Roving Mick
@rovingmick.bsky.social
Runs website Rovingmick.com Spoof stories about Rovers and Blackburn itself
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Roving Mick
@rovingmick.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Blowing With The Blackburn Trades
Probably the best book ever written about a Blackburn Boozer (Probably the only book ever written about a Blackburn Boozer) My first book was about the old Blackburn Trades Council Club. It s…
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Freebie e-book about the goings on in Blackburn's Trade Union club. Beer, backstabbing and bust-ups. Telling the story of Blackburn's labour movement during the wilderness years. Hard times, but great fun too.
www.rovingmick.com/trades-club/
www.rovingmick.com/trades-club/
Yippee... Blackburn's Outer Circle bus is back. I wrote this article 10 years. Four of the pubs on the bus route have shut down. But there's still a few left left to wet your whistle.
www.rovingmick.com/2015/07/01/b...
www.rovingmick.com/2015/07/01/b...
Blackburn’s Outer Circle Real Ale Trail
If you fancy a scenic tour of some of Blackburn’s pubs, jump aboard the Outer Circle bus and buy a £4.20 all day ticket. This will take you not only on multiple journeys around town, but also round…
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May 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Yippee... Blackburn's Outer Circle bus is back. I wrote this article 10 years. Four of the pubs on the bus route have shut down. But there's still a few left left to wet your whistle.
www.rovingmick.com/2015/07/01/b...
www.rovingmick.com/2015/07/01/b...
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ISSUE 13 – AUGUST 1991. The legs were creaking at the age of 35, but Kevin Moran still had a massive part to play as #Rovers captain in 91/92 and beyond.
December 13, 2024 at 10:10 AM
ISSUE 13 – AUGUST 1991. The legs were creaking at the age of 35, but Kevin Moran still had a massive part to play as #Rovers captain in 91/92 and beyond.
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ISSUE 1 – SEPTEMBER 1989. “A northern horde of uncouth garb and strange oaths” was how the Pall Mall Gazette famously described #Rovers fans in 1884. The first cover also celebrated the club’s dominance in the Lancashire Cup during the eighties.
December 1, 2024 at 8:10 PM
ISSUE 1 – SEPTEMBER 1989. “A northern horde of uncouth garb and strange oaths” was how the Pall Mall Gazette famously described #Rovers fans in 1884. The first cover also celebrated the club’s dominance in the Lancashire Cup during the eighties.
Freebie e-book about the goings on in Blackburn's Trade Union club. Beer, backstabbing and bust-ups. Telling the story of Blackburn's labour movement during the wilderness years. Hard times, but great fun too.
www.rovingmick.com/trades-club/
www.rovingmick.com/trades-club/
Blowing With The Blackburn Trades
Probably the best book ever written about a Blackburn Boozer (Probably the only book ever written about a Blackburn Boozer) My first book was about the old Blackburn Trades Council Club. It s…
www.rovingmick.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Freebie e-book about the goings on in Blackburn's Trade Union club. Beer, backstabbing and bust-ups. Telling the story of Blackburn's labour movement during the wilderness years. Hard times, but great fun too.
www.rovingmick.com/trades-club/
www.rovingmick.com/trades-club/
Freebie e-book about my adventures hitch-hiking around the country following Blackburn Rovers. Download or read on the website - www.rovingmick.com/itching-rove...
Itching After Rovers
Read the true story of a football fan so desperate to follow his team, he decides to hitchhike all over the British Isles to watch them. It starts with a ‘Road to Damascus’ conversion to football f…
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November 16, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Freebie e-book about my adventures hitch-hiking around the country following Blackburn Rovers. Download or read on the website - www.rovingmick.com/itching-rove...