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FORMER scout leader, Ian Stowers, was reminded of a classic Two Ronnies sketch - the one set in a hardware shop and involving ‘fork handles’ - by one of our recent ‘then and now’ nostalgia pictures. Ian says he was taken back to the 1980s and one of his regular camps in the Yorkshire Dales when he saw the old picture of Manby’s shop in Skipton (pictured) - the site of which is now occupied by women’s clotheswear shop, Phase Eight. He writes: “ As a scout leader of more than 20 years, I regularly held camps in the Yorkshire Dales.

Be on tv every night. >> white bystanders harassed us with homemade clubs, cursing us and blaming the press as the cause of the demonstrations. >> standing against them are the segregationists. >> i covered a nighttime demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we don't have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bull...

Demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we don't have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bullets flying in the air that could hit you. it was you that they wanted to do harm to. >> of course there was danger. but the truth is that the number of times that we faced danger and the kind of danger we faced, was ver...

Segregationists. >> i covered a nighttime demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we don't have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bullets flying in the air that could hit you. it was you that they wanted to do harm to. >> of course there was danger. but the truth is that the number of times that we faced dange...

Segregationists. >> i covered a nighttime demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we don't have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bullets flying in the air that could hit you. it was you that they wanted to do harm to. >> of course there was danger. but the truth is that the number of times that we faced dange...