Recent content by richardthompson

Maybe it was the Bagot Arms, my mother left there in 1960 to get married and she was a typist as well

My dad Wilfred Thompson worked at fishers as well, my mother worked there first in 1953 and he started there in 1957 and left in 1972

I believe the photo was taken in early 1963 during the hard winter as the same picture is featured in one of the local history books, not sure if there was a pub there then opposite the library

Wouldn't have fancied cycling through all that lot, the cyclists didn't wear helmets then

jogging hadn't become fashionable yet in 1964, there was a chemist opposite the law courts, used to go to Matthew Boulton college in the 1980s