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Still looking for picture of famous newspaper kiosk

I THANK the Chronicle for helping me in my quest for a picture of the Threepenny Bit newspaper kiosk in the old bus station.
I need this information so that we can contruct a replica for the musical, The Old Club Trip.
I have had phone calls and emails from all over the place. It appears that everybody can remember it but their descriptions vary.
The people in the archive section of the library and the history group have been very helpful and dropped everything to help me.
The Stagecoach bus company that are sponsoring the musical have searched the Yorkshire Traction archives but to no avail. I did get a photograph from Chris Sharp who runs Old Barnsley book shop in the upstairs market but you can hardly see the kiosk.
I have found the following facts: There were two kiosks and they were constructed in 1938. They were owned by Haighs and were demolished in 1976. Sheffield Pond Street had a similar kiosk.
The shape of the Barnsley kiosk(s) is causing conflict. The threepenny bit coin had 12 sides. Some folk say the kiosk had six, others eight. Some say the roof was pagoda-shaped, others that it was flat.
I thought we had cracked it when we picked up a shot from the Court House viaduct side, but it was obscured by a Sheffield white-liveried double-decker. Licked by the Dee-Dahs again - they spoil everything.
It is unbelievable that this kiosk, the rendezvous point for courting couples and the focal meeting point of the town, was never photographed.
In sheer desperation I am thinking of constructiong a giant Albert Hirst pork pie on the stage instead.

Google's YouTube to show some charity?

I’m not often moved by local affairs. I don’t even read the local papers all that often. But if there’s something of note, my dad will read aloud, and we’ll either laugh and rage. So what do Google’s YouTube, a singer from Barnsley and a charity have in common that got me thinking?

Local singer Dave Cherry wrote a song which he sold on DVD for £4 a pop, the proceeds of which going to the Barnsley Hospice.

Based on the sales of the DVD, the Barnsley Hospice has thus far raised £6,000.00, which is a decent amount of money.

Having seen that over 6,000 people have viewed the video on-line, Dave calculates that the charity has lost out to the tune of £24,000.00. A not inconsiderable amount of money.

“It’s taking money out of the bloody poor box” fumed the “incandescent with rage” Dave Cherry when he discovered the video had been put on YouTube by a local guy.

Now, for me, this goes beyond mere copyright infringement – which this incident clearly involves – but the principle concern is that of lost charitable income, an issue probably not considered previously.

If we remove large music labels and movie studios form the equation and instead consider regular people and maybe even UGC (User-Generated Content), content created for the purpose of raising money for a good cause, we have ourselves a very unique problem.

No longer are we talking about people who upload video illegally, givin’ a finger to the man, but they’re also taking money out of ‘the poor box’, which for me at least is ultra bad.

Which isn’t to dismiss their efforts. It’s just that YouTube probably has a bigger audience than the entire population of the whole of the Barnsley borough.

However, it’s unlikely that those six thousand odd people who tuned into to watch the video clip on YouTube would think to send donations via PayPal, even if that had been an option.

I don’t expect this story to move many people. And I’d be a fool if I thought for a second that it would even pique the interest of those that regularly upload copyrighted materials onto the likes of YouTube.

But what we have is an issue that quite monumentally muddies the already very dirty waters of copyright infringement.

At the very least, Google ought to make a donation to the Barnsley Hospice commensurate with the donations lost.

The Old Club Trip...A Comedy Musical by Dave Cherry

Barnsley entertainer Dave Cherry, since 2005, has been working tirelessly to raise money for Barnsley Hospice, recording numerous singles and making appearances on TV and Radio, recordings of which can be viewed on his website. Dave has made over £30,000 for the Barnsley Hospice in CD sales and concerts around the town.

His first CD was STAIRFOOT RARNDABART - a comedy song about the town's bottleneck. He has been writing the musical since Christmas based on his song which was his second CD about the 1960's club trips.

The musical will feature 11 of his songs. He has written a special OVERTURE and a theme for the THREEPENNY BIT kiosk in the old bus station which was the meeting place for all the young people.

It has created a lot of interest in the town. Due to demand he has had to advance the production. It will be on at the LAMPROOM THEATRE JUNE 1 2009 - for 6 nights. He hopes to raise money for THE BARNSLEY HOSPICE.

Hopefully it will be out at various venues in the Autumn. It is sponsored byt he bus company STAGECOACH who have promised media and advertising backing.

