Ralph Spilsbury Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 Myself and Bill Bradshaw would like to hear from any old friends from Gt Sankey Penketh and Warrington. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted May 18, 2007 Report Share Posted May 18, 2007 Would this be the RS born about 1932 - Crosfields? Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Spilsbury Posted May 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 Harry Hayes,your name sounds familiar,correct Crosfields,Royal Navy,49 -54,Involved in Hotel and Leisure thereafter,Last in Warrington 1984 for 1 day.Lived and worked in various parts of the world,West Africa USA and Spain. Retired now,spend my winters in Spain and "summers" in Cornwall,Interests are motorhoming ,flying,and just latly fighting this computer.Ralph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 Ralph, Remember quite a ggod looking "with it" chap (music - be bop interest?}. Crosfield youth club? Miss Dean; Harry Woods; Barry Crawford; Ken steele;Pete Harrison, Eddie williams - and that,s just the boys. The only ones I ever see these days are Harry Roe and Tom Smith. Some of the above are no longer with us. I was in the works accounts with Eric Pacey and be bopper Harry Woods. Harry Taylor and Alan Potter nearby. Happy days [ 19.05.2007, 22:22: Message edited by: harry hayes ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Spilsbury Posted May 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 Harry your memory is amazing !!I worked in Wages under a very strick Mr Clegg,I also knew Eric Pacey,I helped as "Callboy" on the various operatic shows performed in the Crosfields theatre.During my navy days I spent time at RNAS Stretton (HMS Blackcat)on demob I was in town for a few months,On the big band scene were Eric Pep,Roy Deakin,(what happened to Roy)Wilf Rigby Harry Jarman and another Wilf ?Eric Pep's brother used to write very good arrangements.Edna Savage and a girl called Barbara Law were singers around in those days.I fell in love moved to Birmingham,we fell out,I moved on,met a new love married her, 50 years of bliss,she sadly died last year after enduring 5 years of intorable pain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Ralph, Having trouble getting this off to you. Yes I knew Mr Clegg. Bosses were gods in those days. Mr Came was our leader and there was panic whenever he descended on us. Few more names from the downstairs offices - Syd Richards; Les Holt; Olive Hedgecock; Freda Hackett; Denise Woods. Bob Hibbert used to sing with the opera group. Wilf Rigby married the singer Joan Plant - their son Brian is still about. Les Beddoes worked with me. He had a small band. Very good looking chap - I hated him. Eric Pep is still about I think, the last time I saw him was as resident musician at the Lord Daresbury Hotel. Edna Savage,s dad worked in Bank park. He was such a proud dad, even when she married Terry Dene, with all his troubles. Don,t know if Barbara Law is still about. She used to run a shoe shop in the block where the Pavilion cinema used to be, in Lovely Lane. Hope the above brings back some memories. By the sound of your posting you have had somme set-backs. Hope life becomes kinder towards you. best wishes Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_b Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Don,t know if Barbara Law is still about Moved to Tenerife with husband George Reid after selling Chaplins night club in the 80's.Don't remember the shoe shop in Lovely Lane but they did have *Ye Olde Shoe Shop* in the market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Spilsbury Posted May 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Mike.B I did hear that Barbara Law was doing the cabaret circuit in Tenerife about 10 years ago,what happened to Edna Savage ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veronica smith Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 use to work at crosfields in the downstairs typing pool remember all the names mentioned in harry hayes message. been in Canada since 1966. but come back just about every year or so, lots of changes since I lived back there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Trust you got my reply Veronica. Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Spilsbury Posted June 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Harry Hayes, Drove up to Warrington 3 weeks ago,Stayed for 6 nights,could not believe the transformation,met up with the family of a very dear friend who made me so welcome.Managed to find Crosfields,got lost many times and never reached the Market Gate by the same roads twice.Could not find the main entrance to RNAS Stretton,visited the town Records Office and Museum where info was a bit thin on the ground,little or nothing on the old dance halls,walking days(pre-war)nor HMS Blackcap. Perhaps some of the old photographs will provoke memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Hope you enjoyed your visit Ralph - you should have come and introduced yourself. I know a Wilf Rigby, but his son is called Chris. Must be two Wilf Rigby's in Warrington :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 Ralph, Never, ever go back. Age clouds your memory. The rose-tint has gone. Nothing is as exciting second time around. Very best wishes Happy days [ 21.06.2007, 11:08: Message edited by: harry hayes ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veronica smith Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 Originally posted by harry hayes: Trust you got my reply Veronica. Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veronica smith Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 Harry thanks for your e-mail. nice to hear from you again, still dont know why I never received my pension from Crosfields, I only worked there for 6 years but thought I would have received something.I remember the shop across from crosfields, also the one on the corner, two weird looking sisters ran it had a parrot, was there when I went to sacred heart school and stayed opened for several years after I left to start work. Where in cornwall do you visit. We moved back to UK in 1977 for 2 years and lived in devon, between dawlish and teignmouth.loved it down there but the kids were too canadian, so we came back in 1979.regards veronica :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veronica smith Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 Originally posted by veronica smith: Originally posted by harry hayes: Trust you got my reply Veronica. Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veronica smith Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 harry sorry got your info mixed up with ralph, he is the one thats goes to spain and cornwall sorry.have a good day.veronica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 No problem. I,m parochial; Ralph is cosmopolitan (hate him). Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veronica smith Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 hello from canada to all in the forum, really enjoy reading everyones comments. It is Saturday Night overhere, 9-45pm guess all of you will be in noddy land lol. not the younger generation. Weather is beautiful overhere, Tuesday next week is going to be 31 with the humidex reaching 41 (lot of sweating) tha thank god for air conditioning, seeing you are getting alot of rain in the uk, we could do with some of it overhere, the grass is starting to burn, looks like we are in for a really hot dry summer. Anyway, goodnight from toronto canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Just to prove what a small world it is Ralph is now sitting down having a coffee with me discussing the good old days - story and pictures to follow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 and you can now see him on todays news page! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Spilsbury Posted August 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2007 Gary, Many thanks to you and your father,I managed to speak to quite a number of old friends and thanks to "Eric Pep"I am again in contact with Roy Deakin a band leader from the fifties. The old town is no longer recognisable to me,all the old small privately owned shops have long ago disappeared.All in all I really enjoyed my stay,the Monday night Swing Band and Thursdays music at "The Stag"together with meeting old friends made it all worthwhile, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Spilsbury Posted October 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 Still very little contact from old friends from Gt Sankey, Penketh and Warrington,especially we would like to hear from Margaret Wheeler Kath McDonald,Shirley Smith,Cynthia Dixon,Margaret Harper,Edna Trolman,Jean Fitzsimmons and any friends from late 40s and 50s. Many thanks to everyone who did make contact Rlph and Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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