Recent content by Mercy

Thanks Martha.....lovely picture of my old school.....when I posted my thread...I had just seen pictures of the school boarded up.....and signs outside at the gateway advertising a completly different activity, taken much later....1970s or even 80s I think. I was there between 1964 and 1970. I...

Do you remember the Worthingtons John and Doris, they had two daughters Freda and Joyce. Freda was my mum. I used to visit my Nan and grandad John and Doris every Sunday ....they lived at the top end of Ridgeway just next to the bus stop before the island before it became Warren road.

It had a great reggae night I think it was a Friday around 1966

Anyone go to Bogarts top of new street above bier Keller . I worked the bar there in 1971. Great rock music, and live local bands , after work around 3.00am used go and eat two mixed grills and pour pernot into my glass of milk to wash it down, until they through us out in early hours of the...

Henry’s blues bar is what it was called above the Crown Pub.

Yes, I’m a young 67 years

Sue you must have been there HWGS same time as me...miss Jones taught Science as well, and had won medals as a professional swimmer...she stood no messing but was fair. I was there from 1964 til 1971 ...I stayed on for 6th form when they did the new build for the common rooms. I remember Mrs...

Christine I lived in the maisonette opposite Tweed Tower....used to play in that playground on the bars, we were the Jenkins family....I’m Diane and would have been 7/8 years old then. I knew Ann Kenny who lived on the eighth floor and Mary Haynes in the maisonettes further down near the...

They were built earlier than that I was six when I moved into the maisonettes and they were there then, in 1960

My friend and I used to work in Woollies on Saturdays in 1968 on the biscuit counter, we were allowed to take home biscuits that were broken at the bottom of the big glass topped boxes on the pick and mix, needless to say we would occasionally drop a box or too on way down from the stockroom to...

My dad helped run it, they moved from a rundown building in AlumRock I think.

does anyone remember the new build of two storey youth club next to home tower in about 1957 ?