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My Father, Alfred William Ruffle, part one

My Pa was an amazing fellow.
He was born November the 14th 1915, in Tolleshunt Knights. On his birth certificate it says his Mother’s residence was 72 Fambridge road, but essentially my Pa was brought up in the legendary Dagger lane. [Read more →]

Punk part 2

 

Post the Damned Roundhouse gig, the flood gates truly opened.

I remember walking through the graveyard at St Mary’s church, the route I always took to and from our local pub, the Queen’s Head on the quay in Maldon, late one November  night in 1976, having consumed several Bob and Abbots, a particularly potent beer, anticipting playing a new single Will had picked up for me, “Anarchy in the UK” by the Sex Pistols. [Read more →]