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October 7th 2020

Published: October 9th 2020

I wasn't really planning on being here. A number of decades previously, I had set off on the adventure, otherwise known as a University education and a group of us had decided to meet up in Manctopia to reminisce about our youth for a couple of days. Alas, COVID 19 got in the way of the plan (and just about everything else). The North West is pretty much in local lockdown, so it seemed pointles... Read Full Entry

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John & Miranda

John Miranda

The original purpose of the blog was the 20th wedding anniversary trip in 2006 / 2007 - Ashes cricket in Oz, setting off early in April and going the long way round! The trip came to an end in February 2007 and for a while retrospective blogging was the only option (for reasons that you can find in the Road to Freedom). There are still two to travel and the passport is now back in use in 2009. We get distracted in more than the odd football ground along the way, but it is all part of the journey.... full info

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18th October 2020

$Pontefract Collieries FC$

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

hmmmmmmm there was/is a coal mine here?

19th October 2020

$Pontefract Collieries FC$

John Miranda
John & Miranda

Pontefract Coal Mine
The football ground is on the edge of the old Colliery site. The Prince of Wales Colliery finally closed in 2002 - the site is now largely a residential housing estate.

18th October 2020

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Interesting! Now I'm craving licorice! LOL

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