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British, always British. The island we live on is called Great Britain and it is one nation.
Great Britain should never be split up. The UK (which includes northern Ireland as well as Great Britain) is a different matter – N.Ireland should remain in the UK while the majority of its population wish to stay. If the majority wish to join with Eire, that wish should be granted.

I am very patriotic to Britain as a place, although I would like to see the monarchy abolished!

My ancestry is English, Welsh and Irish, both catholic and protestant (Scots-Irish).

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I went on a double-decker today!

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all letters are one syllable surely (unless w is 2 like)

And you think I didn’t realise that when I was typing it??

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I’ve just had an inspirational moment…….

Why not call it ‘The Vicky Pollard Quarter’?

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As for a name, Merchants Quarter sounds just fine, I doubt it was only slaves who were sold and the professional “outraged in my name” people seem to forget this fact too.

I don’t think slaves were ever sold in Bristol, it was that the city of Bristol made a lot of money out of the slave trade in the colonies through its shipping companies carrying slaves from Africa to the West Indies.

In 1772 it was ruled that slavery was illegal in England and furthermore, it had been so since the end of the feudal system. At the time it was estimated there were between 10,000 and 14,000 possible ‘slaves’. Most of these people were domestic servants and were not necessarily of African origin but often local people who had drifted into a position of being totally ‘owned’ by someone else.

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Did this ever get built or was it a victim of the meltdown in the construction industry?

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I’d rather they banned people chewing gum. That’s far more disgusting than kissing. I don’t know what sort of pictorial sign they would use for no gum chewing, though.

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In my case, as might be guessed from the separate topic, I’m going through 60’s garage punk recordings on YouTube. It’s an amazing experience, there’s some wild music there.
I was there in the 60’s (I was 11 in 1966) and was into ‘pop’ music as it was called, the Stones, Kinks, Who, Beatles, Mersey Beats, Dave Clark Five etc etc but very little of the American garage stuff found its way onto British pirate staions. I used to listen to ‘Big L Radio London’, Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg before Radio 1 started around 1968.

Two forgotten and surprising gems from 1966, both showing a guitar being played with a violin bow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7__x_3GaJ_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PshEmL6pWog

I wasn’t into the 70’s punk so much, I was more into heavy rock type music then – but this is my favourite 70’s punk song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXMoPni1nLw

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I knew about the 60’s garage bands and how they were said to influence punk in the mid 70’s but I didn’t realise how similar the music was and how big the garage movement was.
I’ve found lots more examples on Youtube – I think the music is better than most 70’s/80’s punk actually, with a few exceptions like the Undertones.

I was originally looking for the earliest heavy metal type music but got sidetracked.
Incidentally the earliest of that genre I found was Blue Cheer, 1966 – their cover of Summertime Blues.

And the pistols started out doing Small Faces covers. So who’s to say when and what …

I wonder if they did Ichicoo Park and Sha la la la lee – difficult to imagine!

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Great songwriter, good guitarist but not much of a singer. But so distinctive that he’s a style all of his own.

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