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January 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 195 Wigan Street

Over the Christmas period there was a fire on Wigan Street in a factory that had asbestos in its roof. I got quite a shock when I saw it on the news – we had lived in the building through the wall right next door for several years. All through Ang’s time at Wellington high […]
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December 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 189 Holloway Road

We rented it for a start – a small house on Holloway Road and a piece of history. Old George, who lived a few houses down and whose father had famously lived well past a hundred, told me that Winston McCarthy had grown up in our house and it had also been a shop at […]
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February 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 100 Birth

It was meant to be a home-birth. 1984 and Michelle was pregnant – we moved into the top floor of this huge old warehouse space on Wakefield Street that was impossible to heat. They were strange days – the Spines was on hold while Wendy and Ross went off to other bands for a time […]
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February 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 99 The Stones

It was my mate Geordie who first got me into The Rolling Stones. He was from Newcastle and brought his record collection with him when his family moved to Hamilton. His albums had more elaborate covers than the versions we got out here. He had a great passion for the Mick Taylor years, had seen […]
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