Posted by christine bainbridge --Previous Message--
on 3/10/2007, 1:43 pm, in reply to "Westool"
82.18.231.158
: 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 ?)
:
:
:
mr patterson iam researching family history.its proberley a long shot.but my husbands uncle john bainbridge(jack)married a eliza patterson.he was born ferryhll& married at easington colliery.as yet i have no info on eliza.
thank you christine bainbridge
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