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Bill Quay follow on

Posted by Allan Campbell on January 3, 2021, 9:42 am

Brack Terrace still stands but Coxon St. pulled down Why?

Allan C.

Re: Bill Quay follow on

Posted by Liz Dance on January 3, 2021, 10:23 am, in reply to "Bill Quay follow on"

Good question Allan as the houses in Coxon Street were the same as this on Brack Terrace, I am surprised that some builder hasn’t applied for planning permission to build houses where Coxon Street used to be. All very strange.

Re: Bill Quay follow on

Posted by alan la ruste on January 3, 2021, 10:38 am, in reply to "Re: Bill Quay follow on"

coxon street was in a bad state when i lived there, 1965,there was talk of rats, the downstairs flat that i had, had silver snail trails over the carpet every morning,dampness everywhere,and the ceiling fell down in the scullery,but it was worth paying thirty bob a week just to get hoyed out by the council,who then gave us a house on the leam lane estate we had only been in bill quay for six months,.

Re: Bill Quay follow on For Allan Campbell

Posted by Peter Bailey on January 3, 2021, 11:54 am, in reply to "Re: Bill Quay follow on"

Allan I read down the board that your Mam and Dad lived at no.1 Marion Drive - did you/they know Betty and Ken Wilson at no.2 across the road? they were my aunt Florence Tweddell's sister and brother-in-law.

Re: Bill Quay follow on For Allan Campbell

Posted by Allan Campbell on January 3, 2021, 12:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Bill Quay follow on For Allan Campbell"

I would think Dad would as always out in Garden after 1977.
Mum not so sure.

Me, no moved south in 1969.

The Tweddell name familiar but cannot remember. An Arthur Tweddell ? Dad knew a LOT of people. I could never keep up with the various names. I suppose it was due to Reyrolle’s having worked his way up from an apprentice to senior management, being a shop steward, foreman etc.

He knew a lot of people through his father a Leslie’s man. Both in the Specials. Then there would be Dad playing professional football in the early 30’s. Even G/F was a ref after being a goalkeeper. Both were goalkeepers.

I’m sure that I got my apprenticeship at Palmers through a friend of Grandfather, Joe Banks who was a section leader in Palmers DO. He lived across the road from G/F in Newton Terrace. It was many years later ( 40) that I connected the dots as to what may have happened. My best bet anyway.

Allan C.