Mick MacMannus

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Richardvanles

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When I worked in Corby the night Shunters name was Mick MacMannus. He was telling me how in the late 70’s he was travelling back to Corby one night with a couple of mates in his car. Gets pulled over by the old bill, usual questions about the car, where he was going etc. Paper licence at the time and he had no identification on him. Then they asked him his name. Which wasn’t too much of a problem until the copper asked the names of his mates. Charlie Bronson and John Wayne.
They spent the night in the cells…
 
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When I worked in Corby the night Shunters name was Mick MacMannus. He was telling me how in the late 70’s he was travelling back to Corby one night with a couple of mates in his car. Gets pulled over by the old bill, usual questions about the car, where he was going etc. Paper licence at the time and he had no identification on him. Then they asked him his name. Which wasn’t too much of a problem until the copper asked the names of his mates. Charlie Bronson and John Wayne.
They spent the night in the cells…
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John Player 10, Park Drive, got locked up for that, Jack Horner and lives round the corner made it two of us.
 
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Was sitting up a tree drunk one night near Hinckley town centre,as you do, and told the copper trying to me down that my name was “Charles Manson”. I wouldn’t budge and he couldn’t be arsed to climb the tree to get me either. So he gave up and fucked off. Saw him years later on Castle Street after he had retired. He said “How are you Charlie?” and we had a good laugh about it!
 
He was Irish and an “old school” copper. Very genial when you got to know him. There were still some around mid to late 70’s era. One of the best of the “old school” was Gordon Almey who had made 6 or 7 appearances for the Tigers first XV. Hard as nails. But he barely made any arrests if he could help it. He knew exactly where to hit you and sink you to your knees with all your wind sucked out of you. Then he would help you up and advise you that “it was time to go home”. Next time he saw you out in town he would greet you with “You OK,Lad?”….”Yes Gordon,thanks”. You had respect for blokes like that!
Much later it was one of Gordon’s son’s,DA,who infamously made the front page of the Sun after a strippers evening at the Willie Thorne snooker club at the top of Castle Street. Two plain clothes plod jumped up and grabbed him while he was on the stage “performing” with one of the strippers. They alleged he was “engaged in an act of anal intercourse” but it just got dropped to lewd behaviour in court!
 
We had Tidmarsh like that, but l didn't like him much. He ran a youth club which was the base for his motorbike team the Kamakazis, theseswere all 18 to about 22 and we were all 15, us being skinheads/bootboys it kicked off with them regularly, most of them were alright really. Tidy didn't like us but its how he got a youth club for his bikers for free.
He took us all Skeggy on a bus trip.about 20 of us and about the same as them, before we got off the bus at Skeggy he said to us, not the grebos, "any of you cunts get nicked, I'm leaving you here". As we got off the bus bumped into some lads we knew from down the city.
3 hours of mayhem later all of us got nicked bar 2.

Tidmarsh actually got us all out about 8.00 at night to be fair to him. I got 2 years probation.
 
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