Wheaty47

Went to the Metropole in mid-late 50's. Returned empty lemonade bottles to local sweet 'tuffee' shop to raise the tanner entrance fee to see Flash Gordon, Roy Rogers, etc. 'We are the boys and girls well know as, we're minors of the ABC and every Saturday all line up to see the films we like and shout and laugh with glee, etc;. Sung with gusto to the strains of Washington Post......sad, really!!

First job when leaving Claremont Bilateral School in 1964 was as an Engineering apprentice at the Royal Ordnance Factory in the Meadows, starting salary being £2.12.6. Fortunately, I had a birthday two weeks later and received a rise of £1.00. I was really lording it!!! Served at the Factory for over 37 years and was instrumental in the administration of it's closure in early 2002. Sad days.