The last post on this memories site, by someone other than myself, was quite some time ago and that makes me want to 'help'. Sometimes a problem then arises: my 'helpful scribble' has little or nothing to do with your desired memories. Take the radial washing drier on our patio; I am convinced that it is a female radial because only flattery [or is it love?] gets it fully erected. I have to tell it that it has beautiful blue lines for holding the washing and furthermore that I will never ever replace her with something big and brassy.
Whatever happened to Eric Clegg? He played a few games at inside left for our Ushaw Moor County side and I can remember sliding a pass through for him to run onto in 1958. He did not have long to wait because it was 1958 at the time. He duly smashed the ball past the hapless Sherburn goalkeeper. Or did you place it Eric? Come in Eric and describe your glory goal.
I have decided that if Madonna can continually reinvent herself then so can I. Consequently I have far too much to do down here, what with getting a move on with cooking, getting physically fit, and being a joy to live with. That's enough for most men and certainly I will have to spend much less time with my radial clothes line. It all means that I cannot get up north this year and that leaves a few loose ends.
I need to post Brian's glittering prizes to him but I am without his address or phone number. It is not always wise to release such information onto the net; perhaps I can get his prizes to him at the working Men's club where I believe he works.
Brian's prizes will hopefully bring him some pleasurable reading. There are almost fifty photographs of the Durham City area in the book by Ian Nelson; one of my favourites is the one of North Road taken in 1914, although there are several much earlier photographs. The other book , written by Norman Emery, is also a very good read and runs to two hundred and ten pages.
Over to you Brian.
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Hi, i enjoyed this read Thanks for sharring. I too have books of Durham City and the surrounding vllages, I like to read through them now and again and then think i never saw that the last time.
ReplyDeleteWhen you wrote about Eric Clegg scoring the goal against Sherburn, i caught my breath cos thats the village i was born.
In early 60's i and some friends used to go to a youth club at Bearpark.