He will be auditioning/casting for actors soon and already many local organisations are backing the project. He says he feels like 'Andrew Lloyd Webber and Simon Cowell. Not bad for the land from a Worsborough Bridge Council House.'

Dave seeks people for his Old Club Trip musical

AUDITIONING is expected to start in June for parts in the musical, The Old Club trip, written by local singer Dave Cherry.
He is looking for a director, preferably local, a choreographer, dancers and a sponsor for the DVDs and photo work.
The musical involves two families, the Pratts and Storeys.
The young Jonny Pratt is 16-years-old, has a bad stutter but is very sharp and witty, and the older Jonathan Pratt a pit deputy who is always drunk.
Dave said he was hoping the auditions would be held at Highstone club on Monday, June 1 or June 8 at 7pm.
He can be contacted at davecherry AT blueyonder.co.uk
The musical is being sponsored by Stagecoach and the proceeds will go towards Barnsley Hospice.
With his DVDs about Barnsley, Dave has raised thousands for the hospice but he thinks the musical could realise some £20,000.
"I have my head buzzing now composing a Charlie Chaplin-type tune to go with old Pratt being drunk," said Dave. "I still need a title. It's harder than the Chronicle Christmas crossword."
The musical is expected to be performed at the Lamproom in June 2009.

'Threepenny bit' meant so much

IT was the place where courting couples met in the 1950s and 1960s.
The 'threepenny bit,' a newspaper kiosk in the shape of the pre-decimalisation coin, was part of the central stand in the former bus station.
Dave Cherry, who is writing a musical comedy about the town, requires a photograph or film of the kiosk so that a mdoel can be made for the stage production.
He said: "It was the focal point where boy met girl and where everybody gathered before they went 'rahnd t' tahn'.
"I have checked the usual archive places but so far have failed in my quest.
"I would love any information on this bygone landmark and indeed any funny stores that relate to the kiosk.
"One bloke told me he was rather drunk one night and had arranged to meet a girl next day.
"When he got there and saw all the girls he had forgotten what she looked like and he was too embarrassed to ask."
One of the tracks in the musical is "The theme from the three penny bit".
The musical is called The Old Club Trip, it has been sponsored by Stagecoach and is expected to be performed at The Lamproom in June 2009.
The proceeds will be in aid of Barnsley Hospice.
Dave, of Harborough Hill Road, Barnsley, has raised money for the hospice with his DVDs, the first of which was a song about Stairfoot roundabout and its early problems.

Dave's show is just the ticket

By Julian Thorpe

STAIRFOOT Roundabout singer Dave Cherry is on the buses for his latest charity exploit - a musical based on working men's club season outings.
The Show, which features eight of Dave's songs, tells the story of a typical Barnsley lad in 1961.
It is called The Old Club Trip and is based on his second charity song of the same name.
Dave says the tale has autobiographical elements and is full of 'working class humour'.
"I met John Kelly, the direct at the Lamproom, and showed him the script. He was knocked over and said this is the next Kes."
Dave hopes the show will raise more than £10,000, which will go to Barnsley Hospice. The Old Club Trip is scheduled to run for a week at the Lamproom starting in June next year.

Dave promoting his upcoming show 'Old Club Trip: The Musical"

Cherry picks his way back

Musician Dave Cherry is out of retirement for a few gigs to raise money for charity. He talks to Matthew Murray.

