Oh yes and there's that policeman PC Bobby Selmit.

The owner of the old Golden Moon chippy in Hindley Green was called wan kin tu spitt. FACT

Well, maybe - if there ever had been a "Golden Moon" chippy in Hindley Green!!

1976 phone book entry

The Golden Moon

Swan Lane

Hindley Green



Prop- Mr Wan kin tu spitt



The batter was always soggy.

Played against Leigh the other week Wayne Kerr

There is a Sikh policeman in the GMP called Kum Dan Singh. I kid you not. Moreover, when I last referred to this in conversation with Leyther-in-India's brother, who works with him, I said something about how funny his name was, and DS Brother said 'what, because he's name's Kum?', to which I replied, 'no, because his name's Kum Dan Singh, but now you mention it, that, too...'

We used to have a hairdressers in Barrow called Curl up and Dye



I think someone once said to me a hairdressers shop in a film was called that too

There used to be a little restaurant in China Town in Manc called "Choo Mee's". Good food and cheap. Musn't have paid their due's as three weeks after we ate there the gangsters went in a butcherd the owners.

Back in the 70's there was a copper stationed at Leigh called Superintendant Richard Balls

Then theres the man who invented the glass bra- Seemore boobs

Hindley's Fire Brigade factories inspector is called Officer Burns