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Great fun reading the about tales from the canteen. Thanks Chris, I still treasure that picture you posted of me and Dave Clark (both clearly drunk) on stage with you at the Christmas party. Fred, what happened to Goosey Baker? I remember him well. Didn't he work in the stores. The recent...

I left in 1968 but share lasting impressions of the place with you all. I think it's great that there is still a few of us around to tell the story. I too remember the canteen. Jim and I used to go down & collect the hot bacon and sausage sandwiches in little white paper bags and take them back...

OK, last I heard he had moved to South Wales so that fits. Another prodigal son from the Ionic camp.

Hi Chris (Rem), this thread has gone a bit cold but Roy Castle's name came up in a recent conversation I had. Do you remember him? He was a young chemist at Ionic around 1967/68. As I recall he had to get married to one of the girls who worked on the wiring up section. They were both very young...

In the mid sixties, of course, The Carlton was very much a Mod hangout. Best we got then was The Spencer Davis Group. Stevie Winwood, a brilliant musician even at 16, was adored by mods. I think there was a pub called the Navigation somewhere in Erdington where mods used to get pissed before...

I finally got round to reading earlier pages on the BGTS thread. It's interesting to read varying opinions on the, shall we call it, 'robust' behaviour of the teaching staff, (we used to call them masters in those days). Some contributors to the thread make reference to bullying behaviour...

What an amazing concentration of talent that was. I love that ad that says Mississippi Fred MacDowell was not coming but you got Sabbath and Groundhogs instead. How bad was that! If that wasn't to your liking, don't worry, Humble Pie and Pink Floyd next weekend! Come on! Another one I picked up...

Anybody remember the small pink exam papers we used to get form UoL? These are from 1963.

I worked with Ernie, great character. No pics unfortunately, only memories. It was after all late '60s! A few photos have been uncovered on this thread, but we weren't obsessed with taking snapshots then and of course we didn't have cell phone technology. I hope this unearths some more, I would...

OK Bob, apologies, my mistake. You mentioned a Dave Clarke in an earlier post. There was a Dave Clarke from the H&S met lab who went to Ionic Plating in Smethwick, c1967. That's where I got to know him & we became mates. Lost touch long ago. All the best. DQ

Re that photograph, I might be mistaken but is that Dave Clarke in the centre of the picture (black sweater)?

Re that photograph, I might be mistaken but is that Dave Clarke in the centre of the picture (black sweater)?

This is my mother-in-law's canteen of cutlery (God rest her soul). Purchased in 1986 for £150, it was never used, afraid of scratching the lovely polished finish. It really is great quality. Not quite sure what the point was in buying it, but a generation ago they did that sort of thing. I...

I worked there for a short time c1968. What a dump, like walking back in time. I think the company was thrown into a charitable trust over an disagreement in the Tubbs family many moons ago. The trust held the purse strings from then on. I am really not too informed about this and it would be...