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Oldham

Oldham
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About Oldham

Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Rochdale, and 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Manchester City Centre. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, which had a population of 242,003 in 2021.

On the show21 mentions total

A family in Oldham who owned that number got bombarded with 60 phone calls every day for months, saying, "Is Soldier Boy there, please?"

from 196: No Such Thing As Faking The Magic Dream, 2017-12-15 at 00:08:51 · read transcript

Other times Oldham came up

  1. There was a whole ballad that was taking the pier saying, all the ballads we hear these days are full of stories, stories, lies and stories, a pox on your newsletters, they lie both and flatters, they are but a trap to weedle men in. Wow, there are some Manchester ones, so I've read quite a few of them, and they include things like, these are all ballads that were real, The Spinner's Lamentation, Victoria Bridge on a Saturday night, and Johnny Green's Trip from Oldham to See the Manchester Railway.

    269: No Such Thing As Singing The Sport, 2019-05-17 · listen

  2. Wow. There are some Manchester ones. I've read quite a few of them. They include things like, these are all ballads that were real, the Spinner's Lamentation, Victoria Bridge on a Saturday night, and Johnny Green's trip from Oldham to see the Manchester Railway. Sounds fun? I found a 17th century song, not telling the news, but just a ballad that survived the times. The title of it is Kentish Dick or The Lussel coachman of Westminster.

    No Such Thing As Singing The Sport, 2019-05-17 · listen

  3. Yeah That was his excuse Football of course evolved from like a village sport Where two villages would get a pig's bladder And they would try and get it from one village to the other There's a game in 1280 at Oldham In Northumberland Where a player was killed as a result of running Against an opposing player's dagger Which sounds rather like he's getting blamed for Yeah Not my poll, he ran into my judge Dagger.

    No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 · listen

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