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this is a small storm of the lost

property department

of the london county council there are

many such rooms

but they're rarely visited anymore

because the property stored

dates back to the property found on the

streets

or in the bombed out buildings all

waiting for claimants

will never appear like this cheap copy

of venus to mino

meant to stand in some garden the ages

have claimed her arms

the wall claimed her head like on what

metal piece do you suppose this old

clock was standing

when the bomb hit calmly ticking

time stop for it at 7 36

a.m 4 p.m

what difference does it make baby

strollers cartons full of things

all tagged with the place and date

of their destruction the

east end arena september 17 1944

everything this room could tell a

hundred stories but

this boxing glove was involved in the

most unusual occurrence

when on september 17 1944

that dark and heavy curtain to the world

beyond our five senses

the psychic world was lifted

for a moment

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ah mike

hello yank sorry i'm late

that's all right i had a bit of shopping

to do fish and chips

i know but we're bet in the purse aren't

we

i'm financing dinner out of my own

pocket you might say

never mind we'll have a real feed after

the fight

kind of odds you get three to one for

the old 30 quid

that means we'll get 120 pounds if we

win that'll give us something in our

pockets when we go up to the midlands

birmingham oh they love light

heavyweights up there

do you see the doctor what are we going

to eat

well in the dressing room get in the

coffee

coffee coast extra well i could show you

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something

is sure crummy

yeah do you see the doctor

yeah i saw him

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already please go get some coffee oh

what do you want

coffee for it'll only keep you awake i

want you to have a couple of hours shut

up before the fight

coffee never bothers me you know that

what doctor how do i know what

doctor well you must remember something

about him i walked up the street and

there was a doctor's office

what street queen street

that would be dr duggan yeah i think so

yes he has a big sign hanging out over

the walk

like a blinking cinema after a duggan

sounds like him yes only that sign was

knocked down in a bombing raid six

months ago

well then maybe it was someone else and

maybe it wasn't queen street

all right wendy i lied to you i didn't

see any doctor

you know i'm getting too old to fight

it's the only trait i know

you know something whitey the army

wouldn't even have me

that's why i'm in a merchant marine now

and why don't you ship out

oh i intend to but i just wanted a

little money i got my eye on a bar and

grill

you ought to see this place it's a real

pretty place that's a pub

it's a nice little place up in the whole

balkan way yank don't you realize you're

risking your life that it's my life

isn't it what am i supposed to do

sit out in front of some uh fight club

with my cap on my knees saying please

help the poor

well i don't knock it why do you don't

have to like

never mind i'll get you some coffee

anybody make some coffee

i take it this is your fighter

mr sanderson yank dawson he manages the

other fellas

oh yeah dawson sound in wind and limb i

hope

my i hope so

i really hope so it's my boy's a bit of

a savage i'm afraid

not much skill but uh when he hits

somebody

bang bang that's all she said

as you americans would say

yeah drink up my tiger's later i'll get

some fresh for him when he comes in

mr sanderson thank you

you do remind me of somebody

i was in the states for a bit before the

war saw a man fight there

you very like him

denver it was did you ever fight there

150 million americans

stands to reason two of them can look

alike

no couldn't be the same chap it's the

man in denver had a terrible accident

not long afterwards

they won't let him fight broke his head

right open i heard

right there

must have been someone else you saw in

denver because i never fought in denver

you're a fool to be fighting you know

it's a nasty scar

you're quite sure you're all right why

don't you mind your own business

of course he's all right well i hope so

i really hope so

why don't you get out of here all right

you times go and find my tiger

we don't worry about accidents here do

we mighty

not with old paddy tyrone about

who's party terror oh he's dead

in a manner of speaking

but you didn't tell him about petty i

was sure you had

oh inhospitable very inhospitable

i'll come off it now what do you mean

come off it

there's a yank ready to fight at the old

east end arena and nobody tells them

about patty

patty's such a friendly ghost too

mr sanderson i don't want to be rude but

i do want my yank to have a couple of

hours sleep

so if you don't know all right all right

if you don't want to tell it

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well little rub down is what you need

