adolescence in Beeston and during that time played cricket for Clayton Sports and Hunslet Nelson - down the steps - so I am not a complete stranger to Hunslet. I can also remember going in the Brassmoulders although I never got around to darkening the doors of the Anchor.I was also a regular visitor to Parkside when the difference between that ground and others, as well as football and RL, was the fact that you could stand outside the changing room when the door opened and you saw your heroes came out ready to do battle. If you could keep your eyes open for the smell of the wintergreen that is! Spot the door in the picture attached.I didn't go to Wembley in 1965 but I seem to remember going away to earlier rounds at Batley and Wakefield.I always think one indicator of the size and importance of Hunslet in days gone by is the number of images given over to it on Leodis. Currently over one thousand pages!

EYRIE · Post by **EYRIE** » Fri 02 Aug, 2013 8:42 pm

A bit off thread but is the fella second from right in the photo with the specs called Teal?

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Fri 02 Aug, 2013 9:22 pm

EYRIE wrote: A bit off thread but is the fella second from right in the photo with the specs called Teal? Sorry EYRIE. Just the players names under the photograph on the 'Hunslet Remembered' website, and here they are.....Hunslet RLFC: the team before the last game Back row: Taylor (tracksuit), Sanderson, Dobson, Sykes, Griffiths, Adams, CharltonMiddle row: Barron, Richardson, Watson, G.Clark, J.ClarkFront row: Horrocks, Gunney, Rycroft

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Fri 02 Aug, 2013 10:42 pm

salt 'n pepper wrote: EYRIE wrote: A bit off thread but is the fella second from right in the photo with the specs called Teal? Sorry EYRIE. Just the players names under the photograph on the 'Hunslet Remembered' website, and here they are.....Hunslet RLFC: the team before the last game Back row: Taylor (tracksuit), Sanderson, Dobson, Sykes, Griffiths, Adams, CharltonMiddle row: Barron, Richardson, Watson, G.Clark, J.ClarkFront row: Horrocks, Gunney, Rycroft Remember going to this ground to watch Hunslet with my grandad years ago..........Looks like a scene from "Carson City" in the background.Knackers yard for the old trams was nearby.

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Sat 03 Aug, 2013 11:12 am

I remember going to watch Hunslet play at Parkside in the 1950s.We used to walk by the side of the tram track behind Parkside to go to miggy woods, out for hours with not a care in the world on the way back get some rhubarb from farmer Wards fields to take home for mum.ln days of yor alas no more that made me feel a bit sad I must be turning into a silly old git.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat 03 Aug, 2013 12:35 pm

Catch up Tilly, I'm way past silly old git!