Nostalgic memories of Crewe's local history
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Does any one remember The Spring Tavern?
I have a oil painting that was given to my Grandfather Reuben Pickup, I believe that the picture once hung on the wall of The Spring Tavern, and that it was given to my Grandfather in payment for work.
The picture is signed, W. R. Gayton after Lawson Wood and dated 1923, It is pained in the style almost of a cartoon, showing the Spring Tavern anglers, dressed in stone age ...see more
On the 12th of June 1964, I emigrated to New Zealand and sailed aboard the Rangitoto, the voyage took 5 weeks, and called at Curacao, Panama and the beautiful island of Tahiti before arriving in Wellington on the 15th of July
I have been back to England and spent time Crewe about 10 times over the last 50 years, it has changed a lot during those years, the last time I stayed in The Crewe arm's hotel, the ...see more
The park was the place to be on Sunday afternoons, groups of teenagers lying on the grass listening to the top 20 on their state of the art flip top Ekco Radios that contained batteries the size of 6 iPhones, it always seemed to be sunny on Sunday afternoons. If you could afford it you might hire a boat and have a row on the lake.
In 1932 at the age of eight years old I enjoyed the thrill of an airborne flight, Alan Cobham, later to become Sir Alan was giving demonstration flights on the field by Merrills Bridge, now the site of Bentley Motors, my father paid the fee and I was put into the seat of an autogyro, a forerunner of what we now know as an helicopter, it was only straight up hover and down again, I cannot recall how long it lasted, no ear ...see more
In the early years of our married life, no such luxury as owning a car, our means of transport was a tandem with a seat on the back for the little one and a bike for the older one, most Sundays it was off out into the country, Beeston Castle being one of our favourite places, on one particular Sunday we set off, fully equipped for our usual picnic. After a while we noticed that passing motorists were tooting and waving their ...see more
I worked in Rolls-Royce installing the air conditioning unit, taking the car out on the road to test the system worked correctly. I worked with Maurice Ashwin, my foreman was Jack Gadd. The senior bosses were always known by their initials, Mr Fox was F X and Mr Dodd was D D. When F X went out with me on my first drive it was quite a nervous half hour or so, to get back to the factory and hear him say 'Ok, you can ...see more
My Dad worked there all his working life he started working for Sid about circa 1958. I know all the ppl previously named. SC Cummins went bust but his son took over and then sold out. He went for a richer life in the states. So many loyal workers in Crewe just like today put on the doyle :(
We are still in touch with Sid & Molly Cummins - both still fit and well in their 90's. My Mum and Dad are George and Chris Hughes. Mum worked in the office sorting out the cash deals for the ice cream vans or dealing with Lombard Finance to get a loan. George/Dad worked in the fibre-glass shop initially before becoming a salesman and travelling up and down the country trying to sell ...see more
we lived at 44 park place we had great fun in the old air raid shelters but still sends shivers down my spine no hot water no electricity taking the battery to the garage to be charged so that we could listen to the radio
My girlfriend, Edna Thorley, and I were in the queue at the Odeon cinema in Crewe, she was on leave from the ATS. As we waited the subject of marriage came up; no I didn't go down on one knee. I think I said something like, 'don't you think we ought to think about getting married?' She thought for a while and then said, 'yes why not'. We married on July 13th 1946 in St Barnabas Church in West St. We had 56 wonderful years together, so 13 was not unlucky for us.