The 16th Laurel and Harday , on the 1st Saturday in September 2008.

When we got to the Morris St Working mens club this year we were greeted by a bombshell from Chris Coffey the driving force and organiser of the Laurel and Harday , that it was going to be the last that HE would organise , but more about that later , we had no official photographer or video crew this year due to internal problems so there will be no pictures to accompany this report , after 16 years of setting up the Video and sound equipment I finally got it to work first time ! amazing , first item on the agenda was that we showed "Your Darn tootin"  with a new soundtrack by the Beau Hunks from Holland , the charity auction with the famous , or possibly infamous Tony Bagley and friends who this year collected for the statue appeal , I believe we raised about £136 so well done .
Jean Darling again was again interviewed by Chris and she revealed she has a new book out , full of new photographs which were found by a gentleman in Czechoslovakia , if any of you were at last years Harday you may recall that Jean told us that a friend of theirs had stored a lot of photos and memorabilia in their garage and the Garage allegedly burned down , well these pictures were in that Garage , the  man had found the in his attic after divorcing his wife and rather than putting them on Ebay and making a lot of money he realised that they were of a personal nature and probably of great sentimental value and so contacted Jean to give them back , so very well done that man a real Gentleman indeed.
Next up was the David Wyatt crazy quiz and this year we had the Three Stooges quiz , apparently they had er "Recycled" a LOT of Laurel and Hardy films and we had to think of the Laurel and Hardy film which it reminded us of , some of them were a bit obscure  , which is par for the course with David`s quizzes , of course to finish off the day we had the Kneesie Earsie Nosie World Championship , this year it was won by Daughter of the Desert from Nottingham.
Back to the beginning then and Chris`s announcement that it is the last Harday , Ian Parker our MC was circulating all day talking to various Sons who all unanimously stated that "You cant let it stop , you must carry , on as it is a long established event in the Sons calendar" , so the former Wigan and St Helens Bacongrabbers have formed their own tent called "Dirty Work" with Gary