Post by Les on Sept 29, 2017 21:21:16 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well:
I am not sure if I have got the hang of this as I wrote a couple of long memories of Maidstone in the years from the 50's 'till now as and 2 of them disappeared! I was born in Newington (Kent) over my granddads bicycle shop.
I apparently moved to Milton St when I was 3 or 4 & I lived next door to "Mad Jacks" brother,I didn't know it until I moved here to Half Yoke & an old friend of my current neighbor (Mrs. Foster) who sadly died since turned out to live in Milton St. & he was my old neighbor.
I gave him a lift home & his house was chocker block full of bricker brack just like his brothers shop which by then '92 was long gone. As boy my friends & I used to buy army surplus there (mad Jacks or Golding's was next to the East Station).
My sister used to go to the Highfield House in the 50's with her husband to be Pat Nichols and her friends Margaret Beale (from Prunellas (maybe spelled wrong) where they worked) .
I remember a Susan Hoskins as well. They were all friends of "the in crowd" at that time Johnny Walker (he married Margaret Beale), John & Hillary Bradford (the fish monger), the Ashby's & the Firmins etc.
I then went to the Highfield House in the 60's (not so much jazz) Miss E (for Edwards) still ran it but sadly she died when her car went into the docks in the west country with her new "boy friend" (she was in her 60' I think) My mate Peter Emmens & his wife Viv lived there for a while & it's now sadly a housing est.
Mummery the dentist used to be in Week St. then in the High St. ( I remember gas and lost lot of my teeth as they got more for extracting than filling) .
Bill Kent (the singer) lived near me in the mid 60's in Shepway. Someone mentions the Orchard Spot it was Otham 500 (owned by the mother of a local antiques dealer/est agent but can't remember his name) I went to School (Southboro') with the members of Chicory Tip who apart from Barry Mager (or is it Major) still play around Maidstone .
Barry's sister Pam married my late mate Darryl Marchant.