You would think the conversation in the pub would be about the Jezza show,but no.All about that Emma Dent Coad slagging off the Princes.Prize comment was 'You would think the stupid bitch would keep her gob shut and a low profile.Board member of Kensington Housing committee,and signed off on...
It certainly is.I've met a few interesting characters in pubs.Take Robert Relf,for example.Used to meet him in my father-in-laws local,the Fusilier,on the Sydenham estate in Leamington Spa.He lived just the other side of the canal bridge.Very famous,or infamous,for refusing to sell his house to...
As it was in the mid-sixties,unless the Express and Star's archives go back that far,I don't suppose much hard evidence exists.Although,saying that,perhaps some exists in the USA.It was quite a big deal,with the KKK and Malcolm X visiting,only time the world knew Smethwick existed!
I actually saw the leaflet concerned,about 10 years ago.It was actually for a bye-election in Smethwick.Some lovely characters from the British Movement (nazis) had arranged for them to be delivered with Tory leaflets.(Colin Jordan and Robert Relf,well known in right wing circles).The leafleteer...