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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Northern Ireland - Days Like This - Story 8th October 2008
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Leith Burgess

"All of a sudden I felt dizzy and everything went very hazy…I didn’t know what was happening to me."

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Leith takes us back to 1968 and to what started as a normal day, working in the quarry...

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Name: Natalie
Date: 09/10/2008
Comment: That was a very short story for my Uncle Leith as those who know and love him well all love his long stories. Leith is currently in Antrim Hospital GET WELL SOON.

Name: Victoria
Date: 12/03/09
Comment: As Natalie has said, a very short story, but one I have never heard! Nice seeing the old photos, especially the one of nanny.


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Leith Burgess in the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Ulster studio
A big greyhound racing fan – here’s Leith (with beard) and his workmates outside Colwick Park Greyhound Stadium, Nottingham
Leith with Noel Brannick who invented the ‘Brannick Hare’ which today is in common usage in grey-hound racing.  At the time, Leith was working on the steel-work of the Dunmore grey-hound track, Alexander Park Avenue, Belfast – the longest grey-hound track in the British Isles
Another from Dunmore track
Leith on the left, outside his workshop in Doagh with the local coalman and motor mechanic
Leith with a slurry mixer he made out scrap in 1975
Leith’s 1970 Driving Licence
Leith’s 1970 Driving Licence
On the road again. Leith on his first holiday in County Donegal, 1969
Leith’s mum – Jane Leith Burgess in 1965
Leith with his partner, Martha Christie, who died on the 16th of October, 2005
Leith Burgess with his niece Audra. You can see the bald spot on the top of his head where he was shaved and stitched after being hit that day
“Kind patronage...†In 1963 Leith pre-ordered a model making lathe from a Sheffield Company and this is the very polite letter that he received from them
Man of machines – in 1962 Leith stopped smoking just so he could afford an arc welder. This is the hire-purchase receipt for monthly payment of the welder
Man of iron! Leith (third from the right) with his fellow committee members of Burnside Tug ‘O’ War club
Leith laying a wreath in 1990 at the war memorial, Thiepval, the Somme

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