Post by Les on Dec 3, 2017 5:52:28 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well:
Confirming one or two peoples memories: Joyce Hilt your milkman who lived in Wheeler Street was Jack Matthews and he had a son called Trevor. He also "helped" my dad Mac mcKenna to do bread deliveries in the 60's.
To I too was at that "Pop" show at the Granada. The bill included The Hollies, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, Lulu,The Searchers and of course The Rolling Stones. My older brother Michael took me to Hastings to see this "fantastic" new band:
The Original Stones with Brian Jones in 1963/4 and a year or two later when they were really BIG they turned up in a huge Oldsmobile c/w the chauffer at Godfrey Holmes in Granville Road (brand new shop then) and I fixed a major brake problem they had.
All of them came into the shop and chatted and drank TEA. Hardly Rock and Roll eh but they gave us all tickets for that same night.
Halcien days! Does anybody remember Gus Harris the boxing promoter and his "Gym" above Hubble and Freemans sports shop (I think)and two of his main boxers, AND both world champions!!
Terry Spink and Dave Charnley. I used to run round Mote Park with them training and they were both really nice guys. My dad was a very keen (and good ) darts player and he got Dave Charnley to do "raffles" for various charity causes in the Greyhound pub on the junction of Holland Road and Wheeler Street.
Talking of the Greyhound please don't tell me it's true it is being closed!! Bill and Milly Dodds were part of my early life and that pub could reveal many secrets. Used to love Sunday lunchtimes when the man came round in his van and sell cockles and Whelks etc. and we used to eat them with our darts!! Keep writing to this site cos Peter does a grand job collating all our yesterdays.
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