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I'll PM you with their email addresses. Crumb

Bought one at xmas, should have been £250 but I got a 30% discount. Sold my first collection mid 90's but kept an issue of it cuz it was too knackered to sell, been meaning to frame it and hang it on the wall. Crumb

There's plenty of great cheap, not very well known stuff on ebay, I started with that and buy bigger money items when funds allow. I had a £1000 tax rebate just before xmas but managed to spend about three times that, been skint since. Crumb

Saw plenty of fights inside nighters in the mid to late 70's but they were over drugs,not football. Walking from the station to the Casino could be a bit scary though, relatively few locals ( they weren't soulies, don't know about football fans ) used to wait for us and hassle us. If all the soulies had stuck together we would have easily seen them off but I suppose most of us were wary of attracting attention in case we got busted. One local lad pulled a knife on me and my mate one night but did a runner when my mate produced his dad's bread knife from his addidas bag. Stunner, just like that scene in Crocodile Dundee where he says "call that a knife" Some locals tried to have a go at Yate once but everyone stuck together and the locals that couldn't run fast enough got a right kicking Crumb

I don't think I've ever heard a bad record by Slim Smith or Pat Kelly, both really soulful voices. I had always hated "Moving Away" till I heard Ken Boothe's version, it sounds more soulful to me than Kenny Lynch even if it is reggae. Crumb

I suppose it was seeing lads who went to Wigan dancing to Footsee at a local disco, I thought the record was crap but I was intrigued enough to find out a bit more about northern soul. I discovered "higher & higher", "out on the floor" and "ain't no soul" among my mate's brother's records and that was it, I was hooked. Crumb

Pete You could try getting Mary Fox on the radio Stoke soul show to ask about him, go to www.bbc.co.uk/stoke and search for northern soul Crumb