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Windsor Davies RIP 18:57 - Jan 19 with 3964 viewsArthurDaley

There is probably a lot on here who don't remember the golden days of comedy on the BBC. From the 70s was, It Aint Half Hot Mum was always a must watch show .
Sadly one of the leading characters RSM Williams ( Windsor Davies 88 ) has passed away.
He even had a hit record with Rochdale's own Don Estelle.
Thanks for the laughs Windsor RIP.


A large VAT Dave

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Windsor Davies RIP on 19:13 - Jan 19 with 3929 viewsforeverhopefulDale



Of course this starred Don Estelle, who lived and died in Rochdale.
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Windsor Davies RIP on 20:03 - Jan 19 with 3848 viewsDiddyDave

Lovely Boys.
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Windsor Davies RIP on 20:10 - Jan 19 with 3836 viewsregjenkins

Unreal. I cant believe he's passed. RIP Windsor. Comedy at its finest.

' I started out with nothing and i still got most of it left'

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Windsor Davies RIP on 23:26 - Jan 19 with 3705 viewsYorkshire_Dale

Windsor Davies RIP on 19:13 - Jan 19 by foreverhopefulDale



Of course this starred Don Estelle, who lived and died in Rochdale.
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Whit'oth really>
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Windsor Davies RIP on 02:41 - Jan 20 with 3650 viewsDiddyDave

I think Don Estelle had the Red Lion in the Square off Market St. in Whitworth,how long for,I don`t know,but he spent the last few years of his life in Christchurch,New Zealand. He went back to Rochdale in poor health intending to return to NZ,but died waiting for a liver transplant in 2003 aged 70.
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Windsor Davies RIP on 08:13 - Jan 20 with 3597 viewsD_Alien

Windsor Davies RIP on 02:41 - Jan 20 by DiddyDave

I think Don Estelle had the Red Lion in the Square off Market St. in Whitworth,how long for,I don`t know,but he spent the last few years of his life in Christchurch,New Zealand. He went back to Rochdale in poor health intending to return to NZ,but died waiting for a liver transplant in 2003 aged 70.


In the spring of 1974 i got a job as a student, delivering leaflets for a few weeks for a bit of extra cash (beer money)

Don Estelle was a struggling jobbing actor at the time, and he was the organiser of the leaflet "gang", dropping us at various locations. We'd sit in his car for lunch, a pleasant chap but you could tell he wanted to be elsewhere

A few months later, It Ain't Half Hot Mum hit the screens
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Windsor Davies RIP on 09:51 - Jan 20 with 3544 viewsfinberty

Windsor Davies RIP on 08:13 - Jan 20 by D_Alien

In the spring of 1974 i got a job as a student, delivering leaflets for a few weeks for a bit of extra cash (beer money)

Don Estelle was a struggling jobbing actor at the time, and he was the organiser of the leaflet "gang", dropping us at various locations. We'd sit in his car for lunch, a pleasant chap but you could tell he wanted to be elsewhere

A few months later, It Ain't Half Hot Mum hit the screens
[Post edited 20 Jan 2019 8:17]


I remember the tv series very well.

On the clip shown on bbc news, when Windsor was doing his magnificently shouty RSM, Don could be seen to his side chuckling along with the studio audience.
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Windsor Davies RIP on 11:34 - Jan 20 with 3493 viewsNigeriamark

Windsor Davies RIP on 09:51 - Jan 20 by finberty

I remember the tv series very well.

On the clip shown on bbc news, when Windsor was doing his magnificently shouty RSM, Don could be seen to his side chuckling along with the studio audience.


The interplay between RSM & his mimicking of La di da Gunner Graham used to crack me up every time. Superb
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Windsor Davies RIP on 17:15 - Jan 20 with 3386 viewsDickydaler

Windsor Davies RIP on 02:41 - Jan 20 by DiddyDave

I think Don Estelle had the Red Lion in the Square off Market St. in Whitworth,how long for,I don`t know,but he spent the last few years of his life in Christchurch,New Zealand. He went back to Rochdale in poor health intending to return to NZ,but died waiting for a liver transplant in 2003 aged 70.


