Post by Les on Oct 29, 2017 19:22:38 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well:
Hi there Dawn,I lived in james street, your name rings a bell but I cannot picture your face, but I remember Joan Free Valerie Flood,Pat Hills Mary Thornton Pam Otterway,Jean,Linda & Barbara the Harmer Sisters Linda Bovis & Christine Skinner, I also remember her three cousins that use to come down from London for there summer breaks they all spent two weeks holiday at a time there was Jean Reggie & Joyce Jean Ball married my brother Tony.
I remember the brush factory it was owned by two men Haywood and a mr Harris he had a very good looking daughter name of Pamela,the ladies that you use to see Mrs Free Molly & Katty Verral fixing the bristles to the broomheads also the inmates at maidstone prison assembled a lot, the brush factory being an old school us boys use to play football in the old play ground, us boys use to sit on the steps with the girls playing dare through kiss & promise, eyespy, tell jokes,and always having a good old sing along we had great fun in them days.
Do you remember little Sheila Morris her father had the garage in James Street next to my grandads old pub that he turned into two properties, my uncle George had the butchers shop at the bottom of James Street and all of our fathers and grandads had an allotment each so we never were out of good fresh veg and meat, then there was Bob Sharps fish & chip shop and otterways shop, what wonderful memories to still have.