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So here I am in 1957 looking
for a job. I had an interview with British Railways and
got the job of cook at The Railwaymen's Hostel just
across from Mill Road bridge. Drivers, Firemen and Guards
relieved from long distance freight trains used to lodge/rest
here before taking over another train. Coal trains could
be some 100 wagons long at this time. Wellingborough had
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Often I worked a 12 hour shift and
with my girlfriend at the time, Delia we used to sit on the
railway embankment watching the trains go by. |
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I stayed at the hostel
until Dr Beeching started killing the railway network. I was
earning £32 per week for working 12 hour shifts and
left to work at Wellingborough Co-operative Society as an
assistant manager on just over £10 for a 48 hour week.
It didn't take me long to get my first Manager's post. This
was at the Newcomen Road grocery store. |
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I loved my job and
took many correspondence courses to further my career. One of these
courses being Window Dressing. |
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It was about 1961 when the first
freezer cabinet was installed in the shop and among the very first
frozen foods were peas and fish fingers. |
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During this time in my life I formed
The Wellingborough & District Youth Hostels Association
Cycling Club. I had two racers !!! A Dawes Double Blue
and a Dawes Domino both purchased from Howes Cycle
Shop in the High Street, Wellingborough. The club had
up to 23 members and we had club runs outings every
weekend and often during the week. |
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Sometimes we spent the weekend at a
youth hostel doing voluntary work. The picture shows some club
members ready to leave London Road where we used to meet.
My cycling days with the club lasted about 6 years and
during that time I pushed the peddles some 26,000 miles
covering most of England and Wales. |
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It was during this period that
I took some photographs of Britain's first motorway, yes
the M1. There were no massive earth movers in the early
'60s. |
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This
picture ( Above Right) shows the M1 cutting through Salcey
Forest |
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At the Grace Wooton School of
Dancing (held at the Co-op Hall in Cannon Street)
I met June, the lady who was to become my wife. June took
no part in my cycling activities as she was an 'AM-DRAM' ! Yes
she acted and very good she was and still is. She appeared in
shows staged by Wellingborough Co-op Players under the
leadership of Miss Eva Sherrit. |
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Now, I had found the love of my life
and with 37 pence in the bank ( 7shillings and
sixpence), I asked her to marry me at a dance at
Franklins Gardens in Northampton. The band played 'True
Love' and it's been our song ever since. Pictured
above left, June and I at 20 Kingsway, Wellingborough where my
family had moved to, from Butts Road |
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