victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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Gwyn Prosser
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Thank you for putting me right
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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To clarify for anyone new to the area he was our Labour MP 1997-2010 rather than making the heady heights of PM.
When Gwyn was working on the ferries many years ago his nickname was Prosser the Tosser which was rhyming slang.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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Uninteresting fact:
as 'gwyn' is Welsh for 'white', and 'Prosser' is the anglicised Welsh 'ap Rosser', i.e. 'son of Roger', then 'Gwyn Prosser' is 'Roger's white boy'.
Dim jôc.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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I will tell him that fact next time I see him thank you.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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As Gwyn lives in River you may see him from time to time.I sat next to,him in the councilChamber for a few years.Glorious voice wonderful to listen to him .when debates were in full swing.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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Think i saw him in Poundland once purchasing a light bulb.
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Ha, Ha, was it a dull one or very bright or flashy.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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victor matcham wrote:I will tell him that fact next time I see him thank you.
I'd imagine there's a very good chance that he already knows, VM.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".