Post by Les on Dec 6, 2017 21:30:32 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well:
Hello Peter Higgins.I remember your family well, especially brother Dennis.Your mum had her hands full didn't she! Not too long after moving to Bristol I was the steward at a local Polytechnic (remember them!!)and there was a regional "Dance off" for the original Come Dancing Tv programme.
I watched some of the dancing and the competition was "fierce". After the show a "stunning" girl came over and said "Hi Terry, do you remember me?
It was your sister!! Does she still dance? And a hello to Margaret Swann too. Your shop sold the best fruit and veg. in the area (don't tell "Ebby" Mr Woodhams!!)and I remember your dad being a fireman on call.
I still have a post office account book from over the road from you. My Nan from London used to visit us twice a year and give me a brown 10 bob note, which I used to run up to the post office and "bank".
Do you recall the family Grists just down the road at the top of Hedley street and the butchers opposite? Mr and Mrs Court lived over the road from our shop in Holland road and I "bumped" into their son Bob in the now sadly closed Greyhound a couple of years ago.
By the way Peter my scooter was a Vespa 150,my pride and joy and was more highly polished than any of my shoes!!
On my last visit to Maidstone this year to meet my lifelong friends Trevor Miles and Jimmy Yarwood, I met Betty Warren who lived opposite our bakery and she still lives in the same old house where I was friends with her son Brian.Although now in her 80's she still looks exactly the same and it was great to see her. Keep writing on this site AND have a look at the reunion 2010 page.