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Post 41

Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune

Darts or dart boards?


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Post 42

hygienicdispenser


Scotch eggs, licqourice allsorts, sherbet fountains, haggis.

I reckon the date is later than any guesses so far. I'm going to go for 1965.


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Post 43

pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like?

Kendall Mint cake, which means the factory must be in Cumbria circa 1934 (probably 3:15 on a Thursday in April, but I may be wrong?)


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Post 44

Whisky

This isn't something to do with your latest PR entry is it Icy?


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Post 45

Icy North

Not quite, but related. smiley - smiley


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Post 46

Icy North

Oh, and Cumbria's not the correct location, but it's the nearest so far. smiley - smiley


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Post 47

Icy North

... and hygienicdispenser gets 3 points for 1965 smiley - applause


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Post 48

hygienicdispenser


smiley - biggrin
Cumbria's the closest, and we've had Carlisle, Clydebank and Coventry, so that narrows it down quite a bit. I suppose it might even be a place that doesn't start with a C.

Blackburn.


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Post 49

Superfrenchie

Ah, typically British...

lemon curd?
marmalade?
mincemeat?


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Post 50

Whisky

I'd have never put it as late as 65 though...


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Post 51

Icy North

Blackburn is as near as damn it - it's in nearby Great Harwood, but you can have the points for that smiley - smiley

Just the product to go, then...


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Post 52

hygienicdispenser


I reckon you could go into the 70s and they wouldn't look much different.


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Post 53

Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune

Hm....

Edible things from near Blackburn.


Nope, cant think of anything...


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Post 54

hygienicdispenser


Oh, now that's just embarrassing. That really was a guess based on looking at a map.smiley - blush


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Post 55

hygienicdispenser


And I do know what was made at Great Harwood, so I'll shut up.


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Post 56

pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like?

Didn't they make Black Puddings that were famously so black that even the white bits were black?


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Post 57

swl

Blackburn tha' says?

It's got to be Black Pudding, surely?


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Post 58

pedro

Marmite?


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Post 59

Icy North

Neither of those, sorry.

I'm looking for something which is three quarters of an inch long...


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Post 60

swl

Cockney condoms?


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