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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    The childrens playground seen here in 1966 at the foot of Marwood Tower is built over Fulford Street. That is a concrete pipe for playing in btw - not the cylinder



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    Quote Originally Posted by dazza View Post
    Thanks jb for the Rotunda theatre canon imagery...great! A few more facts on the case would be useful. I think I'll bow out for now and let the serious discussion take over.
    I agree, I,ll do the same

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    I'm giving this a "Bump" as I though someone was going to get a transcript of Richard Whittington-Egan's account?
    "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."... ... ... Mark Twain.

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    I read about this case in a childrens softback book by the Daily Mirror in the 1970s. I believe they reasoned he had fled as he was going bankrupt. They thought the cylinder was part of a pipe or chimney flue. The papers in his pockets had all got stuck together but they managed to seperate some which were bills. I still have the book somewhere

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    Hi De Stanbrugg, welcome to Yo.

    I think the story also features in Richard Whittington-Egan's Liverpool Colonnade (1955).
    "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."... ... ... Mark Twain.

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    I need to research

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    Here's how it was reported on the front page of the following days Daily Post at the time, quite gruesome that the cylinder was used as a seat for many years with people blissfully unaware of what was inside.
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