Tessa P

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About Tessa P

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  1. Not the same person! Her husband's name is Philip and they have been married for donkey's years! Just a thought - did Mr Weddle have more than one daughter?!
  2. Just been looking at some previous posts of yours re a teacher called Lockwood. Is it a coincidence that Mr Weddle's daughter married and became Mrs Lockwood?
  3. I've only just joined this site but have just seen you had an assignation with Walter Weddle's daughter!! I went to the same school as her and am still vaguely in touch!
  4. Not so much as a teenager, much more when I was younger, playing on the swings, falling off the slide and collecting conkers! Our house was nextdoor to the brickyard, near Coronation Road. My mother moved from there to Longridge Road, Woodthorpe, in the late 1970s but still loved visiting the park until she died age 101! We scattered her ashes there.
  5. Hi Margie. I was 6 in 1950 and no, my brother's name is David! That's not to say our paths didn't cross at some point! We lived at 115.
  6. Just joined this site after seeing a link to Mapperley Tea Gardens, (aka Gilbert Tea Rooms) mentioned on Facebook. I lived on Woothorpe Drive from 1950 until I left Nottingham in1972 and remember attending dancing classes at Gilbert Tea Rooms. I also attended a Nottingham High School dance there in 1960, wearing my mother's white stilettos! Other places I remember well are Allingtons and Baileys the Greengrocers. Twigdons the newsagent opposite to the top of Woodthorpe Drive was where my mother used to send me to buy a block of ice cream wrapped in newspaper and Judges the baker was where