Post by Les on Dec 8, 2017 11:04:37 GMT
(jimharris_ifa@yahoo.com) Maidstone I remember it well:
- Roger (Banfield) In one of your entries you asked if anybody knew the whereabout of Wilkie (I guess Rodney Wilkins) and Nigel Wise. The three of us went to the Boys Tech together, and Ian Edge. Rod and I went on the trolley from the bottom of Mangravet Avenue on the 08.10 every day for 3 years where we sat upstairs at the back sharing a cigarette. My parents moved to Sidcup in 1960 immediately after I left school and I went to work for an insurance company in the City so those years you talk about with them at the Tav were mostly missed by me.
I do remember all of us drinking there and also meeting together at the back of your parents shop. A friend told me that Nigel is in New Zealand although the last time I actually spoke to him was around 1962 when we all met in Soho for a boys booze up. As for Rod, he had met a girl who lived in the Channel Islands and whether he married her or not I don't know but when my parents moved back to Maidstone around 1975, my Mother used to bump into his Mother shopping in Maidstone and eventualy she told me that he was living in Jersey.
Maidstone must have some magnetism as in 1966 I moved back with my wife (having moved to Plymouth for a couple of years) and worked in and around Maidstone from then on.
Aware that he might still be in Jersey and whilst sitting at an office desk in Cornwallis House in Pudding Lane, decided to look in the Chanel Islands phone book in case it gave a number for Rodney Mervyn Wilkins. There he was R M Wilkins. I rang but he was obviously busier than me so the call was relatively brief and it wasn't a particularly good line. I think he said he was an auctioneer. That was around 1992 and the last time we spoke. If you know anything of any of them I'd be delighted to hear. Jim Harris