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20 • Visit us @ www.ChampNews.com CMBA The Champion • Wednesday 1 May 2013 Claim Back Your P.P.I. NOW!! Have you had a loan or credit card in the last 15 years with Payment Protection Insurance? If so... we need to speak to you NOW! Be one of our success stories! The next big claim could be YOURS! Canal bike licence inspectors and ‘parkies’ kept us in order NOW that is seems spring has finally sprung I have started to look around me perhaps rather more when walking Tina than perhaps I did in the seemingly unendingly dour days of winter. For instance, I may be wrong, or it may be a purely local phenomenon, but it seems to me that there are an increased number of blackbirds about this year. Now I know that our wild bird population is falling generally, but if I am right an increase in blackbirds is particularly pleasing. Because birds were always an interest of my dad’s – and his favourites were blackbirds and thrushes, followed by your, then at least, ‘common’ hedge sparrow. This perceived increase in blackbird numbers is particularly noticeable on walks down the Leeds–Liverpool canal towpath where it runs along the rear of people’s gardens. Actually, talking of the canal towpath and my dad brings back memories of times past. There are an again growing number of totally selfish idiots riding motorbikes of various sorts along the canal. But 50 years ago, I can’t remember ever seeing a motorised bicycle on it. Admittedly it wasn’t fairly well paved through urban areas like it is now – it was just packed soil or mud depending on season – but it just didn’t happen. Mind you, back in those halcyon days you were supposed to buy a licence off the then British Waterways if you wanted to ride your push–bike along the canal. And there really were inspectors whose job (I suspect among many others) was to check any cyclists they found to see if said licence was forthcoming. I don’t honestly know if anybody ever actually bought one, or what horror awaited you if you were caught without one. Because as a boy it was imprinted on one’s brain that you kept an eagle eye out for the inspector, or water bailiff or whatever he was really called, and retraced your steps quick–sticks if he was spotted. And to my recollection this applied just as much to adults pedalling along the canal as it didtouskids These days of course the cycle licence for the canal is long defunct – or I suppose it is since there is no–one around to police it anyway. Perhaps buried deep in Got an interesting story to tell? Champ Newsdesk 01704 392400 some canal–side office in Burscough there are dusty piles of the things. But the lack of any form of any supervision of the canal banks – apart from local already hard pressed local bobbies – reminds me of the park keepers of old as well. I don’t remember a ‘parkie’ as such in my local Maghull KGV park where I spent many a happy hour as a youngster. But in the summer months at least there used to be a wooden shack in which lurked an attendant who gave out bowls and miniature golf equipment to those with the few pence needed to hire them. He certainly kept an eagle eye on what everyone was up to in the park itself at the same time. And on my weekend visits to Ormskirk to visit granny there was certainly an attendant in the park there to keep order. Ah, happy days. Oddly you kept off the flower beds, you didn’t smash glass around the place – and yet somehow it all felt more free. Of course, in those pre ‘elf ‘n safety’ days in Ormskirk at least there were those drinking fountains, often donated by local gentry, where at the press of an old metal button your could slake your thirst – for free. We did too. And oddly lived to tell the tale. 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