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TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:42 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

..tomorrow I am paying more for a new vehicle than I did for my first house in 1986.

C'mon then ECG, what kind of motor is it then?

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:52 pm

TalbotAvenger wrote:

ElvisAintDead wrote:

..tomorrow I am paying more for a new vehicle than I did for my first house in 1986.

C'mon then ECG, what kind of motor is it then?

lets have a sweep.

I will go for a Citroen Picasso

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

He's buying a second hand Focus. What he didn't say is that he first house was in Calcutta Grove and he had paid 15 years rent so got the full discount. Purchase price was about £4'000.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:56 pm

Grave wrote:

TalbotAvenger wrote:

ElvisAintDead wrote:

..tomorrow I am paying more for a new vehicle than I did for my first house in 1986.

C'mon then ECG, what kind of motor is it then?

lets have a sweep.

I will go for a Citroen Picasso

Nah, you can pick them up for fook all divided by four

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:49 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

It one of these. Fully adapted with lowered floor, wheelchair ramp, loads of other Disabled Friendly whistles and bells.

£22k !!!!!!

Thankfully, and its about time too, I'm not having to pay for it in it's entirity as yes, for once in our lives we ARE actually entitled to SOMETHING from this Govt of ours. :roll:

A new Livvy-Mobile from lunchtime tomorrow!! clappp

You dont see many of them about. you could fit a football team in one of them

Mampi Swift · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:04 pm

Mr I wrote:

He's buying a second hand Focus. What he didn't say is that he first house was in Calcutta Grove and he had paid 15 years rent so got the full discount. Purchase price was about £4'000.

Hadn't Calcutta Grove been knocked down in '86?

Sorry to be a tvvat like!

Tax Paying Poolie · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:18 am **Posts:** 9053

Looks ideal for Exeter away to me....

Frodraff · **Posted:** Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:16 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

It one of these. Fully adapted with lowered floor, wheelchair ramp, loads of other Disabled Friendly whistles and bells.

£22k !!!!!!

Thankfully, and its about time too, I'm not having to pay for it in it's entirity as yes, for once in our lives we ARE actually entitled to SOMETHING from this Govt of ours. :roll:

A new Livvy-Mobile from lunchtime tomorrow!! clappp

Good to know some good things happen. Enjoy the wheels Livvy :grin:

alleztfc · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:15 am

Cool Livvy-mobile! :coool:

Talk of Calcutta Grove did get me musing about the People's Republic of Little India.
I know there was some kind of alphabetical order heading up Seaton Lane. I seem to recall it went thus:

ADEN GROVE
BOMBAY GROVE
CALCUTTA GROVE
DURBAN GROVE (geography went a bit haywire at this point)
Can't recall the letter E
FREEMANTLE GROVE
GARSTON GROVE
Can't recall H either, but this just about gets you to Jutland Road.

All in all, I remember it as a particularly low-quality area you had to pass through to get to Seaton. It's residents tended to be rag and bone men, and sea-coalers with their manky trucks. Urban legend has it that some R n B types let their horses live in their houses as pets, and their heads could oft be seen sticking out of upstairs windows!

Of course, these days, such types would be moved to Darlington. :grin:

alleztfc · **Posted:** Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:35 am

Spot-on with those two non-hindu locations.
Cheers John!
Mind, some parts of Edinburgh can these days easily be confused with the sub-continent...

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

alleztfc wrote:

Cool Livvy-mobile! :coool:

Talk of Calcutta Grove did get me musing about the People's Republic of Little India.
I know there was some kind of alphabetical order heading up Seaton Lane. I seem to recall it went thus:

ADEN GROVE
BOMBAY GROVE
CALCUTTA GROVE
DURBAN GROVE (geography went a bit haywire at this point)
Can't recall the letter E
FREEMANTLE GROVE
GARSTON GROVE
Can't recall H either, but this just about gets you to Jutland Road.

All in all, I remember it as a particularly low-quality area you had to pass through to get to Seaton. It's residents tended to be rag and bone men, and sea-coalers with their manky trucks. Urban legend has it that some R n B types let their horses live in their houses as pets, and their heads could oft be seen sticking out of upstairs windows!

Of course, these days, such types would be moved to Darlington. :grin:

E was Even More Ramjams grove

Spender · **Posted:** Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:25 am

alleztfc wrote:

All in all, I remember it as a particularly low-quality area you had to pass through to get to Seaton. It's residents tended to be rag and bone men, and sea-coalers with their manky trucks.

And Frankiedoyourememberme..... :uhoh:

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