help you to get some sleep

tiger alfie jones

tiger my mind he's very clever with his

hands though

you want to remember that that's why i

told you to crowd him

understand keep crowding him all the

time

what was all that about a ghost would he

oh you don't want to

pay no mind to sanderson and that stupid

story

it's just childish superstition well

tell me anyhow

look you're gonna fight tonight i'm not

gonna fill your head now with a lot of

silly troddle

i've had so much bad luck in the last

few years i guess i'm just gonna jump

you any

i'm sorry i acted like a kid

that's all right boy i don't know why i

made such a fuss about it myself

like sanderson says paddy tyrone's a

friendly sort of ghost anyway he was

empire middleweight champion when he was

only 18 years old

back in 1905 that was so when he fought

brian cleary in 1931

he must have been 44.

let's get in on a bit for a boxer you

know

and he wasn't empire champ no more he

had a gold watch

a few good memories and a blood clot

what nobody knew about

he fought brian cleary right here in the

east end arena

brian like the old boy wanted to make it

quick like you know

so he knocked him out in the second

round

that was an act of mercy brian thought

only that blood clot of paddy's

got dislodged he died before they could

get him into the dressing room

what was that upset brian a bit course

he soon got over it you know i mean

he knew it wasn't his fault only four

years later

brian went crackers just before a fight

one night he suddenly started

raving and swearing something awful

he said he'd seen paddy tyrone see me

manager

with paddy dead four years already

brian says that paddy just stared at him

and

shook his head slowly from side to side

like he was trying to tell him something

and brian says

well what could he be telling me except

don't you fight tonight my boy

or you'll wind up like me

well he fought anyway and he was winning

two hands down

until frankie shane fighting him back as

best he could

suddenly caught him with a lucky right

oh what a whopper

caught him eye on a forehead and pitches

brian towards the ropes

and through the ropes and he smashes his

skull on the ring post

well now you know as well as i did that

could never happen again in a million

years but llama you should have seen the

newspapers

ghost of east end arena they said

paddy tyrone back from the dead and all

that sort of truck

see paddy and die they said

well let's talk of even some others but

i don't believe it

i don't believe any of it coincidence

that's all it is

pure coincidence

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who are you

do you want

bye what's going on he's in there oh

the fella you're telling me about panics

or who he's standing in ah you must be

dreaming

i swear look for yourself

in where did you say

believe me he was standing right

here and i wasn't dreaming

you weren't dreaming yank what kind of a

ghost takes his leave by the window

i'll tell you what kind come on

i'll show you your ghost

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listen to him out there you're going to

