(17 Jan 2015, 12:22 pm)Andreos1 wrote When it was the centre of the NE and connected to the world!I heard the ancestors of the present FPF did not like the Leamside Line, as they never took a real hard line till you came along Andreos, the old FPF feared being outflanked by the Penshaw Poncey Boys and Leamside Goon Patrol...It is talked about all over by various old members of East Durhams old revolutionaries...Any truth to it Andreos, as it is widely accepted the world over the modern FPF would not stand for that kind of behaviour now...nipple twisters all round if it happened today
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The FPF would accept even half of what existed back then!
RE: Leamside Line