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Old 27th Dec 2009, 10:45
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shack
 
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Be careful what you say all you rooks!!

When I joined at Halton in 1947, in ignorance, I had put CofE on my docs and it did not take long to realise that come Sunday morning Church Parades, the fall out RCs, ODs and Jews meant that that lot did not have to march down to church and back again, they made their own way. I applied to become an OD (Baptist) and after much huffing and fuffing it was granted and Sunday morning became a gentle stroll down the hill and back again. The only drawback was that I missed the games of Brag etc. in the back row of the pews at the CofE church! There were Padres of all the various religions there to keep our young minds pure and of course and there were weekly visits by the bible reading bunch which one tried to dodge. I remember that one came on an autocycle and he could never work out how the perfectly serviceable machine that he arrived on would not start when he tried to leave-----but then we were going to become F2e's and had to practice somewhere.
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