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John G
Aug 19, 2017 15:53:06 GMT
Post by Les on Aug 19, 2017 15:53:06 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well: I went to Westborough Secondary School from 1964 to 1968 when I left to join Hammond Rentals a TV rental shop at 3 Mill Street Maidstone (later to become Southern Rentals. I was an apprentice engineer spending one day a week at Maidstone College of Technology in the Tonbridge Road. My Dad worked at the Gas works in St Peter Street where he was the maintenance fitter until it closed down when North Sea gas arrived. As the apprentice I was sent out every morning by Bill Pool my boss for sausage sarnies from the cafe at the end of Mill St (still a cafe today). The trolley bus was still around running from Barming Bull to Shepway and Ringleston. 1968 saw the floods show on this site and one evening I was on the last buss to get over the bridge (only one bridge in those days). When at Westborough School Mr Diamond was headmaster and Mr Sherman deputy, Mr Sherman was more frightening. Yes there was discipline in school then. Cinemas were the ABC in King St 9now the entrance to the Chequers centre) and the Granada in Stone Street.
The one major group were Chicory Tip with the No one hit Son of My Father. We followed them to most Kent venues. I remember one of the band lived in College Road.
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John G
Aug 19, 2017 15:56:23 GMT
Post by Les on Aug 19, 2017 15:56:23 GMT
Barry and his Wife lived along Tovil Road oppisite the bookies before running the Dog and Gun
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