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i was there, don't remember much about it.
I was definately there, only discussing it over a pint a few nights ago. I'd just completed my first 3 months at TLS Ivor.
Your pint, the other night Roy, wouldn't have been ten pence a pint. (twelve pennies in a shilling), as it would have been in 1953. Although the corresponding wages then were comparable to that price. Pace of life was much more temperate then.
Ivor, another blast from the past. Great stuff.
Hi Albert, i use an historic inflation calculator and the price i paid £2-60 1n 2017 is exactly 10d in 1953 believe it or not, so it's pro rata. Inflation between 1953 and now has increased by 2,500%.
Hi Roy,
Your name is really familiar to me but can't for the life of me think how I perhaps knew you! Obviously we're both Standish lads but can't think of any connection or where our paths might have crossed.I now realise that you are a year older as my age group included Derek Hurst and Norman Holland etc.Also,despite going to St Michael's Junior, I did know quite a few Standish Grammar lads. Can you put my brain out of its agonies?
TLS Ivor ?
PLUS !! I went to St Mick's as well,1949/53, there is a St Mick's pic on this page below this one, entitled 'Final year 1956', i commented on that one, but only used my Christian name.
Hi Roy,
That's solved it!! Definitely knew of you from St Michael's. I think you tend to know some older lads in the Juniors, whereas you tend not to notice any younger "kids". Also there were times when we played football with the top juniors at Green Hill, so seem to remember names like Clough and George Chambers? You probably also caught the same bus as me (5 or 5A) at the Swinley flats bus stop,where I often bought a penny barmcake from the corner bakery! I just assumed you continued at Standish Grammar until your move to TLS.
You seem to enjoy a bit of nostalgia (as I do!) so I thought you might enjoy a DVD on "Standish, from 1945 to 1949". A chap in Standish based at Standish Video Services,2a(?) Market Street has produced a DVD showing Standish G.S. sports day and walking days during these years. I enjoyed it and I'm sure you'll recognise many familiar faces. Surprising where a football programme takes you!
Hi Ivor, yes i, and many other St Michael's Standishers caught the no5 bus, i/we would sometimes walk one stage point and buy a 1d loaf, not barmcake, from the corner shop that you mention, under the Swinley flats. Graham Clough and George Chamberlain are the two lads, both in the same class as me. Thank you for advising me re the DVD's but i have had the original 1945/49 tape and the 1943/44 one for many years.