hi.i worked at fort dunlop as a internal truck driver.working nights.the space it took up was vast.the part that went from the newport rd was nick named the ponderosa,becouse of its size.in the fort was filled with all kind of wonderfull
things from the past,just stored there.i loved to have a look around. The rubber bugs was huge things,but you got used to em.every morning the paperman delivered the milk and papers,he had a old truck,,that would never start prop,most mornings i had to give it a push with a fork truck to start the thing.up as far as the tyburn rd.lol
happy times.
pete
hi.froth.people used to think i was pulling there leg when i told them about the bugs.and crickets. last time i went in there was around 1989.down the main passage,past the mill.it was being demolished.so sad all that history gone with a swing of a hammer.
It might have been a rotten stage but your shows were the best.
Mike,
That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me today and I really appreciate it! I've had a rotten Sunday - backed the car into a frigging steel bollard at the garage, and this afternoon we had a drain blockage courtesy of the heavy rain.
We put The Mikado on at Sutton Town Hall in November, and if you'd like to come, remind me nearer the time and there'll be a free ticket for you.
Best, Big Gee
Hi Froth,
Yes, I remember George Fletcher - he was in the Dunlop Society, though, and I was in Erdington. He usually played the comic baritone parts in G&S, such as the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe and Ko-Ko in The Mikado. I think he's still around.
Big Gee
I worked at the Dunlop on the maintenance Old Mill CPD and West Mill from 1965 to 1980 best place i ever worked some real charactors picked up my defered pension paid by somebody called Invensis these days.
We even had a bar in the canteen so that the nightshift used to come from the club clock in and carry on drinking in the canteen a real throwback from the war years.