Posted by bill oliphant --Previous Message--
on 2/23/2007, 5:05 am, in reply to "Westool"
202.67.65.165
Dear John, Terrific to hear from you. My time at Westool was from 1950 to 1952, when the other chaps in the Buying Office were Al Birch (Chief Buyer) and Bill Lockerbie, with Sheila Grange and Mary ?. I have a vague memory of Ted Collinson in the Drawing Office, and Jimmy Sharp and ? Cook in the same place, also Riddell and Coppack in the solenoid design centre over by the canteen. Among the Directors were Hook, Wake and Hunking, and Smith led the Sales office. My name might have been remembered in your time because I played Table Tennis for the factory team, as did ? Reed. Tommy Kavanagh (with a patch over one eye)and ? Lee were in the Stores section, down on the shop floor. I'll soon, I know, remember quite a few other names. Ah, the dear, dead days beyond recall !
: 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 ?.
:
: A few names of my contemparies: 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.
:
: Where are the all now, eh?
: Regards,
: John Patterson
: now retired and living in Penrith.
:
: --Previous Message--
: 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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