John Tyers

Nearly six years on from the last posting I can add that the village shop at the north end of the village opposite the Dorothy Boot Homes was run by my Gran for a few years (late fifties) who lived at 105 Maim road which was next to the Trent behind the shop. I remember my Grandad rigging up a pull cable from the kitchen at the rear of the shop to the house which rang a bell to signal for help when needed.

I was at RG from '64 to '69 and Stanley Reed was my physics teacher . He had a green VW Beetle reg MNN170E, and his UK amateur radio callsign was G2ATM. A fellow pupil (David Heath) and I were taken by him to London as a science prize and we visited the RSGB Exhibition in Little Russel St for which we were coached in addressing HRH the Duke of Edinburgh who was patron of the society and who addressed the event (just in case we bumped into him!) . Mr Reed often talked about his time in Malaya and ISTR he lived in Singapore for a while.