Posted by bill oliphant on 2/24/2007, 4:27 am, in reply to "Westool" --Previous Message--
202.67.65.165
Dear John, A few additions/corrections - the chief buyer was ALF Birch, and the Mary in the Buying office was Mary Armstrong; in the Drawing office it was Jimmy HARP, not Sharp, and in the same office were Tommy Waggett, Brian Watts and an elegant Tracer called Vera something, Deputy Chief of Sales was Midgley, Factory Manager was Woodger, chief of Stores was JOE Lee, and Empress of the Typing Pool was Maude Barrass, it was DOUG Reed who was in the Table Tennis team, and after I left a cousin of mine, Mary Smedley, was in Reception (I think). Isn't the human memory wonderful ? Cheers Bill
: 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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