ruin me

well don't look at me he's the one

what's ruining you

you mini psychological warfare i got

contracts with the both of you

well we are ready to fight then you two

can fight

i'll tell you straight out my boy isn't

going into the ring until he

admits what he's done and apologizes for

it and just what am i supposed to have

done i had somebody to impersonate paddy

to whom that's what you've done

trying to scare my boy what's all this

about

that ghost was a fake well maybe it was

well that doesn't prove that i had

anything to do with it

who else who else said reason it's your

boy we're fighting

and you was offering odds of five to one

well got confidence in alfie that's all

well that's another thing look at him

cool as a cucumber

quiet as can be yeah got nothing to do

with me i'll say

fight well that's just it your opponent

saw paddy turn

and you say fight aren't you scared

you're gonna kill him

cleary and kawiki saw the ghost and they

was killed in the ring

why doesn't it bother you that the man

you're fighting is gonna die

i'll tell you why because it's a fight

and you know it if what you say it's

true

it's a case for the boxing control board

unsportsmanlike conduct by your manager

you insisted that my boy heard about

paddy tyrone and you knew he was going

to take a few hours sleep that gave you

plenty of time

how long did it take to sew paddy's name

under that sweater now

look here whitey you know what did you

wear the dual paddy to room which one of

your flankage was it willie davis

he's about the right age and size i was

wally davis oh

some used up old fido do anything for a

few quid that he can take across the

road to the red line and turn into

whiskey

and we don't have to ask his permission

to go over there and ask willie to talk

and he'll talk in the interest of

justice and better boxing and the future

a few more drinks

come on no no no wait wait wait all

right

all right i did it there you i see

willie played the ghost it was my idea

well i know i shouldn't have done it but

willie looks almost exactly like paddy

and

and with a little make-up well i i just

couldn't resist it

there's nothing criminal in it mind you

it's a psychological warfare

just like we do on the germans that's

all only that happens to be war

where all is fair so they say but this

is boxing all right

which is supposed to be a sport no maybe

it wasn't spot in there

maybe all right then it wasn't sporting

you've never done anything that you're

sorry for well if i did i said i was

sorry

well now i'm sorry

sorry hank if everybody's quite

satisfied

let's ever fight

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three minute rounds chief side zone

favorite

11 stone lightning

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his alpha opponent u.s person stephen

he lost those sick yet

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come on

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what happened over there did you just

get careless

that fellow i saw in the dressing room

you know davis

well what about it he's sitting up there

in the last row

i saw him kind of confuse me i guess so

sanderson's still up to his tricks is he

i'll flame alive

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yeah what kind of scum are you what's

the matter that's what's the matter

look up there what's all it's about he's

gone and done it again

he's got his phony ghost up there as big

as life and it's scared of my boy

i want him out of there well i don't see

him oh yeah he's there

all right you bet your life is right up

there in the background this is what i

didn't tell him to he must have bought a

ticket there's no crime in that

i've had enough of this well i want him

out of there

oh don't finish him reduce yourself

protect yourself gank

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one two three

four five six

seven eight

let's get him to the dressing room

easy yank

how do you feel

all right i guess you want to try to sit

up

yeah will it be all right doctor yeah

he's had a slight concussion

but he'll definitely be all right hear

that

you're gonna be fine boy i didn't say

he'd be fine i said he'd be all right

no more fighting gang you hear that i

guess you're right though

i'll let him rest here for a few minutes

then he can get dressed and go home

oh um bring him in to see me tomorrow

all right doc

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oh look you're white here

i'm sorry about all this so you should

be

not a nonsense your boy would never have

beat him if he hadn't been distracted

is there mr sanderson here i'm sanderson

mr sanderson it's the devil's own time

finding you sir

do you know this man yes willie davis

why were you sitting in the back row

really thank you pardon sir but the only

place he's been sitting is at the police

station

under the influence as you can see but

he couldn't

i picked him up in the red line pub

there were some there that said he stole

the money he spent there

but willie said that you'd march for him

that you gave him the money so that's

true how long has it been in custody

for the last hour i'd say that's

impossible

why we saw him sitting here in this very

arena wearing that foolish sweater not

10 minutes ago

couldn't have been him sir 10 minutes

ago he was still unconscious

come only but i saw him too between

rounds

i thought mr sanderson was still using

psychological warfare

well it couldn't have been willie then

it was petty chihun himself

i saw paddy i'm going to die

shut up must be some explanation

i saw him twice we all saw him

not me remember i didn't see him

the rest of us aren't all going to die

well don't be ridiculous

the german bomb aimed presumably at the

waterfront

struck the east end arena about 12

o'clock

the newspapers called it good fortune

that only five people

were in a building that only a few hours

before had held so many more

four were killed the promoter collins

survived to tell what happened and thus

the

legend of paddy ter hoon was once more

revived

if you see paddy you die

but is that all it really was i mean a

legend

well of the five men

the promoter collins was the only one

who did to see patty

he was also the only one who didn't die

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