Trevor F Bell
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Email:
trevorfbell@btinternet.com
Submitted:
8 May 2001
Lived in:
1938 to 1958
Lived at:
3 Richmond Road
Attended:
Woodhouse Grammar
Now lives:
Bournemouth
Occupation:
Retired Assistant Director of Nursing Services
Remembers (people):
David Sayliss, Hugh Gribben, Jack Tranfield, Tom Logan, Clarissa Rodgers, Joan Farrar, Rev. Monyhan, Rev. Ferraby, Elsie & Howard Oliver, Flo Hughes & Margery at the Vimto
shop, Bill Trott, the Owens (builder)and famil, Pat Kelly, Rhodes the newsagent, Dr Shrivastava, Flynn Nelson, the Milner Brothers, A.R.P. Harry, the Chemist, & many others such as the Misses Hinkinis, Mollie Murtagh (her parents had a pub in Darnall), Wilf Snell, all at St Josephs.
Remembers (places):
The opening of the Plaza Cinema, St Joseph's School children, Having two Classrooms in my home during the 1939 emergency, dancing several nights a week in St J's, the Queen Mother passing through Handsworth, the last tram. The most eventful event was the bomb that was dropped in a half circle of emergency ambulances in the Council school yard & not one of them was damaged nor any of us standing behind them, but the houses across St Joseph's Road were knocked about a bit.
Comments:
I don't get up north these days, but I would love to hear from
anyone who remembers me.
Brats' Nowonder Meeting 10 November '08