He thought his days as a club turn were long gone. But last month, Dave Cherry, 58, stepped onto the stage to do a full concert for the first time in almost 20 years.
Now, he’s planning a series of performances before Christmas, as he tries to raise money for the Barnsley charity ‘Barnstormers’.
You might expect him to be nervous, but he’s not.
“I am past the stage of shaking before any concert but like any turn, I am apprehensive about the way I sound. I have done bits and bobs over the last 20 years but this is my first full concert.
“Some of my equipment hasn’t been used for ages and I am always slightly nervous about how it will sound. I will play some of the old stuff from the seventies as well as some new song”, he says.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Dave was lead guitarist for well-known concert group the ‘Levvy Taggers’, made up of miners from Wentworth Silkstone Colliery near Dodworth, a pit nicknamed the Levvy Tag.
He did backing vocals for the band but was never a front-line singer. “This recent round of concerts will be weird. Seeing myself as the main singer after so long is strange. But I still get that same tingle and I am happy to carry on.”
He says his days with the Taggers were some of the best of hi life. “Without boasting, we were good. The clubs were packed and people were queuing from 6pm to see us. We felt like celebrities at the time and it was weird to suddenly be famous. But it was a time of my life I really enjoyed.”
After leaving the group in the eighties, he became a regular club turn and adopted the stage name ‘Cherry Picking’. And he plans to use some of the same songs he used two decades in his latest programme.
But there is one new song to be added to his repertory. It is a comical parody called the ‘Stairfoot Rarndabart’, written in Barnsley dialect about the town’s infamous junction.
The song, released to raise money for the hospice, is proving popular with the Barnsley public.
He says, “I cannot make enough of them. It is taking over my life and some days, I am selling 50 or 60 copies. We are always running out of CDs and my spare bedroom upstairs is turning into a production centre. It’s a comical song which is a lot different to the rest of the stuff I did in the seventies.”
Dave has become a regular on local radio and television and admits he loves the publicity.
“It has been strange. The other week I was walking through Tesco with my wife and someone came up to me and asked for my autograph. I couldn’t believe it.
“All these years with the Taggers we were trying to get somewhere and we never did. And now at my age I am getting success on my own. All the town is backing me.
“A local radio report was interviewing me and she told me that I didn’t look like a singer. That doesn’t bother me, I said she didn’t sound like a reporter.
“She went on to say that people wouldn’t understand the song because of the strong accent but I told her that there are more than 200,000 people in Barnsley and the surrounding areas and we all speak with the same speech defect.”

Roundabout rendition hits right note for hospice appeal

A SONG about the Stairfoot Roundabout has raised £1,000 for Barnsley Hospice.
Copies have been sold in the Hospice shop on Eldon Street and the Black Bull pub, which is just off the roundabout.
The cheque was presented to Hospice representative Mark Perry by singer Dave Cherry, who wrote the song.

DAVE SINGS FOR CHARITY!!

Dave Cherry, electrician, has more than filled his spare time recently, by releasing his own CD single, and by doing so has raised considerable amounts for charity.
The song, called 'Stairfoot Roundabout', is a tongue-in-cheek song about a road junction in his home town of Barnsley. The song uses local dialect, which is a key interest of Dave's.
Monies raised from the record are being donated to the Barnsley Hospice, and so far the proceeds are £4,154. Dave has sold 2,079 CD's and 185 DVD's.
Dave is becoming a local celebrity, having also appeared on Look North. So when he reaches Number 1, let's hope he remembers us all at Monteray.

Dave's song aids charity

A SONG written about the Stairfoot Roundabout has raised almost £4,500 for charity.
The song, by Dave Cherry, has sold 2,200 copies and the money has been donated to Barnsley Hospice. About 300 copies of the DVD version of the song have been sold.

School reunion call from Dave

A REUNION is being held for pupils who attended the former Worsbrough High School in the late 1950s and early '60s.
It is at the Dale Tavern in West Street on Friday, November 24, and is being organised by Jeff Pickering and Dave Cherry who joined the school when it was known as White Cross Secondary Modern.
Dave, well known as a singer/songwriter whose song Stairfoot Roundabout raised thousands of pounds for Barnsley Hospice, says he's already receiving numerous emails and telephone calls from people expressing interest in attending.
"I'll be taking my guitar along but that's not the point," he said, "It's a chance for people to meet up again, renew old friendships and have a good old chat about old times."

Top spot

THERE is no place like Barnsley, even in New Zealand.
Entertainer Dave Cherry says an exclusive estate near Auckland, called Barnsley Place, has more men working on it than the multi-coloured interchange in Barnsley.
"This place looks better than Cawthorne," he says. "There are palm trees, rockeries and a lake and they have not yet started on the houses."
Dave was visiting his son Simon, a detective, in New Zealand when he came across the development.

Dave Cherry CD is hospice boost

SINGER Dave Cherry has released a new CD to help raise money for Barnsley Hospice.
The CD, 'Rarndunabart', features nine of his songs including 'Stairfoot Rarndabart', 'Feeust Weeek', 'Jumble Lane', and 'Halo in the sky.'
So far he has raised £17,300 through the sale of his CDs.

