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15 hours ago, LizzieM said:

Well thank you Tuller for telling us about Beverley Abel (funny name for a boy) and thank you Margie for putting the link on the Carlton-Le-Willows Facebook page, it’s certainly created a lot of interest amongst old pupils.  Even though I didn’t know him I’m feeling proud that he was educated at the same establishment as me ........ he achieved rather more than me though!  

Carlton-Le-Willows(even the name sounds posh)has someone to be very proud of indeed.

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On a lighter note re your wedding being a regular ,if somewhat reluctant,member of Mapperley Methodist ,I do recall Rev Widdowson.Think he was follicly challenged just like myself nowadays.Don’t recall who was before or came after.

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19 hours ago, MargieH said:

Hello Tuller and welcome!   I think you must be younger than me - I was born in 1943... how strange that you knew Beverley Abel.  I wonder if his ears are burning!

I used to attend some Sunday morning services at the Methodist around 1957 - 60 as a teenager, got married there in 1966, and my husband and I would also go when we were over  in Nottingham visiting my parents.  It was Rev Widdowson who married us, along with my husband's dad who was also a Meth minister...

Looking forward to reading  more of your memories about your early life.

Hello MargieH and thankyou for the welcome.Have been trying to send a link  re Beverley .trying again now ..fingers crossed

https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16607766.obituary-bev-abel-eminent-urologist-and-pioneer-in-kidney-treatments/?ref=erec

 

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23 hours ago, Waddo said:

Welcome tuller, I'm sure you will find lots of answers to your questions,and look forward to reading your posts. There are a few members who have some connection with the church in question, just give it time. all the best and stay safe.

Hello Waddo and thanks for the welcome though have to say my link to Mapperley fairly tenuous, that being a walk to and from church (x4 on Sunday) plus the annual school cross country, knee deep in mud, around Woodthorpe Park. 

 

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On 2/15/2020 at 9:07 AM, MargieH said:

I was in the same form as Beverley Abel at Carlton le Willows!  I remember him as being the form joker - always making us laugh..

Socram, I'm not a believer in such things as lucky black cats, so I doubt that was the reason.  I hope you've now found happiness....

A long time since I’ve been on this site but glad that I did as was reminiscing of people and places from yesteryear.In the sixties I was in care ‘Springfield’ NCH.
For some of us Mapperley Methodist Church was our regular on a Sunday.

One Sunday in every month after service I’d walk to the Abel’s res in Digby Avenue Where I’d been invited.Always hoped Beverley would be there as he’d a great sense of humour.

I left Nottingham In ‘69 and lost touch with all I knew.Very happy days looking back.