Wally

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About Wally

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  • Birthday 08/30/1959

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    Pipe Bands, Rock Music, Jazz, Classical music also writing as I am an author.
  1. In my first reply to this forum I said that Mr Salter was the teacher who taught my brother-in-law at Mansfield Technical School. This is an error on my behalf, it was in fact Mr Slater whom I remember in my first year at Claremont. However, the other teachers I do remember are the French-Canadian born teacher Mr Marcel Hewden, who taught technical drawing. The other teacher who taught technical drawing and also religious education and was also an accomplished musician was Mr Roger Aldred. Mr Aldred was also an experienced mountaineer who taught me to rock climb. However, in answer to the
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  3. I was at Claremont Bilateral School or as it became known as Claremont Comprehensive School between 1970 and 1975. I was Claremont when the school moved to the premises on Berridge Road, Forest Fields (the building that had, and still has, an uncanny resemblance to Colditz Castle, the infamous World War II prisoner of war camp). In the previous replies mention has been made of Mr Eric Dibb. Mr Eric Dibb or "Dibby" was my form master in my third year. As a first year pupil I remember seeing Mr Dibb for the first time. As I remember, hearing his voice, which resonated like a Regimental Serg
  4. You refer to Arthurs Record stall in the old Central Market. When the Market moved to the Victoria Centre, after in was opened in the early 1970's, I can remember a similar record stall selling ex-jukebox records. I remember as a teenager rumaging through the many boxes of 45's and when I found what I wanted in would cost me only 30 pence, as, of course, by then, decimal currency had been introduced. I have to say, as someone who had a paper round and cleaned peoples cars at the weekends for the princely sum of 25p money, when it came to buying records, at that particular stall in the Victori