On This Day

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
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Message Posted:
28/11/2008 15:48

On this day, 18 years ago !!!



Margaret Thatcher formally tendered her resignation to the Queen in the early hours of the morning.



" We're leaving Downing Street for the last time after eleven-and-a half years and we're happy to leave the UK in a very much better state than when we came here"





Can she come back please !?!?

littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 15:50

Gone but not forgotten WHO can put the GREAT back ino Brittan ?

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 15:51

No1 Can you and Groucho get together and do a double act? you are both so witty.

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 15:58

No1Doyen,

She really was fond of that Royal 'We', wasn't she?

I was never a big fan of her policies, but I would never criticise her style of Government - if you're elected to the job, you go ahead and do what you believe in, none of this 'Government by Consensus' rubbish.

Sad to hear that she is now suffering from Altzheimer's

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 16:01

There's no one left Nige. Bring back Maggie - she can still do a great Job for us.



I can just pictuire her now walking up Downing Street singing these word's



There'll always be an England

While there's a country lane,

Wherever there's a cottage small

Beside a field of grain.

There'll always be an England

While there's a busy street,

Wherever there's a turning wheel,

A million marching feet.

CJtill


Joined: 02/05/2008
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 16:18

Earlier this month Gordon Brown saved the world from financial meltdown and communities throughout the free world (except those expats in Northern Cyprus) have given praise and thanks for his being.

Even those places that are not so free(Iran, North Korea) have begrudgingly accepted him as a saviour and a king among kings.

Gordon may not be too good at running blighty but give him the big picture and all your problems are solved.

ps. you can still get 5 to 2 on Labour winning the next election so fill your boots.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 16:27

CJtill. Yes like his concern for one of the X Factor finalists not singing in her native tongue! He's some saviour alright.

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 16:42

On this day: 28 November



"1291: Edward I's wife, Eleanor of Castile, dies. Crosses are erected where her body rests on the way to London. "



Can anyone confirm the site of the final Eleanors Cross in Central London?



(some say it is where all 'mileages' from London are calculated)





p.s. oops,... should probably be on the 11+ thread!



Rob

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 16:58

Is it Charing Cross. If it's not chessman will know

Harold2555



Joined: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1139

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 17:05

It is I believe Charing Cross which is now the official centre for road distances in England. Streets within a six-mile radius are included in taxi driver training known as the Knowledge.



St. Pauls in London is the central point from which the radial road numbering in England is based.



Paul

Chessman


Joined: 13/05/2008
Posts: 486

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 17:08

No1 Doyen, of course I know tsk tsk. Definately Charing Cross, no question about it!

Lemtich



Joined: 15/02/2007
Posts: 1487

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 17:09

Distances between towns are measured from the location of one town's Crown Post Offices to another.



Lem

Hilltop



Joined: 28/04/2008
Posts: 636

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 17:17

Gordon Brown made such a good job of running the UK economy (into the ground), that it is now widely accepted that the recession will be deeper and longer in the UK than anywhere else in the world.

What a star!!

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 17:21

Sorry chaps!



It's not Charing Cross.



Oooerrr!



here we go!



The Cross at Charing Cross is a Victorian monument, but not in the original place.



The original Cross was on the south side of Trafalgar Square, but was demolished Centuries ago for 'traffic' improvements.



The site of the original cross is marked by a small plaque close to Londons smallest, one man, Police Station. (Forerunner of the Tardis?).



Some Cartographers use this as the 'mileage' point for London, others use Charing Cross, but as they are close together it doesn't make a lot of difference.





I wonder what a Sat Nav will use?





Rob

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
28/11/2008 17:43

Go get him Geoff......I'm right behind you.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
28/11/2008 17:56

On this day in 1582 in Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.



How times change!

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 18:09

No1



Are you sure it was in £'s?



Around that time they could still have been paying in Ryals, Sovereigns, or Fine Sovereigns. £'s were mostly used in London.









Or did they stick it on the Barclaycard!



Rob





I'll get me coat!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 18:15

Geoff, are you there? I thought you was going to get him?



Have a good week-end Rob

gibson335


Joined: 01/11/2008
Posts: 325

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 19:00

Gordon Brown a saviour??????????????????????



The idiot is a joke and as useless as Blair. They are responsible for the state of Britain now and far from being hailed as God's Gift they are reviled by most for making the World a worse and more dangerous place ( as proved by tha tragedy in Bombay which saw Briton's specifically targeted))

CJtill


Joined: 02/05/2008
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 19:50

Gordon may not have done too well since taking the reins from Tony but his solving the worlds financial crisis was a masterstroke.

When the electioneering starts people would have forgotton X Factor finalists, boom and bust and any terrorist act committed in the world.

The Labour party machine will gear up, Tony will come back and give Gordon his full support (a bit like Mandy) and the election will be won.

Like it not Gordon will be the man welcoming the world to London in 2012.

fredred


Joined: 09/12/2007
Posts: 89

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 20:41

It was great day 18 years she was kicked out of No 10 by her own party.

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 21:09

I see we have a lot of Toryboys on here. You have very short memories.

You can hardly blame Brown for the world recession. Really silly.

He's done the best he can I believe in the circumstances. Not very impressed

with Cameron.

Hilltop



Joined: 28/04/2008
Posts: 636

Message Posted:
28/11/2008 21:57

Gold is the only stable "currency" at the moment. sadly Gordon sold ours cheaply a few years ago.



He "nationalised" RBS and almost immediately OUR shares fell by 20% costing us £2.5 Billion.



He was the chancellor that controlled the banks while they were wasting trillions on junk debt.



Yep, the mans a genius.

wearytravellers



Joined: 27/04/2007
Posts: 250

Message Posted:
29/11/2008 03:39

And on another point.........7 of the terrorists in Mumbai were YORKSHIREMEN !!!



Gordon and Tony.......two fine Scotsmen !!! I do so hope that the Scots can continue to Rule and ENGLISH parliament ??



Get it up yer Kilt !!!

Hilltop



Joined: 28/04/2008
Posts: 636

Message Posted:
29/11/2008 06:41

Were they "Yorkshiremen" are you sure?



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7754931.stm