A reight run

Pirates spoil Dave's ditty

Cherry's charity goes up You Tube

SINGER Dave Cherry is seeking legal advice after an unauthorised version of his Stairfoot Roundabout song appeared on video sharing website YouTube.
Dave said he was "incandescent with rage" after seeing the video, which helped raise £6,000 for Barnsley Hospice, broadcast free on the internet.
Copies of his DVD are sold for £4 and Dave calculates that the site has cost the hospice the equivalent of £24,000 because more than 6,000 people have watched the video online.
He said: "I've never been so angry in my life. This website has not only breached my copyright but it has diverted money from the hospice."
Dave is now trying to locate the user who uploaded the video, known only as Barnsleybornnbred, to ask them to remove it.
"It's taking money out of the bloody poor box. I know some women who've put their last few pounds into the hospice, and this Barnsleybornnbred guy, whoever he is, has just banged it on there free."
YouTube was bought by internet search giant Google for $1.65 billion in October last year.
The company is currently fighting several legal copyright battles against, among others, the BBC and the Premier League.
Dave added: "I don't know what to do. I'm only a working class lad from Barnsley. I can't afford to fight a legal battle against these people. They've got billions."

YouTube rethink cheers up Cherry

Rahndabart bus lane in danger of being used

JUST like Dave Cherry’s song says, the bus lane through the middle of Stairfoot Roundabout is ‘never chuffin’ used’ – until now.
The lane, which was built three years ago, has never been used by buses, and has been immortalised in Dave Cherry’s charity song, Stairfoot Roundabout.
The line goes: “I’m always stuck at lights at red, them greens ‘uns must’ve fused. There’s a bus lane through the middle that’s never chuffin’ used.”
All that is about to change, however, as the council is set to start work on improving the roundabout on Monday.
The carriageway on Ardsley Hill side of Doncaster Road will be widened so two lanes of traffic can use the junction in the out-of-town direction.
There will also be modifications to the signs, lines and traffic lights.
The council hopes to minimise disruptions by working from 9.30am to 3.30pm.
It is hoped the work, which is expected to take eight weeks, will reduce congestion and improve bus journey times.
Dave Cherry said he thought it would only make traffic worse.
“It won’t help because it’ll give preference to buses. It’ll be good for them, but it’ll be no good for ordinary bog-standard drivers like you and me.
“They ought to move the whole lot to Birmingham.”

Dave’s on song for hospice

There’s no wonder Dave Cherry is looking cheery – he has now raised more than £17,000 for Barnsley Hospice.
Former club ‘turn’ Dave accumulated the charity fortune selling comedy CDs including his famous song about Stairfoot Roundabout.
He originally hoped the ditty would bring in a couple of hundred quid so was shocked when he found out the figure was so high.
“It all started as a joke, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would raise so much. I only made ten CDs first off, I never realised there would be so much interest.
“At one point the hospice shop on Eldon Street was selling 100 copies a day.”
He reckons the song was such a hit because it pokes fun at part of Barnsley’s fabric.
It wouldn’t happen outside Barnsley, who else would laugh at their own roundabout?”

Police uncover singer's sexy secret

By Matthew Murray

POLICE officers broke into a Honeywell man's house expecting to discover a body - but instead found a 5ft high blow-up doll on a bed.
They broke down the door of part-time singer Les Gaines' house after the neighbours has not seen him for a few days and feared the worst.
Les didn't tell anyone he was on a two-week dream holiday in the Caribbean and on his return to his home in Carrington Avenue a few days later, he found a note from the police explaining what had happened.
He had bought the doll last year for the filming of Dave Cherry's Stairfoot Roundabout movie, a DVD about Barnsley's infamous bottleneck.
Les is featured on the film leaving the Doncaster Road sex shop 'Direct Pleasures' with the doll and returning to his car to emphasise you have plenty of time to get up to all kinds of things while waiting in the traffic queues in the town centre.
He said: The whole thing is hilarious because I was planning to get rid of the doll and it's been in the boot of my car for a week.
"I was scared of the neighbours catching me and getting the wrong idea so I put it back in the house.
"I'll get some stick about it but I have the DVD to prove I wasn't using the doll for any other reasons. It's my get-out-of-jail card.
"I didn't tell anyone I was going away because when I lived in another part of Barnsley 20 years ago, I told my neighbours to look after the house and it still got burgled."

Les Gaines showing off his doll and dvd!

