trophydave

I think that the Loop Road opened about 1983/84.

Thanks for posting that.I worked there from 1990-2003,Firstly Cowies,then Arriva and finally Hartwells.

I saw Budgie two or three times back in the mid 80s.I think that they are still going.

A mate of mine worked at Way Ahead,I remember going to Reading Festival on one of their trips in 1983,the tickets cost about £8:50 back then.I went for a job there when I left school in 1985 but nothing came of it.

One of my brothers lived in the Park in the early/mid 1970s.He likes to say that turning up with his furniture on the back of one of my Uncles milk floats got some funny looks from the neighbours.

I realise that this is an old thread but my first job was also at Attenboroughs.I worked there from 1985-1990.They had stopped sending people to college by then so no chance of ever qualifying as a dental technician,I was a lab assistant.I didnt have to make the tea but did have to go out for food etc and clean up on top of doing a full days worth of work.

From your description this sounds like the same dentist that I went to as a child in the 1970s early 80s.I think his name was something like Leighton.

I remember Fred but didnt know that wasn't his real name.I left Lowdham in 1988 but didnt move very far,I am in Bingham now.

Jack and Margaret are still around,they live near Weymouth now.Mr Pearson the teacher was my dad,he died in 2001 and mum died in 2013.Your last name is familiar to me.

Jack Paling is my Uncle,he retired from the milk round in the early 80s and moved to the south coast.