Post by Les on Sept 14, 2017 21:48:42 GMT
15/07/2013
Maidstone I remember it well:
I remember attending Dr Warrens surgery in Rocky Hill when I was about 16 it was for a medical for Boots the Chemist all their staff had to undertake a medical as they joined the funny thing was that Dr Warren never wrote or his secretary never bothered to write to Boots to say I passed as healthy consequently my life changed direction as I left Boots for the better or worse .
I'll never know!!! Staff in Boots remembered are Barry Duffield of KM photographer fame and Geraldine Oaks a young lady of Franco Brit extraction Sylvia Hawkes, the Manager Mr Williams Ted in the Pharmacy and a young lady with a first name beginning with A like Agnes her surname was Staines I think she lived in Marden and finally Linda Guess a stunner that slipped my grasp at the time.
My mates used to come into Boots on Saturdays all revved up from lunchtime boozing and used to rib me for working on Saturdays they used to trawl thru the town chatting up all the sales assistants fixing up dates for Sat night usually at London Tavern with Landlord Ken Grover and his wife Sheila wow they made a mint during their time at the tavern my mates were Pete Stroud, Ken Lamb, Mick Wellard, Tony Baines Mick Bacon Bob Reid and Pete Burton we had a great time and we used to go to the Howard de Warden Youth club in the alley just down from the Carlton Cafe that came out at earl st somewhere near the bughutch otherwise known as the Regal
There used to be a pair of sister that went to the youth club Sylvia and Monica my mate Ken Lamb went with Sylvia for a while.
I went to work for Jayes a department store just over the bridge on the market side long demolished
I was a tally man at 18 which meant my first company car !! well van ! it was a A35 brand new which you could take home at nights and weekends it was very useful.
Unfortunately I rolled it over taking a mate back to Wateringbury after a night on the booze about 1am in the morning so I lost that job... it was a great life I don't regret a bit of that era at all.
Maidstone I remember it well:
I remember attending Dr Warrens surgery in Rocky Hill when I was about 16 it was for a medical for Boots the Chemist all their staff had to undertake a medical as they joined the funny thing was that Dr Warren never wrote or his secretary never bothered to write to Boots to say I passed as healthy consequently my life changed direction as I left Boots for the better or worse .
I'll never know!!! Staff in Boots remembered are Barry Duffield of KM photographer fame and Geraldine Oaks a young lady of Franco Brit extraction Sylvia Hawkes, the Manager Mr Williams Ted in the Pharmacy and a young lady with a first name beginning with A like Agnes her surname was Staines I think she lived in Marden and finally Linda Guess a stunner that slipped my grasp at the time.
My mates used to come into Boots on Saturdays all revved up from lunchtime boozing and used to rib me for working on Saturdays they used to trawl thru the town chatting up all the sales assistants fixing up dates for Sat night usually at London Tavern with Landlord Ken Grover and his wife Sheila wow they made a mint during their time at the tavern my mates were Pete Stroud, Ken Lamb, Mick Wellard, Tony Baines Mick Bacon Bob Reid and Pete Burton we had a great time and we used to go to the Howard de Warden Youth club in the alley just down from the Carlton Cafe that came out at earl st somewhere near the bughutch otherwise known as the Regal
There used to be a pair of sister that went to the youth club Sylvia and Monica my mate Ken Lamb went with Sylvia for a while.
I went to work for Jayes a department store just over the bridge on the market side long demolished
I was a tally man at 18 which meant my first company car !! well van ! it was a A35 brand new which you could take home at nights and weekends it was very useful.
Unfortunately I rolled it over taking a mate back to Wateringbury after a night on the booze about 1am in the morning so I lost that job... it was a great life I don't regret a bit of that era at all.