Posted by John Patterson A few names of my contemparies: Where are the all now, eh? --Previous Message--
on 2/22/2007, 8:38 pm, in reply to "west in wartime - Monica's pies and peas"
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Hello to you Bill,
If I said that I remembered you well, then I would be fibbing, although your name is still quite familier to me. I too am ex Westool - from November 1956 to November 1962. I was an apprentice and when I reached the end of my time, Westool surprised me by saying bye bye!. However it all turned out for the best.
I seem to remember a buyer called Russell ? and the menbers of the Drawing office like Ted Collinson and Stan ?.
Mel Jackson
Ernie Gill
Aubrey Ryder
Freddy Thompson
oh and a ginger headed guy who now works just accross the road from the demolition site that was Westool. He seems to pop up on TV from time to time (even over here in Cumbria).
I could also mention a few of the girl's names to but that would really set me off into a bout of nostagia.
Regards,
John Patterson
now retired and living in Penrith.
: I'm beginning to think that I'm the
: only survivor of my generation.
: For instance, doesn't ANYONE
: remember Monica Pickering who, from
: a house on the left of Mill Bank
: (going down) in the 1940s dispensed
: those delicious pies-and-peas ? A
: few years later, when I spent a
: little time as a clerk in the Buying
: Office of Westool (as it then was)
: Monica had changed her name to
: Monica Chrissop and was in charge of
: Filing. Or Miss McGregor, a
: teacher of French at the Copeland
: Lane School, who ran (once a week)
: the West Auckland branch (mostly
: Ethel M. Dells and Leslie Charteris)
: of the Bishop Auckland Public
: Library in the Rechabites' Hall on
: the other side of Mill Bank ? Or
: Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, permanent
: residents at the Ranch ? Or Flash
: Elliot, who was sent off in a game
: in the Northern League, and later
: suspended, I believe for ever ?
: (Can anyone tell me why ?)
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