Odd factoids

[Threevok]

Sheena Easton was charged with child exploitation, when it was alleged she forced a toddler to commute each morning and work an 8 hour job.

In her defence, she did wait at home for him to return and she was later aquited

Lisa Stansfield got it worse, as her toddler missed the 5.15 from Euston and was never seen again

 

[classic33]

Lisa Stansfield and Red Rum have both switched the Blackpool Illuminations on.

 

[Fonze]

Col Gadafi nearly bought Man Utd ..

 

[classic33]

Manchester United was formed in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) depot at Newton Heath.

 

[Drago]

Manchester United were once beaten by a team from the Salvation Army.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Lisa Stansfield and Red Rum have both switched the Blackpool Illuminations on.

But only Red Rum has switched them off afterwards.

 

[colly]

Manchester United was formed in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) depot at Newton Heath.

Newton Heath, also home to engineering company Mather & Platt. A company who once had the pleasure of employing me.
The works depicted by one LS Lowry:

I'm the bloke on the right in the dark jacket.

 

[classic33]

Lowry was a massive fan of Manchester City Football Club.

 

[Milzy]

I love bbc radio 2 factoids and that’s a fact.

 

[Drago]

Lowry did the animation for Ivor The Engine.

 

[bruce1530]

Ivor the Engine was only Welsh by adoption. He was born in Hounslow.

 

[bruce1530]

The final series of Ivor the Engine had to be abandoned, as the Daily Mirror were about to publish an expose on Jones the Steam and the goings-on in the railway shed.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There is a bike called the Lowry

 

[FishFright]

The final series of Ivor the Engine had to be abandoned, as the Daily Mirror were about to publish an expose on Jones the Steam and the goings-on in the railway shed.

This was not true but sadly the Fails retraction is being saved for their 2020 Christmas Special " The big book of Apologies or How we backed every fascist in history and got away with it "

 

[Fonze]

In Britain you can still hang, for High Treason .. even arson in the Queens Shipyard ..