I managed to get this photograph yesterday while we were driving through Prestwich. It’s a mural, created in 2019, of Victoria Wood, who was born in that town.

Heading North is of course a compulsion with me, too, though her full joke includes the punchline: “Even in Tesco, I head straight for the freezer cabinets on the back wall.”
Seeing it took me right back to the 80’s, laughing at this northern ballad of frisky Freda and the poor, beaten Barry. Give it a watch, those of you not from the north of England may have to give it a couple of goes to catch the lyrics. Google may help, too!
Wherever I may roam, there is no greater sigh of joy than Manc
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Hi Jude, I’ve been meaning to ask you whereabouts it is that you are from? (Ps, since you commented I replaced the video on this post with a different version.)
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I was born in Higher Broughton, but now live in Bolton 🙂
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Manc 🙂
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Everything about this is glorious!
😁🖤
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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Indeed. Victoria Wood was a modern day marvel. And still sorely missed 🖤🖤
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Thanks Andy. I just spent 45 minutes watching Dinner Ladies and other Victoria Wood outtakes. My sides now hurt!
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Yes it’s great how one great video can lead to another. Many a time I’ve ended up going to bed a lot later than I’d planned to!
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You and me both. Not together, of course!
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Of course. This is how rumours start 😂
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After your comment on my blog, I scratched around and found snippets of the above mentioned lady’s contribution to Northern art (!). Kind of an upstart girly/old-lady approach to the White Album classic, “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?”
Am I correct?
😎
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Good point 🙂 She’s much missed since her passing.
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