Hi Redken,
You right of course, John Joy, so I must have been in your house at sometime. What a tragedy when Reggie was killed. We were close since we had both stopped on at school an extra year. On the morning of his bike crash, I was kicking a ball about in Beamish Road and Reg came along on I think a green BSA Bantham. He said that he was going to have a side-car fitted and that he would give a ride later and that was the last I saw of him. I can remember going to his funeral along with the two other lads from our class at school and his teacher Mr Collins. Reg had a great sense of humour, but I remember, when his dad used to go into the bathroom to play his bag-pipes, Reg would shout 'Dad, do you have to?'
Don't know if you remember the Lloyd family who used to live in Bordesley Park Road, near the outdoor and butchers? Well, in coming down that hill on a sledge one winter, with the Lloyd lad on the back, we smashed in to the wall at the bottom at a frightening pace; all I could see was the soles of his feet as he went hurtling over the wall and believe me there was quite a drop the other side, and landed face down spread-eagled in to snow. It was like one of those scenes from a Roadrunner cartoon. Finally, do you remember this outdoor on the Cov and their frozen Jubbly's and the Doctors. Dr Brown [1 Knock] and Dr McBrown [2]