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Where life used to start at 7. (January 2014)

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WH
Whataday Founding member
Ah yes I remember that snowman! I wonder if anyone has that on tape. I'm not sure there were any Christmas additions to the music though.
GE
thegeek Founding member
It looks like the E20 Fishing Club have been the recent occupants of Old Ford Lock and the "The Canal and River Trust are attempting to evict us from their premise at lock cottage, old ford lock, dace road, London E32NN"

http://e20fishingclub.org/

The article makes interesting reading too as it mentions that the river and canal trust agreed to sell the property to the fishing club after securing funding but they went back on their word and gave them two months to leave from the 1st June.

As far as I know the house itself is still a private residence. The fishing club has been operating out of the old public loos and also round the corner on a bit of towpath which has been fenced off for Olympic construction since 2008.
BU
buster
This may have been mentioned earlier...but to save trawling through 47 pages....Am I right in thinking there was a Christmas set of titles made for the flying chicken/Artful Dodger "new" titles in 2000 but they also used the 1992 Christmas titles that year too? Anyone know why? I'd seen them using them the following year but assumed that was because they knew the end was nigh, same as with the montage of houses in the closing credits.

Also I've never seen the "brown" house that came between yellow and painted brickwork - did that ever make it into the titles? Or was it just a short-lived transition between those two colours?
BR
Brekkie
Yes - the Christmas flying chicken titles have been posted and were used just for The Bigger Breakfast. Really didn't understand why the original set was used as they did look somewhat out of place.

The brown house never made it to the titles.
JB
JasonB
Also I've never seen the "brown" house that came between yellow and painted brickwork - did that ever make it into the titles? Or was it just a short-lived transition between those two colours?


Youtube is a gold mine for BB footage!

Here's some footage of the brown house from around world cup 98. Can anyone work out the date going by the world cup countdown at the beginning?

You can see already that windows above the french doors have been changed.

WH
Whataday Founding member
I notice the windows above the french doors are black. Does this mean that the white frames used from 98 to 02 were stuck onto the original 96 black windows? It would certainly explain why the house has now reverted back to identical black style windows.

On the day the Basildon Sound System was condemned to the pond, the house was brown with white frames, so it really was a gradual refurb.
DA
David
Basildon Sound System


That brings back memories. Does anyone have any clips of it in action?

We can build our dreams together.
Make a lifetime last forever.
Building castles in the air just you and I.


What was the Cockney knees up song?
Two old chairs in the back of a van, la la la la la.
I know she loves me, 'cos she says so...

Was there any other lines to it?
JB
JasonB
David posted:
Basildon Sound System


That brings back memories. Does anyone have any clips of it in action?

We can build our dreams together.
Make a lifetime last forever.
Building castles in the air just you and I.


I think Brekkie.com had that one as well.
WH
Whataday Founding member
David posted:
What was the Cockney knees up song?
Two old chairs in the back of a van, la la la la la.
I know she loves me, 'cos she says so...

Was there any other lines to it?


JB
JasonB
Harry, the man who was on the piano every Friday has his own Youtube channel and does mash-ups and requests.

See if you can spot the breakfasty request in this mash-up from 2009!

WH
Whataday Founding member
Aw goosebumps!
JB
JasonB
I bet Harry's haunted with doing that song now! I'd love to see his reaction when he read first the request for Coming Round the Mountain! haha

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