Labour’s Loves Lost

[Chevy Chase 79]

Mitch and Wally, proud hunters from the Northumbrian coalfields of Ashington stand here today as the living legacy of over 30,000 years of man hunting with dogs, natural hunting. They don't write this stuff in books, they actually DO it and practise the arts handed down over generations. This is sacred stuff. It's in their DNA. The cultural heritage of mankind is man's oldest try at life.....hunting. Labour is trying to eradicate their way of life and persecuting a minority group with protected beliefs in a campaign of misguided class warfare. This is their story.

 

Seen this doing the rounds thought it may interest some who’ve not seen it…

 

Cheers

 

 

[low plains drifter 10,479]

4 hours ago, Chevy Chase said:

Mitch and Wally, proud hunters from the Northumbrian coalfields of Ashington stand here today as the living legacy of over 30,000 years of man hunting with dogs, natural hunting. They don't write this stuff in books, they actually DO it and practise the arts handed down over generations. This is sacred stuff. It's in their DNA. The cultural heritage of mankind is man's oldest try at life.....hunting. Labour is trying to eradicate their way of life and persecuting a minority group with protected beliefs in a campaign of misguided class warfare. This is their story.

 

Seen this doing the rounds thought it may interest some who’ve not seen it…

 

Cheers

 

 

Anybody remember what bottom right pic was from?

[mackem 26,443]

25 minutes ago, low plains drifter said:

Anybody remember what bottom right pic was from?

Seen it before but can’t remember exactly where,forley cup?

[Maximus Ferret 2,063]

Thanks for posting that Chevy. Brings back memories. I'm from Blyth, me dad and his dad from Ashington. Both sides of my family were in mining.

Edited May 16 by Maximus Ferret

[low plains drifter 10,479]

On 16/05/2024 at 19:13, mackem said:

Seen it before but can’t remember exactly where,forley cup?

Forley cup 97 

Final between Hammys Nancy and Joe Thompsons Sniper 

Sniper taking the win

[tatsblisters 9,689]

Really enjoyed this video I bet there's a few ex miners like me who could tell a tale or two who had lurchers when the strike was on when going out in pursuit of game became more than an hobby and a bit of fun. The accent reminded me of a lad from up Durham way I used to know years ago who another mate got to know when they were steel erecting when the big shopping mall Meadowhall was being built. Latchy was his nickname and I often wonder if he's still into the lurchers. 

[terryd 8,421]

People need to give them a bit of support ideally.  There YouTube channel has 183 subscribers hopefully if they make few more videos they might grow.

nice but sad video here regardless of the old them and us with the fox hunting 

 

[toolebox 1,545]

It breaks my heart to see hunting with dogs to be labled unhealthy, sick, bloodthirsty, a crime in the making, when not that long ago it was viewed very differently. The act of keeping hunting dogs was a way of life, not only did the result of a hunt feed families in very tough time's, it was a shared passion. Country folk came together at fairs and local working dog shows, it was the very reason, all sat side time to go, to catch up with others in the sport. Hunting with dogs was in their DNA, it fed the working man's soul, it was an important part of country life, woven into the very fabric of what it was to be country, but it stood for much more, it was an important part of us all.

Town people do not understand, it's lost on them, and sadly they don't want to know, their minds are made up. Not content with being non hunters, non meat eating, they want to make our minds up for us too, they want this practise of hunting with dogs totally outlawed. This idea they have of country life and ways is not realistic in any shape or form, for many it's a new age idea sweeping the world, speaking for myself, it's a new level of madness, and for the first time in a very long time, I'm glad I'm on the other side of 60, this is not the world I grew up in and for that I'm grateful.

Edited May 25 by toolebox

[fred90 3,228]

it's listening to the do gooders by both Conservative and Labour politicians that's got us into the mess we are in today, what a state of affairs when there is now no one worth voting for. 

[lurchers 2,768]

On 23/05/2024 at 07:06, tatsblisters said:

Really enjoyed this video I bet there's a few ex miners like me who could tell a tale or two who had lurchers when the strike was on when going out in pursuit of game became more than an hobby and a bit of fun. The accent reminded me of a lad from up Durham way I used to know years ago who another mate got to know when they were steel erecting when the big shopping mall Meadowhall was being built. Latchy was his nickname and I often wonder if he's still into the lurchers. 

Is that latchy from bishop Auckland way you are on about.

[tatsblisters 9,689]

51 minutes ago, lurchers said:

Is that latchy from bishop Auckland way you are on about.

Yes mate a mate of mine bought a saluki Cross off him in the 80s a big black dog with a white blaze on his chest the dog was called Jed. 

[lurchers 2,768]

2 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

Yes mate a mate of mine bought a saluki Cross off him in the 80s a big black dog with a white blaze on his chest the dog was called Jed. 

It’s been years since I seen him but know he was doing a lot with the terrier’s.The saluki blood would of probably had cruise in there as joey Anderson was on his door step.

[low plains drifter 10,479]

7 hours ago, lurchers said:

It’s been years since I seen him but know he was doing a lot with the terrier’s.The saluki blood would of probably had cruise in there as joey Anderson was on his door step.

 

[Black neck 15,948]

1 hour ago, low plains drifter said:

 

Wtaf

[tatsblisters 9,689]

17 hours ago, lurchers said:

It’s been years since I seen him but know he was doing a lot with the terrier’s.The saluki blood would of probably had cruise in there as joey Anderson was on his door step.

The said dog was a first cross according to latchy I used him over a bitch out of my lurcher to lurcher breds with collie and Bedlington in them and bred a few handy dogs one tall rangey dog that was good on deer.