bootle arms

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I took this outside the Bootle Arms in Melling in 1971.The morris dancers were called the Ancient Men. Out of curiosity I Googled the name last year and found out that they were from Oxford. I e-mailed them some photos and had
a reply back saying a couple of them had relatives living in Bootle. They had
come up for one of their relations weddings. They kept a log book of all their
gigs and were able to tell me what day,date and time I had taken the photo.
The manager of the pub had bought them a round and put £1 in their collection. They said they were really ancient now ,not only in name but
were stiil dancing.

gregs dad
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A round of 'bells' please!

Great stuff - keep diggin' em out. :PDT11

Loving the cars - Mini which has unchanged since the start of production and the 'Land Crab' next to it :PDT11

Hmm...but looking at it again, it could be an Austin 1300!

I'd say 1100.

Nobody noticed the Chopper bike in the pic? Shame on you

gregs dad

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heres another with the squeeze box (accordian) player included.
Talking of accordian players, if you could play one of them you were never short of invitations to do`s in people`s houses on a saturday or sunday nights after the pubs closed. I could only play the gob iron(mouth organ)
so I was never drunk.
gregs dad

Great photos thanks for sharing.
Nice to hear that you got a reply to your e-mail. :)