Yes, I'm pretty sure he lived in one of the seven sisters later in life.
It ain't half hot mum was one of those old type, low budget comedies, but it did make me chuckle.
RIP Windsor Davies.
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Windsor Davies RIP on 17:51 - Jan 20 with 3345 viewsdiver

BBC refuse to show repeats not PC!!
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Windsor Davies RIP on 18:44 - Jan 20 with 3308 viewschalky_ncfc

The thing that surprised me the most about It Ain't Half Mum was the fact the Indian bearer Ranji Ram was played by the white actor Michael Bates

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Windsor Davies RIP on 19:52 - Jan 20 with 3243 viewsBartRowou

Don Estelle's autobiography is one of Danny Baker's favourites because it is an absolute car-crash of a memoir. Not read it myself but apparently it's a poorly edited mishmash of career disappointments, disapproval of modern life and unending praise for Rochdale Town Hall (which he could presumably see from the flats).

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Windsor Davies RIP on 20:43 - Jan 20 with 3215 viewsrochdaleriddler

Windsor Davies RIP on 08:13 - Jan 20 by D_Alien

In the spring of 1974 i got a job as a student, delivering leaflets for a few weeks for a bit of extra cash (beer money)

Don Estelle was a struggling jobbing actor at the time, and he was the organiser of the leaflet "gang", dropping us at various locations. We'd sit in his car for lunch, a pleasant chap but you could tell he wanted to be elsewhere

A few months later, It Ain't Half Hot Mum hit the screens
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What an insight, I bet everyone present wanted to be elsewhere . Dick

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Windsor Davies RIP on 21:00 - Jan 20 with 3195 viewsD_Alien

To no-one in particular:

Can you remember when you had the insight, not to respond to drunks when they spew their bile-ridden shite?

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Windsor Davies RIP on 21:32 - Jan 20 with 3178 viewsjudd

Didn't Don Estelle flat share with Bill Oddie on Falinge where they co-wrote Trainspotting?

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Windsor Davies RIP on 21:45 - Jan 20 with 3166 viewsDiddyDave

Windsor Davies RIP on 18:44 - Jan 20 by chalky_ncfc

The thing that surprised me the most about It Ain't Half Mum was the fact the Indian bearer Ranji Ram was played by the white actor Michael Bates


Michael Bates was brilliant,even when he was suffering from cancer,professional right to the end. As diver has just said,Auntie BBC won`t show repeats any more,too scared of upsetting the wowsers,which is a pity. Still,can always watch it on Youtube.
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Windsor Davies RIP on 22:07 - Jan 20 with 3145 viewsTVOS1907

Windsor Davies RIP on 21:32 - Jan 20 by judd

Didn't Don Estelle flat share with Bill Oddie on Falinge where they co-wrote Trainspotting?


No, it was Lisa Stansfield and Jeff Moore, with script editing by Colin Baker, Anna Friel and that Sinead off Corrie.

Maybe.

Undoubted knowledge? Or just the application of common sense and using my brain?

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Windsor Davies RIP on 22:19 - Jan 20 with 3119 viewsD_Alien

Windsor Davies RIP on 22:07 - Jan 20 by TVOS1907

No, it was Lisa Stansfield and Jeff Moore, with script editing by Colin Baker, Anna Friel and that Sinead off Corrie.

Maybe.


tbh i've always thought Whispering Grass to be a coded message about R Gracie, basically telling her to pipe down a bit

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Windsor Davies RIP on 22:50 - Jan 20 with 3083 viewsjudd

Windsor Davies RIP on 22:07 - Jan 20 by TVOS1907

No, it was Lisa Stansfield and Jeff Moore, with script editing by Colin Baker, Anna Friel and that Sinead off Corrie.

Maybe.


Sinead off of Corries real life brothers missus works in a pub near me.

I'll aks her

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Windsor Davies RIP on 23:29 - Jan 20 with 3047 viewsrochdale_ranger

Windsor Davies RIP on 21:00 - Jan 20 by D_Alien

To no-one in particular:

Can you remember when you had the insight, not to respond to drunks when they spew their bile-ridden shite?


Leave him alone the guy obviously needs an intervention. And before I got my apprenticeship that’s what I did in the summer of 2006 as a 16 year old school leaver. I can assure you many a bag of leaflet was thrown down a drain or put in a post box while I hid in various mates flats and houses on the estates of Rochdale.
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Windsor Davies RIP on 07:47 - Jan 21 with 2926 viewskel

Windsor Davies RIP on 21:00 - Jan 20 by D_Alien

To no-one in particular:

Can you remember when you had the insight, not to respond to drunks when they spew their bile-ridden shite?


One can only assume he’d forgotten about his little flounce the other night.
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Windsor Davies RIP on 07:48 - Jan 21 with 2922 viewsEllDale

I did the delivery stuff as well. Leaflets and free samples of things like Twiglets. Remember them?
We had boxes of the stuff in our garage.
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