Post by Matt James on Apr 16, 2009 16:55:07 GMT
my name is gordon quinney,
i worked at fordrough lane, bordesley green, brum. from 1960---1962.played football for gpo. ground was hall green by the old 37 bus terminus. i have a brother, bill. he has passed on now,4 years ago this month. he worked as a wag then postman until he retired in 1998, then got married to janet a week later. i have been trying to find the date a colleague from the lane got killed coming to work .he was knocked off his motor scooter by a wimbush van on the corner of eastfield road--bordesley green, either 1961 or 62. i can not find any reference for his death on D--M--B. his name was alcot. one or two --L--i dont know. i tried to look up other wags from that period--i think it was stoke who hold all the .records--but i was told they have no records for wags past 1959 unbelievable.!!. some names i remember--------bough--rivers---thompson--p.cook--bayliss--faulkner--rae--ashford--alcot--griffiths--buet. i hope i have spelt their names correctly. our gaffers name at the lane was mr nichols. we had to call him sir. our overall boss was cox from hill st--town-. we had not used to wear our sam browns at the lane and when we were told cox was coming it was one mad rush to get them out of our lockers and put them on..sometimes we were to late and got threatened with skins or majors. good days.
cheers g. quinney
i worked at fordrough lane, bordesley green, brum. from 1960---1962.played football for gpo. ground was hall green by the old 37 bus terminus. i have a brother, bill. he has passed on now,4 years ago this month. he worked as a wag then postman until he retired in 1998, then got married to janet a week later. i have been trying to find the date a colleague from the lane got killed coming to work .he was knocked off his motor scooter by a wimbush van on the corner of eastfield road--bordesley green, either 1961 or 62. i can not find any reference for his death on D--M--B. his name was alcot. one or two --L--i dont know. i tried to look up other wags from that period--i think it was stoke who hold all the .records--but i was told they have no records for wags past 1959 unbelievable.!!. some names i remember--------bough--rivers---thompson--p.cook--bayliss--faulkner--rae--ashford--alcot--griffiths--buet. i hope i have spelt their names correctly. our gaffers name at the lane was mr nichols. we had to call him sir. our overall boss was cox from hill st--town-. we had not used to wear our sam browns at the lane and when we were told cox was coming it was one mad rush to get them out of our lockers and put them on..sometimes we were to late and got threatened with skins or majors. good days.
cheers g. quinney