Hi postie,
Any Idea,s What Year That Was Possibly 1800 Or Early 1900 May be And its Where The Bristol Street Car Business Empire Started
And Was built Up By Two Bothers Whom We All know As Bristol Street Car Dealers With There Little Shop Of A Show Room
And A Little compound they held on bristol street And It was a quaint road in Its Hey Day
There head manager at Vittoria street was Fred waklin where they stored there cars from the ford of London
And got Them Highly Cleaned And Serviced Them All labels And Protection stickers AndScratches Was Removed
In Those Days I Was The Only youngster Working For Them And I Was The only person Amongst the male and female staff
Working for the two brothers at there branch whom all were middle age people
Was Brave And cheeky to Walk Into there Office And Asked For pay rise
All The Staff was Smiling At Me, When I Told Them I Am Going Into there office On the Shop Floor,To Asked For A Pay Rise
They Said Go On Son you Will Not Get one. And Laughter At Me So With The Work Force Watching Across I Walked Across To The office
Knocked There Door And Called Me In The Men Was Watching From Across The Shop Floor
I Asked could I Have A Pay Rise please They Said What , could I Have pay Rise And laughter At Me Looked At Me seriously
And They Said yes Son, You Can we will Give you Threepunny rise starting Next Week And Yes They did Stick To There Word
Walked out of the Office Straight Across To The men And They Said What Did They Tell You I said yes I Got A rise
The men said Blimey and after that I Was The Talk of the place. 6 months later I went back and asked them for a reference to join
The Royal waricks fusiliars 1 st Battalion They gave Me one And Off I Went To Germany,
Came back on home Leave To See Them And They Had got Bigger In Business and They Employed security Gaurd On There premises
When I Was Stopped At The Gate Asked Whom I Was And To.d Him, He Smiled And He Said Oh ,You Must Have Been That Young Fella
I Heard About That a young fella Asking For the rise then Joining Up I Said Yes That ,s Me,
I Can Still Vizulize Old Bristol Street Today And See How Its Changed I Have A.Lt Of memories From That neck Of The Woods
With the music studios on bristol street in the fifths and The Mexico coffee bar all nighter
And The private members Club Around The block of Holloway head And Working Around the Whole Area doing council repairs
And more so of the old bowling green Pub And the old Original scrumpy house oppersite The gangester,s pub as its was in its oriniginal standing
Which Incidently I have two different books with there original building before any modifications
I have Seen people walk Up The little entry of the little house as it was in them days before any extent ions to the house or moving down the road
I have seen big rich fellas in there posh cars walk straight up the entry and after a Half Point of the Pure stuff
Whether they had the rough stuff that tasted life,e glass when you swallow or the penny a pint of the smooth stuff
half A PennyFor the Ruff , And A Penny for the smooth that was pure Apple Grand Stuff And Stagger Down The Entry And Fall Into There CarIt Was Nice Postie
To See picture Of The Old Bristol Street,It Would Be Nice To See Other people Memory I Am Sure There Will Be Loads
Best wishes Alan ,,,,,,Astonian,,,,,,,,,,,,
