Back In't Day
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REunion 2011
After leaving Thames Road secondary modern school, Blackpool in 1958, my first job
was as an apprentice storeman at R & F Gradwell's Garage on Waterloo Rd. (I hated
it) and consequently at just 15 years and 8 months I joined the Royal Engineers Junior
Leaders Regt.( 'C' squadron , Old Park Barracks,Dover.) on 9th January 1959. Travelling
by train to Old Park Barracks in Dover, on my first day I missed breakfast and was
late on Parade!!! Ha! those were the days!!.
I served two years in the Junior Leaders
and nine years in the Regular Army, serving in Germany and Aden.
After leaving the
Royal Engineers I worked for Fox Brothers as a Plant Operater for about six months
and then joined Lancashire Police in July 1970, just after getting married to Carol.
I left the UK in October of 1975 emigrating to Canada. We settled l in Mississauga,
Ontario, which is16 miles west of Toronto. I joined the Metropolitan Toronto Police
and served with them for seven years. We returned to the UK in 1982 where we took
up residence in Darwen, near Blackburn. I worked for Initial Electronic Security
and took early retirement in 2000. I have two sons, Conrad and Peter. Conrad is married
with two children, Reece and Kelsey. Peter completed an apprenticship with BA Systems,
as a maintenance engineer before joining Lancashire police, following in his brothers'
(and mine) footsteps. Peter played ice hockey with the Blackburn junior development
and the senior team, Blackburn Hawks.
I was elected to Blackburn with Darwen Council in May 2007as the Conservative councillor
for Meadowhead Ward in Blackburn, re-
Thats about it in a nutshell...I just need to
win the lottery now.
Peter's Hockey
Hawks v Telford
RaptorsvBradford
Hawks playoff
Raptors v Fylde