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1940ish says
KGGS is on Sandon Road . Wyndham Park is to the west i.e. below Sandon Rd not above as you indicate.
Yoey says
Hello! Amazing photo,Just a bit left & most of the right of St Wulframs spire is where I was raised. Behind the spire & a little left is “New Beacon Lane” I was always told it was a road in the day, this photo clearly shows it, this photo shows it as a “used route” And also very next well “used route” too the right hand side of the Spire, was my way home from the Town’ other than “Cold Harbour” Lane! which was at the bottom of Somerby Hill, I lived in both areas, Born & bred on the farm, top right hand of the photo, & then in the “White Cottage” just down a bit and left of them buildings, I have saved this shot’ on my PC! Just as a fantastic photo of 100 years ago? My Cousin, raised this photo too my attention, I am quite new to Grantham Matters! although my cousin used to send me some photographs, and headlines, I could never get onto this site? I tried registering a few times, it alway’s said my “address” illegal?I live in North Essex now and that? well I have to live here now and’ it sounds about right? I eventually got on to Grantham Matters through “G”Mail! Honestly what a great photo, especially for me and family, You probably already losing the “Will” to live,(sorry) there is a few other observations that I have noticed, I was born 1953, and know that area very very well. Obviously a few things look different to my times there. Nothing massive, just a few bits.
Mandata says
Yoey
I have been noticing some of the photos of you when you were a younger man, you won’t remember me but I remember you working at GRS as vehicle mechanic, when I came to work there you once drove me around the Grantham area in your Volkswagen Beetle one evening when I first came to GRS. Who was the charge hand his nick name was Olie, wore a brown smock and always had a cigarette in his mouth. I suppose most of the people who worked at GRS are now passed away, I know Knocker Knokes died a few years ago,
I understand that you have moved to Essex, indeed you are a brave man Sir!! I hope the years have been good to you, didn’t you once have a fish and chip shop up the Earlsfield, it springs to mind that you had.
Greeves says
@Mandata says: Hello mate, I certainly do not remember taking a tour of Grantham with you? and that ” Beetle” would have been my Mums Blue left hand drive one. The fella with a Brown smock and “Woodbine” was Ralph Rowson & he was alway’s called “Bill”? “old school, nice fella did his service for Queen & country in Asia I believe’ There are not many I know of from GRS, still around @Mandata: I got well out of touch working away for many years, Essex where I live is brilliant to be honest, small Town in the North of the county called Halstead, I moved here in 2000, I think you would find that a lot of you in Grantham are far braver than this “old boy” now, Essex does have some “Stereo typical TOWIE ” types, but a long way from here, The Local accent is very like Norfolk, & I believe they call it “Cart Horse Essex”. Aubrey Noakes was a real character in his own way, I know lots used too call him, & I suppose a a Pup’ got dragged into it as well? lot worse out there than him as you probably found as life ticked on, Yes I had the Galaxy for a while, technically the shop is a good business I lacked a lot of business acumen, had some very good “Mentors” in the Patel boy’s, but me lacking the nohow was panicking at seeing minus on bank statements’ and learned since thats how a businesses works & you build it up! Oh well! Cheers mate!
Yoey says
I am currently on an “Old Granthammers” laptop in Alboro’ he some times comes & picks me up! Rough old nights with him usually, makes me have headaches in the Mornings’ him & his Mrs scowling at me now? Going Home later for a rest. Wants me too catch ferry with him? no no no!
Mandata says
Thanks for the reply.
Glad to hear that you are content in life, although I must confess Essex is a little too much for me, but the way Grantham been developed I may have to consider my options. The site that was GRS is now flattened and empty, although a while ago there was talk of a supermarket. If you haven’t been back to Grantham for a while I would say that’s a good thing, as you would not like what you see in many instances, vast housing estates and nothing else. Aubrey Noakes sacked me from GRS for going for a run to Liverpool with Brian Giddings, ( he became a driving examiner) if you remember Cecil Taylor well he took a chip shop in Blackpool, I suppose he will be dead now, I can remember many of the lads who worked there, some recollections bring a smile to my face like the constant bickering between The Rabbit and The Shuffler…..glory days all of them!
Looking back and it’s all of 40 plus years I think of them as the age that we were then, I wonder what happened to them all, here’s a name from the past John Whiteside rember him and his big black Vauxhall.????