Recent content by Graham2

Matador , i worked for a tobacco firm, and we had cigarette machines in loads of pubs , they had to be refilled every week. One of my routes was Birmingham and the Matador had one of our machines there . On arriving there one Thursday morning to refill it, IT had GONE!!! nicked...

I do remember having to do M/T guard duty, provided us with a pick axe handle!! then we had to walk around the hangers where all the land Rovers were kept, other drivers kept nicking your spare wheel off the bonnet of the land rover , so it was an excellent time to nick...

I think the gates you can see were the gates to the firm I worked for Preedys, that was their yard then, this was in 1963 about

Cant understand schools closing, ours never did . I now live in Norway, but was born and bred in place called kingswinford, i also worked in brum in summer lane 1963

nor me 1947 was bad winter

Now obviously this is not in the U k. Its western Norway where i live, not much garden at the moment just a lot of snow. i will find some summer ones

There was a guy that was Landlord there in the mid 80s called Danny Mooney, as you might guess he was irish. Not sure where he went from there.

I remember the Matador !! the firm I worked for had a cigarette machine in there , up the stairs. I used to fill it up each week. Went one week and it had gone !!! It would have taken 3 men to have got it downstairs,, it never came back again. I bet this was an inside job LOL

Did any of you go on the exercise to North Africa, was it Starlight ? we had to have training sessions at Lyneham Airfield on how to get on and off an airplane. We flew out in March i think to El Adam? then our vehicles arrived by sea and we collected them from there, mine was...

Oh Aggie I remember all that especially having to jump off the top board, I couldn't swim until then!! after Pirbright, I went to 1st batt, Grenadiers at Tidworth, Anti-tank platoon, and drove a Land Rover towing an Anti-tank gun around. then not having then 6 months to do when Batt...

1958 i received my letter to report to the Brigade of Guards at caterham. What an eye opener that was, only just got through the gate and I was shouted at. The shouting never stopped for 13 weeks which was our basic training, square bashing and square bashing,PE, I cried along with others ...

Re Preedy summer lane , im sure someone on here said that they worked there, but no one has replied to my saying I worked there in 1961/2 so if you did who are you?

who are you because i worked there in 1961 62

Who are you , did you work atPreedys in 1961?????