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Did you know that John Osborne wrote the gritty Midlands drama that became Look Back in Anger while comfortably ensconced in a deckchair on Morecambe pier? He was appearing with a repertory company in the play Seagulls Over Sorrento there in the early summer of 1955, and penned the first draught of the largely autobiographical piece in just 17 days.

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Dame Thora Hird
Eric Morecambe
Wayne Hemmingway

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Happy the people whose annals are vacant. - Thomas Carlyle
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Battle of Berwick - 1296, Fire Claims 19 Glasgow Firefighters - 1960
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