Recent content by lynnecarpo

No omg ,wish my husband was still with me he would be so upset ,i went to the black eagle every dinnertime to meet tony then my boyfriend ,what fond memories of Ben and may and barmaid Gloria (sugar),1980 happy days ,has it been boarded up ,or knocked down ,I'm sorry to hear that

My dad worked at cheneys from 65 to 1998,when on retiring the managers asked him to carry on working 3 days a week,my dad sheared the metal in the cutting shop with harry beard,as foreman ,my mom also worked there part time afternoons in press shop with Vic hipkiss as foreman ,and I worked there...

Hi Lyn I just read your thread on south rd , hockley,could U be more specific who u knew from south rd please and how u knew some ppl named Richard ,Steve, Robert

My happy times were when I lived in South road hockley ,most of my family ,mom & dad Nigely brother at 77 then my aunty n uncle at 101 then my nan and grandad at 125 ,lived there up until we moved to gt Barr,but I will always remember my friends from there gill Tracy Jill Hopkins late John...

Hi Karen I remember my dad mention the name Sid burrows there was a lot of different shops in Cheney's so there would be a few foremen or fore women ,did burrows was one of the then there were Arthur Hatton ,bill trueman of the warehouse ,,and Vic hipkiss,Harry bird was my dads foreman Ronald...

Hi wumbly I didn't live there in alleyne rd ,but my nan carpenter was a member of alleyne church and my GT aunt Ethel,they would bring me and my brother eagle wings every wed and I could write bible stories to win a certificate to reward us for our hard bible story work the vicar of the church...

Hi just up from railway bridge on park road was a small terraced road just a walk through with ought a road but about 10 houses each side it was called the pleck ,then there were houses and a sweet shop up from the pleck sweet shop called the carbys Debbie carby was my friend at Benson rd...