GIG REVIEW

I WOULD like to congratulate Joe Haywood and Pauline Haigh, together with Dave Cherry and friends for a night of pure entertainment at Darfield Road WMC. Forget Soapstar Superstar when Dave discovered there was real talent on our own doorsteps. As compere he was superb.
Despite feeling ill, Pauline got her gladrags on including the Mayoress’s chain and altogether over £600 was raised for the Mayor’s charities: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Local branches will receive the funds raised.

Dave Cherry is leading the way for any fundraising event! Well done and God bless him together with the Mayor and Mayoress who have been worth their weight in gold this year! I also witness 007 letting his hair down too! Good on ya, Steve!

EX-BOBBY POINTS OUT ERROR

by Matthew Murray

Dave Cherry and retired bobby Bill Harber

Fair cop: Bill points out he's still alive

By Matthew Murray

RETIRED bobby Bill Harber made a surprise visit to a Barnsley pub on Saturday - to prove to a customer he was not dead.
Bill, a Barnsley institution when he was on traffic duty in the town centre in the 1960s, is mentioned in a song written by singer Dave Cherry.
But Dave made a mistake when he wrote 'Bill would turn in his grave' if he was today's chaos at Stairfoot roundabout.
Bill, now 73, who lives in Wakefield, read a story about the error, in the Ferret column, and then went to The Black Bull at Stairfoot where Dave is a customer.
The paid had another emotional meeting on Tuesday, when Bill, who is instantly recognisable for his handle-bar mjoustache, dug out his old white coat, gloves and helmet which he wore on point duty at the bottom of New Street in the 1960s.
In return, Bill was given a signed copy of the CD by Dave.
And ironically, it isn't the first time someone has assumed he was dead.
He says: "A few years back I was doing my shopping in Wakefield when an old friend came and said he had heard on a local radio station that I had died.
"I am fed up of people assuming I am dead so I thought I would go to the Black Bull to show Dave I am still alive and kicking.
"The Black Bull is a great pub and I used to have a drink after my shift in there when I worked in Barnsley. Meeting Dave in there was great and I had read about his song in the Chronicle.
"Coming back to Barnsley was good, too, because I havenn't been back in a bit. The years I spent on the Barnsley streets were some of the best in my life."
And Dave - whose sales of the CD are now nearing 500 - thought Bill would have been angry at him.
He said: "I was scared when I saw him because I thought he would be wanting compensation or something like that.
"But he took it all in good humour and we talked for a long time.
"My first words to him were: 'How old are that? 144?'. I used to go watch him when I was a lad and I thought he was an old man then. So to find out he is alive is quite shocking.
"I wanted him in the song because he was the old face of Barnsley.
"He gave me his telephone number and we will keep in touch. In fact,
"I would like him to present a cheque to the Hospice when we reach £1,000."

Singer Dave helps the hospice in a roundabout sort of way

HERE'S Dave Cherry, Barnsley's unlikeliest Top of the Pops. But his tongue-in-cheek tribute to the town's notorious Stairfoot Roundabout is being bought by hundreds of local people.
Since most of them, like Dave, have waited for what seems like hours at the traffic bottleneck they've been handing over their three quids to get their hands on a copy.
In the song, Stairfoot Rarndabart, Dave breaks into dialect to sing:
"I'd like to get my hands upon the f*rt,
Who thowt up Stairfoot rarndabart."
And so he goes on, listing all the problems it causes - including trying to get to his Uncle Ronnie's and Sister Kath's.
"Stairfoot is a bit like Sheffield Parkway big roundabout. Waiting? Some people die there!"
It all started as a joke when Dave, aged 58, a BT engineer, heard a pal utter the despairing words "I'd love to wring the neck of the lout who designed the stairfoot roundabout" and he realised it was the cue for a song about the place.
It's very well known locally for causing tailback swhere the A635 meets the A633.
But he's been surprised at how well the CD has taken off.
"The Black Bull pub on the roundabout have been marvellous. They seem to be the focal point of it all and they have sold 200 copies in a week. People are coming from as far away as Leeds and Sheffield to buy it."
Dave, from Barnsley, who backs up his vocals with guitar (The other performers are Derran Kaye on banjo and Jimmy Echo on everything else, including special effects) isn't making a penny out of his hit himself.
The money raised from the CD is going to the Barnsley Hospice.
In the song he makes mention of a local character, Bobby Hill, a Fifties Barnsley copper with a handlebar moustache who was often seen on point duty.
To his surprise Bobby Bill is still alive and has been helping with the publicity.
"It's all good fun and the people of Barnsley are loving it. We have the ability to laugh at ourselves," says Dave, who will be releasing a sepia-tinted follow up about working men's clubs' coach trips to the seaside when the time is right.
But do you know what gives him the greatest pleasure? They're playing the record over the Tannoy during Barnsley's home games at Oakwell.
The CD is also available at Barnsley Hospice shops.

