Charles Bannerman
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Sneckboy... I think you are bang on with the Catto theory - in fact the match is too close not to be right. The share totals from the two sources match exactly, and Scotlog Sales is owned entirely by the Catto family.
To my recollection, around 300,000 of the Sandy Catto/Scotlog shares were acquired from Coffin John - but at something like 20p in the £ since it was soon after the "financial near-death" episode of around 2000, so Sandy will not have paid anything like their nominal value for them.
I have to say, when I heard this story first, my thoughts went toward Alan Savage since he's well in with the Hospice and I wasn't sure if he had extra shares over and above the 275,000 he got for bankrolling the Niculae acquisition, but Yngwie's figures suggest not. That therefore begs the question whether AS, with his strong Hospice connections, might want to go the other way and buy the things for the sake of becoming the largest shareholder. It seems that it's only practicable for the HH to sell to a small number of buyers. Pure speculation on my part though.
By the way I'm sure someone told me some time ago that they were Sneckboy but I'm not 100% sure I remember correctly who it was. Refresh my memory if appropriate.
Charles.
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Cheers Sneckboy. I do like your posts which are very well informed and thoroughly researched. Another guy who is often bang on is Yngwie so when I saw that the two of you were on the same wavelength as I was on the shares, this helped confirm it in my mind.
What actually happened regarding identity was that an acquaintance as opposed to a friend once told me that they were "X" on CTO and the pseudonym in question was definitely that of a good, reliable poster. The problem is that I can't remember who "X" was and thought it might have been Sneckboy, but apparently not.
Charles.
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don't know if you got my message.I'm new to this just wanted to say that the Locarno cafe was owned and run by Renzo,The Washington in eastgate was owned and run,I think by Rosie ? Dorando's was at the bottom of academy street,I can't remember the name of the brothers,they also had The rendezvous.Unfortunately Charlie Pieraccini died this week ,He owned and ran Charlies at the bus station.I remember that place in 1959
