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Good point well made SteveZ. I will make a point of doing a 'find & replace' on DC Thompson to make sure it gets changed. The beauty of comics is surely, that as you say, you can decide for yourself what accents the characters have. Cockney works for you & midlands works for me. I wouldnt have it an...

Hi I've started a new feature on the http://www.toughofthetrack.net web site. Readers are invited to submit their accounts of their first encounters with Alf & I'll publish them all with a name credit. There are 6 there at the moment, a couple more arrived this morning & I'll add them later, but fee...

Hi. Sorry to pick this one up so late. Colcool has it right I think, in that its never stated where Alf lives. Its up to the reader to decide. So, Steve Zodiac can have his way if he wants ! As a Londoner myself, I always got the impression that Alf came from the Black country. Tipon or Wolverhampto...

As long as work allows, I'll be going & will post a report on the 'tough' web site with a link here...

Academic conference featuring Alf Tupper & Wilson. The conference is on Northern Sporting Heroes and will be held at the Carnegie Stand at Headingley stadium in Leeds on Saturday 3 February, starting at 10.00. The cost will be ?20 which will be payable on the day. As well as Jeff Hill talking about ...

Being a keen runner myself, I was browsing the Surrey AAA homepage for race information, when I came across this Obituary, which has a ring of familiarity about it. ""At the time when Bruce was running, his training and competition had to be fitted around a working week where Saturday working, at le...

I have been lucky enough to have contact with Pete's son & daughter Paul & Susan. Even luckier, I have persuaded them to let me publish pictures of their father plus a lovely peice on him, on my website. http://www.toughofthetrack.net Pete's work has often been discussed on this forum, so I know tha...

Thanks to Colcool for the answer.

The link should have course have read http://www.toughofthetrack.net, but you know that by now !

Cheers

A correspondent on http://www.toughofthetrack asked a question about two characters he recalls from the past.

Wilf Willoughby & Flapper Farmer.

Anyone heard of them or know anything about which storylines they appeared in ?

Any 'Victor' fans out there, go here for a dose of nostalgia

http://www.toughofthetrack.net

cheers

Interestingly enough, I got a mail from Pete Sutherland's son the other day.

Hopefully I might be able to get some more biog stuff from that source for http://www.toughofthetrack.net