Strongbow

I must admit I also clamp cars in my pub however I do have umpteen notices up in the car park asking people to ask the barstaff for a free permit to park over night

people tend to forget that when the pub closes the land is my private domain and sometimes I have deliveries etc early in the morning

I have never actually charged anyone for removing a clamp I have however made it in convenient for them as they have for me by saying I cant make it to the pub untill a certain time after all I do not live on the property

its a two way thing its a respect thing ask if you can park overnight and i am sure no one would ever object I certainly would not. dont ask and I take offence as sometimes people tend to park in the place where you really need to be at 7am in the morning

Inside my pub I also have notices asking people to get a free permit from my staff

unfortunately it tends to be people with no room on their drives and have never ever been a customer of mine that tend to use MY property when they think i am not looking

therefore I clamp em as they dont have the manners to ask permision

Butchers shop isn't much help, there used to be lots up and down the Front (main) Street and elsewhere. The name of the butchers would help though. We couldn't be talking about Walkers *the* Butchers could we?

The numbers on both Front Street East and West (high steet) don't go quite that high. They run upwards going from both directions toward The Market Place (town center). Both sets of numbers end something either side of a hundred, but never as high as the 140's.

Perhaps one of your relatives is Tommy Miller who owned the general store almost opposite the black bull until the early 80s he lived on glebe road on the other side of the road from taits ice cream shop near to the bingo hall he also converted the shop next to his store to a prize bingo,cafe and disco in the late 70s from a dry cleaners shop (harton cleaners) tommy millers store was 2 doors away from a pork butchers called Gurneys in front st east, later to become a cafe the only other butcher was hays in the market place where the bus stop is

there was land behind tommys shop and like so many other yards in the day had houses in them

i cant for the life of me remember the name but there were 3 or 4 houses in a yard behind millers shop

mind you I am only going back to the early 50s

Hi, already posted in the members bit but will request here as well.

Does anyone know when the Locke Hall was pulled down please? It could have been mid 70's or late 70's .. a year would be most useful for some research I'm doing.

Thanks in advance!

Was demolished in 1975 I worked for coopers prize bingo which was in the front of the bottom floor of the old co op the Locke hall was above mind u the large clock in the facia of the building did not work for 10 years before that the time was stuck on 5 to 11 for all those years

My uncle Mike Goonan does those calendars and has many a picture of humford woods on his website

www.scenicphotos.com

Hi Strongbow.

I think there is a posting that will interest you in the "Talk of the Town" forum

The topic title is "Ken Russell in the market place club!"

(it should be at the bottem of the first page of topics)

Scroll down to posting number 6 by Swalnalla and click on the here link.

There are quite a few videos of the 1960 picnic among some old footage.

I am having my relatives delve through there old albums and let you know if

I come up with anything.

BW.

Thanks for your help

20 acres really I used to live in millfield and now in kent I am a showman now and remember the days from the 60s and 70s however I did not have any pictures they are for private use I have managed to buy william summers big wheel that attended the picnic regularly however taylors dive bombers grahams twist to name but a few have been scrapped the only 1 I have was of the astronaut in church lane when it got stuck.

My dad used to run the blue bell terry goonan and was secretary of the top club for quite a few years after he left the doctor pit my grandad jack hedley was a bookies runner for smouts in the 50s 60s 70s and I used to manage connexions for tom hennessy as well as work for david milne at NVR tv rentals the pictures i am seeking are purely for nostalgic personal reasons.

Hi Does anyone have any pictures of the shows at the old miners picnic

Thanks