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The film Pathe news i don't think that is the Embassy roller rink if you look back at page one there are photos of the inside of the Embassy and it doesn't have a banked outer area and the safty rails are different, have a look see what you think. i think it is another rink.
A friend of mine worked at the BSA as a tool setter/fitter in the learly 60s we took the cylinder head off my Morris Oxford and he took it to work with him, he had the head skimmed gold star valves and double springs fitted the port were opened and polished intake manifold opend up and polished...
Stitcher,
It was you that told me the name of the man that lived in Leamington rd, and that photo of him on the scrambler looks like the man i could be wrong it was a long time ago. have a look at page one and scroll up.
Louis Dalby,
that looks like the Bill Nicholson that lived in Leamington rd were he lived with his parents so he could have moved on, Leamington rd was demolished in the 70s so he could have moved to Gospel Farm rd.
Carol Watts,
The social club was brilliant i would go their dancing every saturday night they would have a differant band each week and they all had good dance tempo.
judydog,
i worked there from 1968 to 1979 as a sheet metal worker i worked in E block before going to I block the experimental dept making prototype car bodies, i don't recognize your dads name.
Graham,
this doing more than the speed limit it just goes on you were very fast as i know i have been out cycling with you and i had no one to talk to you had gone, which bike did you rap round a tree out Earlswood way it was so bad it was U shaped.
Graham,
i do remember that bike with a fixed wheel and no brakes, you had another one didn't you the one that you would over take me in my car going to work you would be out training before you went to work. and which one were you done for speeding on for over taking Police cars.