The green velvet patch

[Monty]

Guys...And Anna,

As most of you know, Stride handed over a piece of green velvet to a friend for safe keeping before her unfortunate demise.

There has been light debate over this piece, why did she seem to value this piece? was it a gift from some secret love?

Well I have come across a possible reason why she may have treasured it so, and that is....

[Sam Flynn]

Well I have come across a possible reason why she may have treasured it so, and that is....

...she was saving up for a snooker table?

[Monty]

Thats baize Gareth...

...God youre so ignorant sometimes!

Monty

[Sam Flynn]

I see you play "baize snooker", Neil. Here we insist on the finest green velvet, which makes the game far more exciting. Judge the nap wrongly, and the cue ball can whizz around on its own for the best part of an hour, all the while picking up a huge charge of static electricity - with hilarious consequences. We had Len Ganley ref at our club once: he left with his hair looking like a Brylcreemed shaving brush.

[Monty]

Everybodys doing the Len Ganley stance- Half man, half buscuit.

Monty

[Sam Flynn]

Everybodys doing the Len Ganley stance- Half man, half buscuit.

So, are you going to tell us the secret of Liz's piece of velvet, or do I have to set Fred Titmus onto you?

[Mike Covell]

Was she promoting the prequal to David Lynch's "Blue Velvet"?

Was she promoting the B-Side to the song "Blue Velvet" by Bobby Vinton?

[Monty]

Are you threatening my with Trumpton riots?

Im waiting for Anna to join the thread, she has been waiting oh so patiently for this.

Monty

[anna]

Hiya Monty,


Thanks for waiting for me......

ANNA.

[Roy Corduroy]

Was she promoting the B-Side to the song "Blue Velvet" by Bobby Vinton?

The mystery might be the Arthur Prysock version.

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,359517-1468263,00.html

Roy

[Monty]

Velvet was often used to trim the jackets by working girls who preferred the company of freshly paid sailors. Sometimes the sailors passed these pieces to the women as a gift.

Also, the sailors often hook up with the same woman they saw the last time they were in port, we see this with Sadler and Coles. I say its probable Stride went with such men quite alot

Here endeth the saga of this thread.

[Sam Flynn]

Interesting, Monty. Wasn't "Tiger Bay" (Brunswick Street, round the corner from where Stride was killed) popular with sailors, and weren't there a number of sailors' lodging-houses dotted around St George's East in general?

[Monty]

Yeah Gareth,

Kinda hard not to find a sailor.

My point is that velvet was worn both as fashion but also an id tag of sorts.

Monty

[Jeff Leahy]

Princess Alice

Did I catch somewhere that Liz Stride may have worked on the Princess Alice?

You'd meet a lot of sailors that way?

Pirate

[Sam Flynn]

I'm not so sure she would meet too many kosher sailors on a pleasure steamer, Jeff - personally, I doubt that Stride went within 200 yards of the Alice. Her story about losing her family when it sank was demonstrably concocted.

This possible link between velvet, sailors and the sailor-friendly district of St George's East intrigues me, however.