Dave Cherry in front of the stairfoot roundabout

Dave en route to more song success

SINGER Dave Cherry is advertising his new song 'The Old Club Trip' in 300 Yorkshire Traction buses.
The single - which has so far sold 1,000 copies in aid of Barnsley Hospice - is about a club trip to Blackpool in the 1950s.
Dave, 59, mentions the 'Tracky' in the song, and the company agreed to spondor him by publishing the ad inside their vehicles.
He said: "This is marvellous. To be on the buses is something I never thought would happen.
"But hopefully it will sell a few more CDs and we can raise some more cash for the hospice.
"I am proud and privileged to be backed by the Tracky. The firm is like the town hall and the Chronicle - all part and parcel of the town."
Dave's previous hit 'Stairfoot Roundabout' sold almost 3,500 copies when it was released last year.

FRIDAY on my mind column

Singer Dave Cherry's 'Stairfoot Rarndabart' ditty proved popular in Barnsley last year.

Read: My trusty ferret column in the Chronicle, then the Guardian followed by a bit of comedy reading in the Beano.

Visit: The toilet quite regularly - particularly after a tough night in Chennels.

Drink: In the daytime, a strong tea without sugar made with Barnsley 'watta' and at night I'll drink as much as I can.

Canadian comes back in a roundabout way

SINGER Dave Cherry's comic song about the Stairfoot Roundabout isn't gaining interest just from Barnsley.
A Canadian who spent a few years teaching at White Cross school - now Elmhirst - in the 1960s managed to get a copy when he was on holiday in Kent.
He was so impressed with the track that he travelled from Kent on Tuesday to see the roundabout, and was given a guided tour by Dave.
Dave said: "I think the roundabout is a lot better than Niagara Falls. The bloke must be barmy coming all the way up here to see it - I couldn't believe it when I got the phone call.
"When he worked in Barnsley the roundabout wasn't built but obviously he had heard of Stairfoot so wanted to see it.
"He got the CD from this bloke in Kent who used to live in Barnsley. It's amazing how it's worked out."

Mr Barnsley earns his halo

Monterey North rep, Dave Cherry - alias Mr Barnsley - is hoping to add to the amount he's already raised for a local hospice when his latest CD goes on sale in the next few weeks.
Dave, from Yorkshire Central and West Lancashire Branch, has penned a song in response to the controversial plan for a giant halo of light to shine over Barnsley town centre on special occasions.
I will be created by giant searchlights and lasers arcing over the town, visible for miles around.
As Voice went to press, Dave was set to make a live recording of the song "Halo in the Sky" with a group of local musicians calling themselves Cherryaid for the Hospice.
Dave said: The Halo is a complete waste of money. barnsley is an old minign town with people out of work, but they waste money on this!"
The CD will be Dave's third with tracks on a local theme. In total he's sold around 5,000 discs and raised £10,000 for Barnsley Hospice.

Dave discovers chamption pot-hole

'Pot Watch'

MEET Barnsley's first monster pot-hole - nearly four feet across and six inches deep.
It was spotted by Dave Cherry, who has raised thousands for Barnsley Hospice through a song bemoaning Stairfoot roundabout.
He even compared the hole just off Queen's Road in Oakwell to the borough's most famous traffic landmark.
He said: "This pothole is nearly as big as Stairfoot roundabout. It is incredible really.
"If a car went down there, it would break the thing."
Recent wet, warm weather following a cold winter has caused many new pot-holes to appear. The Chronicle has launched a campaign to find the borough's biggest and has teamed up with the council to help them tackle the problem.

Your Letters

Nar sum foolk wen tto sea-side, they cot the Coopers Train.
We nivver hed nu money, just laiked nipsy darn the lane.

I am having difficulty finding out who this Cooper was and indeed where the train went and also which station it went from, bearing in mind we then had the Course House station as well as the Exchange.
I know the train ran in the 1950's, but I would appreciate any more information. I would dearly love to see any pyhotos of this train which I am thinking of putting on the CD cover.